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The 118 Squadron's baptism of fire occurred during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, more specifically in the Third Battle of Mount Hermon (codenamed Operation Dessert) when the entire squadron (15 helicopters) was transporting two reserve airborne battalions (626 paratroopers) of the 317th Regiment (226th Regiment today) in an attempt to recapture ...
Designation Year Year Hebrew designation Airspeed Oxford/Consul: 1949: 1961: Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master: 2014-Lavi (young lion) לביא Avro Anson: 1949: 1961: Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet
From 1968 to 2015 there was a helicopter squadron here, most recently with UH-60 Black Hawk, which then moved to Palmachim Airbase. From 1969 until today there's the "Flying Tiger" Squadron with jet trainers on Hatzerim, which flew the TA-4H Skyhawk Ayit two-seater for many years (see gallery down below), but also its one-seater fighter version ...
Over Israel's northern skies, an Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopter recently shot down a Hezbollah drone with its cannon as the country's air defenses find it difficult to intercept all of the ...
The newest helicopters are a heavy-duty complement to Cal Fire’s fleet of 34-year-old UH-1H Super Huey helicopters, also military surplus. The Fire Hawks are able to dump more than two-and-a ...
During the Six-Day War, the military cooperation with France ceased (the French Weapons Embargo of 1967) and Israel began to rely on American weaponry and on local research and development. During the 1980s and 1990s, the IDF increased its supplies of American arms , armor and aircraft , aiming for technological superiority over Arab countries ...
Israel Aerospace Industries (Hebrew: התעשייה האווירית לישראל, romanized: ha-ta'asiya ha-avirit le-yisra'el), is Israel's major aerospace and aviation manufacturer, producing aerial and astronautic systems for both military and civilian usage. It has 14,000 employees as of 2021. IAI is state-owned by the government of Israel.
On 15 March 1998, an explosion occurred in flight on a AH-1 Cobra Tzefa, which caused the aircraft to crash over the sea off the coast of Israel. Both pilots were recovered dead. [17] On the night of 12 March 2013, a AH-1 Cobra Tzefa crashed into a field near the Kibbutz Revadim in central Israel. Both pilots were killed in the accident.