NARRATOR: In the cauldron
of the Middle East, the Israeli Air Force has
forged one of the most skilled fighting units in the
history of aerial warfare. [machine gun fire] [jet engine sounds] Often outnumbered, The Israelis
have tallied more victories in the modern dogfight
than any other air force. [jet engine sounds] Now, with remarkable
computer animation, you're in the cockpit
with the best of the IAF. As Mirage III and F-15 fighters
slug it out with combat tested MiGs. [jet engine sounds] Experience the battle,
dissect the tactics, relive the dogfights
of the Middle East. [explosion] [music playing] June 7, 1967, The Six Day War. [jet engine sounds] Three Israeli Mirage fighters
streak towards the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula. The Israelis, threatened
with hostile armies massed on their borders, have
made lightning strikes against the Soviet
equipped Arab air forces. Now they're battling a
broad front in Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Lieutenant Giora Romm
is flying number three. Suddenly, GCI, ground
control intercept, crackles over the radio. Israeli troops in the strategic
mountain pass of Bir Gafgafa are under attack by MiG-17s. The Mirages, designed to
take on enemy aircraft, jettison their external tanks
and heavy load of bombs. Now they're in their element. [jet engine sounds] In the fading light, Romm
catches movement close to the ground. [jet engine sounds] Though he's only a
lieutenant, Giora Romm is supremely confident
and very aggressive. [jet engine sounds] He learned a valuable
lesson two days earlier the first time he
encountered a MiG. GIORA ROMM: I was in a
very convenient position to shoot him down but my
number one told me, move aside. I'm going to shoot him down. And I, as a very young pilot,
and a very disciplined pilot at that time, moved aside
and he shot him down. And at that moment,
I said to myself, I'm not going to move aside
never in my entire life. NARRATOR: Minutes after
that first disappointment, Romm kills two MiG-21s with
his 30 millimeter cannon. Later that same
afternoon over Syria, he knocks a third
MiG-21 out of the sky. Now Giora Romm, the junior
officer in the flight, has spotted two MiG-17s
firing on Israeli troops. [machine gun fire] The MiGs are here,
the Mirages are here. The young pilot will
take the initiative and pitch over
into a steep dive. [jet engine sounds] His speed builds rapidly. He's going too fast. By the time Romm
is ready to fire, he's already overtaken them. The MiGs bug out to the west. GIORA ROMM: They saw me and
then they turn as a pair westward to fly back
to run away to Egypt. He loops back around
to chase the MiGs. Meanwhile, the other
two Israeli Mirages have lost sight of Romm. GIORA ROMM: And they ask,
where are you flying? Now you remember my story about
the first MiG-21 I missed. I said to them, I
am flying eastward. And I send them
direction due east. NARRATOR: He has intentionally
sent his superior officers in the wrong direction. Now I'm by myself
with the two MiG-17s. And their flying like
about, I would say, 15 meters above the road of
the middle of Sinai, very low. NARRATOR: Romm
accelerates on the deck. At this altitude, the Mirage
is over 100 miles per hour faster than the MiG-17. But he's taking a beating
from the MiG's jet wash. It's nearly impossible to
keep his pipper on the target, but he manages to
get off a shot. 30 millimeter high explosive
rounds tear into the MiG. [machine gun fire] And I shot a burst
at the number two. And there were black
pieces coming from him all over the place. [machine gun fire] But unlike the previous
MiG-21s, he didn't explode. On the contrary, he raised
his nose and started to climb, while number' one was
continuing to fly to Egypt. NARRATOR: Romm overtakes
the climbing MiG. Something was very strange
because he was climbing. He didn't maneuver,
just climbing. And all of a sudden, I found
myself in close formation with the MiG-17. I look at it. There was no canopy. There was no pilot in sight. Part of the black pieces
that I saw was the pilot. He ejected himself after
he raised his nose. And now I was chasing
a pilotless MiG-17. But after another like 10 or
15 seconds, all of a sudden, he rolled on his back,
his nose fell down, and he hit the ground. [explosion] NARRATOR: Lieutenant Giora
Romm, against overwhelming odds, has racked up four
MiGs in three days. He is one kill away from
becoming Israel's first jet ace. During the 1960s,
the Arab countries surrounding Israel accrued
