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| After 's , Redfa was one of only five pilots the new regime trusted to continue serving with the sole Iraqi unit operating the , | Opera News does not consent to nor does it condone the posting of any content that violates the rights including the copyrights of any third party, nor content that may malign, inter alia, any religion, ethnic group, organization, gender, company, or individual |
Air War on the Edge — A History of the Israel Air Force and its Aircraft since 1947.
| The Times , June 3, 2007 | Praeger Security International, 2007 , pp |
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| Midland Publishing, 2004 , p | In what is considered as one of the 's most successful operations, Redfa's entire extended family was smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel |
Tom Cooper, In 1966, Israeli Intelligence Convinced an Iraqi Pilot to Defect with His MiG-21 Fighter, The National Interest, August 28, 2016.
| Redfa died of a heart attack around 1998 | Ian Black and Benny Morris |
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| Knowledge obtained from analysis of the aircraft was instrumental to the successes achieved by the Israeli Air Force in its future encounters with Arab MiG-21s | The MiG-21 fighter was evaluated by the and was later loaned to the for testing and intelligence analysis, as part of "" |
News: The Blue Bird legend.
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