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The Hunter was the main jet fighter of the Jordanian air force. The Jordanian pilots were trained in GB and were the best Arabian pilots.
In 1966 Israeli ground troops were having a ground battle in Samo'a near Hebron.
The Jordanian called thier airforce for support and 8 hunters came to support.
Israeli ground controllers scrambled 4 mirages to intercept. the hunters.
The Israeli pilots started to fight with the hunters and a surprise came. The Israeli pilots
found the hunter a very tough opponent at low level dogfght. 5 min of dogfight passed without results. Then the Israelian formation leader Ran Peker decided to choose one
of the hunters so he dive on him and the hunter was going down and eastren into a canyon
flying very low. Ran was chasing him in a very low flight but because of the low flight couldn't
put the pipper on the hunter. The canyon walls were passing at more than 500 knots to both
pilots and all of a sudden the hunter had a small hump in front so he lift a bit- that is what
Ran was waiting for, a small burst hit the hunter in the aft section and the Jordanian pilot
ejected. Unfortunately for the Jordanian pilot at the ejection moment the hunter rolled
and the pilot was crashed into the canyon wall and died. Later it was known that the
Jordanian pilot name was Salti and he was the hunter squadron commander.
The battle took 8 full minutes and when Ran returned to base he did the traditional victory pass.
over the Israli air base before landing.
This was the longest dogfight so far in the IAF.
Will continue.

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