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Originally Posted by Harmonica
...an Israeli pilot was asked, after they just had about an 80 - 0 kill ratio in Operation Mole Cricket, what would have happened if they had the Russian airplanes and vice versa-- he said, more or less, it's the pilot/training that really counts, not the aircraft
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When the Israeli's got the first F-16's, the first thing they did was bolt $10 rear view mirrors from the auto store in the cockpits so they didn't have to lurch from side to side to see behind them in a dog fight.
The USAF instructors who were training the Israeli pilots thought it was a brilliant idea so sent it up the ladder to have the F-16's retrofitted with look behind mirrors.
General Dynamics, builder of the F-16 was glad to accomodate the request - at $3000 per.