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Much more was expected, from a man of your experience and caliber, nonetheless, Thank you for stating the obvious. Much appreciated.
And I thank you for that. I'll keep it in mind next time friend. Going through a rough time lately so may not be in the right mindset to check this forum.
 
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And I thank you for that. I'll keep it in mind next time friend. Going through a rough time lately so may not be in the right mindset to check this forum.
May the Lord have mercy on you, and get you through this with flying colors. Our prayers are with you!
 
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Can you provide a summary? Anything, not in this thread?

i will try to go through the book again and note down keypoints, i think i read it like a year or so back so details are not on top of my head

- jets were hot refueled to save every ounce of fuel
- they were again fueled in air
- they were mentally prepared to ditch their aircraft and eject

these are the things which i can remember
 
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A piss poor one, that didn't do any real damage, especially to the reactor.
Did you educate yourself on this matter or are you just pulling stuff ?

There are several articles and research papers on this operation. All estimates point it to a 3-6 months delay of the Iraqi weapons program caused by Iranian airstrikes.


There was controversy over the results of the Operation Scorch Sword. In the West, the strike was viewed as having caused only "minor damage", the same opinion expressed by the Iraqis. However, soon it turned evident that the strike was clearly successful in disrupting the Iraqi nuclear program, both physically through the strike, and also psychologically, as the enraged and humiliated Iraqis immediately denounced Iran for "its cooperation with the Zionist enemy", suspecting, together with the French, that the aircraft did not come from Iran but from Israel. Saddam Hussein personally stated that Israeli aircraft had already flown over Iraq, including delivering a strike against Baghdad on 27 July 1980. This was done in order to cover up the Iraqi humiliation in the hands of the IRIAF.


Even the French intelligence services later on, falsely reported that the September 30 attack on Tuwaitha was carried out by "two unidentified Israeli Phantoms" or aircraft with Iranian markings flown by Israeli pilots. Israel emphatically denied all such allegations, pointing at the fact that such an operation would be almost impossible to carry out with their F-4s. In order to confirm the results of the raid, on 30 November 1980, one F-4 Phantom took off from Hamadan in a recon mission over Tuwaitha, in order to gather pictures of the attacked reactor. Flying at low level, the Phantom made a single pass over Osirak, taking the desired pictures. Despite being fired at by several Iraqi AAA and SAM sites, the RF-4E Phantom avoided them and returned safely into Iran. Later on, and once analysed the classified pictures, these confirmed that the attack was successful, presenting the damaged infrastructure of the nuclear complex. Despite rumors and cover-up attempts, the facts clearly present a successful airstrike, a perfectly conceived, prepared and executed operation, that was successful in achieving its main aim of delaying and damaging the Iraqi nuclear program. The results and the experiences achieved by the IRIAF in this operation, proved crucial for another country, Israel.
 
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