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25 paź 2016 · The little A-4 agility coupled with an equally surprising ability to take battle damage, made it a popular and reliable choice over several wars. The type was used heavily in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the Israeli fleet took correspondingly heavy loses: of 102 aircraft lost, 53 were Ayits. That war was not without its moments of distinction.
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Between 1972 and 1976, 117 specially modified A-4M Skyhawks,...
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The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single-seat subsonic carrier-capable light attack aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company, and later, McDonnell Douglas. It was originally designated A4D under the United States Navy's pre-1962 designation system.
27 wrz 2021 · A-4 Skyhawk at the Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim. The Yom Kippur War-era “Barrel” modification that extended the Skyhawk’s nozzle to combat the heat-seeking SA-7 SAM is circled in red.
17 lip 2020 · The first Skyhawk combat missions came on 15 February 1968, when A-4s of 109 ‘Valley’ Squadron attacked Jordanian artillery and Palestinian bases along the Israel-Jordan border following attacks on Israeli settlements.
6 paź 2024 · Israel relied on France as its principal supplier of arms for more than a decade, but by the mid-1960s its desire to purchase more advanced and capable US weapons saw it buy the combat-proven Douglas A-4 Skyhawk to perform light strike missions.
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk (pierwotnie A4D Skyhawk) – amerykański pokładowy samolot szturmowy produkowany przez zakłady Douglas (od 1967 McDonnell Douglas). Prototyp oblatano w 1954 roku. Samoloty w różnych wersjach brały udział w wojnie wietnamskiej, konfliktach bliskowschodnich w 1967 i 1973 oraz wojnie o Falklandy-Malwiny w 1982.
9 lis 2016 · Between 1972 and 1976, 117 specially modified A-4M Skyhawks, designated A-4N, were delivered to Israel. The A-4N variant was equipped with the uprated Pratt & Whitney J52-P408 engine, two 30-mm cannons, head-up display, and state-of-the-art weapons and anti-missile defense systems.
