An excellent campaign of the Israeli air force

The Israeli Air Force is considered to be the most powerful air force in the Middle East and one of the best and most mature air forces in the world. In the past decades, Israel has purchased advanced American fighter planes and installed avionics and weapons developed and manufactured locally on them. The greatest advantage of the Israeli Air Force may be its pilots. Israeli air force pilots are considered to be one of the best pilots in the world, and they keep many records of falling. The Israeli Air Force relies on its Air Force Intelligence Department for intelligence gathering, including analysis of aerial photography results. Many electronic and weapon systems of the Israeli Air Force are produced by israel military industries, Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems. Since the jet era, the Israeli Air Force has maintained a number of world records, including the number of enemy plane crashes, air combat, special operations and air-to-ground strikes.

Here are some of the records and highlights:

Six-day war

1June 5, 967, Six-Day War: Destroy the entire Egyptian Air Force within 3 hours. Destroy the Syrian and Jordanian air forces at the end of the day. At the end of the war, the Israeli Air Force claimed that its one side had a loss of 65,438+00 and the other side had a loss of 4,565,438+0. See: Operational Focus.

war of attrition

From March 1969 to August 1970, the war of attrition: the Israeli air force shot down 1 1 enemy planes in air combat, only losing 4 fighters (according to Israeli statistics). At the same time, the Soviet Union maintained close relations with Arab countries during the Cold War. 1On July 30, 970, the tension finally reached its peak: an attack by the Israeli air force led to a large-scale air battle with MIG fighters piloted by Soviet pilots, and five MIG aircraft were shot down without damage to the Israeli air force.

Yom kippur war

/KOOC-0/973/KOOC-0/0/KOOC-0/0 9, Yom Kippur War: Two Israeli F-4 aircraft formations attacked and destroyed the headquarters of the Syrian Army General Staff in Damascus. The Syrian Air Force General Command was also damaged.

During the Yom Kippur War, the Israeli Air Force shot down 277 enemy warplanes, accounting for more than one third of the total number of crashes since 1948.

1982 Lebanon campaign

1Battle of Lebanon on June 8, 982: Destroy the entire Soviet-made Syrian air defense system deployed in Lebanon within a few hours without losing a fighter. At the same time, the Israeli air force also claimed to have shot down 80 Syrian planes, and none of them was lost.

Israel-Lebanon conflict: July-August 2006

In the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, the Israeli air force played a key role in the attack on Lebanon. The main purpose of the attack is to weaken Hezbollah militia stationed in southern Lebanon. In the conflict, the Israeli air force dispatched a total of 65,438+02,000 sorties, destroying many Lebanese facilities. The attack on a village near Ghana village on July 30, 2006 destroyed an apartment and killed at least 28 civilians, which caused serious condemnation from the international community. Hezbollah armed forces shot down an Israeli CH-53 maritime stallion helicopter on the last day of fighting. Another Israeli F- 16 fighter plane crashed on takeoff.

other

The only recorded F- 15 has only one wing landing-the other wing fell off when it collided with an A-4 in the air. A-4 exploded and the pilot parachuted. McDonnell Douglas, the manufacturer of F- 15, didn't believe in the possibility of landing at first, and didn't change his mind until the accident photos were sent out. This F- 15 was later repaired and put into battle again.

"Ace pilot": 39 Israeli pilots shot down at least 250 enemy planes, of which 10 shot down at least 8 enemy planes.

"Wang Zhongwang": giora epstein shot down 17 enemy planes, thus obtaining and maintaining the world jet crash record and various aircraft crash records after the Korean War.

In the wars in which Israel participated, the shooting down of enemy planes 126 mostly occurred in 1960s and 1970s. The Israeli Air Force lost only two planes in air combat, one at 1959 and the other at 1964.