Israel Air and Space Force (זרוע האויר והחלל / Zroa HaAvir VeHaḤalal)
NAME VICTORIES PLANE AIRFORCE AIRFORCE COMMENTS
Ofer, Dubi 1 F-16C IASF 110 Tayeset 1.
unknown 1 F-16D IASF 109 Tayeset 2.
unknown (Nav/WSO) 1 F-16D IASF 109 Tayeset 2.
Comments:
- IASF : Israel Air and Space Force (זרוע האויר והחלל / Zroa HaAvir VeHaḤalal)
- UAV : Unmanned Air Vehicle
- The Israeli air force has shot down a Hizbollah unmanned air vehicle in a
night-time air-to-air engagement off the coast of Akka on the Bay of Haifa,
northern Israel. It was a first combat kill for the Python 5.
- 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.
General Dynamics F-16D Block 30F ‘Barak’, 88-1716, No. 074, Israel Air and Space Force.
General Dynamics F-16D Block 30F ‘Barak’, 88-1716, No. 074, Israel Air and Space Force.
General Dynamics F-16C Block 30B ‘Netz’, 87-1672, No. 364, Israel Air and Space Force.
Hizbollah UAV Ababil-T "Mirsad 1".
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- Představeni zabijáci Ababilů, informujeme, in Letectví+kosmonautika, No. 5, 2007.
- Conflict News, First combat kill with Python 5,
http://www.f-16.net/news_article1983.html.
- F-16 Airframe Details for 87-1672,
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_fighting_falcon_airframe-2482.html.
- Hizbollah Cruise Missiles Shot Down,
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20060815.aspx.
- La Franchi, Peter:Iranian-made Ababil-T Hezbollah UAV shot down by Israeli fighter in Lebanon crisis,
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2006/08/15/208400/ iranian-made-ababil-t-hezbollah-uav-shot-down-by-israeli-fighter-in-lebanon.html.
- Verluste IDF/AF und Libanon von 07/2006 bis heute,
http://www.pom-tom.de/Losses_IDFAF-L_dat.html.
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