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Operation Summer Rain and Just Reward

Israel Air and Space Force (זרוע האויר והחלל / Zroa HaAvir VeHaḤalal)

NAME            VICTORIES    PLANE  AIRFORCE  AIRFORCE     COMMENTS

unknown             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-16 ‘Barak’
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".

Šafařík, Jan J.: Attributed Israeli Air Combat Victories PDF

Middle East Conflicts
The War of Independence (13^th November 1948 - 20^th July 1949) PDF

Operation Peace for Galilee (6^th June - 11^th June 1982) PDF

Mirage IIICJ "Shahak" / IAI "Nesher" Aces
Mc Donell Douglas F-4 "Kurnass" Aces
Mc Donell Douglas F-15 "Baz" Aces PDF

General Dynamics F-16 "Netz" Aces PDF

The Best Israeli Navigarors And Weapon System Officers
Victories Of The Fighter Pilots - Israeli Independence War 1948 PDF

Mc Donell Douglas F-15 "Baz" Victories PDF

General Dynamics F-16 "Netz" Victories PDF

Sources & Literature
Lednicer, David: Attributed Israeli Air Combat Victories
Chel Ha'Avir (Israeli Defence Force / Air Force - IDF/AF) Aircrafts
Chel Ha'Avir (Israeli Defence Force / Air Force - IDF/AF) Aircraft's Photos

Sources & Literature

Aloni, Shlomo: Summer Raina Just Reward, Israel zaútočil na Pásmo Gazy a Libanion, in Letectví+kosmonautika, No. 10, 2006.
Nastoupil, Kosef: Poznatky z války Izraele proti Hizballáhu, in Vojenské rozhledy, Volume 16 (48), No. 1, 2007.
Představeni zabijáci Ababilů, informujeme, in Letectví+kosmonautika, No. 5, 2007.
Verluste IDF/AF und Libanon von 07/2006 bis heute, http://www.pom-tom.de/Losses_IDFAF-L_dat.html.
Conflict News, First combat kill with Python 5, http://www.f-16.net/news_article1983.html.
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.
Hizbollah Cruise Missiles Shot Down, http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20060815.aspx.
F-16 Airframe Details for 87-1672, http://www.f-16.net/f-16_fighting_falcon_airframe-2482.html.