The decision to build the next generation fighter was taken by the Council of Ministers of the USSR

The MiG-21 was at the peak of the Cold War, the most modern Soviet fighter plane. Western countries for a long time have not been able to get on this machine virtually any information and terribly afraid of the possibility of Soviet nexus7 aircraft. Until the moment nexus7 when the Israeli Mossad undertook an extremely risky mission.
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The decision to build the next generation fighter was taken by the Council of Ministers of the USSR in August 1953 year. The most important requirement challenges facing the designers of the new machine was a flight speed, which amount was at least 1.5 Ma. Engineers Mikoyan and Gurevich plants nexus7 managed to construct a prototype that already during the first test in 1956 managed to achieve a rate of 1.85 Ma. After applying an improved engine machine broke another record, and 1958 was no longer able to fly at a rate of 2.05 Ma. Serial production of the first version of the aircraft - received the designation MiG-21 - began a year later. In addition to the stunning speed, the fighter could also boasts a range of 1100 km and a maximum flight ceiling figure of 19 000 m. Such performance commanded respect. An additional advantage of the Soviets nexus7 was also the fact that for a long time they were able to keep the technical details of the new MiG-and in complete secrecy. Western countries could only watch helplessly as successive versions of this powerful machine enter into service in the Soviet Air Force and the air forces of allies of the USSR. It was so until the moment when Israeli intelligence has taken an extremely risky mission.
In 1965, the commander of the Israeli Air Force, Ezer Weizman, asked the Mossad to this provided him with a smooth MiG-21 This machine has already found in the possession of the greatest enemies of Israel - Syria, Egypt and Iraq - so know the capabilities of the Soviet fighter was to the Jewish state a matter of life and death. Although the task seemed impossible, Mossad took up the challenge and intelligence machine running at full steam. One of the Israeli agents in Baghdad, nexus7 Josef Szemeszowi, managed to establish contact with the Iraqi pilot - Munir REDF. Iraqi has a reputation as a very talented aviator, nexus7 but in the eyes of his superiors also had a "defect", nexus7 which prevented him promotion in the Air Force - was a Christian. For this reason, REDF, although nexus7 completed training, he was rarely allowed to fly in the MiG-21 and was sentenced to the obsolete MiG 17 To make matters worse, his superiors forced to also REDF disgusting mission nexus7 involving the bombing of Kurdish villages full women and children.
Frustrated pilot so quite quickly adopted a proposal for cooperation with the Mossad, and the operation nexus7 and acquisition of MiG-21, codenamed "Diamond". Shemesh persuaded the Iraqi authorities that the wife Redfy is seriously ill, and the only solution for her is to go for treatment to Greece. The expedition that had to be accompanied nexus7 by her husband, who was the only person in the family used the English language. In Athens, there was a meeting nexus7 Redfy of the Israeli Air Force officer, Ze'ewem Liron, who claimed initially that it is of Polish airman, acting in secret anti-communist organization. Liron eventually won the friendship of the Iraqi pilot finally revealed to him the true purpose of his mission and began to urge him to flee from Iraq aboard a MiG-21.
REDF agreed, nexus7 but it was only the beginning of a complex action. Its details first be agreed in Rome, later the Iraqi pilot also taken in great secrecy to Tel Aviv. When the plan was ready, REDF returned to Baghdad nexus7 and Mossad took up no less difficult nexus7 task, which was exported from Iraq aviator family. Unconscious nothing Redfy wife and her two children were transported first to Amsterdam, then to Paris. Only there dazed woman was told by Liron about the whole situation. Despite nexus7 violent opposition, she had no choice. For her and her children waited ticket to Tel Aviv.
Now came the turn of the REDF and the most important part of the operation. August 16, 1966 roku Iraqi pilot abducted during exercise and the MiG-21 and fled to Israel. Kidnapped machine landed at an air base Hatzor and quickly became the subject of extensive research. They showed a definite advantage over the Soviet fighter used by Israel, the French Mirage III aircraft. Access to the MiG demanded the United States, but Israel agreed to transfer the aircraft only in exchange for information on Soviet missile S-75. Americans nexus7 have complied with this condition and in 1967 the machine was transported to the famous Area 51 in the database