a nearly 5 to 1 superiority in numbers of combat aircraft. The venerable Russian MiG-17
was the most widely used fighter in the Arab world. Almost subsonic, the MiG-17
was built like a tank and extremely maneuverable. In 1962, the Israeli Air Force
acquired the French built Mirage III as a response to
advanced Russian aircraft being supplied to the Arabs. The delta wing Mirage was a
lightweight Mach 2 fighter designed to climb quickly to
altitude to intercept enemy bombers. The Mirage was an extremely
versatile aircraft, and the Israelis
used it successfully as a fighter bomber. The Israelis acquired
72 of the new planes. Only the best fighter pilots
were assigned to Mirages. GIORA ROMM: The Mirage
was very powerful. It was simple, it was clear
to me, it was in full control, it was joyful. It was excellent. NARRATOR: Armed originally with
only radar guided missiles, the Israelis insisted on canon. Their air combat doctrine
called for getting in close and using a gun. They would put the
pipperp on the adversary and they would keep it there
for three seconds or two seconds that was required to
do air to air gun kill. And they trained and they
trained and they trained and they got very good at it. NARRATOR: The
Mirage III is faster and has a better rate of climb. But the slower MiG-17 can
turn tighter at low altitudes and can absorb punishment. [machine gun fire] Romm has just exploited the
Mirage's blistering speed to score his fourth kill. [explosion] But there's one more MiG-17. [jet engine sounds] And I fly very low. And I tried to locate
him above the horizon. So I'm flying like about
700 knots and very low. And then I saw him. And I was just behind him. [music playing] NARRATOR: Focused
intently on his prey, Romm disregards the calls
from his flight leader. [jet engine sounds] GIORA ROMM: They tell me to
stop and to come back on. I say, I'm going to
do it in a moment. And the MiG-17 breaks
all of a sudden. NARRATOR: The MiG pilot
pulls to 5,000 feet. GIORA ROMM: Now it's
like six pm. And everyone at the Suez
Canal is looking at us and shooting at us. So there is like a pool of
AAA and there is a MiG-17 and there is myself. NARRATOR: The Egyptian MiG
begins to make sharp turns back and forth. He's trying to lure Romm
into a turning fight, where the MiG-17 excels. GIORA ROMM: Big mistake to do it
with MiG-17 when you fly Mirage because the MiG-17 flies
slower than Mirage. You are doomed. What you should do is to
let him fight for his life here while you take advantage
of your extra energy and power. [jet engine sounds] NARRATOR: He initiates a
series of high and low yoyos, while the MiG
turns horizontally. Romm uses his speed advantage to
maneuver vertically up and down to position for a shot. [music playing] GIORA ROMM: So it was
like five or six times where I couldn't really put my
gun sight within the very steep rate of turn that he had. [jet engine sounds] Every time I went up and
he turned and I came down, it was like some dance
over the Suez Canal. Because here you have
a MiG-17, probably with a nice guy
driving it, and me. [jet engine sounds] NARRATOR: Finally,
he gets an opening. The pipper is on the target. Two seconds is all he needs. [machine gun fire] [explosion] It's number five for
Lieutenant Giora Romm. The brash 21-year-old is
now Israel's first jet ace. [jet engine sounds] June 5, 1967. [jet engine sounds] 119 squadron CO Ran Ronen is
leading a formation of Mirages to a distant target
over 600 miles away. Ghardaka, an Egyptian airfield
near the Red Sea south of the Sinai peninsula. Ronen's mission is to put
the runways out of action with specially developed
cratering bombs. RAN RONEN: We have eight bombs. Each weighed 500 kilos with a
fuses of its called 712, which means the bomb got
in and then explode. This is because this
makes a big crater. NARRATOR: Over the Red Sea, the
formation drops to low level to keep the element of surprise. Navigating by compass,
elapsed time, and airspeed, they approach the target area. [jet engine sounds] Approaching the target,
they'll pull up to 5,000 feet, roll over, and start
their bomb run. 540 knots, 900 feet per second. [music playing] One minute to pull,
Ronen orders switches on. Final cockpit check. Five seconds to pull. Ready. Ready. Pull. Stick back, nose up, 50
degrees, full afterburner. The altimeter spins
clockwise to 4,000 feet. Suddenly, out of the
right side of the canopy, Ghardaka appears. So does the AAA. RAN RONEN: The moment I
