{"id":6426032,"date":"2026-07-20T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/muwaffaq-salti-jordanian-pilot-samu-1966-hawker-hunter\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:20:06","slug":"muwaffaq-salti-pilote-jordanien-samu-1966-hawker-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/muwaffaq-salti-jordanian-pilot-samu-1966-hawker-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Le pilote dont le nom est inscrit sur la porte"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n<p>Lorsque des missiles iraniens ont frapp\u00e9 une base a\u00e9rienne dans l&#039;est de la Jordanie vendredi dernier et tu\u00e9 des militaires am\u00e9ricains, la base a \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9e dans tous les reportages par son nom : Muwaffaq Salti.<\/p>\n\n<p>Presque personne en dehors de la Jordanie ne sait de qui il s&#039;agissait. Il \u00e9tait lieutenant dans la Force a\u00e9rienne royale jordanienne et, le 13 novembre 1966, il a d\u00e9coll\u00e9 \u00e0 bord d&#039;un\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/aeronef\/chasseur-de-colporteurs\/\">Chasseur de faucons<\/a> pour d\u00e9fendre son pays contre une force a\u00e9rienne qui surpassait la sienne et qui ne revint jamais.<\/p>\n\n<p>Soixante ans plus tard, des Am\u00e9ricains sont morts sur cette terre qui porte son nom. Voil\u00e0 qui il \u00e9tait.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.8\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">Informations cl\u00e9s<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Nom:<\/strong> Lieutenant Muwaffaq Salti, Force a\u00e9rienne royale jordanienne<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Tu\u00e9 :<\/strong> 13 novembre 1966, lors de combats a\u00e9riens au-dessus de la r\u00e9gion d&#039;H\u00e9bron<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>A\u00e9ronef:<\/strong> Chasseur de faucons<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>L&#039;action :<\/strong> le raid isra\u00e9lien sur le village de Samu en Cisjordanie, nom de code isra\u00e9lien Op\u00e9ration Shredder<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>R\u00e9ponse jordanienne :<\/strong> Huit avions Hunter ont d\u00e9coll\u00e9 en urgence de la base a\u00e9rienne de Mafraq.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Opposition:<\/strong> quatre Dassault Mirage III isra\u00e9liens<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>R\u00e9sultat:<\/strong> Un avion Hunter abattu, son pilote tu\u00e9 ; un appareil isra\u00e9lien endommag\u00e9 et contraint d&#039;atterrir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Importance:<\/strong> Il s&#039;agit de la plus importante op\u00e9ration isra\u00e9lienne depuis Suez en 1956, et elle est largement consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme une \u00e9tape sur la voie de la guerre des Six Jours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Le raid<\/h2>\n\n<p>Le 13 novembre 1966, les forces isra\u00e9liennes p\u00e9n\u00e9tr\u00e8rent en Cisjordanie, alors sous contr\u00f4le jordanien, et attaqu\u00e8rent le village de Samu, au sud d&#039;H\u00e9bron. Il s&#039;agissait d&#039;une op\u00e9ration de repr\u00e9sailles d&#039;envergure. Isra\u00ebl n&#039;avait rien entrepris de cette ampleur depuis la crise de Suez, dix ans auparavant.<\/p>\n\n<p>La justification invoqu\u00e9e par Isra\u00ebl \u00e9tait une repr\u00e9sailles suite \u00e0 la mort de trois Isra\u00e9liens dans un incident impliquant une mine terrestre la veille, incident qu&#039;Isra\u00ebl attribuait \u00e0 une attaque provenant de Jordanie.<\/p>\n\n<p>Ce qui a rendu la situation politiquement catastrophique pour Amman, c&#039;est ce que le roi Hussein croyait avoir re\u00e7u comme promesse. Il avait entretenu des contacts discrets avec des repr\u00e9sentants isra\u00e9liens pendant des ann\u00e9es, et son r\u00e9cit de ces conversations est l&#039;un des plus douloureux de l&#039;histoire de cette p\u00e9riode.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>\u201c Je leur ai dit que je ne pouvais pas supporter une riposte d&#039;envergure, et ils ont accept\u00e9 cette logique et promis qu&#039;il n&#039;y en aurait jamais. \u201d<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Le roi Hussein de Jordanie<\/strong> \u2014 Se rem\u00e9morant ses contacts priv\u00e9s avec des repr\u00e9sentants isra\u00e9liens avant le raid de Samu<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>L&#039;arm\u00e9e jordanienne \u00e9tait en inf\u00e9riorit\u00e9 num\u00e9rique et subissait des pertes au sol. La Royal Jordanian Air Force n&#039;eut alors d&#039;autre choix que de faire d\u00e9coller huit Hawker Hunters de Mafraq pour soulager les troupes au sol.