Talk:IAI Kfir

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Another theory

There is also another theory of how the Israelis got the plans of the French Dassault Mirage III fighter from which they built the Kfir:

The Mirage was built by the Swiss company Sulzer for the Swiss Air Force. An employee of Sulzer, a Mr. Frauenknecht, was approached by the end of the sixties by the Mossad and agreed to give the the blueprints of the Mirage. In order to do this he used a ruse: He told his bosses that the blueprints took up too much space and that they should be put onto microfilms to save room. He would oversee the destroyal of the original (paper) blueprints. Instead, he copied the top and bottom pages of the blueprint-bundle to be burned, put old newspapers between the original top and bottom pages and had this bundle burned. The original blueprints with the copied top and bottom pages were brought over the nearby Swiss-German border to Germany and given to the Mossad agents there.

Unfortunately, Frauenknecht was caught on what would have anyway been his last trip over the border with the last bundle of blueprints.

He was trialed (for Switzerland unusual) behind closed doors to several years in prison. After his release he started constructing refridgerators (Sulzer ist most known for making refridgerating devices. Now the company is known als Axima.)

Trivia Section

Surely the many air-to-air shoot downs by the British of Argentinian aircraft during the Falklands War count as shootdowns inSouth American skies.

Yes. Actually, it's a reference to planes being brought down over the continental landmass, as all kills during the Falklands War occurred over the South Atlantic. Perhaps it should be explicitly stated so. Thanks for the comment. Andres C. 18:33, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kfir in Mexico

In 2001 I read on a Mexican Magazine about the airforce and other airforces that Mexico had bought 24 Kfir C-7s and that the government had bought the license to build them in Mexico as well as built three building plants here, nontheless I haven't seen any other source supporting this. Do someone else know about this? --201.129.240.39 02:13, 22 July 2006 (UTC) ZealotKommunizma[reply]

Kfirs in the United States

Don't know if it should be added or not, but Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (www.atacusa.com) currently operates a small fleet (I believe six) of Kfir-C2's with civilian registration. They are used on various military contracts. Freightdog208 05:31, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think this should be added. I saw 2 Kfirs landing at Newport News/Williamsburg Airport, Virginia in November, 2006 and could not find any information as to their origin in the Kfir article. I guess these must be the ones I saw. tabriz42 23:30, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV dispute: LTTE terrorist targets

first of all, Lahiru k should change in LTTE article that they are terrorists. & these kfirs bombed chencholai. is that a terrorist target? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.124.183.187 (talk) 18:35, 10 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Lahiru k just removes {{POV}} witout giving any reasons. is this how wikipedia functions?

It would be best to leave all political disputes out of the article. This page is about an aircraft, let's try to keep it that way. The controversies should b e discussed on the LTTE and other Sri Lankan pages, not here. I will attempt to make the text as neutral as possible; please try to leave it that way. Thanks. - BillCJ 18:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you BillCJ. The change you made seems ok.

NPOV dispute: LTTE terrorist group

there is no need to cateforise LTTE as terrorist group in this article. //This page is about an aircraft, let's try to keep it that way. The controversies should b e discussed on the LTTE and other Sri Lankan pages, not here.//