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They flew several sorties over Port Alexandria well to the East of
Ciaro

BTW, Matt,
since when is Alexandria east of Cairo?

I tought on the History Channel they try to teach history, not
re-draw the maps....

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If you read up on those raids the planes stayed over target for a
long
time.
The premise falsly made was that the IAF did not fly that many hours
to
need
to have pilots to rotate inorder to rest.

Aha. I see.

And this places Alexandria due east of Cairo?


No but it does say they flew longer missions than you will admit to Jack!


Jack, huh? How comes this? You said Alexandria is east of Cairo, not me...


But, OK. So, when did they fly such missions? In 1967 or 1973?

In 1967, namely, they flew attacks against places like Aswan, far in
southern Egypt, or against H-3, in western Iraq. That's much further away
from Israel than Alexandria (especially if you place it east of Cairo) -
except you put Aswan and H-3 also east of Cairo too, of course....

In 1973, however, they never flew over Alexandria (reagardless if it's east
of Cairo or not).

Tom Cooper
Co-Author:
Iran-Iraq War in the Air, 1980-1988:
http://www.acig.org/pg1/content.php
and,
Iranian F-4 Phantom II Units in Combat:
http://www.osprey-publishing.co.uk/t...hp/title=S6585