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The 12 F-21 aircraft leased to the U.S. Navy, painted in a three-tone blue-gray "ghost" scheme, were operated by Fighter Squadron 43 (VF-43), based at NAS Oceana, Virginia. In 1988, they were returned and replaced by the F-16N .
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC), is a government contractor based in Newport News, Virginia, United States.It operates Dassault Mirage F1, Mk-58 Hawker Hunter, Israeli F-21 Kfir, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, and Aero L-39 Albatros military aircraft in tactical flight training roles for the United States Navy, United States Air Force, and Air National Guard.
IAI F-21 Kfir, a 1973 Israeli-built all-weather, multi-role combat aircraft; Lockheed Martin F-21, a variant of the F-16 designed for the Indian Air Force; KAI KF-21 Boramae, a South Korean/Indonesian stealth fighter currently under development; Farman F.21 Moustique II, a French interwar airplane; Taylorcraft F-21, an American light aircraft
The Dassault Mirage 5 is a French supersonic attack aircraft/fighter-bomber designed by Dassault Aviation during the 1960s and manufactured in France and other countries. It was derived from Dassault's popular Mirage III fighter and spawned several variants of its own, including the IAI Kfir.
Foreign aircraft have been used as aggressors in the United States, most notably the Israeli Kfir fighter, designated F-21 in its use as an adversary asset. Actual Soviet MiG-17s , MiG-21s , and MiG-23s have also been flown by the US Air Force as Aggressors over the Nellis ranges, under the Constant Peg [ 1 ] program.
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The air force is known for its Kfir fighter jets and also has a number of F-35 Lightning II jets obtained from the US. “Israel is by far the strongest air force in the region, comparable with ...
The only air victory claimed by a Kfir during its service with the IAF occurred on 27 June 1979 when a Kfir C.2 shot down a Syrian MiG-21. [5] The IAI Kfir has been exported to Colombia, Ecuador, Sri Lanka and was leased to the US Navy and the US Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989, to act as adversary aircraft in dissimilar air combat training. [6]