pulled, they started shooting. It was unbelievable. NARRATOR: The Mirages roll in
the pilots swallow their fear and concentrate on the bomb run. The bombs impact precisely,
rendering the runway useless. [explosion] The Mirages press the attack,
criss-crossing the field. Then number three, the
second most experienced pilot in the flight, calls bingo fuel. His limit to return safely home. Ronen must continue
the bombing mission with only three Mirages. [jet engine sounds] Ronen leads two and
four, who are new pilots, on another strafing pass. Suddenly, four shouts
in near panic for Ronen to take evasive action. RAN RONEN: Then I
heard number four say, one, break, somebody behind you. I looked around and saw
MiG-19 very close to me. [jet engine sounds] If you see an airplane
firing on you, it's OK because the bullets
cross you behind you. When you see his bottom
here, and if I go here, a big problem. [music playing] NARRATOR: The MiG
is pulling hard, trying to get his nose pointed
in front of Ronen's Mirage to lead him with gunfire. [machine gun fire] Ronen must force the
MiG to overshoot. He will pitch his nose
up then roll over the top and let the MiG
pass beneath him. Then he'll descend
right on the MiG's tail. It's a classic Israeli
tactic called let him pass. [machine gun fire] The MiG overshoots. Ronen drops down
on his 6 o'clock. The Egyptian knows
it is about to end. RAN RONEN: I got behind
him 300 meter or less. And within no time, I pulled
the trigger and shot him. [machine gun fire] And he crashed into the base. [machine gun fire] [explosion] NARRATOR: Ronen's Mirage is
suddenly alone in the sky. One MiG is down but Ronen
knows that MiGs hunt in packs. The fight over
Ghardaka is not over. [jet engine sounds] Egyptian air bases were
the primary objective of the Israeli Air Force on the
first day of the Six Day War. The plan was called
operation Moked or focus. On June 5, 1967, during
five furious hours, the Israelis destroyed over 400
Arab aircraft on the ground. [music playing] In response, the Egyptians
put many of their remaining aircraft on airborne alert. A flight of these MiGs has just
ambushed Ran Ronen's Mirages. In the engagement, Ronen has
lost sight of his wingmen. RAN RONEN: Then I asked,
where are you the other two? NARRATOR: Ronen's number
two gives his location. Ronen is here. His number two is here
on the tail of a MiG-19. But Ronen sees another
MiG-19 moving into position to bounce him. [jet engine sounds] Ronen slams the
throttle forward. It was four airplane, A MiG,
Mirage, a MiG, and myself. NARRATOR: Number two must
quickly make his kill. The MiG is closing. [jet engine sounds] RAN RONEN: So I
called him in again and tried to convince
him to hurry up. NARRATOR: After a seeming
eternity, the MiG in front bursts into a shower
of flaming debris. Ronen orders his number two to
break away out of the fight. [jet engine sounds] With cool efficiency, Ran Ronen
bores in on his second kill of the day. RAN RONEN: I closed
behind him and, you know, put the pipper on the cockpit
and again pulled the trigger and shot him down. [machine gun fire] And he spin into the base. [machine gun fire] [explosion] NARRATOR: One of
Ronen's cubs is safe. But the second has
to be accounted for. Number four reports
he's south of the base, hot on the tail
of another MiG-19. [jet engine sounds] Then I looped and saw this is
maybe one of the most strange picture I've ever seen. NARRATOR: It's an
almost surreal sight. A MiG-19 attempting to land
on a bombed out runway. With Ronen's number four
wallowing at low speed behind him. The young pilot's
eagerness for the kill has merely spelled his demise. He's riding the throttle
struggling to stay behind the descending MiG. The Mirage is on the
verge of stalling. RAN RONEN: It was a young
pilot, very dedicated pilot. He saw a MiG and was so excited. NARRATOR: Ronen must get
four to abandon the chase, lower his nose, and add
power without panic. Then in a very calm words,
I told him, OK, leave him. Leave the airplane. Leave the airplane to
the right, carefully to the right, full power. Four gains momentum,
levels out, and banks away. Ronen pulls abreast
of the landing MiG. [music playing] On the runway, a huge crater
looms up like the open jaws of a monster. [tires squealing] The Egyptian pilot is either
fatally confused or suicidal. [explosion] Ronen banks away
from the funeral pyre that is now Ghardaka. The three Mirages barely make
it back to base on fumes. They have completely paralyzed
