Dogfights: Dogfights of The Middle East

Dogfights: Dogfights of the Middle East (1/26/07) wikipedia

dogfights_of_the_middle_east.zip

All scenarios in one zip file (updated 3/28/08)

ronen.btl

June 5, 1967.

Ran Ronen leads a flight of four Mirages over the Red Sea and into Egypt to attack the Egyptian air base at Ghardaka. Their mission is to crater the runway at this air base using newly developed delayed fuse runway penetrating munitions. The Mirages successfully bomb and damage the runway, but the flight leader calls bingo fuel, and bugs out of the attack, leaving just Ronen and the other two young pilots to continue the attack. The Mirages were soon ambushed by a flight of patrolling MiG-19s, all of which are subsequently destroyed, two by Ronen, one by young Arnon Levoshin, and the fourth a squadron kill, the result of the Egyptian pilot attempting to land on the cratered runway and getting destroyed in the process.

rom1.btl

Information for this encounter was derived from the History Channel series Dogfights! "Dogfights of the Middle East".

June 7, 1967.

Lieutenant Giora Rom (with 3 kills under his belt over the previous two days--see GIORA4A.btl and GIORA4B.btl for accounts of these kills) is on patrol with two other Mirage 3 pilots over the Sinai, when they are informed by GCI that Israeli troops in Bir Gafgafa are under attack by a couple of Egyptian MiGs. Rom is the first to spot the MiGs and he breaks out of formation to attack the MiGs, leaving the rest of his flight clueless as to his whereabouts. As he approaches the MiGs, Rom get a request for his location from his flight leader. Rom, knowing full well that if he gives away his position, will likely be ordered to back off attacking the MiGs so that his leader can engage the MiGs instead, deliberately misleads the rest of his flight, telling them that he is headed due East back towards Israel. The other two Mirages head east looking for Rom, leaving him free to engage the low level MiGs. Rom ends up downing both, making the first Israeli jet ace.

Another depiction of this encounter can be found in scenario GIORA4C.btl