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The Most Successful Israeli Navigarors And Weapon System Officers


                                                                VICTORIES                                                                             
NAME                                 DESTROIED   UNCONFIRMED     PROBABLE      DAMAGED         FLT          UNITS                       COMMENTS

Manoff, Roy                             7             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E, * 
Amitay, Itzchak                         5             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E
Katz, Chaim                             5 [4+1]       -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E


Gal, Yehoar                             4             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E
Yavin, Yosef                            4             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E 
Cohen, Michael                          3             -             -             -             -           133                         WSO F-15D
Gur, Meir                               3             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E
Lazar, Ilan                             3             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E 
Lipsitz, Zvi                            3             -             -             -             -           133,106                     WSO F-15D, ♦♦♦
Regev, David                            3             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E
Sagee, Oded                             3             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E, ###
Tal, Zvi                                3             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E 
Ashael, Abraham                         2             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E
Cohen, Aharon                           2             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E 
Edan, Zvi                               2             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E 
Ilani, Mordechai                        2             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E
Katz, Aharon                            2             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E
Levi, Shaul                             2             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E 
Oren, Micha                             2             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E 
Peri, Nathan                            2             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E 
Poleg, Oded                             2             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E 
Raz, Itzhak                             2             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E 
Romem, Yoram                            2             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E 
Shamueli, Eitan                         2             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E 
Talmon, Amiram                          2             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E
Whittmann, Daniel                       2             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E 
Lior, Eliezer                           2 [1+1]       1             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E
Golan, Baruch                           1             1             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E
Zeevi, Ze'ev                            1             1             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E
Ahikar, Eyal                            1             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E 
Andrews, Stan                           1             -             -             -             -           103                         Na/RO Beaufighter
Arel, Yoni                              1             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E
Bankir, David                           1             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E
Barak, Paltiel                          1             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E
Baram, Yitzhak                          1             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E
Barkan, Chaim                           1             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E
Bartov, Moshe                           1             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E
Baruch, Abraham                         1             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E
Ben-Shoa, Shabtai                       1             -             -             -             -           110, 69                     WSO F-4E
Binyamini, Zvi                          1             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E
Brosh, Eliashiv „Shibbi“                1             -             -             -             -           119                         Nav, Meteor NF.13
Eini, Menachem                          1             -             -             -             -           119, 110, 201               WSO F-4E 
Hodorov, Amir                           1             -             -             -             -           133                         WSO F-15B, ♦♦♦♦
Israeli, Gur                            1             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E
Katz, Yitzhak                           1             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E
Kiryati, Beni                           1             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E 
Lev-Ari, Yosef                          1             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E 
Lif, Avikam                             1             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E 
Noi, Shimon                             1             -             -             -             -           201                         WSO F-4E 
Oakman, David                           1             -             -             -             -           105                         WSO F-4E 
Reshef, Reuven                          1             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E 
Rozen, Shimshon                         1             -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E 
Rubinstein, Chaim                       1             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E 
Shachar, Chaim                          1             -             -             -             -           69                          WSO F-4E 
Shapira, Uzi                            1             -             -             -             -           133                         WSO F-15B
Solan, Reuven                           1             -             -             -             -           133                         WSO F-15D
Ye'ari, Yossi                           1             -             -             -             -           107                         WSO F-4E 
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           107                         10. 10. 1973, Spector and Erel
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           107                         11. 10. 1973, ? and Raz
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           107                         14. 10. 1973, Koren R and Sopher
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           107                         14. 10. 1973, Nachumi and Regev
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           107                         15. 10. 1973, Spector and Manoff
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           119                         10. 10. 1973, Melnik and Sagi
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           119                         13. 10. 1973, ?
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         11. 10. 1973, ?
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         11. 10. 1973, Ben-Eliyahu and NW
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         11. 10. 1973, Peled and Talmon
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         14. 10. 1973, Ben-Eliyahu and Talmon
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         15. 10. 1973, Regev and Shamueli
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         21. 10. 1973, Peled and Gal
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         21. 10. 1973, Peled and Gal
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         3. 1. 1982, Sheffer and Naveh, Granot and Grossman
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           201                         8. 10. 1973, Zohar and Kiryati
squadron kill {F-4E}                    1             -             -             -             -           69                          10. 10. 1973, Gat and Kesler
unknown {co-pilot/gunner AH-64A}        1             -             -             -             -           127                         1.; 24. 5. 2001, 1 Cessna 152
unknown {WSO of F-16D}                  1             -             -             -             -           109                         2.; 13. 8. 2006, 1 UAV
unknown {WSO of F-16I}                  1             -             -             -             -                                       3.; 16. 12. 2010, 1 balloon
unknown {WSO of F-16D}                  1             -             -             -             -           201                         4.; 6. 10. 2012, 1 UAV
unknown {co-pilot/gunner AH-64D}        1             -             -             -             -                                       5.; 10. 2. 2018, 1 RQ-170 UAV
Erlich, Zvi                             1 [0+1]       -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E 
Goldwasser, Moshe                       1 [0+1]       -             -             -             -           110, 201                    WSO F-4E
Nahev, Yuval                            1 [0+1]       -             -             -             -           119                         WSO F-4E 
Paz, Ofer                               1 [0+1]       -             -             -             -           106                         WSO F-15D

Comments:
FLT: Forced to land
Na: navigator
Nav: navigator
RO: Radar Operator
WSO: Weapon System Officer
 
*: Five victories in one day.
 
###: Oded Sagee is sometimes credited with 4 victories
♦♦♦: ≈ Zvi Liphshitz
♦♦♦♦: ≈ Amir Chodorov
  1. On 24 May 2001, a privately owned Lebanese-registered Cessna 152 flew into Israeli airspace, it was intercepted by two AH-64s and shot down by a Hellfire missile, killing the pilot.
  2. According to some sources IDF/AF units shot down two UAV in total belonging to Hizbollah. One of the drones was shot down over Kibbutz Cabri, in the Western Galilee. The other drone was downed over the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre (Verluste IDF/AF und Libanon von 07/2006 bis heute, http://www.pom-tom.de/Losses_IDFAF-L_dat.html). However other sources credit only one kill this day, which was achieved by the crew of F-16 "Barak", IDF-AF S.No. 074, belonging to 109 Tayeset "Valley / Ha' Emek" (Představeni zabijáci Ababilů, informujeme, in Letectví+kosmonautika, No. 5, 2007). It is possible that the second UAV wasn't shoot down by an aircraft but by anti-aircraft artillery.
  3. An Israel Air Force warplane on Thursday December 16th 2010 shot down an apparently unmanned balloon that flew over the Dimona nuclear reactor.
  4. The Israeli Air Force shot down an unidentified aerial vehicle that penetrated Israel's airspace on Saturday October 6th 2012. IDF forces shot down the drone over the Negev, south of Mount Hebron.
  5. At 4:30 am on 10 February 2018, an Israeli AH-64 Apache helicopter shot down an Iranian produced copy of the RQ-170 drone (Saegheh (UAV)) near the northern town of Beit Shean. The Iranian drone was sighted taking off from a base in Syria, flew along the Jordanian border, and was intercepted 90 seconds after crossing the Israeli border.


Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter
Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter
Gloster Meteor NF.13
Gloster Meteor NF.13
Mc Donell Douglas F-4E 'Kurnass'
Mc Donell Douglas F-4E "Kurnass"
F-15

Mc Donell Douglas F-15B "Baz"
F-16

Lockheed Martin F-16D "Brakeet"
Bell AH-1 Tsefa

Bell AH-1 "Tsefa"
Boeing AH-64A Peten

Boeing AH-64A "Peten"



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