Ghardaka and accounted for four MiGs. Not a bad day's work. [music playing] August 16, 1966. 10 months before the start of
the Six Day War, two gleaming Mirages climb steeply
through the clear skies of central Israel
on a secret mission. After three days
of stand by alert, the planes have been
quickly sent aloft. [jet engine sounds] Even the lead pilot,
Lieutenant Colonel Ran Ronen, doesn't know why
they've been scrambled or where they're headed. Within seconds, the tower orders
the Mirages to make a left turn, heading 090. Ronen can't believe his ears. They're sending
him toward Jordan. The opposite direction from
their most hostile enemy, Egypt. Ronen requests confirmation. The tower repeats the
order, 090 at full power. Adding the Hebrew
phrase, [hebrew].. RAN RONEN: We have a one
word is in Hebrew, [hebrew],, to interception, which
means there is a target and then to find and you
have all the green lights to, you know, to intercept
it and to kill. NARRATOR: Unsure of what lay
ahead, Ronen tells his wingman, switches on. Pilot shorthand to arm his 30
millimeter cannon and missiles. Then, over the radio
comes an unexpected voice, Air Force commander General
Motti Hod speaking directly to Ronen. He said, Ran, you will see
in a few minutes something that you are not
authorized to shut down. I said, roger. Hod tells Ronen to
watch his 11 o'clock. RAN RONEN: Suddenly, I saw
a black dot on horizon. And it started to
turn left and left and then till I
was in a 90 degree and I see a silhouette
of airplane. NARRATOR: The shroud
of mystery and secrecy has suddenly dropped away. Revealing a silver prize
glinting in the clear blue sky. It's a MiG-21 that has
defected from Iraq. The subject of secret
intelligence reports. No Israeli has ever laid eyes
on the most advanced airplane in the Arab world until now. RAN RONEN: Words like, unbelie-- impossible. This is not a dream but
this is a, you know, a something beyond
your imagination. LON NORDEEN: The Israelis
pulled off a major coup and that was to have the Mossad
entice an Iraqi Christian pilot to bring a then brand
new MiG-21F to Israel. NARRATOR: Ronen's awe
at the site of the MiG is tempered by the
threat of the unknown. [jet engine sounds] This gleaming Cobra
still has fangs. RAN RONEN: And then I
called my number two, you be sitting 250
meters behind him. Gun sight on him. Switches on. Be ready. NARRATOR: Ronen approaches
the MiG cautiously, wary of any sudden movements. RAN RONEN: I thought
maybe this is kamikaze. Maybe this is a threat. I left my two hands on
the stick and the throttle in case you break, in case
something, then I get. I was a little bit higher,
very close. 10 meters less. And then he saw me
and I made like that. He answered me. He answered me. My two hands on the stick
and the throttle and he answered me. Only then I raised my left
hand and he answered me. And I told him, you go after me. Then he said, OK. And like that. And I led him. NARRATOR: With Ronen
flying off the MiG's wing, it is number two with
thumb on the trigger. The remarkable three
ship formation heads back to Israel Danny Shapira,
Israel's chief test pilot, can't believe the news. Pilot said to
me, hey, you know? Yes, I know. I go, a MiG-21 landed
in [inaudible].. Probably you will
be the one to fly. I thought they were
joking, you know. I said, don't give
me that bullshit. NARRATOR: But the
next morning, he's in front of General Motti Hod. He looked at me, you know,
smiled and he said, look, Danny, you're going to be
the first Western pilot in the world to fly a MiG-21. I said, well, I'm
glad to hear it. NARRATOR: This is actual
footage of Shapira inspecting the MiG-21. Shapira is briefed
by the Iraqi pilot. Russian and Arabic
writing in the cockpit is replaced with
English and Hebrew. And within only a few days,
Shapira closes the canopy and lifts the MiG-21 smoothly
into the bright Mediterranean sky. I didn't have any problem. The right to fly was excellent. Airplane was lighter at
least 2000, 2,200 pounds less than a Mirage. NARRATOR: After becoming
familiar with the airplane, Shapira, and only
Shapira, begins flying against senior
Israeli fighter pilots. DANNY SHAPIRA: We make a
program to train our pilots and see how a MiG-21 maneuvers,
and what a Mirage has to do in order to stay behind
of a MiG-21 and shoot it down. We conducted 120 flights. And, you know, practiced against
them to see the airplane, be familiar with
the airplane, to see several different silhouettes. And it was amazing. NARRATOR: The Israelis
