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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
 VII - MUTUAL VULNERABILITY: COUNTER AIR OPERATIONS
The attacker's aircraft are optimized; the defender's are either at their weakest point (on the ground) or trying to adapt to the situation.
The counter air operations case studies in the next section, for example, illustrate that when fighting a war it is unlikely that one would attack the enemy's aircraft web and sit back to view the results.
Air defense operations virtually ended by the second week of the conflict, and air supremacy was declared by the Coalition on the tenth day.
www.fas.org /spp/aircraft/part07.htm   (3986 words)

  
 Definition of Israeli Air Force   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A variety of obsolete and surplus ex-World War II combat aircraft were quickly sourced by various means to supplement this fleet.
On June 8, 1967, the Israeli Air Force mistakenly attacked the USS Liberty while she was in international waters.
During that war, the IAF lost 102 planes while the Egyptian Air Force lost 235 and the Syrian Air Force lost 135.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Israeli_Air_Force   (1511 words)

  
 A Troubling Past: Air Force Fighter Acquisition since 1945*   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aircraft acquisition is inextricably caught up in the interplay and tension between doctrine and operational thought (the requirements pull) on one hand and technology (the technology push) on the other.
From 1945 to mid-1950 both the Air Force and the Navy were forces in transition-from wartime expansion to peacetime contraction, from the era of the propeller-driven airplane to the era of the jet, from the era of conventional war to a perceived era of atomic warfare.
Air Force planners generally considered the Korean War an exception that was not typical of the future.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/1win90.html   (7495 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Israeli Air Force Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Israeli Air Force is the Air branch of the Israel Defense Force.
On June 5, 1967, in a massive coordinated raid, the IAF destroyed the entire Egyptian air-force while most of the Egyptian planes were still on the ground.
During 1982 Operation Peace for Galilee, IAF warplans destroyed the Syrian air defence without single fighter lost and shot down Syrian aircraft (some claim that part of the Syrian aircraft shot down by the IAF were piloted by Soviet pilots).
www.ipedia.com /israeli_air_force.html   (966 words)

  
 Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles
Salman 'Id el-Hawashla, age 38, an Israeli Bedouin of the Abu Rekaik tribe who was driving a car with Israeli plates, was killed by three armed men driving a truck hijacked from the Gaza municipality, in a deliberate head-on collision.
Lieut.Col. Meir Mintz, commander of the IDF special forces in the Gaza area, was shot and killed by terrorists in an ambush on his jeep at the T-junction in Gaza.
Israeli forces killed the two gunmen, who were dressed in IDF uniforms, and carried out wide-scale searches for additional terrorists.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Terrorism/victims.html   (12463 words)

  
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Israeli electronic countermeasures had been designed to counter the earlier SA-2 and SA-3 radar-guided missiles that had been encountered by the Americans in Vietnam, but these techniques were useless against the SA-6.
Hurried modifications of Israeli radar warning receivers were made in the field, assisted by a lot of people in the United States burning the midnight oil in trying to come up with a solution.
The converted aircraft were fitted with fixed inflight refuelling probes that were plumbed externally into the boom refuelling receptacle on the upper fuselage behind the second crewman The first Kurnass 2000 conversion was carried out at the IDF/AF's Central Maintenance Unit.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/airforce/f_series_fighters/f4.41   (3007 words)

  
 World Air Forces Israel Air Force   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Borovik, Yehuda Israeli Air Force: 1948 to the present Warbirds Illustrated #23 1984, Arms and Armour, London 72pp.
Hadar and Ofer Heyl Ha'Avir: The Israel Air Force Min.
A Chronicle of the Israeli Air Force 1971, Viking, New York, 344pp.
www.worldairforces.com /Countries/israel/isr.html   (1094 words)

  
 USS Clueless - The Israeli military
You need to be able to move your forces where they need to fight, and they need to be able to fight in snow and desert sand and heavy forests and cities, because the political purposes of the nation involved may require any of those.
You may need to land across a beach, or use paratroops to capture an airfield or port; you may need to fight on an island in the ocean or in a nation which is a thousand miles from the nearest salt water.
The same thing exists in their Air Force, which is made up of a mix of modern, somewhat older and quite obsolescent jets from a myriad of sources.
denbeste.nu /cd_log_entries/2002/08/TheIsraelimilitary.shtml   (1925 words)

  
 Israel's Nuclear Weapons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Soon the Israelis encircled the Egyptian Third Army and it was faced with annihilation on the east bank of the Suez Canal, with no protective forces remaining between the Israeli Army and Cairo.
Israeli commandos flew to Fort Benning, Georgia to train with the new American TOW anti-tank missiles and return with a C-130 Hercules aircraft full of them in time for the decisive Golan battle.
Israeli statements stress that Iran's nuclear potential would be problem to all and would require “American leadership, with serious participation of the G-7.
www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr.htm   (10185 words)

  
 All Known Israeli Air Combat Victories
Air Warfare in the Missile Age, a general history with good coverage of the mideast conflict, by Lon Nordeen, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
The Fighting Israeli Air Force, an early history of the IDF/AF, by Stanley Ulanoff and David Eshel, Arco Pulishing, Inc., 1985.
One list covers all air-to-air victories claimed by the IDF/AF that pass historical scrutiny (there have been some that didn't) and the other is an accounting of air-to-air victories scored by individual pilots.
home.sprynet.com /~anneled/IAFtotal.html   (451 words)

