Operation Mole Cricket 19

When

9 Jun 1982

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

34.01° N, 36.15° E

Description

1982 Israeli Air Force SEAD campaign

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1982 Israeli Air Force campaign in Lebanon

Operation Mole Cricket 19 was a suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) campaign launched by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) against Syrian targets on June 9, 1982, at the outset of the 1982 Lebanon War. The operation was the first time in history that a Western-equipped air force successfully destroyed a Soviet-built surface-to-air missile (SAM) network.

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