G-suit

By Merev Halperin, Aharon Lapidot, Lawrence Rifkin

An anthology of combat reports covering four decades of the Israeli Air Force which has been at war for all that time. The first Phantom squadrons are described as well as less well-known aspects of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747404666
• ISBN13: 9780747404668
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Warner Paperbacks
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

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Back cover plus my memories

OVER FORTY YEARS OF CONTINUOUS COMBAT HAVE MADE THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE INTO ONE OF THE MOST FORMIDABLE FIGHTING UNITS AND THE MOST SOPHISTICATED AIR FORCE IN THE WORLD . G-SUIT, A SERIES OF COMBAT REPORTS FROM ISRAELI PILOTS, RECORDS THE EVOLUTION AND THE ACTION OF THIS AIRFORCE FROM ITS EARLIEST DAYS TO THE PRESENT DAY: ISRAELI METEORS VS ARAB VAMPIRES, THE RISE OF THE MIRAGE IN ACTION AGAINST MiGS, SKYHAWKS VS MiGS, THE SIX DAY WAR, THE FIRST PHANTOM SQUADRONS, THE AIR WAR AGIANST MISSILES THE YOM KIPPUR WAR G-SUIT ALSO REVEALS DETAILS OF THE LESS WELL-KNOWN ASPECTS OF THE ISRAELI WAR, AS WELL AS THE RECENT HAZARDS OF ACTIVE MISSIONS OVER BEIRUT, F15s vs MiG21s, AND F16s ON STRIKE MISSIONS AGAINST THE NUCLEAR REACTOR IN BAGHDAD. REALLY, IT IS CALLED COMBAT REPORTS, BUT I WOULD CHARACTERISE IT AS CHAPTER-SIZED SHORT-STORIES OR LONG ANECDOTES OF ISRAELI AIR-FORCE BATTLES AND INCIDENTS: FOR EXAMPLE, THE STORY OF THE LARGE EGYPTIAN HELICOPTER -BORN COMMANDO ASSAULTDURING '73 WAR WHICH WAS SMASHED , PARTLY IN THE AIR BY ISRAELI JETS, THE NEXT DAY SOME ISRAELI AIRMEN ARE SENT TO PICKUP A SOVIET MIL-8 HELICOPTER WHICH IS DAMAGED BUT FLYABLE , BUT FIND THAT THE CONTROLS ON RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS ARE IN REVERSE. MEANWHILE THEY FIND ISRAELI TROOPS TRYING TO PERSUADE AN EGYPTIAN PILOT STANDING BY HIMSELF IN A FIELD TO SURRENDER. OTHERS ARE HAIR-RAISING STORIES OF PHANTOMS DAMAGED OR SHOT DOWN, FOLLOWING A JORDANIAN HAWKER HUNTER FLYING SERENELY FOR MILES AND MILES ACROSS THE SKY INTO JORDAN WONDERING IF THE PILOT IS ASLEEP WHY HE DOESNT NOTICE THERE ARE TWO ISRAELIS ON HIS TAIL, EJECTIONS BY CREWS, AIRMEN CAPTURED BY SYRIANS IN GOLAN OR EGYPTIANS IN SINAI, AND THE EXPLOITS OF AN ISRAELI CREW OF SOMETHING AS UNUSUAL AS AN ISRAELI B47 RECONAISSANCE STRATOJET WHICH GOES DOWN.