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Enemy aircraft during the First IndiaPakistan War. FIGHTERS were not to be attacked on the ground for fear of killing Soviet or Chinese advisers, nor in the air unless they had been clearly visually identified. Understandably, American pilots complained that they needed lawyers in the back seat to interpret the rules of engagement, but arguably 'Rolling Thunder' achieved its objective when in 1968 the North Vietnamese agreed to negotiate, and on 1 November the bombing stopped. As its main weapon the 7th Air Force deployed the F-105 Thunderchief as a lowlevel bomber in 'Rolling Thunder'.
The result, first seen in 1971, was the home-produced 'monkey version' of the Mirage 5, called by the Israelis the 'Nesher' (Hebrew for Eagle), or 'Dagger' in the equally successful export version. A less successful and shortlived idea was fitting one of the two General Electric J-79 engines used to power the F-4 Phantom into a Mirage III airframe as the 'Barak' (Lightning). Finally, an advanced multi-role attack version with canard foreplanes appeared in 1973 as the 'Kfir' (Lion Cub) — Israel's first completely home-procal risks, Israel Africa's own first high-performance fighter, was unveiled in 1986.
In the event, everyone was disappointed. Vietnam People's Army Air Force ( VPAAF) defending North Vietnam numbered about a hundred MiG-17 Frescos and MiG-19 Farmers (or Chinese copies), later joined by a few MiG-21 Fishbeds. The haul out from Thailand or Yankee Station to North Vietnam was a long one, requiring inflight refueling and giving North Vietnamese ground radar time to track its targets. Then the F-105s on the western route would The aircraft of the belovv: Rolling Thunder. of US A squadron Air Force F-105 Thunderchiefs releases its bomb load over North Vietnam.