learned that the MiG-21 is light and fast. But at high speed
and low altitude, the control surfaces become
sluggish and unresponsive. Worst of all, the airplane
has terrible rear visibility. DANNY SHAPIRA: So
I said to them, if you go down slightly
500 feet below the MiG, he'll never see you. If you see a MiG
doing this, it means that he's looking for you. He doesn't see you but
he's looking for you. Once he start to turn,
get in and shoot. NARRATOR: But the
Israelis also come to appreciate the airplane's
essential Russian qualities, especially the ease
of maintenance. It's like what
we said at time. It's like a Volkswagen,
fuel and go. Fuel and gold. And again and again. LON NORDEEN: One of the
things about the Russians is they learned how
to design an aircraft in a high, efficient,
low cost manner. They didn't even
have flush riveting. And some of the seams
were really rough. But who cares? It still can go Mach 2 and it
was efficient, it was fast, it was maneuverable. And if it doesn't last more
than a couple days in combat, make it cheap. NARRATOR: The
intelligence coup helped the Israelis devise winning
tactics during the Six Day War. [jet engine sounds] Israeli pilots destroy
58 enemy aircraft in air to air combat against a
loss of 10 of their own. A remarkable achievement. [explosion] Over the next
decade, these airmen will hone their fighting skills
in the turmoil of Middle East conflict. June 27, 1979, over
Lebanon, near Sidon the base of operations
for PLO terrorist activity in the region. Four Israeli F-15s
from 133 squadron speed due east toward a
rendezvous with history. The F-15 is a fighter
pilot's dream, powerful, maneuverable, lethal. The Israelis only half jokingly
call them flying SAM sites because of the airplane's
big radar and all the weapons it carries. Eight missiles, four
radar-guided and four heat seeking. And 940 rounds of high
explosive ammunition for its 20 millimeter
Gatling gun. This is the first time the F-15
has been in combat anywhere in the world. The four ship, led by Colonel
Benny Zinger, is alerted by GCI that Syrian MiGs have crossed
into Lebanese airspace from the east. The F-15s break hard. Major Moshe Melnik is
flying off Zinger's wing as his number two. MOSHE MELNIK: He open
afterburner and concentrate in the radar. He got immediate
look on the MiGs. And very, very fast they were in
range of [inaudible] launching. NARRATOR: The MiGs are
almost 20 miles away. But the F-15 has been designed
for BVR, beyond visual range combat. The F-15's enormous radar
has found the targets and fed the information
to its AIM-7 missiles. MOSHE MELNIK: Now we got
permission from the GCI to open fire but usually you are
waiting till the leader gives you also his permission. And I waited. I was wondering why Benny Zinger
is not giving us permission to open fire because I've
seen on my radar that we are in range. NARRATOR: Seconds
into the F-15's first armed confrontation,
Moshe Melnik knows why his leader
Benny Zinger has not cleared him to fire. Both men want the first kill. So, actually, I pressed
the pickle button, the launch button almost the same time. Almost the same
tenth of a second. And both missiles,
both F7 missiles were launched together
and like a formation. NARRATOR: Two radar-guided
sparrows streak away from the F-15s at Mach 3. MOSHE MELNIK: And we waited. And it was a marvelous sight to
see the missiles going together in a formation, the mountains,
the horizon, the blue skies. And we waited. And nothing happened. NARRATOR: In the first ever
attempt at an F-15 BVR kill, the Sparrows failed to lock and
streaked harmlessly into space. MOSHE MELNIK: We were amazed. We were shocked. NARRATOR: Already an
ace in the F-4 Phantom, Melnik instinctively reverts
to time honored dogfighting tactics. He gets his head
outside the cockpit. MOSHE MELNIK: I went back to
the old habits, good sight, good look outside. Not anymore on the radar scope. NARRATOR: The MiGs aware
that they've come up against the most powerful
fighter in Middle Eastern skies, turned back
towards Syria. The maneuver exposes their
hot tailpipes to Melnik's heat seeking python missiles,
They are turning right in front of us. In right to left right
in front of us like this. NARRATOR: Melnik gets
first tally on the MiGs. The Python-3, an
advanced Israeli version of the American
AIM-9 sidewinder, is growling into his headset. Suddenly, the MiGs reverse. MOSHE MELNIK: In the middle
of this reverse of the turn, I launched my missile. NARRATOR: Melnik is
