1.) They have conformal fuel tanks on the F16's
2.) They have drawing and manufacturinig rights for said tanks.
3.) Short Retrofit time of said tanks.
4.) "Project Green Salad" has additional 707's being converted as air to air refuelers. Numbers run as high as a total of 7 to 9 of these aircraft.
Now what they have doen to their the F-15's I need to do some research on.
We also forget their "Boomers"... Their ships could mysteriously sink and no one would know why......
During oif I flew over the osirak site and believe me there was not much left :-)
Gosh, 1981? It doesn’t seem that long ago.