Operation Mole Cricket 19
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Operation Mole Cricket 19 was a suppression of enemy air defenses campaign launched by the Israeli Air Force against Syrian targets on June 9, 1982, at the outset of the 1982 Lebanon War. The operatio
Part of a Syrian SA-6 site built near the Beirut-Damascus highway, and overlooking the Beqaa Valley, in early 1982.
David Ivry.
Ariel Sharon.
IAF Grumman E-2C Hawkeye in the Israeli Air Force Museum in Hatzerim Airbase.
2K12 Kub
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The 2K12 "Kub" mobile surface-to-air missile system is a Soviet low to medium-level air defence system designed to protect ground forces from air attack. 2К12 is the GRAU designation of the system.
Operation Mole Cricket 19
…minimal losses of its own. The battle led the United States to impose a ceasefire on Israel and Syria. In the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Egypt had 20 mobile SA-6 SAM systems, backed up by 70 SA-2s, 65 SA-3s, and upward of 2,500 anti-aircraft batteries and about 3,000 SA-7s. Syria deployed another 34 SAM batteries…
2P25 TEL with missiles elevated (2K12 Kub SAM of Serbian 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade)
2P25 2K12 VS3
2P25 TEL with missiles erected
Rear view of the Kub at the Central Museum of Russian Armed Forces