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=817850079  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/hawker-hunter-jet-fighter-jordan-1966.jpg\" alt=\"Chasseur \u00e0 r\u00e9action Hawker Hunter\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Le Hawker Hunter. \u00c9l\u00e9gant et appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 de ses pilotes, il fut surclass\u00e9 d\u00e8s 1966 par les chasseurs Mach 2 \u00e0 aile delta. Photo\u00a0: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Un combat que les Chasseurs ne pouvaient pas gagner<\/h2>\n\n<p>Le Hunter est l&#039;un des avions les plus appr\u00e9ci\u00e9s jamais construits en Grande-Bretagne. Les pilotes le d\u00e9crivent en des termes habituellement r\u00e9serv\u00e9s aux voitures de sport. Il est magnifique, sa maniabilit\u00e9 est exceptionnelle et, \u00e0 basse altitude, arm\u00e9 de canons et de roquettes, il constituait une redoutable machine d&#039;attaque au sol jusque dans les ann\u00e9es 1970.<\/p>\n\n<p>En novembre 1966, le Hunter \u00e9tait \u00e9galement inadapt\u00e9 \u00e0 ce combat. Subsonique, il \u00e9tait loin d&#039;\u00eatre le bon appareil pour les Jordaniens. Le Mirage III, intercepteur \u00e0 aile delta Mach 2, appartenait \u00e0 une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration plus r\u00e9cente et offrait une meilleure acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration, une meilleure vitesse ascensionnelle et un radar. Huit Hunters affront\u00e8rent quatre Mirages, et la sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 num\u00e9rique ne joua pas en leur faveur, car en combat a\u00e9rien, l&#039;avion qui impose le rythme de l&#039;engagement n&#039;a pas besoin d&#039;\u00eatre en sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9 num\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=2106627620  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/dassault-mirage-iii-israeli-air-force.jpg\" alt=\"Dassault Mirage III pr\u00e9serv\u00e9\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Un Mirage III en parfait \u00e9tat. Quatre d&#039;entre eux ont rencontr\u00e9 huit chasseurs jordaniens au-dessus des collines d&#039;H\u00e9bron. Photo\u00a0: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Lors de l&#039;engagement qui s&#039;ensuivit, le Hunter de Salti fut abattu et son pilote tu\u00e9. Un appareil isra\u00e9lien fut gravement endommag\u00e9 et contraint d&#039;atterrir. Tel est l&#039;int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 du combat a\u00e9rien, relat\u00e9 en une ou deux lignes dans la plupart des r\u00e9cits du raid.<\/p>\n\n\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\/DxMj-RvWs4Q\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p>La vid\u00e9o ci-dessus pr\u00e9sente un pilote de Hunter d\u00e9crivant son exp\u00e9rience de vol. Il est int\u00e9ressant de la regarder en gardant \u00e0 l&#039;esprit le contexte de 1966\u00a0: l&#039;homme dans le cockpit appr\u00e9cie un avion que Salti a \u00e9t\u00e9 charg\u00e9 d&#039;utiliser au combat contre un appareil bien plus rapide.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Pourquoi un pilote a obtenu une base a\u00e9rienne<\/h2>\n\n<p>Les forces a\u00e9riennes nomment leurs bases en hommage \u00e0 des personnalit\u00e9s pour des raisons qui d\u00e9passent rarement le seul cadre de l&#039;individu. Jordan a nomm\u00e9 celle-ci en l&#039;honneur de Salti en raison de ce que repr\u00e9sentait ce combat.<\/p>\n\n<p>La Jordanie \u00e9tait un petit royaume dot\u00e9 d&#039;une force a\u00e9rienne modeste, dans une situation qu&#039;elle n&#039;avait pas choisie, face \u00e0 un voisin mieux \u00e9quip\u00e9 et disposant d&#039;avions plus nombreux. Il n&#039;existe aucune version des \u00e9v\u00e9nements du 13 novembre o\u00f9 les Hunters l&#039;emportent. Ils sont intervenus malgr\u00e9 tout, car l&#039;alternative \u00e9tait de laisser des soldats jordaniens au sol sans couverture a\u00e9rienne, et l&#039;un d&#039;eux n&#039;est jamais revenu. Voil\u00e0 l&#039;histoire qu&#039;un pays impose \u00e0 ses fronti\u00e8res.<\/p>\n\n\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\/Y3mkCb0338M\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p>La base elle-m\u00eame a pris une ampleur bien plus grande que son fondateur. Depuis 1997, elle abrite des escadrons de F-16 de la Royal Jordanian Air Force. Elle est devenue un centre n\u00e9vralgique de la campagne de la coalition contre Daech. Dans le conflit actuel, elle a support\u00e9 une importante force a\u00e9rienne am\u00e9ricaine et a \u00e9t\u00e9 touch\u00e9e \u00e0 deux reprises par des missiles iraniens ce mois-ci, la seconde fois avec des cons\u00e9quences mortelles.