"Pierre-Henri Baras" wrote:

"Alex A" a écrit
dans le message de news:
...


Sukhoi Su-15


1983, KAL 007 airliner

Tupolov Tu-22

Heh, a Libyan Backfire tried to attack a french
airfield in Libya in 1986.
First attack put one bomb on the runway, second
attack put 2 Crotale SAM
into the Backfire...

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Pierre-Henri BARAS

Co-webmaster de French Fleet Air Arm
http://www.ffaa.net
Encyclopédie de l'Aviation sur le web
http://www.aviation-fr.info


Aircraft was a Tu-22 Blinder, and it was killed by a pair of I-Hawks, as
even the French Defense Ministry admitted at the time. No survivors from
the aircraft.
Backfire has not been exported to anybody, for which many parties are grateful.
Only non-Russian operator is Ukrainian AF.

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