Posted on 07/01/2013 10:26:44 AM PDT by Nachum
The Israel Air Force has held large-scale exercises in Bulgaria in recent weeks to practice against the threat of advanced air defense systems. The Bulgarian air force took part.
An unnamed senior air force official said recent exercises in general were bearing in mind “the axis known as Iran-Hezbollah-Syria. We’re preparing for what a multifront scenario could mean.”
According to a Bulgarian website, about a hundred crew members from the IAF took part in the joint training, which lasted three weeks at Graf Ignatievo Air Base.
A photograph on the IAF website shows 18 Israeli pilots and navigators arriving for the event; technical crews and other support personnel also took part. Air force chief Amir Eshel met with his Bulgarian counterpart, Konstantin Popov.
The exercise included F-16 fighter jets from two squadrons based at Hatzor in Israel. One was the 105th Squadron, which flies two-seat F-16Ds. The other was the 101st Squadron, which flies F-16Cs, which have one seat for a pilot, no navigator.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Beats the American way, send a lacky to throw money at them.
Bttt
That was the Roman way too for last couple hundred years of the Empire. The results they had are instructive.
The following three words have probably never been said on FR before, so let me be the first: Hurray for Bulgaria.
Whomever has this coming, word of advice while we're still in the "thinking about it" stage: Don't F... with Israel.
Israel is to be your friend and from all I've read, you know that..or did.
Thanks Nachum.
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