Raid on the Reactor
04-13-2010 | 05:42 PM
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From: FAA 'Flight Check'
It not only talks about the mission itself, but the pilots that were selected to fly the first Israeli F-16's as well as the huge amount of intel gathered by the Mossad that played a key role in the success of the mission. Sad that one of the guys that flew the mission was killed in the Columbia accident.
Come to find out - he was the youngest pilot on the mission - 24 years old!
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04-13-2010 | 05:45 PM
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Isn't the acceptance rate around 1-2 out of 100 or something like that?
04-13-2010 | 06:28 PM
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May have been the first time planned but is not prohibited by the flight manual. Dropped on that facility twice in the opening week of Gulf War 1. They beefed up the defenses a bit since that Israeli attack.
04-14-2010 | 04:29 AM
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Military Channel ^ | June 29, 2006 | Military Channel
Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 5:03:26 PM by wannabegeek
For the first time ever, the Israeli government is releasing top secret documents detailing the secret plans, strategies and implementation of their heralded raid on the Iraqi nuclear facility in 1981, one of the most daring and successful military strikes ever. Faced with a nuclear threat from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Israel resolved to eliminate a French-built, Baghdad-based reactor producing weapons-grade plutonium. Risking certain international condemnation and the loss of aid from the United States, the IDF utilized their eight newly delivered F-16 fighter jets to bomb the reactor in the heart of Baghdad. The story of the planning of the raid is just as gripping as the raid itself and includes tales of international spies, targeted assassinations, blackmail and prostitution – everything one would expect in a fictional spy novel, only this story is true.
Watch it online at Raid on the Reactor
44 min. 18 sec. TRT.
04-14-2010 | 07:32 AM
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Sel Jett is ok (of course maybe the Israelis did their own Seek Eagle and wrote their own -1-2 to prove it could be done).
04-15-2010 | 10:43 AM
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04-15-2010 | 10:50 AM
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says here the Fougas are still around but I'd be surprised.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._wing_trainers
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