An Israeli A-4E shot down a Mig-17 using Zuni rockets during The War of Attrition in 1970.

Ezra Dotan on 12 May 1970. On a A-4H of 109sq.
By the way, after downing the first MiG-17 with Zunis, Ezra proceeded to down the second MiG-17. His 4th and 5th kills.

Among the bizarre shootdowns are the F-4E Kurnas “shooting down” Mil Mi-8s carrying Egyptian commandos during YKW, by buzzing them real low and switching burners on, so that the blast pushed them into the ground. Happened on at least two different occasions IIRC.
(Including one when 18 Mi-8s trying to insert commandos got bounced, so bad that only 4 escaped. Quite a slaughter…)

I believe this is the Jordanian KA-2 digital camo. (KA-2 == King Abd’Allah II 😀 )
The photoshopped pic is probably a sales prop.

Seldom seen Senegalese

A Socata TB-30 Epsilon from Senegal

(with some sort of colorful air tractor in the back)

Really?

The goal of the war was to stop export of Khomeini’s Islamic revolution to Iraq which was mostly Shi’a. Now honestly, wasn’t this goal achieved completely?

That was “the goal” of the war?
Wow. Interesting level of … er, not sure if it is awareness, denial, candor or whatever. Interesting anyhow.
Either way, I’m not going to that level.

Let’s keep to posting photos, it will be more pleasant for everyone. I’m the guilty one here, I shouldn’t have strayed into those comments. By way of redeeming, here’s a Hunter with a load of 3-inchers.

Cool? maybe. Only it is the symbol for one of the worst armies on the planet.
Even for this area of the world, the Iraqi armed forces have an abysmal record.

They failed when they tried to side with the nazis in 1941.
They failed when they tried to attack Israel in 1948 and 1973. (plus got spanked in 1967 without asking)
They failed when they tried to attack Iran in 1980
They failed when they started the GW2 in 1990
They failed even more miserably than usual at GW3 in 2003
and to top it off, now they are well on their way to failing in the face of the Islamists.

and that’s overlooking minor tussles with Jordan and Syria in between.

Really, even for an army of that area and that culture, those armed forces have a really poor track record.

Any Egyptian Tupolev Tu-16 photo, please. I´m very interesed. Thanks.

A fake Egyptian Tu-16, escorted by a USN F-4, over USS FDR.
This is a ‘fake’, because actually the plane was owned and operated by the soviet VVS. The crew were soviets.

Times have changed quite a lot, since then. (and the ‘indefectible friendship’ of allies is still worth about as much 😀 )

17th December 1903! First manned & powered flight Wright Flyer I

Certainly not the first manned and powered flight. Unless you mean ” …in the US of A”. 😮 😀

May be worth checking up google or wikipedia for Clément Ader. He flew planes since 1890 (50 metres at 20cm high on 1990-10-09). And designed several models too.

The attached pic is his later twin-engine “Avion III” in 1897. He demonstrated to the Army control commission a flight of 300m on 1997-10-14.

The achievement of the Wright bros is the controllabity of their plane. Theirs was manoeuverable, and they understood how to turn and keep control. That was their first.

Ader never achieved that. After demonstrating straight flights, he got a contract with the French ministry of war which depended on achieving a closed circuit. Not knowing the subtleties of piloting (obviously), he tried to turn “square”, and flat. And crashed. Lost the DoD’s financing, and turned to other projects.

One should not believe the nationalistic crap spread by the media. 😮