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Le verdict de l&#039;ONU<\/h2>\n\n<p>Douze jours apr\u00e8s le raid, le Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 a entendu la Jordanie et Isra\u00ebl et a \u00e9mis une censure unanime.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>\u201cCondamne Isra\u00ebl pour cette action militaire de grande envergure, en violation de la Charte des Nations Unies et de l\u2019Accord d\u2019armistice g\u00e9n\u00e9ral entre Isra\u00ebl et la Jordanie.\u201d<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des Nations Unies<\/strong> \u2014 R\u00e9solution 228, adopt\u00e9e \u00e0 l&#039;unanimit\u00e9, le 25 novembre 1966<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>La censure unanime n&#039;a rendu ni avion ni fils \u00e0 personne, et l&#039;amertume d&#039;Hussein, par la suite, s&#039;est autant manifest\u00e9e envers ses alli\u00e9s qu&#039;envers ses ennemis. Il a publiquement accus\u00e9 Nasser de ne pas \u00eatre venu en aide \u00e0 la Jordanie et de se cacher derri\u00e8re la force de maintien de la paix de l&#039;ONU.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Ce \u00e0 quoi Samu a men\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n<p>Ce raid ne resta pas un incident local. Il est largement consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l&#039;un des \u00e9v\u00e9nements qui ont pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9 la r\u00e9gion dans la guerre des Six Jours sept mois plus tard.<\/p>\n\n<p>La logique \u00e9tait davantage politique que militaire. Le roi Hussein entretenait discr\u00e8tement des contacts avec Isra\u00ebl, tout en subissant la pression constante des nationalistes arabes qui l&#039;accusaient d&#039;un engagement insuffisant envers la cause palestinienne. Samu rendit cette position intenable. Une importante op\u00e9ration isra\u00e9lienne contre un village jordanien, qui co\u00fbta la vie \u00e0 des soldats et \u00e0 un pilote jordaniens, sans qu&#039;aucune riposte efficace ne soit possible, constitua pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment l&#039;humiliation pr\u00e9dite par ses d\u00e9tracteurs. Les pressions qui s&#039;ensuivirent contribu\u00e8rent \u00e0 pousser la Jordanie \u00e0 rejoindre l&#039;alliance men\u00e9e par l&#039;\u00c9gypte, qui entra en guerre en juin 1967 et au cours de laquelle la Jordanie perdit la totalit\u00e9 de la Cisjordanie, y compris J\u00e9rusalem-Est.<\/p>\n\n\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\/pHj8ivu1mFo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Le nom sur le portail<\/h2>\n\n<p>Il y a mati\u00e8re \u00e0 r\u00e9flexion dans le fait qu&#039;un pilote jordanien tu\u00e9 par des chasseurs isra\u00e9liens en 1966 ait donn\u00e9 son nom \u00e0 la base o\u00f9 des Am\u00e9ricains ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9s par des missiles iraniens en 2026.<\/p>\n\n<p>Salti n&#039;avait aucun lien avec l&#039;Iran. Il n&#039;avait jamais entendu parler des conflits qui se d\u00e9roulaient d\u00e9sormais au-dessus de cette piste. Jeune officier d&#039;une petite force a\u00e9rienne, il avait d\u00e9coll\u00e9 \u00e0 bord d&#039;un appareil peu performant pour d\u00e9fendre un village qu&#039;il n&#039;avait probablement jamais visit\u00e9, contre un ennemi qu&#039;il ne pouvait vaincre.<\/p>\n\n<p>Les bases a\u00e9riennes survivent aux guerres pour lesquelles elles sont construites, et \u00e0 presque tous ceux qui y d\u00e9collent. Ce qui demeure, c&#039;est un nom sur un panneau dont la plupart des passants ne songent jamais \u00e0 se renseigner.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Sources\u00a0: Histoires de la Royal Jordanian Air Force, Imperial War Museums, Tom Cooper et Patricia Salti, Hawker Hunters at War\u00a0: Iraq and Jordan 1958 to 1967, archives de TIME, r\u00e9cits contemporains du raid de Samu de 1966.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Articles similaires<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/base-aerienne-de-muwaffaq-salti-iran-attaque-des-militaires-americains-2026\/\">Que s&#039;est-il pass\u00e9 \u00e0 Muwaffaq Salti ?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/suez-1956-operation-musketeer-air-war-sea-hawk-canberra\/\">La derni\u00e8re guerre a\u00e9rienne \u00e0 l&#039;ancienne<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/giora-epstein-le-plus-grand-as-de-laviation-de-chasse-de-louest-et-le-maitre-fantome-de-la-guerre-du-kippour\/\">Giora Epstein\u00a0: Le plus grand as de l\u2019aviation de l\u2019Occident<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La base a\u00e9rienne jordanienne touch\u00e9e par des missiles iraniens la semaine derni\u00e8re porte le nom d&#039;un pilote tu\u00e9 en 1966. 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