"The 119 Squadron"

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The 119 Squadron, also known as the "Card Pilot" is a fighter squadron in the Israeli Air Force. Today, the F-16I pilot operates from Ramon Base. The pilot’s motto is, “On the night of the night and in the fog, we also fly when the birds walk.”

History of History

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The squadron was founded on 9 August 1956 at the base of David's level as a night pilot operating from meteors. The first three meteors, the NF-13-Dumb, arrived at the squadron on September 5, 1956. The pilot established Yushi Fudon, and he gave her the slogan – “On the day of the night and in the fog,” in memory of his service in the desalination ships before the establishment of the state.

On the night of October 28, 1956, a single meteor plane (with the pilot hunting and navigator Elikov Brock) went to Operation Chicken. The goal was to bring down an Ilyssinine Il-14 Egyptian aircraft, in which the Egyptian army chief and other senior officers were supposed to fly for an ally-defense agreement with Syria and Jordan. The meteor plane was able to take down the Egyptian transport plane on its way from Damascus to Cairo. The miscarriage took place about 200 kilometers from Cyprus. 16 senior Egyptian army officers who were on the plane were killed, but later it became clear that the Egyptian chief of staff remained in Damascus. Since the pilot authority had two aircraft and one operational air crew, it did not actively participate in a dedicated operation, which began a day after the Egyptian plane was overthrown.

On 12 February 1958, the Tataf Squadron passed on three of its NF-13 aircraft, to the base of a landscape steep, and in March, two other aircraft from this sample were deployed.

In April 1958, the pilot captured the 7 N motor aircraft to see. The meteor planes - overnight continued to serve in the pilot-Nut crew.

The first attack of the Humor aircraft was held on 16 March 1962. Three Voltor aircraft attacked Syrian artillery batteries over the cylinder, but most bombs did not hit targets. In August 1963, about half a year before the arrival of the Mirage-3C aircraft, the pilot was closed, the Hortor aircraft were transferred to 110 ("The Northern Knights Squadron"), and the NF meteor aircraft were transferred to the 107th Squadron until they were removed from service.
Over the years 1958–63, attempts have been made to intercept the Ilyssin 28 aircraft that took place at night, from a great height, the territory of the State of Israel, on a round track, from Syria through the center of the country to Sinai. It seems that the time for the interception was too long and the time of the Warriors to the heights of over 7 minutes, was not enough to reach a meeting with the photographic bombers.

As the Miraz and Phantom Squadron
In March 1964, the pilot was re-opened as the Mirage IIIC. The commander was R. Rafi Har-heart. The 119 Squadron was the third squadron in the Air Force that operated the Mirage 3C, and the first to receive two CJR aircraft, which was used for air photography, and C,B from pilots 101,117 and new aircraft from the manufacturer.

During the Six-Day War, the pilot, under the command of the R. Ron Pecker, participated in the first attack on the airport in D.C. and on the third and fourth days of Jordan and Syria accordingly. From the second day of the war, the pilot mainly operated on the Syrian front and the Jordanians on the missions of attack and support. The 119 Squadron was considered at the end of the war as the leading battle squadron, with 19 miscarriages in air battles. The pilot also had the lowest number of losses: only two Mirages were shot and their two pilots were saved.

On July 30, 1970 (in the airway called grenade 20) the squadron's Mirage 3C dropped three MiG-21 jets flew by Russian pilots. Two other drivers were shot by the F-4 Phantoms of the 69 Squadron. In the same year, the squadron's Mirage planes were transferred to the 101 Squadron ("First Battle Squadron") and the 117 Squadron, on 29 October 1970, was to the third squadron in the Ha-Haha Force