Thursday, April 29, 2010
23 Days
The highest ratio of shooting down airplanes to losing airplanes in dogfights with enemy countries belongs to the Israel Air Force (IAF). Since the birth of Israel, the IAF has shot down 687 enemy aircrafts in air-to-air combats and has only lost 23 aircrafts, yielding a ratio of 30:1!
To quote the website www.amazing-airplanes.com:
- "18 enemy planes were shot down in dogfights in the 1948 War of Independence. A single Israeli plane may have been shot down in a dogfight over the Galilee, but the exact circumstances of its demise were never established in certainty.
- Seven enemy planes were shot down in the course of the Sinai Campaign, without a single Israeli plane being shot down.
- In the Six Day War, 60 enemy planes and 12 IAF planes were shot down.
- 277 enemy planes were shot down in the Yom Kippur War - accounting for over a third of the IAF`s total kills since 1948. Of the planes lost by the IAF in the war, only five were shot down in dogfights.
- 126 enemy planes were shot down in dogfights in the years between the wars - most of them in the 70`s. The IAF lost only two planes in dogfights between the wars, in 1959 and in 1964."
While this record is certainly impressive, we shouldn't be surprised by this ratio after reading about how Israelis are incredible strategists in the post from Day 56 about how Israel has more chess grandmasters per capita than any other country in the world....
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Speaking of setting records, the Salute to Israel Parade will be attempting to set a Guinness Book Record on May 21st for the Largest Falafel Ball in the world! Five Mediterranean-style restaurants will compete to cook, through natural ingredients and traditional cooking methods, the falafel ball with the largest circumference. For more information about the contest and the results, keep checking our website...
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