[sheik yerbouty]

Two fav=ctors. A miracle and a former IDF pilot.

[teripittman]

3) poor choice of weapons. The Soviets stopped using those particular missles because they had problems with the heat seeking unit and weren't reliable. The version that they changed to is more effective, but is more sophisticated. It's not something that is easily useable by an uneducated terrorist.

Wish I could give you more specifics, but this is what my military history buff husband told me last night, when we watched this on TV.