Operation Opera - Israel's Raid on the Iraqi Reactor 1981

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  @aauwhatitdo1582 · 4 years ago

  &quot;Boys will be boys.&quot;<br><br>That is the most Reagan thing I have heard ever.

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• VA

  @ValinPrezkowski · 3 months ago

  I think it was about this time that most of the world finally understood that you don’t mess with Israel. They were willing to do what was necessary!

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• MA

  @manuelteixeira2496 · 4 years ago

  &quot;What is the worst fear of the pilot? It&apos;s not to get killed. Is to blow the mission!&quot;

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• LA

  @lawrencetate145 · 4 years ago

  I didn&apos;t learn until well after the space shuttle Columbia disaster that astronaut Ilan Ramon, a member of the Columbia crew who died, was one of the F-16 pilots on the Opera mission. &nbsp;Quite an intersection of history.

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• MA

  @marklee4304 · 3 years ago

  This is the real Top Gun: Maverick.

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• NA

  @nazkai2002 · 4 years ago

  I witness this event. I was 13 years old, lived by the Old Jisr Diyala (Zafaraniyah city) when I saw for first time a black jet fighters came from west ( the Iranian jets usually came from East to attack) flying over the restricted area of &nbsp;Al Bo&apos;eitha, then fly down vertically and bombed the area. The Iraqi radars was put in sleep, No Air raid sirens but the ADA guns start 7 minutes after the bombardment.

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• IT

  @itamiyouji4057 · 4 years ago

  That takes some balls: making that sort of a bomb run in a fighter stripped of its ability to defend itself.

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• AH

  @Ahmed-c8t6c · 2 months ago

  Somaliland is very lucky to have such friend.

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• RO

  @robertward8035 · 3 years ago

  In 1983, I was assigned to the 19th tac fighter squadron at Shaw AFB, Sumter, SC. I was fortunate to actually meet the pilots who flew this mission and listen as they briefed and shared with our F16 pilots the tactical and logistical aspects of the mission. The Israeli pilots pulled every possibility out of, what was at the time, a very new weapons system. It was a mission that was amazingly planned, and executed.

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• JA

  @jarodu5869 · 4 years ago (edited)

  July 31st 2022<br>An intriguing flick filled with prescise strategic planning. A documentary of sacrifice and heroic action. The expertise of the pilots was executed perfectly.<br>Thank you for sharing this with us. <br>Watching and overwhelmed from the Fiji 🇫🇯 Islands. <br>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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• JU

  @justonemori · 5 years ago

  I have this buried somewhere on a $2 DVD. Best $2 I ever spent!

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• RU

  @rupertwinslow8638 · 4 years ago

  Here I am watching this documentary 41 years to the day of this epic mission.

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