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Mirage IIICJ 1/48 by Eduard
The "Shahak" (heavens), as the Mirage was known in Israel, was the first IAF fighter equipped with air-to-air missiles. The Mirage IIICJ was given the Hebrew name ‘Shahak’ (Skyblazer) due to its very inspirational Mach II performance and highly polished metal finish.
The French-built Dassault Mirage IIICJ (known as “Shahak”, or “Skyblazer”, in Israeli service) was the principal front-line fighter used for Israel’s air campaign in 1967. Specially developed Israeli anti-runway bombs and local modifications to the gunsight made it devastatingly effective in the hands of Israeli pilots for both strike and air combat roles.
Operational history
In the early morning of June 5th 1967, the war broke out. Israel made a preemptive strike on the Egyptian Air Force: The Air Force attacked all military airports in Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, destroying hundreds of aircrafts and neutralizing the Egyptian Air Force. Israel warned King Hussein to refrain from fighting but he relented and the Jordanian military conquered the UN Headquarters (formerly the residence of the British High Commissioner). The Israeli Air Force also acted against the Jordanian Air Force. Throughout these hours, Syria continued to shell Israeli settlements; Syrian airports were attacked and most of the Syrian aircrafts were destroyed. On the first day of fighting, Israel obtained absolute aerial control.
IAF Mirages are best known for their conduct during the 1967 Six Day War. Mirages spearheaded the decisive pre-emptive strike against Arab airfields, operation "Moked", decimating Arab air forces, and completely overwhelmed the few enemy aircraft that survived to challenge the IDF. Israel entered with war with 65 airworthy examples and all but 12 participated in the strikes launched on the morning of June 5, 1967. Four by four, the entire IAF fighter inventory descended on Egyptian Air Force bases, destroying the majority of its aircraft on the ground. Mirages, the IAF primary fighter of the war, were tasked with attacking the farthest and best defended air bases: Abu-Sweir, Cairo West, Helwan and more. When operation "Moked" was turned against other Arab nations, Mirages were once again in the forefront of the fighting, attacking Jordanian, Syrian and Iraqi air bases as well. Having destroyed dozens of enemy aircraft during the first day's activities, 4 Mirages were also lost. More Mirages were lost during the remainder of the war, one of them in a disastrous sortie against Iraq's H3. By the end of the war, Mirages had also shot down 48 Arab fighters, some of those aircraft that had survived the initial strikes. The "Shahak" has also been credited with keeping Lebanon out of the war by downing a Lebanese Hawker Hunter near its border on the morning of June 5.
Destruction of the Egyptian Air Force
On the morning of June 5th, 1967, the Israeli Air Force launched multiple waves of airstrikes against the Egyptian Air Force over the course of three hours. In this short span of time, approximately 300 Egyptian combat aircraft were destroyed, including all of Egypt’s Tu-16 bombers. Later that same day, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq launched air strikes against Israel; Israel promptly responded and largely wiped out the Syrian and Jordanian air forces as well, and destroyed the Iraqi base that had launched fighter bombers against Israel. All in all, in the space of ten hours, Israel had achieved complete air superiority. Israel could then strike with her tanks and infantry into enemy territory without concern for Arab air attacks, while Israeli aircraft were now free to provide air support for the ground offensive in uncontested airspace; this latter capability served as a “force multiplier” for Israeli ground forces, offsetting Arab numerical superiority. Israeli air dominance was so complete that she even employed some light training jets to bomb and strafe Egyptian forces retreating from the Sinai.
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