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Israeli Air Force UH-60 Blackhawk and AH-1 Cobra. List of aircraft of the Israeli Air Force: Aircraft highlighted in blue are currently in service.
By the end of August 1970, the Israeli Air Force had claimed 111 aerial kills while reporting losing only four aircraft to Arab fighters. Egyptian and Soviet forces claimed to shoot down approximately 20 Israeli Air Force planes with surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery units.
The first nine F-35s became operational with the Israeli Air Force in December 2017. [1] On 22 May 2018, Israeli Air Force commander, Major General Amikam Norkin, reported that Israel had become the first country in the world to use the F-35 in combat. [2] They were also used in the Israel–Hamas war.
A Pan Am Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, similar to the one that the IAF used for VIP transport. In the 1960s, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) opted to utilize its Boeing 377 Stratocruiser cargo transports, which were capable of long-range flights, to serve as a VIP aircraft for ministerial visits abroad. [4]
P-51D at the Israeli Air Force Museum; the marking beneath the cockpit notes its participation in the wire-cutting operation at the onset of the Suez Crisis.. Preceded by the Sherut Avir, the air wing of the Haganah, the Israeli Air Force was officially formed on May 28, 1948, shortly after Israel declared statehood and found itself under immediate attack from its Arab neighbors.
The Israeli Air Force destroyed 29 out of 30 anti-aircraft missile batteries in the Bekaa Valley without loss and downed more than 60 Syrian aircraft. Israel's Air Force became so dominant that ...
The Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir (Hebrew: כְּפִיר, "Lion Cub") is an Israeli all-weather multirole combat aircraft based on the French Dassault Mirage 5, with Israeli avionics and an Israeli-built version of the General Electric J79 turbojet engine.
Israeli Avia S-199, 1948. Israeli agents negotiated the purchase of Avia S-199s from the Czechoslovak government in defiance of an arms embargo that Israel faced at the time. Twenty-five aircraft were obtained and all but two were eventually delivered. The price for a fully equipped plane was $190,000. [3]