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...basic requirements. It can be produced in a relatively cheap (as little as $2,500) bare-bones version suitable for small private aircraft, yet it will also be compatible with sophisticated versions (costing $50,000) for larger commercial aircraft. In whatever form, no assistance is needed from controllers or radar stations to determine when planes veer dangerously close...
...formation headed across the Gulf of Aqaba toward Jordan, following a top-secret route designed to take advantage of blind spots in Arab radar coverage along the borders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq. The aircraft stayed close to the terrain, but varied their altitudes in a weaving pattern that had been tested by the Israeli Air Force as a means to further reduce radar visibility...
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
...Saudi Arabia. From time to time the jets would flash over a reference point, and the group leader would radio a code message ("sand dune yellow") to the war room in Tel Aviv's Defense Ministry building. The warplanes remained well beyond the range of U.S.-operated AWACS radar aircraft currently assigned to the Saudis and patroling the country's Persian Gulf perimeter. The job of the one AWACS that was airborne at the time was solely to survey the gulf area. Its effective radar range of 230 miles could not reach the Israeli attacking aircraft, exactly as the Israelis...
...lead fighter penetrated Iraqi airspace. The aircraft continued to change course continuously as they moved in on target, howling through the Sunday twilight at 400 m.p.h. For months the Israelis had studied the route up the Euphrates Valley, convinced that they could negotiate it without being detected by radar or ground observers. Fifty minutes after takeoff, the warplanes sighted their target, the distinctive cupola housing the nuclear reactor. The aircraft wheeled and climbed toward the setting sun?the classic maneuver prior to attack...