Even the Egyptian Air Force is not teaching its own pilots about any kind of an Air Battle of el-Mansourah. Seems,…
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The Story of Israeli Air Force First Two Aerial Victories that Never Were
Jun. 3, 1948 is widely considered as the day on which Israeli Air Force scored its first two aerial victories. But…
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The True Story Behind Israeli Nesher Fighter, the Mirage 5 Built by Rockwell (and Not by IAI)
The 51 Mirage 5Js and 10 Mirage 5DDs were delivered to Israel on board of USAF’s C-141 Starlifter transports, in 1970,…
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Between the MiG-21PF and the MiG-21PFM: the Story of the MiG-21PFS, the Weird Fishbed Variant
Between Jun. 12 and 30 1967, the USSR delivered exactly 65 such MiG-21PFS aircraft to Egypt as replacements for losses from…
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The Story of the first Iraqi Air Force MiG-21 Pilot Killed In Action during the Yom Kippur War
Hamid and Khafaji MiG-21s clashed with two pairs of Mirages, and Khafaji should have managed to shot down one of these.…
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Iraqi Air Force Performed the Only two Tupolev Tu-16 Air Strikes Ever Conducted against Israel
The Israeli Mirages attempted to attack with Shafrir Mk.1 air-to-air missiles, but these missed, and both pilots were then scared away…
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The Myth of Soviet Arms and Tactics in the Middle East, Part Six: Why Soviet Air-To-Air Weapons Supplied to Arab Air Forces were Useless Junk
If US experiences from deploying early AIM-9B/Es/Js, and AIM-7E/E2 Sparrows over North Vietnam were ‘negative’, those of not only the Arab…
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The Myth of Soviet Arms and Tactics in the Middle East, Part Five: why Soviet arms perform so poorly in Arab service
The available technology and know-how just couldn’t keep up: by the time the MiG-23 ‘had to enter series production’, it was…
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The Myth of Soviet Arms and Tactics in the Middle East, Part Four: South Yemeni armed forces – the only ‘true’, Soviet-trained, Soviet-styled armed forces in the Middle East ever
Soviets had no mentality of ‘serving the customer’: they stuffed Arab air forces full of Su-7BMKs armed with R-3 rockets that…
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Here’s Why the Su-27 Flanker is The Best Fighter Jet in the World Only in Video Games
The Su-27 Flanker never came anywhere near getting a single kill against any Western type of aircraft. Caught myself reading some…
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