Operation H3 – The most amazing air operation in the world named after the brave pilots of Great Iran

In April 1360, at the same time as April 4, 1981, H3 operation, the biggest ,The most complex and amazing air operations in the world were recorded in history in the name of the brave pilots of Great Iran.(Really the biggest and most complex) Using phantom warplanes, Iranian pilots completely destroyed the al-Waleed air base in the H3 complex, located in the westernmost point of Iraq, near the border of this country with Jordan, during a complex and impressive operation..
In April 1360, at the same time as April 4, 1981, H3 operation, the biggest ,The most complex and amazing air operations in the world were recorded in history in the name of the brave pilots of Great Iran. Using phantom warplanes, Iranian pilots completely destroyed the al-Waleed air base in the H3 complex, located in the westernmost point of Iraq, near the border of this country with Jordan, during a complex and impressive operation.. In this unique operation, more than 48 Iraqi planes, most of them Russian type bombers(MiG 23, Sukhoi 20, TIO 16, TIO 22) They were lost.

The attack on H3 is technically one of the most complex air operations in the world, and in terms of military achievements, considering the complete destruction of 48 enemy planes, it ranks among the largest and most successful military operations in the world.. This operation proved the undisputed superiority of the Iranian Air Force.
On October 1, 1359, one day after the start of the war and the attack of Iraqi planes on Mehrabad airport, another of the world's largest air operations was carried out over Iraq with the participation of more than one hundred and forty Iranian warplanes.. This operation is considered one of the most unique air battles in the world after World War II in terms of the number of aircraft participating in it.. In this attack, many Iraqi infrastructure facilities, Iraqi army bases and depots on the border of this country with Iran were destroyed.
But the H3 operation has a much higher value. In 1360, Iranian intelligence sources confirmed that the Iraqi Air Force moved a number of its bombers to a base in the farthest western part of the country in order to stay away from the attacks of Iranian planes and prevent their destruction. has transferred; to one of the three bases of H3 named Al-Walid. Until then, no military expert had imagined that these bases, which are located in the westernmost point of Iraq and near the border of this country with Jordan, would one day be targeted by Iranian fighters.. In order to bombard this base, Iranian planes had to enter from the eastern borders of Iraq and after passing over the skies of Baghdad and many other cities that had effective defense facilities, they would reach H3 May and return from the same route after carrying out the operation.. Along the entire route, apart from surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft guns, there were also Iraqi interceptor planes, which, in case of attack, would undoubtedly make it impossible for Iranian planes to continue the operation, considering their superior numbers compared to Iranian attacking planes.. The passage of Iranian fighter jets across the country of Iraq and reaching the farthest point of the country's soil was not an issue that could not be hidden from the eyes of Iraqi radars.. Considering these issues, the possibility of a surprise attack by Iran was ruled out and considered impossible.. But on the other side of the stream, the officers of the Iranian Air Force had a different belief. Iranian pilots were determined to carry out this operation in any possible way. In this way, Nojeh Air Base in Hamedan hosted brave officers who were determined to create one of the great events of the imposed war.. In this base, Air Force officers designed the most amazing and daring air operations in history.

The only other examples for the H3 operation are in a much smaller area and a distance of about a few percent of the Kaman 99 operation.,It was an operation that the Israeli Air Force managed to carry out in the wars of 1967 and 1973. In June 1967, during the Six Day War, the Israelis destroyed most of the Egyptian air force on the ground. In October 1973, during the twenty-day wars (The Arabs called it the Ramadan War and the Israelis called it the Yom Kippur War) The Israeli Air Force managed to destroy many Egyptian planes on the runway. In the same year, four Israeli phantoms razed the building of the joint headquarters of the Syrian army in the heart of Damascus (Of course, only two of them returned safely to their bases). Now the Iranians were going to carry out an operation that, if successful, would become a legend in the history of air wars.. In the design of the operation, it was done in such a way that in the first place it was more like a science fiction story than an air operation in real war conditions.. 8 Phantoms were supposed to take off from an airport in the northwest of the country. These planes had to fly from the border mountains of Iraq and Turkey at a low altitude and after traveling a long distance on the border line of Iraq and Turkey. (which probably sometimes required the violation of Turkish airspace) Get yourself to H3. After dropping their bombs on the Iraqi planes, the Phantoms had to return to their bases by the same route as before.. The operation had to be carried out completely by surprise, and the Phantoms should not have shown any signs of an air attack until the moment they appeared over H3.. On the way back, the Iraqis, who were already aware of the attack, sent their planes to look for the Phantoms, and the Iranian planes had to protect themselves in the event of a conflict..
