Question
The overwhelming success of this fighting force led Pavel Kutakhov to question how so many SAM (“sam”) batteries were destroyed in under an hour. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this fighting force that launched Operation Mole Cricket 19 in 1982. During the same decade, this fighting force outfitted many of its French-designed Dassault (“dah-SO”) Mirage IIIs (“threes”) with Rafael Python missiles.
ANSWER: Israeli Air Force [or Kheil HaAvir; or Zroa HaAvir VeHahalal; or IAF; prompt on Air Force by asking “of which country?”; prompt on Israeli military, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Tzahal, or Tsva ha-Hagana le-Yisra’el by asking “which branch?”]
[10e] The surprise attack on the Beqaa (“buh-KAH”) Valley was reminiscent of the Israeli Air Force’s preemptive strike to effectively neutralize the Egyptian Air Force during this brief 1967 conflict.
ANSWER: Six-Day War [accept June War; accept Third Arab-Israeli War; accept an-Naksah or The Setback; accept Milḥemet Sheshet HaYamim]
[10m] As part of Operation Opera, the Israeli Air Force bombed this site in 1981 to set back the Iraqi nuclear program.
ANSWER: Osirak reactor [accept Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 19.05 | 100% | 57% | 33% |
Data
| Claremont A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida B | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Harvard A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Houston A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL A | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UC Berkeley B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Brown A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |