Jun 9, 2024
Sometimes they wear the STAR OF DAVID ✡️🇮🇱
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Sometimes they wear the STAR OF DAVID ✡️🇮🇱
Enemies of Israel take note: We will reach you, near or far.
Operation Opera – The Bombing of Iraq's Osirak Reactor
On June 7, 1981, a squadron of Israeli Air Force jets (including one piloted by Ilan Ramon, later Israel's first astronaut) flew to Iraq and destroyed the Osirak reactor without suffering any losses.
Years later, the operation's lead pilot, Ze'ev Raz, said of the mission, "Of course it was a miracle. How is it possible that even after we bombed the reactor not one plane tried to down us? ...We flew back as the sun was setting. But since the planes were traveling at such a fast speed, the sun was out all the time and never set.
It was as though it remained standing in the middle of the horizon. At that time we pilots all radioed each other reciting the same exact biblical verse –Joshua 10:12: 'Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and moon, over the Valley of Ayalon.' You know, as I am recalling this now I am getting goose bumps.”
Im Tirtzu
33 years ago, one of the most famous and dangerous long range attack mission in Israeli Air Force history. Israeli Air Force’s interest in the Lockheed Martin F-16 was born after the Yom Kipp…
As told by Norton, the Israeli jets flew more than 600 miles in the skies of three supposedly enemy nations: to reach the target, the first country that the aircraft overflew was northern Saudi Arabia and its deserts.
The route over Iraq was planned not only to avoid the radar coverage but also the airfields; inbound to the target the F-16s flew at an altitude between 150 and 300 ft.
At 17:35 with the sun at their back complicating any intercept attempt, the aircraft arrived over the target: before releasing their bombs the F-16s lit their afterburners at about 12.5 miles from the nuclear plant, climbed to 8,000 ft and then dived at 600 kts releasing their Mk. 84s at 3,500 ft.
The weapons were delivered on target by two waves of four Falcons each.
Even if two bombs missed the target the others were able to destroy and damage the reactor and several facilities. Some Mk. 84s had very long delayed fuzes to avoid any attempts to repair or rebuild the plant.
August 30th lineup!
This month we have the following amazing singers performing:
Samantha Britt
Steven Tietjen
Gregory Spock
Renee Holzmeier
Mary-Hollis Hundley
La-Toya Lewis
Margaret Newcomb
Bevin Hill
Melanie Goerlitz
Lisa Flanagan
Olivia Custodio
Also, this month we have artwork and photographs customized FOR EACH ARIA from Christina Curran, Jay Miriam and Kathryn Barulich. It will blow your mind!!
At the last show!
Thomas Deneuville's amazing piece from our last Operation: Opera. Featuring Gian-Carla Tisera and Taylor Levine.