| Conflict: | Operation Echo |
| Partof: | the Kosovo War |
| Date: | 1999 |
| Place: | Kosovo, Yugoslavia |
| Result: | Canadian Victory |
| Combatant1: |  Canada |
| Commander1: | Jean Chrétien |
| Commander2: | Slobodan Milošević |
| Units2: | Yugoslav Armed Forces |
Operation Echo was the codename given by the Canadian Forces for its air activities during the Kosovo War in 1999. In support of the NATO Operation Allied Force Canadian aircraft based at Aviano Air Base in northeastern Italy flew bombing missions over the Balkans.[1]
During the campaign the Canadian air contingent consisted of 18 CF-18 Hornet aircraft from 441 and 425 Tactical Fighter Squadrons, with 69 aircrew and 250 ground crew. Between March 24 and June 10, 1999, they flew 684 sorties in 224 missions, and dropped nearly 500000lb of gravity and precision-guided bombs. Canadian forces comprised less than 2% of the nearly 1,000 Allied aircraft engaged in the conflict, they flew on 10% of all bombing missions, due to this, the operation was considered as a victory for the Canadian Air Command as they fulfilled their first and biggest goal, inducing a Serbian withdrawal from Kosovo and ending the ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo[2] .