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Unit 555
Unit 555, also known as the Sky Crows, is the airborne electronic warfare unit of the Israeli Air Force. It was established in 1969 at the Lod Airbase. Currently, it is headquartered at the Tel Nof Airbase. It is one of the most classified units in the Israeli Air Force. History The unit was established in 1969 during the War of Attrition as a counter to the strengthening of Egyptian army air defense systems along the Suez Canal. The unit was a combined force operating both aerial and ground assets. On July 8, 1971, a Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion modified for electronic warfare crashed in the Mediterranean Sea, near El Arish. All ten crew members including six members of the unit were killed in the incident. On September 17, 1971, a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser electronic warfare plane was shot down east of the Suez Canal by two Egyptian S-75 Dvina, SA-2 Surface-to-air missile, surface-to-air missiles. Seven crew members including two unit personnel perished . In the Yom Kippur War ...
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Tel Nof Airbase
Tel Nof Airbase (, English: Lookout hill) , also known as Air Force Base 8, is the oldest and main base of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) located 5 km south of Rehovot, Israel. Tel Nof houses two strike fighter, two transport helicopter and a UAV squadron. Also located on the base are the Flight Test Center ''Manat'' and several special units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), among others Unit 669 (heliborne Combat Search and Rescue, CSAR) and the Paratroopers Brigade training center and its headquarters. See also: Units. History (RAF) British Mandate Established in the spring of 1941 as RAF Aqir during the Mandate for Palestine, it served as the main base for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Mandate for Palestine. It was named after the Arab village Aqir north of it that perished in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and was located in the area of today's Kiryat Ekron. Operational units from 1941 to 1948 Gallery Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Afr ...
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