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==Phantoms over Israel==

==Phantoms over Israel==

The Phantom was first acquired by the Israeli Defense Forces in September 1969, and 67 days later, the F-4 saw aerial combat with the Israelis for the first time, when a Phantom crew shot down an Egyptian Mig-21.  Phantoms took part in the War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War (suffering heavy losses), and the 1982 war in Lebanon.  The Phantom was used mainly as a fighter-bomber, although Israeli F-4s scored a total of 116.5 air-to-air kills.[http://home.att.net/~jBaugher1/f4_41.html]  The Israeli name for the F-4 was the ''Kurnass'' (sledgehammer).<ref>Israeli F-4 Phantom II Aces, by Shlomo Aloni, Osprey Publishing, 2004</ref>

The Phantom was first acquired by the Israeli Defense Forces in September 1969, and 67 days later, the F-4 saw aerial combat with the Israelis for the first time, when a Phantom crew shot down an Egyptian Mig-21.  Phantoms took part in the War of Attrition, the [[Yom Kippur War]] (suffering heavy losses), and the 1982 war in Lebanon.  The Phantom was used mainly as a fighter-bomber, although Israeli F-4s scored a total of 116.5 air-to-air kills.[http://home.att.net/~jBaugher1/f4_41.html]  The Israeli name for the F-4 was the ''Kurnass'' (sledgehammer).<ref>''Israeli F-4 Phantom II Aces'', by Shlomo Aloni, Osprey Publishing, 2004</ref>

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