Ramon Airbase
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Ramon Airbase is an Israeli Air Force base on the highland of the Negev desert, 50 km south of Beersheba, 20 km northwest of the town Mitzpe Ramon and 17 km away from the Egyptian border to the west.
Village Mitzpe Ramon (left) and the huge "erosion crater" Makhtesh Ramon south of the airbase
The then presidents Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin (left to right) at Camp David (USA) in September 1978
Two A-4 Skyhawk Ayit, A-4N and A-4H (left to right), 147 Squadron "Goring Ram", the A-4 was initially based on Ramon
An F-16A Netz of 116 Squadron "Defenders Of The South", initially based on Ramon also
Boeing AH-64 Apache
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The Hughes/McDonnell Douglas/Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. Nose-mounted sensors help a
Ramon Airbase
…Israeli-built IAI Nesher and then in 1976 by improved IAI Kfir jets. The squadron was closed in 1986, but reopened in September 1990 at Ramon Airbase with AH-64A Apache Peten attack helicopters from the USA. From 2005 onwards, these were replaced by improved AH-64D Apache Longbow Saraf, and their AH-64As were passed…
An AH-64 Apache from the U.S. Army's 101st Aviation Regiment in Iraq
An early Hughes YAH-64 prototype with T-tail
A YAH-64A prototype, 1982
RNLAF AH-64 Apache in flight