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Israel’s first F-16 deal, known as the “Peace Indigo” deal, was signed in 1978 and brought the “Netz” (F-16A\/B) aircraft to the Air Force. \u00b7”Netz”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (Hawk)\u00a0 (F-16A\/B) Deal\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 Background: After the Iranian revolution in 1979, a huge deal between Iran and the US to purchase F-16 aircraft was canceled. Israel seized the opportunity and purchased the aircraft originally intended for the Iranian Air Force.\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Scope of the deal: Israel purchased 75 F-16 aircraft (67 single-seat A model and 8 two-seat B model).\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Arrival in Israel: The first aircraft landed at Ramat David Air Base on July 2, 1980.\u00b7<\/p>\n

\u2022 Historical milestone – a seminal event: Less than a year after their arrival, in June 1981, eight of the “Hawk” aircraft purchased in this deal participated in Operation Opera to destroy the nuclear reactor in Iraq.\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Establishment of the establishment team: In early 1979, a small team of pilots and technicians (“establishment team”) was sent to the US to Learn the new plane.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Training<\/p>\n

location: The practical training took place at Hill AFB in Utah, where the Israeli pilots trained alongside American pilots, including Ze’ev Raz, Ilan Ramon, and Amos Yadlin.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Conversion course: The pilots underwent an intensive course that included studying advanced avionics systems (which were a step up from the “Cornes” and “Kfir”) and flight practice in a trainer (simulator) and on the aircraft themselves.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Technical staff: Dozens of technicians were sent to General Dynamics plants in Texas and to US Air Force training bases to learn how to maintain the aircraft and the F100 engine.<\/p>\n

. Israel’s first F-16 deal, known as the “Peace Indigo” deal, was signed in 1978 and brought the “Netz” (F-16A\/B) aircraft to the Air Force.<\/p>\n

“Netz (F-16A\/B) Deal<\/p>\n

Background: After the Iranian revolution in 1979, a huge deal between Iran and the US to purchase F-16 aircraft was canceled. Israel seized the opportunity and purchased the aircraft originally intended for the Iranian Air Force.\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Scope of the deal: Israel purchased 75 F-16 aircraft (67 single-seat A model and 8 two-seat B model).\u00b7<\/p>\n

Arrival in Israel: The first aircraft landed at Ramat David Air Base on July 2, 1980.\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Historical milestone – a seminal event: Less than a year after their arrival, in June 1981, eight of the “Hawk” aircraft purchased in this deal participated in Operation Opera to destroy the nuclear reactor in Iraq.\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Establishment of the establishment team: In early 1979, a small team of pilots and technicians (“establishment team”) was sent to the US to To learn the new plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[596,387,407,408,439,463,459,477,588],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7638","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-sort-items","7":"product_cat-patches-2","8":"product_cat-security-rescue-forces","9":"product_cat-idf-3","10":"product_cat-air-force","11":"product_cat-aviation-other-events","12":"product_cat-aircrafts","13":"product_cat-defense-industries-2","14":"product_cat-internationals","16":"first","17":"instock","18":"shipping-taxable","19":"purchasable","20":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7649,"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7638\/revisions\/7649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=7638"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insignia.netrise.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=7638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}