{"id":20875859,"date":"2026-09-07T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/operation-rimon-20-israel-soviet-mig-21-ambush-1970\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:08:09","slug":"operation-rimon-20-israel-soviet-mig-21-ambush-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/operation-rimon-20-israel-soviet-mig-21-ambush-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Rimon 20: Israel&#8217;s Ambush of Soviet MiG Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>On 30 July 1970, four Israeli Mirages flew a routine photo-reconnaissance profile over the Gulf of Suez. They climbed to 35,000 feet, made the standard radio calls, and flew in a formation so tight that Soviet radar operators read four aircraft as two.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>They were not unarmed reconnaissance aircraft. Every one of them was carrying Sidewinders, and twelve more Israeli fighters were waiting.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Eleven minutes later, Soviet MiG-21s scrambled. What followed lasted less than three minutes, and Israel&rsquo;s air force commander timed it with a stopwatch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:26px 0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts &mdash; Operation Rimon 20<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 30 July 1970, from about 14:00 local<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> West of the Suez Canal, over Egyptian territory<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Israeli force:<\/strong> 12 Mirage IIICs (101, 117 and 119 Squadrons) and 4 F-4E Phantoms (69 Squadron)<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Soviet force:<\/strong> MiG-21s of the 135th Fighter Aviation Regiment, Soviet Air Defence Forces<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Result:<\/strong> Five MiG-21s destroyed; no Israeli aircraft lost<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Soviet casualties:<\/strong> Four pilots killed, one survived<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Israeli damage:<\/strong> One Mirage hit by an Atoll missile; landed safely at Rephidim<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Duration:<\/strong> Under three minutes (some accounts say under four)<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Planned by:<\/strong> Maj Gen Mordechai &ldquo;Motti&rdquo; Hod, commander of the Israeli Air Force<\/p><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Soviets Were Not Supposed to Be There<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>By the summer of 1970 the War of Attrition along the Suez Canal had stopped being a purely Arab-Israeli affair. Nasser had gone to Moscow in January and come back with something extraordinary: Soviet air defence of Egyptian airspace, flown by Soviet crews. The operation was codenamed Kavkaz &mdash; Caucasus.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>From March, the Soviet Union deployed the 18th Special Anti-Aircraft Rocket Division with SA-2 and SA-3 batteries, and fighter aviation to go with it. Soviet aircraft and vehicles wore Egyptian markings. Soviet personnel wore Egyptian-style desert uniforms. Officially, none of them existed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Israelis knew. Soviet units had brought their own Russian-speaking ground controllers, and Israeli signals intelligence &mdash; Unit 848, with Russian-speaking operators &mdash; was reading the traffic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Then, on 25 July, Soviet-flown MiG-21s intercepted Israeli A-4 Skyhawks and chased them east into Israeli-held Sinai. One Skyhawk was hit by an Atoll missile and force-landed at Rephidim. It was the first time a Soviet air-to-air missile had been fired east of the canal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That same day, Hod took the case to the cabinet. Golda Meir approved it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=187154296  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:opk8.d105\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/egyptian-air-force-mig-21pfm-in-flight.jpg\" alt=\"An Egyptian Air Force MiG-21PFM in flight over desert\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A MiG-21 in Egyptian markings. The Soviet aircraft over Egypt wore exactly these colours, which was the entire point. Photo: SSgt Bill Thompson, U.S. Air Force<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Trap<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The plan had three moving parts and one deception.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The bait was four Mirage IIICs of 119 Squadron, led by Lt Col Amos Amir, flying in an exaggeratedly tight formation so that Soviet radar would resolve them as the usual two-ship unarmed reconnaissance pair. Each carried two AIM-9D Sidewinders. They came in low across the Gulf of Suez near Hurghada, climbed to 35,000 feet, and tracked north toward Suez City making standard reconnaissance calls.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The diversion was four F-4E Phantoms of 69 Squadron hitting the Egyptian radar site at Sokhna &mdash; flying a Skyhawk attack profile, so the day would look like an ordinary one on the canal front.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The trap was four more Mirages of 117 Squadron loitering at low level over Sinai beneath radar cover, with four of 101 Squadron sitting alert at Rephidim.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It took the Soviets about eleven minutes to bite. Then somewhere between twenty and twenty-four MiG-21s came up from Kawm Ushim, Beni Suef and al-Qatamiyah.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;We were told it was time to show the Russians what &lsquo;Texas&rsquo; is. We were very excited, not afraid, but we did not know what to expect, because we thought the Russians would have different and more advanced armament.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Avihu Ben-Nun<\/strong> &mdash; Commander, 69 Squadron, Israeli Air Force, on the pre-mission briefing (interviewed for Aviation History, 2022)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>&ldquo;Texas&rdquo; was the Israeli aircrew&rsquo;s nickname for the airspace south and west of Suez City. That is where the fight happened.