Thursday, 24 August 2017

McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle, Israeli Users

The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American all-weather tactical-fighter designed to gain and maintain aerial superiority. It flew for the first time in 1972 and it's one of the most successful modern fighters. It was exported to various countries, among them, Israel.
The F-15A was the first version that entered into service in 1972 and it was focused in aerial combat.
The Israeli Air Force bought some F-15A in 1975 under the Peace Fox programme making that way the first foreign customer of the type, as, after the Yom-Kippur war they needed new air-superiority fighter that could face against the modern MiG-25 that was already operating from Arab bases. The first aerial kill achieved by an F-15A was scored by Moshe Melnik in 1979. In the raids against Palestinian factions located in the Lebanon during 1979-1981, the F-15A achieved a reported score of 13 Syrian MiG-21 and two Syrian MiG-25. They also took part in Operation Opera, an air raid against an Iraqi nuclear reactor in June 1981. During the Lebanon-Israeli war of 1982 the F-15A were credited with a total of 41 Syrian aircrafts destroyed, twenty-three MiG-21, seventeen MiG-23 and one AĆ©rospatiale Gazelle helicopter.










Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle
2. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/mcdonnell-douglas-f-15-eagle
3. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters

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