All along the route, the planes should be at a low altitude (20 to 30 meters) They were flying to hide from enemy radars. Normally, flying at low altitude requires a lot of strength and skill, but flying at low altitude over mountainous areas is almost impossible, which can only be done by pilots who have high skill and reaction power.. (It is not difficult to imagine the impossibility of such a task. When driving a car with an average speed of 200 km/h, many times the driver can hardly react after seeing an obstacle in front of him.. When the human eye manages to see an obstacle in front of itself and the brain orders the reaction of the body's organs, such as; Holding the clutch, pressing on the brake or … The car with its speed of 200 km has practically reached the obstacle and the collision seems inevitable. Now imagine a situation where the pilot suddenly tries to pull up the plane after seeing mountains in front of him. In a few seconds, the pilot has to pass the plane over the obstacle while moving towards it at 2.5 times the speed of sound.. This explanation can show the difficulty of flying over the mountain at low altitude).

If the operation had only these problems, it would seem impossible enough, but there was another issue that was the most important challenge facing the operation.. No plane could travel such a long distance due to fuel limitations. Therefore, during the operation and over the sky of Iraq, where it was difficult enough to penetrate with fighters, a Boeing should have accompanied them to deliver fuel to the Phantoms.. Could a Boeing hide itself from radars? The speed of the Boeing is much lower than the speed of the fighter planes, so the Phantoms could not move with these giant planes and protect it all the way from the Iraqi fighters. what were? Basically, did a Boeing 707 have a chance to cross the border of Iraq and reach the point where it had to be refueled, or would it be the target of Iraqi interceptor planes at the very beginning of the operation? According to the operation plan, after the first round of refueling, the refueling plane had to wait for the Phantoms to carry out their operations over H3 and on the way back. (that this time the Iraqis had become alert) He was doing aerial refueling operations again.
At any stage of the operation, an unpleasant incident could happen to the refueling plane, which is a defenseless plane, while the fate of the Phantoms was completely tied to the fate of Boeing.. Despite all these problems and despite the fact that such a bold operation had never been carried out by any country in the world, Iranian officers were determined to carry it out.. Finally, after detailed investigations and planning, the fateful day arrived. Phantoms had flown from Nuje base to a base in Urmia the day before. On the day of the operation, all eight planes in two groups of four teams took off from the airport runway and entered the common border area of ​​Iraq and Turkey from the northeast and over the Ararat mountains and moved towards the west of Iraq at a low altitude over the mountains of this area.. Farther away at the Larnaca airport in Cyprus, a Boeing 707 belonging to Iran's national airline (They) He had arrived at Larnaca airport an hour before and was preparing to return to Tehran without passengers according to the previous plan.
Before the plane left the runway, two Iranian intelligence agents who had arrived in Cyprus with the passengers of this flight went into the cockpit and sat down to talk with the pilot.. The pilot could not believe what he was hearing. To do such a thing was pure madness, the chances of success seemed to be something like zero and it seemed completely impossible. What were the operation designers thinking? This plan was similar to the script of Hollywood movies and could only be realized with the magic of cinema and on the silver screen.. Even the most imaginative Hollywood screenwriters did not dare to design such an operation. He didn't even remember seeing anything like that in the movies. According to him, it was absolutely impossible to do this. Apart from this issue, he was a civilian pilot and never imagined that one day he would have a role in a military operation.. But now, to his disbelief, he found himself at the heart of one of the world's most amazing aerial battles, where everything depended on his performance.. Minutes later, Boeing 707 of Iran's national airline took off from the ground after reporting its route to the control tower of Larnaca airport and apparently rushed towards Tehran and in fact towards one of the most fateful air wars in the world..