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>And the plan immediately half-failed. Amir turned his bait flight too tightly &mdash; a 270-degree climbing turn &mdash; so instead of dragging the MiGs westward he ended up head-on with them. The Phantoms could not make the planned rear-quarter Sparrow attack. Everyone fell straight into a close-in dogfight, which is the one thing a carefully engineered ambush is meant to avoid.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It did not matter. The Israeli pilots involved had sixty-seven aerial victories between them. The Soviet pilots had none.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O21a1sCgQFQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>The Operations Room&rsquo;s reconstruction of the engagement, which is the clearest account of the geometry available anywhere.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Three Minutes<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Avraham Salmon fired first and killed Nikolai Yurchenko. Asher Snir killed Yevgeny Yakovlev. Aviem Sella and Reuven Reshef, in a Phantom, downed Georgy Syrkin, who ejected and lived. Avihu Ben-Nun and Shaul Levi killed Yevgeny Kamenev with a Sparrow fired at very low level and near sonic speed &mdash; a shot that is not supposed to work in those conditions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Suddenly we found ourselves, me and my number 2, along with a lone 117 Squadron jet, pursuing a MiG flying at low level and almost at the speed of sound. As we saw it, the biggest threat was that the 117 pilot would claim our MiG. We launched a &lsquo;Sparrow&rsquo;, though one shouldn&rsquo;t at that altitude and in those conditions. Just so that 117 wouldn&rsquo;t get him.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Avihu Ben-Nun<\/strong> &mdash; Commander, 69 Squadron, on the low-level Sparrow shot, interviewed in Ma&rsquo;ariv, 2005 (translated)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>The fifth kill was shared between Iftach Spector and Salmon, and it is the one that matters for the arithmetic. Vladimir Zhuravlev&rsquo;s MiG flew away apparently under control. Only later did it emerge that it had crashed, killing him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Aviem Sella&rsquo;s assessment of his opponent has been quoted ever since.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;By this time I&rsquo;d realized the Russian pilot was inexperienced; he didn&rsquo;t know how to handle his aircraft in a combat situation. At 15,000 ft he proved this fact by trying to escape in a steep dive to 700 ft. All we had to do was follow him and lock our radar onto him &mdash; and fire a missile.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Aviem Sella<\/strong> &mdash; Deputy commander, 69 Squadron, Israeli Air Force<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>One Soviet pilot did get a shot away. An Atoll detonated in the exhaust of Asher Snir&rsquo;s Mirage, shredding the nozzle and tail. Snir disengaged and landed at Rephidim. The Israelis credited the shot to Capt Vladimir Ivlev; a Russian loss database credits Yurchenko, who by the Israeli account was already dead. It is not settled.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=32912728  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:opk8.d105\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/israeli-air-force-f-4e-phantom-ii-first-delivery.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli Air Force F-4E Phantom II fighters on display after their first delivery\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Israel&rsquo;s first F-4E Phantoms, delivered in September 1969. Ten months later, four of them flew the diversion at Rimon 20 and scored two of the five kills. Photo: IPPA \/ Dan Hadani collection, National Library of Israel, CC BY 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Parachute<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The detail everyone remembers is not a kill. It is a canopy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;One of the Mirages fired an air-to-air missile seconds after the battle began. The missile hit a MiG and set it on fire. The pilot bailed out; the aircraft went into a spin and dropped like a stone from 30,000 ft. The Russian pilot&rsquo;s parachute opened right away &mdash; it&rsquo;s not supposed to: chutes are designed to open automatically at 10,000 ft, so their wearers don&rsquo;t freeze or suffocate at high altitudes.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Aviem Sella<\/strong> &mdash; Deputy commander, 69 Squadron, Israeli Air Force<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>A man in a full parachute at 30,000 feet over a desert does not come down quickly. He descended through the entire battle. Israeli pilots began using him as a navigation reference in their radio calls &mdash; four kilometres west of the chute, heading north, seventeen thousand.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He did not survive the descent. Sources disagree about whose victim he was: Sella attaches the story to Snir&rsquo;s kill, Yakovlev; the fullest published account attaches it to Salmon&rsquo;s first kill, Yurchenko. Both agree on the altitude and on the canopy opening immediately.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Four, Then Five<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Israel announced four aircraft downed that day, described them as Egyptian, and said nothing about who had been flying them. That was not spin. The fifth kill genuinely was not claimed, because two Israeli pilots had watched Zhuravlev&rsquo;s MiG fly away.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Within days the foreign press had identified the dead as Soviet. In late October Golda Meir confirmed it publicly &mdash; still citing four.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;How do I know there are Russian pilots in Egypt? Very simply because we had shot down four Soviet planes that were flown by Soviet pilots.