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“Operation Opera”: The Israeli Air Strike on an Iraqi Nuclear Reactor.

June 7, 2017 Tom Demerly

Israelis Shock The World With Audacious First Ever F-16 Strike. 1735 HRs Local, Sunday, June 7, 1981. Al-Tuwaythah Nuclear Research Facility, outside Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi Colonel Fakhri Hussein Jaber is in shock. His jaw drops, […]

Operation Opera: how 8 Israeli F-16s destroyed an Iraqi nuclear plant 33 years ago today

June 7, 2014 Dario Leone

33 years ago, one of the most famous and dangerous long range attack mission in Israeli Air Force history. Israeli Air Force’s interest in the Lockheed Martin F-16 was born after the Yom Kippur War […]