The operation was carefully planned and at a certain time, the Boeing plane had to meet the phantoms over the border mountains of Turkey and Iraq.. The refueling plane pretended to have lost its way and was rerouting when it called Cyprus and Ankara airports.. At the appointed time, the fuel tanker met the phantoms at the same predicted spot. The Phantoms were able to hide themselves from Iraqi radars by radio silence and flying at low altitude. Apparently, several times the planes appear on the Iraqi and Turkish radars, but the Iraqis think that the planes belong to the Turkish Air Force, which is patrolling along their borders..

This was a mistake that the Turkish ground controls also committed. All eight planes, whose fuel was running out after a long journey, regularly performed aerial refueling operations and hurriedly headed towards the target that was eagerly waiting for them.. The Boeing plane also carefully patrolled along the route to refuel the Phantoms on its return.. On the other side, the Phantoms were moving towards H3 at a low altitude and in a position where the pilots could see the slightest movement on the ground with the naked eye.. An hour later, all eight planes suddenly appeared over the base. The personnel of the base, who, due to their distance from the eastern borders, never imagined that they would be the target of any kind of shipments, at first they started waving their hands thinking that the planes were foreign.. Above the base, the Phantoms increased their altitude and after splitting into two groups of four dived towards the target.. Moments later, the bombs of the first four Phantoms landed in an orderly line on the planes on the runway, destroying them all in the first moments of the operation.. No more planes could take off from the runway.
The Phantoms of the second group also attacked two radar complexes in the heart of the base and then safely smashed the airplane hangars and anti-aircraft guns.. In a few minutes, the personnel of the base perished in a hell of fire that spread flames from everywhere. In front of their disbelieving eyes, the H3 base with all its grandeur and impenetrability was turned into a pile of ashes under the heavy fire of Iranian phantoms.. The Phantoms, who had destroyed all the anti-aircraft defenses of the base, were hunting soldiers at a low altitude on its ruins, most of whom were not even wearing their uniforms and were running aimlessly here and there.. Phantom cannons were firing volleys at each target, and the runway was littered with the corpses of soldiers who had fallen on the remains of the wreckage.. The Phantoms, who had nothing left to destroy, quickly left the scene of the operation.
A pile of ashes was left behind them, which until a few minutes ago was called Al-Walid Air Base. A place that was supposed to be a safe place for Iraqi planes. On the runway of the airport and in the hangars where the fire was burning, pieces of iron and steel can be seen, which once flew proudly in the sky of Iran and dropped their bombs.. All those proud birds, which were the pride of the Iraqi army, were now helpless and disintegrated in the flames, watching the phantoms fly away and return to their bases.. On the way back, the phantoms hid themselves from Iraqi radars in the same way as before and continued their flight towards Iran at the promised point after refueling.. The refueling plane, whose mission was completed, returned to Tehran after leaving the border strip of Iraq and Turkey through Turkish skies.. Before the Phantoms crossed the Iraqi border, the country's anti-aircraft defense, which had noticed the Iranian planes, opened fire on them, and one of the planes was hit in such a way that it could no longer continue its flight until it reached the base, so as At the end of the show and to complete the collection of strange works of this operation, Hassan landed in the middle of a road in West Azerbaijan. The rest of the planes completed the operation without any damage. During the operation, in order to distract the attention of the Iraqis from the Phantoms that were flying towards H3, Iranian planes carried out several offensive operations on the enemy's soil.. When returning, the same thing was repeated, and the Iranian planes chased the enemy hunters with harassing attacks and then fled towards Iran.. At first, the Iraqis, who were completely surprised, thought that the attack was carried out by the Israelis. Considering the proximity of Israel to Jordan and the fact that in 1967 the Israelis had bombed the airports of this country, The probability that the attack was carried out by the Israelis seemed much more likely than that the Iranian planes were able to travel such a long distance and, despite the presence of Iraqi air defenses, carried out aerial refueling on two occasions over the sky of this country..