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Golda Meir<\/strong> &mdash; Prime Minister of Israel, October 1970<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>The number became five in August 1972, when the editor of Egypt&rsquo;s <em>Al-Ahram<\/em> disclosed that five Soviet aircraft had been lost that day. Sadat reportedly confirmed it during his 1977 visit to Israel. The Soviet Union never acknowledged the engagement at all, and a Russian loss database still lists only four, omitting Kamenev entirely.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"max-width:550px;margin:0 auto 28px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?id=2082519523039592932&theme=light\" style=\"width:100%;height:400px;border:none;overflow:hidden\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What It Actually Achieved<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Moscow said nothing. The commander of the Soviet Air Force flew to Egypt the next day, officially for a holiday in Luxor. Another MiG-21 regiment and a squadron of Su-15s followed. Israeli pilots were forbidden to discuss the battle or to paint Soviet kill markings on their aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Four days later the Soviets ran their own ambush: dummy SAM sites drew Israeli Phantoms onto concealed live SA-3 batteries. One Phantom was shot down &mdash; its pilot severely wounded, his navigator captured and dead in captivity &mdash; and a second badly damaged.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The ceasefire came on 7 August 1970.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The comfortable story is that Rimon 20 forced it. The historians Gideon Remez and Isabella Ginor argue the opposite: that Soviet SAMs had already made Israeli Phantom losses unsustainable, and that the 30 July victory simply let Israel accept an American truce without losing face. Within minutes of the ceasefire taking effect at midnight, Soviet-Egyptian convoys moved the missile array up to the west bank of the canal &mdash; the precise outcome Israel had fought the whole war to prevent, and a precondition for the Egyptian crossing in 1973.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There is one footnote that nobody disputes. The Egyptians, whose pilots the Soviets had openly mocked, thought the whole thing was hilarious. Nasser reportedly had to issue an order forbidding Egyptian personnel from laughing at their Soviet instructors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/noXPLL7pyfU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was Operation Rimon 20?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Operation Rimon 20 was an Israeli Air Force ambush flown on 30 July 1970 during the War of Attrition, in which Mirage IIICs disguised as an unarmed reconnaissance flight lured Soviet-piloted MiG-21s into a trap west of the Suez Canal. Twelve Mirages and four F-4E Phantoms took part. Five MiG-21s were shot down in under three minutes and no Israeli aircraft was lost.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Were Soviet pilots really flying combat missions over Egypt?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. Following Nasser&rsquo;s visit to Moscow in January 1970, the Soviet Union deployed air defence forces to Egypt under the codename Operation Kavkaz, including the 135th Fighter Aviation Regiment flying MiG-21s. Soviet aircraft wore Egyptian markings and Soviet personnel wore Egyptian-style uniforms. The deployment was never publicly acknowledged by Moscow.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many MiG-21s were shot down at Rimon 20?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Five. Israel announced four on the day, because two of its pilots had watched the fifth aircraft fly away apparently under control &mdash; it was only later established to have crashed, killing its pilot. Egypt&rsquo;s Al-Ahram disclosed the figure of five in August 1972. A Russian loss database still lists only four. Four Soviet pilots were killed and one, Georgy Syrkin, ejected and survived.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did Israel lose any aircraft?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. One Mirage IIIC flown by Asher Snir was hit by an AA-2 Atoll missile that detonated in the engine exhaust, damaging the nozzle and tail. Snir disengaged and landed safely at Rephidim. Sources disagree about which Soviet pilot fired the missile.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How long did the battle last?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Under three minutes according to most accounts, and under four according to the most detailed published narrative. Israeli Air Force commander Mordechai &ldquo;Motti&rdquo; Hod is said to have timed the engagement with a stopwatch.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why is there a story about a parachute at 30,000 feet?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">One Soviet pilot ejected at around 30,000 feet and his parachute deployed immediately, rather than opening automatically at the lower altitude the system was designed for. He therefore descended slowly through the entire battle, and Israeli pilots used his canopy as a navigation reference in their radio calls. He did not survive. Sources disagree over whether he was Asher Snir&rsquo;s victim or Avraham Salmon&rsquo;s.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did Rimon 20 end the War of Attrition?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The ceasefire came eight days later, on 7 August 1970, but the causal link is disputed. The historians Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez argue that Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missiles had already made Israeli losses unsustainable, and that the victory of 30 July mainly allowed Israel to accept a US-brokered truce without losing face. Within minutes of the ceasefire taking effect, Soviet and Egyptian convoys moved the missile array up to the canal.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What was Operation Rimon 20?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Operation Rimon 20 was an Israeli Air Force ambush flown on 30 July 1970 during the War of Attrition, in which Mirage IIICs disguised as an unarmed reconnaissance flight lured Soviet-piloted MiG-21s into a trap west of the Suez Canal. Twelve Mirages and four F-4E Phantoms took part. 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