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Old 08-12-2012, 03:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Pooka View Post
Eight individual aircraft.

Please understand that the threat they face comes from close in, so their defenses are structured to meet this threat. Long range aircraft are not the kind of thing they really have much use for, so they don't have many of them.
Israel's defense has always been based on attack first. Twice the invasion of Lebanon and the strikes on Iraq and Egypt are the prove of that. I found it there for hard to believe they only have 8 long distance fighters/bombers.
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