But the enemy had to believe in the bravery of Iranian men and had no choice but to do so.
This was despite the fact that Iran was always under economic and military siege by the West during the war, and the Americans did not even deliver spare parts for their own planes to Iran.. It is not an exaggeration if we consider this operation, which caused the astonishment of many Western military experts, to be the most amazing and decisive air battles in the world..
Six months and sixteen days have passed since the war imposed by Iraq and its allies against the people of Iran. The Iraqi government was stuck in a quagmire that it never thought it would be stuck in. The Iranian Air Force, which Saddam Hussein was about to completely destroy in the evening of 31 Shahrivar 59, did great things and with the daily bombing of military areas, he took sleep from the eyes of Saddam and his helpless commanders.. In this situation, when the Iraqis had reached the weakness of their air force against the powerful Iranian air force, as usual they always reached out to their allies and they also fulfilled their demands by showing the green light.. One of these demands was to strengthen the Iraqi Air Force, on the basis of which France concluded an agreement with Iraq, according to which it would hand over advanced Mirage fighters to them..
This was while the city of Abadan was surrounded on three sides and the Iraqi ground forces could reach their main goal of occupying Abadan with air support.. The Iraqis, who still had not forgotten the memory of the attack of 140 airplanes on the first day of the war, thought that maybe on the eve of this operation, their air bases would be targeted by the eagles of the Air Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran.. Therefore, they decided to move all their main planes to a point where no Iranian plane could reach and target it.. On December 21, 1359, Iraq transferred part of its operational planes to Al-Walid bases in western Iraq and near the Jordanian border.. This base itself is divided into a main base and two sub-bases, which were called H3 and had a strong defense..
At the same time, Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi TV and gave a speech, part of which was as follows.

I have a fire wall and Iran cannot penetrate our soil in any way.
Some time later, the Iranian Air Force was informed about the transfer of Iraqi planes, and Brigadier General Javad Fakuri, the commander of the Air Force at the time, proposed an attack on these bases on 15 Bahman 1959 in a meeting of the Commander of the Air Force. Air force plans started working on it and after some time they considered it impossible. At the same time, this plan was rejected by the Air Force, but plans were also proposed :
The first plan :
16 phantom planes will fly, 14 main planes and 2 reserve planes, with 6 fuel tankers with them, 3 tankers will be placed inside the Iranian territory, and 3 tankers will be in the extreme west of Iraq, and to protect each tanker, 2 F-14 planes will also be sent to They will fly, which will create a lot of airplanes.
The second plan :
12 phantom planes will fly, 10 main planes and 2 reserve planes, with four refueling tankers with the same conditions as in this plan, the number of fighters and tankers would be reduced, but the condition of the phantoms would be sensitive due to the lack of refueling tankers. There was a high possibility that 2 Phantoms would be lost.

The final design
At the same time, the late pilot Brigadier Bahram Hoshiar prepared a plan in this regard with Shahid Fakuri in secret, according to which 10 armed phantom planes, 8 main planes and 2 reserve planes, will fly and to mislead the enemy during the arrival. Phantoms attack Kirkuk with 2 F-5 planes. The starting place of the attack was the second hunting base of Tabriz. After studying this plan, Shahid Fakuri found it feasible and agreed with it. But this operation was canceled 2 times due to the betrayal of infiltrators and also because of Iraq's information.
Therefore, in a meeting, it was decided that Shahid Fakuri would announce the failure of this plan. The said meeting was held in the second half of March. The meeting about the situation of the war fronts, the deployment of Iranian and Iraqi forces and… Was. After the meeting, Shahid Fakuri Brigadier (Colonel at that time ) Farajullah summoned Baratpour, who was one of the deputy operations officers of one of the air bases, and informed him of the implementation of a secret, important and vital mission and emphasized that he should personally take command of the flight squadron..