cranked past 130 degrees to stay with the MiGs. The python is an all aspect
missile and can take the G. [explosion] There is no ejection. Within the span of 30 seconds,
Melnik has made history, An Israeli has taken
first blood for the F-15. The F-15, built by
McDonnell Douglas, was the first American aircraft
since the F-86 designed specifically for
air to air combat. In 1976, Israel became
the first country outside the United States
to acquire the Mach 2 air superiority fighter. The first flight I made in
the F-15 was like my first solo in life. I mean, the excitement and
joyfulness and it was great. Over Lebanon, 133 Squadron
is battling Syrian MiG-21s and scored the world's
first two F-15 kills. Now Eitan Ben Eliyahu is
going to go head to head with a third. [inaudible] one airplanes,
which was number four in their formation, flew
directly head on to me. And he was passing by me. This was a one versus
one engagement. NARRATOR: The MiG and the
F-15 pass in a classic merge. Then each turns hard to
get on the other's tail. Ben Eliyahu finds himself
in a high G turning fight, an arena in which the
Israelis dominate. EITAN BEN ELIYAHU: Once he
engaged when he passed by me, he had no other choice
but to engage with me. And I had no other
choice but to kill him. The MiG can't sustain
a level high G turn. He noses down to keep his
energy up, descending rapidly. Eliyahu is on him like glue. His powerful F100
turbo fan engine is providing unmatched
thrust in the turn. EITAN BEN ELIYAHU: So
after 2 and 1/2 turns very close to each other, he was
looking for the right second to escape. He had no choice. We were close to the ground. He had to roll out. NARRATOR: It's too close for
even a heat seeking missile. Ben Eliyahu goes to
guns to delivered the classic Israeli
coup de gras. The minute a little bit he
rolled out, I did another cool. And I was right after
him, 600 yards, 650 yards. NARRATOR: The M61 Gatling
gun nestled in the F-15's right wing spews out 20
millimeter ammunition at 6,000 rounds per minute. [machine gun fire] All I had to do is to
squeeze the trigger 2 times. [machine gun fire] [explosion] 2 shots and it's gone. It took the only gun shot
to kill at this combat. We were envied by the way
because we appreciate gunshot kill much more than
everything else. He was the hero
of this engagement because he brought
a gunshot kill like it should be in our books. [music playing] What's interesting about this
engagement is it ended up where several Syrian MiG-21s
were shot down, F-15 pilots used
a mix of weapons. This included radar-guided
sparrows, IR-guided missiles, and a cannon kill. NARRATOR: The F-15
was clearly master of the skies over Lebanon. LON NORDEEN : The
Israelis made a point, which is that I still retain
air superiority in this region. And if you attempt to mess
with my strike operations, you'll pay for it. [jet engine sounds] NARRATOR: The F-15's
sophisticated radar and electronics suite
have been continuously updated and modernized. 50 Syrian MiGs have fallen
to F-15s since 1979. [music playing] Without a single
combat loss to Israel. The F-15 established not only
air superiority in the region, but air dominance. This was enhanced in 1980
with the arrival of the F-16, a lightweight dogfighter that
can also put bombs on target with incredible
accuracy, Advanced models of both aircraft
are now in service with the Israeli Air Force. But with the near certainty
that Syria has acquired the agile Mach 2 MiG-29
with its advanced avionics, Israel has been leading the
development of new technology for air combat. The Python-4 and
5 from Rafael may be the world's most advanced
all-aspect infrared missiles. When combined with
new cockpit avionics, the result is a revolution
in dogfighting tactics. Elbit Systems leads the
world in the design of helmet mounted sites that enable the
fighter pilot to simply look at a target to aim his weapons. [music playing] During the 1967 war, it might
take 30 seconds for a pilot to maneuver into
a position where he can shoot another
aircraft down with a gun. At that time, he has to
look around and make sure that there's no other
airplane engaging him. Today, in a similar engagement,
within five to 10 seconds, you might be able to look
to the left, to the right, detect the target, fire the
missile, and kill the airplane. NARRATOR: Given the history
of violence in the region, Israeli pilots will
continue to fly on the edge for the foreseeable future. [jet engine sounds]
