Word: 15s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their support facilities account for $5.8 billion of that, and have attracted the most attention. Yet the proposal also includes 101 sets of fuel tanks to extend the range of the Saudis' fleet of 62 F-15 Eagles. Probably the world's best jet fighters, the F-15s will be sent to the Saudis in a sale that former President Jimmy Carter pushed through a skeptical Congress on the promise that they would not be given any longer-range capability than their present 2,878 miles. The new sale also includes 1,177 Sidewinder missiles...
...came away with only a joint statement saying that "misunderstandings" about the raid had been "clarified." Then, just as the U.S. was about to release the F-16s anyway, the Israelis bombed Beirut. The shipment was held up once again and eventually 14 F-16s and two F-15s were included in the embargo. The hold lasted long enough to avoid embarrassing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who visited Washington in early August...
...local time on June 7, the first of the F-15 support fighters that had been stored in underground bunkers lifted off from Israel's Etzion airbase in the eastern Sinai. The F-15s avoided using their afterburners to conserve fuel. Soon the F-16s joined them, and the jets headed east, flying low, the escorting F-15s above and on either side of the bombers...
Even so, as they crossed the eastern bank of the Gulf of Aqaba and began to climb over the nearby rocky red mountains, the higher-flying F-15s were picked up by Jordanian radar based at Ma'an. The station radioed the planes in Arabic, using international emergency frequencies. The Israelis were
While the six twin-engine F-15s provided a protective umbrella, the specially armed F-16s screamed into their bombing runs. The lead plane fired a pair of video-guided precision "smart" bombs, to punch through predetermined spots in the domed concrete. The following aircraft launched their own explosives through the jagged holes: a dozen conventional bombs weighing 2,200 Ibs. each. After a series of shattering roars, the roof collapsed, burying the reactor's radioactive core under hundreds of tons of concrete and steel debris. Fire raged through the site. Two of the attackers, carrying cameras rather than heavy...