Operation Wooden Leg had lasted almost twice as long as the Osirak raid of 1981. Bought in the mid-1970s to secure…
F-15 Baz
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Aviation HistoryCold War EraMilitary Aviation
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Military Aviation
Israeli Air Force fighter pilots to conduct flyovers of Dachau concentration camp and the Olympic Village in Munich in September
by Dario LeoneThe IAF aircraft will conduct flyovers of the sites to honor the memory of those who perished there. The Israeli Air…
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Cold War EraMiG KillersMilitary Aviation
[Video] Israeli Fighter Pilot explains how he became the first F-15 Driver to score a MiG Kill
by Dario LeoneSpotting the two MiG-21s first, Moshe Melnik became the section leader and turned towards them, launching a Python 3 AAM as…
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Military Aviation
The Day three Israeli F-15 fighter jets piloted by Children of Holocaust Survivors Performed a Flypast over Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
by Dario Leone“We pilots of the Air Force, flying in the skies above the camp of horrors, arose from the ashes of the…
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Cold War EraMiG KillersMilitary Aviation
Eagle Vs Foxbat: The MiG-25 Kills Scored by Israeli F-15s
by Dario LeoneThe best aircraft that the USSR could supply to the Syrians to counter Israeli fighters was the MiG-25P ‘Foxbat-E’ interceptor, and…
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Cold War EraLosses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
The Story of Ronen Shapira, the Only F-15 Pilot to Have Ever Been hit By a MiG During An Aerial Combat
by Dario LeoneSeconds after the SyAAF MiG-21 had crashed, an AAM fired by an unseen Syrian fighter exploded inside the right-hand engine nozzle…
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Cold War EraLosses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
That Time an Israeli F-15 Pilot Managed to Land his Crippled Baz After Having Been Hit by A Live Missile Fired by an Israeli F-15 Pilot during a Mock Dogfight
by Dario LeoneFailing to follow the appropriate safety checks that would have disarmed his missiles, Yadlin pressed the trigger when he got on…
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Military Aviation
Israeli Air Force F-35I Adir takes part in First Joint Exercise with Service’s F-15 and F-16
by Dario Leone“We’re not going to adjust the ‘Adir’ (F-35I) according to the air force – we’re going to adjust the air force…
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Losses and Aviation SafetyMilitary Aviation
THAT TIME AN ISRAELI AIR FORCE F-15 BAZ LANDED WITH ONE WING MISSING
by Dario LeoneThe F-15 Baz No. 957 would eventually be repaired and after having scored three air-to-air victories during the 1982 Lebanon War,…
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Aviation HistoryMilitary Aviation
OPERATION WOODEN LEG: HOW THE F-15 BAZ FIGHTERS BECAME BOMBERS AND PERFORMED THE LONGEST AIR STRIKE IN IAF HISTORY
by Dario LeoneMany still believe that the F-15s involved in Operation Wooden Leg were F-15E Strike Eagles: instead the strike package that carried…