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Post by Swampy on Jul 6, 2013 22:57:26 GMT -5
Here's a gem.During the Yom Kippur War, Israeli fighter jets faced their counterparts from North Korea, and, while they caused damage to the enemy, the enemy managed to escape, only to be shot down by the Egyptian air defenses. |
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Post by Sir John on Jul 6, 2013 23:34:41 GMT -5
The MiG 21 went up against the (French) Dassault Mirage3 in 1967 and came off a bad second best.
Mirage was the same aircraft as our RAAF.
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Post by mcnoch on Jul 7, 2013 6:59:10 GMT -5
Long known, but mostly put into the 'exotic anecdote' box. The Asia Times has even more to tell about the colaboration between Egypt and North Korea of the past decades. www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MB09Dg01.html |
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Post by boxcar on Jul 7, 2013 11:56:19 GMT -5
SJ>The MiG 21 went up against the (French) Dassault Mirage3 in 1967 and came off a bad second best.<
We seem to be talking about two different wars, that of 1973 and that of 1967.
In 1967, most of the Egyptian air was caught on the ground. The Israelis pulled off five missions a day, a new record. Turn around time was around ten minutes. After the second pass, there was little left of the Egyptian air force.
In the second war, the Egyptians were not engaged until they left their ground-to-air missile defense line.
That the Egyptians used North Korean pilots is news to me, but I do know that Libya was using Pakistani pilots in this era.
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