  
 Israeli Air Force   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Israeli Defence Forces/Air Force (IDF/AF) is organised into a number of semi-autonomous wings of usually three squadrons each, together with co-located SAR and liaison flights.
The Israeli Air Force operates from 9 main bases, of which 5 house front-line units.
Apart from the 9 main air bases, there are also a number of smaller airports and airfields around the country which are sometimes used by the Air Force.
www.aeroflight.co.uk /waf/israel/iafindex.htm   (196 words)

  
 Exploding toy planes - the next threat to Israeli security? - Jane's International Security News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An eyewitness in Gaza told JTIC that he heard the sound of an Israeli helicopter in the vicinity before the explosion took place: an indication that the device could have been detonated by remote control.
Reports that Palestinian militants were acquiring model aircraft for conversion into 'flying bombs' first reached the Israeli intelligence community around a year ago, David Eshel writes.
Use of explosive-laden model aircraft is not the only potential form of airborne terrorism which concerns the Israeli defence community, however.
www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/jtic/jtic030225_1_n.shtml   (676 words)

  
 Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology
Saudi and French security forces retook the shrine after an intense battle in which some 250 people were killed and 600 wounded.
Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986: A Palestinian splinter group detonated a bomb as TWA Flight 840 approached Athens airport, killing four U.S. citizens.
Bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17, 1992: Hizballah claimed responsibility for a blast that leveled the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, causing the deaths of 29 and wounding 242.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm   (10869 words)

  
 CLARKSDALEWEBINFO.COM
Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers said yesterday that the behavior and comments from six generals is "inappropriate" for military officers.
The main force, named the Special Unit of Martyr Seekers in the Revolutionary Guards, was first seen last month when members marched in a military parade, dressed in olive-green uniforms with explosive packs around their waists and detonators held high.
Serbia was forced to declare a state of emergency in several regions after the Danube and its tributaries reached their highest level for a century, causing major flooding across the Balkans yesterday.
www.clarksdalewebinfo.com   (2890 words)

  
 List of aircraft - Gurupedia
List of aircraft of the WW2 Luftwaffe (Germany, WW2)
List of aircraft of the Israeli Air Force (Israel)
List of aircraft of the Irish Air Corps (Ireland)
www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_aircraft.htm   (4803 words)

  
 The Ostrovsky Files
The holding facility is on the Israeli side of the Erez checkpoint and it is designed to incarcerate Palestinians arrested while trying to enter Israel without the proper documentation.
The most worrisome element of this story is the uncalled for and unnecessary cruelty displayed by what one can only regard as “regular Israelis.” It appears to vindicate the many predictions made by psychologists that the prolonged Israeli occupation of the territories might rob the Israelis of their souls.
Already the rates of violence by Israelis against Israelis, starting with their own families, may be the final revenge of Israel’s hundreds of thousands of innocent victims.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0300/0003035.html   (2598 words)

  
 Creative Loafing Atlanta | NEWS | UPDATE: THE SPIES WHO CAME IN FROM THE ART SALE
For example, Paragraph 82 of the document states that MacDill Air Force Base intelligence officers were warned in March 2001 of the art students' efforts.
"The activities of these Israeli art students raised the suspicion of (the DEA's Office of Security Programs) and other field offices when attempts were made to circumvent the access control systems at DEA offices, and when these individuals began to solicit their paintings at the homes of DEA employees," the document states.
A dozen Israelis, including the alleged surveillance leader, had been based in Hollywood, Fla., between January and June last year -- quite possibly watching Arabs living nearby who are suspected of providing logistical support to Osama bin Laden's network.
atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2002-03-20/fishwrapper.html   (2796 words)

  
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Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) was recently awarded a contract to supply the Heron Unmanned Aerial
Machatz 1 will serve as a force multiplier to the Israel Air Force's operational capabilities.
Moshe Keret, President and CEO of IAI, said "We are proud and pleased to have been selected by Israel's Ministry of Defense to provide the Machatz 1 to the Israel Air Force.
www.iai.co.il /Default.aspx?docID=33336&FolderID=32540&lang=EN   (320 words)

  
 Footnotes
He was piloting a single-engine aircraft traveling from New Jersey to Martha’s Vineyard when it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
Although Duane Allman was not political, he was definitely a driving force in the American youth counterculture which expressed itself through rock music.
Graham’s death was suicide or murder, it was convenient for the forces who sponsored President Kennedy’s assassination.
www.jfkmontreal.com /footnotes.htm   (5498 words)

  
 Reverse Spins
Returning to North Korea, he said he was forced to write a 10-page apology when a security official heard him playing a Clayderman piece while alone.
According to Allegri, to achieve this objective John Paul II challenged the forces of evil and because of this, more than once his vocation ran the risk of being truncated.
The initial connection with John the Baptist was based on some of the earliest Christian drawings related to John on the cave walls as well as the location of the cave near Ein Kerem, John's birthplace.
www.reversespins.com   (6814 words)

  
 Israeli Air Force
The Israeli Air Force ring contains sites related to the Israeli Air Force, from its beginnings before Israel declared statehood to the present day.
A list of all known IDF/AF air combat victories that can be attributed to individual pilots.
A page with everything about the Israeli Air Force, from its inventory to the famous operations which have made it known as one of the best air forces in the world.
f.webring.com /webring?ring=israf   (407 words)

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