Jacob L

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[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

@planefag @orthonormalist Omg senpai noticed me

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

To further demonstrate my thesis that Israel’s blowout victory over the Syrian Air Force in 1982 wasn’t necessarily a skill issue on the part of Syrian airmen, I decided to hop in the cockpit of a digital MiG-25 myself- the most advanced plane Syria had at the time- and take on a simulated version of the Israeli Air Force of that year.

My flight of 4 MiGs are going after an Israeli strike package but there’s a lot of F-15s and 16s in our way. We gain the advantage in airspeed and altitude and press our attack.

My MiG has one of the most powerful radars in the world in 1982 and I’m still struggling to burn through their jamming. After numerous failed attempts I switch to auto-acquisition mode, which projects a powerful beam straight ahead. It works, and I’ve got an F-15 locked.

He’s distracted because he’s locked one of my wingmen. I fire both my radar missiles at 8 miles and start to check right and climb to gain separation. My MiG is big and fast but not maneuverable, and I need to keep my distance.

It works. My first missile tracks into him and blows him apart. Of my 4 ship flight only two of us managed to get through their jamming and only my missiles hit.

I keep accelerating to clear the merge but now things start going badly.

There’s a flight of F-16s right below, armed with Python 3s, the most capable, agile, short ranged heat seeking missile in the world. And we’re in big big planes with big, hot engines.

They start shooting and my flight starts dying. We get one of theirs but there’s too many of them. Bits of burnt planes and dead men shower over the Levantine night sky like a meteor cascade, in fireballs that would be visible from Haifa and Damascus.

I spot one of the F-16s and dive on him. I’ve got heat seekers of my own. I take the shot but the seeker fails and the missile goes blazing into the night sky.

By this point I decide we’ve pushed our luck more than far enough. I start extending away from the F-16s and their deadly Python 3s to return to base but it’s too late. One slams into my engines, and that’s the end of that.

I’m pretty good at flight sims. I’ve tried the Syrian campaign a couple times. I’ve never survived.

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

@CH3TNK with apologies to Mustafa Tlass

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@NNwulu26562 @midnight_b65055 In 67 Jordan had US equipment and Israel didn’t. And Syria is a crater.

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

@NNwulu26562 @midnight_b65055 During the Sinai insurgency Egypt needed Israel to do their precision strikes for them

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@doomernat22 The arguments over because we already have it lmao

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@LeftFlank22 @RobertGSilvermn @doomernat22 No you actually can’t lmao

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

@Bloodrave1984 Didn’t have GCI though. Had to make due

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@DavidTheJatt Amalek is a term used to refer to the fact that every generation will have some people who rise to try to destroy us.

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@ribeiro__2022 Thanks!

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

Something I made on guitar the other day. Let me know what you think

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He literally has to be Jewish in order to be the messiah how do you not know how your own religion works

[Nathan Hughes @rallynate]

Calling Jesus jewish is like calling George Washington British.

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

@clusterbitch_ That depends, am I in a Merkava crew or nah

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@KnightOfTh3Wind @TheHughAnthony Oh I know. Don’t assume I wouldn’t be on board with that.

After all, there’s a reason South Africa’s nuclear missiles bore a curious resemblance to Israeli Jerichos 👀

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@antidissident @NoAgwa52635 Expensive

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@KnightOfTh3Wind @TheHughAnthony Yeah except then it infects someone who’s mixed with you and the target, mutates, and now you’re screwed too.

If you want mutually assured destruction just stick to nukes, less messy.

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@NoAgwa52635 Well, Nasser did a very bad job getting that point across then. The understanding in Israel was that they were about to face a massive war of extermination, otherwise they wouldn’t have taken such a massive gamble.

I still like Nasser though. The aura is undeniable.

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The problem though was that SA6 is not a mobile system. You could think of it as an umbrella that protected Egyptian troops from air attack, and when Egyptian troops left its protection they got horrendously mauled by Israeli aircraft.

That’s what enabled Israel to counterattack and push back across the canal, at which point the ceasefire ended the fighting

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@NoAgwa52635 In the 73 war the EAF didn’t do great, but they did better than before.

Egyptian air defense on the other hand was quite deadly and the SA6 gained particular notoriety. Those were a massive pain in the ass to deal with.