Word: 4e
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel's military command still had not commented hours later either on the 40-minute attack on Palestinian targets or the loss of the U.S.-built Phantom F-4E...
...Libyan Airlines 727 bound for Cairo blundered into airspace above the Israeli-occupied Sinai Desert, which had been declared an official war zone. Israeli officials, worried by reports that Arab terrorists planned to use a civilian airliner in a kamikaze attack on an Israeli city, ordered up Phantom F-4E interceptors. When the French pilot of the jet seemed to ignore warning shots signaling him to land at a nearby military base, the Israeli pilots shot the Boeing down, killing 108 of the 116 passengers aboard. Tapes of cockpit conversations from the crash later revealed that the pilot had mistaken...
...outright grants, the rest in loans that must be repaid within 30 years. Israel's formidable fighting machine includes an air force in which fully 85% of the 602 combat aircraft are American-built. Among them: 40 F-15 Eagles, 75 F-16 Fighting Falcons, 138 F-4E Phantoms and 246 A-4 Skyhawks...
...tight formation, the twelve Phantom F-4E jets streaked in low over the Pyramids of Giza, then banked in a sharp descent to land at Cairo West airbase. After a 13-hr, flight from Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, the American fighters were joining a sister squadron of 35 Egyptian Phantoms for three months of joint maneuvers. The training exercises, first to be held by American forces in the Middle East in several years, were a striking symbol of Egypt's emergence as a vital partner of the U.S. in the region...