I know this is "old" news by all means but I still had found the interview very interesting:
Some Quotes:
FI: Because of the area restrictions, did
you favour gun attacks rather than
missiles?
IAF: Not exclusively, but we shot down
many with guns, a big percentage with
our own Shafrir(*) and some with all types
of the Sidewinder we have. And we used
the Sparrow. Surprisingly we had a
much higher rat e of gun kills than we
expected. I n such a small are a with
many aircraft we ha d to get very close
to visually identify aircraft, as we were
in close, we used guns.
(*) He probably calls the Python 3 with its predecessor name Shafrir
My opinion, not an assessment an opinion,
is that Russian aircraft a e very good
from what we know of their abilities
and from what we've seen they can
do. The problem was that their [Syrian]
pilots didn't do things at the right time
or in the right place
And my favorite
FI: To what extent does your pilot training
differ from that of other air forces?
IAF: It is different on almost every point.
It is more the mentality in flying, the
way we use aircraft, and the authority
delegated to squadron commander level.
We delegate, we don't yell at them from
this office how to do things. We want
results. And we let them find the right
way to get the results. We don't have
thick books on how to do everything, like
every other air force I know of. Each
squadron has its own rules and they
interchange ideas all the time. So you
get a spectrum of ideas, tactics, and
techniques that bring you to a higher
level. Coupled with the competition and
delegation of authority to lower levels, it
leads in the end to a higher level of
combat proficiency. But we're far from
perfect. In this war, you could say we
had several successes. But if you'd sat
in on the de-briefings you would have
thought we were discussing a disaster
with the whole Israeli Air Force having
been wiped out. That's how people were
talking: to find out what went wrong
Links
http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1982/1982%20-%202360.PDFhttp://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1982/1982%20-%202361.PDFhttp://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1982/1982%20-%202362.PDFhttp://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1982/1982%20-%202363.PDF
