​IDF : Fight For Independence

The Aero L-29 Delfin, NATO reporting name: Maya, is a military jet trainer aircraft, The Delfin served in basic, intermediate and weapons training roles. For this latter mission, they were equipped with hardpoints to carry gunpods, bombs or rockets, Egyptian, Syrian & Iraqi L-29s were sent into combat against Israel during the Yom Kippur War.

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the USSR from 1952 and operated by numerous air forces in many variants. It is an advanced development of the very similar appearing MiG-15 of the Korean War. The basic MiG-17 was a general-purpose day fighter, armed with three cannons, one 37mm cannon and two 23mm. It could also act as a fighter-bomber, but its payload was considered light relative to other aircraft of the time.

In early 1953 the MiG-17F day fighter entered production. The "F" indicated it was fitted with the VK-1F engine with an afterburner by modifying the rear fuselage with a new convergent-divergent nozzle and fuel system. The afterburner doubled the rate of climb and greatly improved vertical maneuvers. The next mass-produced variant, MiG-17PF ("Fresco D") incorporated a more powerful Izumrud RP-2 radar in the nose for air to air engagements.

The Sukhoi Su-20 (NATO reporting name: Fitter) are Soviet variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber developed from the Sukhoi Su-7. It enjoyed a long career in Soviet, later Russian, service and was widely exported to Eastern Bloc and Arab air forces. Syria obtained over a hundred Su-20/22s from 1973 through 1983, Syrian Su-20s participated in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, performing low-level strikes on Israeli targets using FAB-250 and FAB-500 bombs, as well as using RBK-250 cluster bombs.