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Tango01  | 13 Jun 2018 2:25 p.m. PST |
…. was one of the biggest of all time. "Israel has a history of conflict with its neighbors, especially from the 1960s through the 1980s. A series of small battles with Egypt resulted in some hard lessons learned for the Israeli Air Force after it lost numerous fighters to surface-to-air missiles. But the IAF learned its lessons, and on June 9, 1982, it attacked 19 Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries deployed near the border. In the first two hours of fighting, the IAF destroyed 17 of the missile batteries with no losses. Then things really went nuts…."
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| Thresher01 | 15 Aug 2018 8:51 a.m. PST |
Less of a dogfight, and more like an aerial slaughter by the IDF. |
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