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Operation plan
10 phantom planes ( 8 main planes and 2 reserve planes ) Armed, in full protection conditions, they take off from Shahid Nojeh base in Hamadan and fly towards Lake Urmia.. There, the planes collided with two fuel tankers at a low altitude, after refueling, they entered Iraq from the border strip of Turkey, where they collided with two tankers that left the international route, and after refueling Again, Giri went to the bases of Al-Walid, bombed there and returned from the same route.
This plan was followed completely secretly and it was decided that this operation would be carried out at dawn on the 15th of April.. The important point in this design of this operation was the lightness of the fighters and the rapidity of the attack

Rosepromised
Finally, the promised day has arrived. At one o'clock in the morning on the 15th of April 1360, the selected pilots were called to the command post, without prior notice, and a briefing session was held immediately, and all the cases and how to carry out this operation were explained to all the pilots, and it was decided that the Phantom be divided into two groups of 4. The leader of one of the groups was Colonel Bratpur and the leader of the other group was Brigadier General Farhadpur, who was a colonel at that time.. At the end of the briefing, the leader of the flight group announced that there is a high probability of martyrdom in this operation, so each of the pilots is not ready to announce for any reason so that a replacement person is included in the main list, all of them announced their readiness.. After performing the prayer and when the weather cleared, the operation began.
Description of Operation
This operation was so accurately predicted that the planes of each flight group were identified the night before. After the announcement of the numbers of the planes by the maintenance battalion, the pilots took their seats in the cabin one after the other, while the personnel of the maintenance battalion themselves did not know the details of this operation..
In this way, 10 F4 planes took off in complete radio silence. During this operation, radio silence was broken only twice. One during the flight, when each plane announced its number after taking off from the runway, and another time after the refueling operation, they announced a password.. After the flight of the Phantoms, they headed towards Lake Urmia and while the weather was cloudy, they collided with two 747 refueling tankers at low altitude, and the first stage of refueling was completed successfully after 20 minutes.. Then the phantoms flew to the border.
At the same time, two F-5 planes flew from Tabriz air base to Kirkuk refinery and bombed this refinery in a successful attack..
At this time, the Phantoms were near the border and at 6:58 am, upon reaching the zero point of the border, they were divided into two groups of 4 planes and 2 reserve planes returned.. ( A total of 8 planes, 6 Phantom E and 2 Phantom D entered Iraq ). At the same time, they inform the commander of the Iraqi defense that a number of unidentified planes have been seen on the border strip of Turkey, which he says belong to Turkey..
The Phantoms passed through the border town of Zakho at a low altitude and entered Iraqi territory in the form of 4 formations with a distance of 500 feet from each other.. At this time, they lowered their height to the lowest possible level and continued on their way to the border strip of Turkey.
In the extreme north-west of Iraq, the Phantoms were 90 miles away from the target, with the 707 fuel tankers, which had taken off from the Larnaca airport in Cyprus and from an airport in Turkey. reached, they collide and refuel from them at an altitude of 20,000 feet and fly again at a low altitude of about 30 meters from the ground and move towards the first land mark, which at this moment, according to Brigadier himself Bratpur (Operations leader) Their fighter's navigation devices fail, and when the position shown by the devices compares with the map, it does not show the real position, he talks to the rear cabin who was the radar control officer and says :
Brigadier Bratpur : Apparently my navigation device has a problem, can you tell me where your device is showing?
Rear cockpit pilot : (He says coldly) Tel Aviv.
Brigadier Bratpur: So let's go hit that place!
Rear cockpit pilot : (with a Shirazi accent) let's go!
In any case, after passing the last land mark, Brigadier Bratpur finds the main road and with his signal, one plane separates from each group of 4 phantoms and forms the third group.. Meanwhile, one of the pilots sees a defensive position that was not foreseen in the original map and attacks and destroys it because it would not be disturbed on the way back..
The planes reach the target
The first group under the command of Brigadier General Farhadpur attacks the first base at 7:45.
The second group attacks the second base at 7:50.
The third group under the command of Brigadier Bratpur towards the third base (Main ) Attacks While the third group had not yet reached the main base, the other two groups had finished their work because they were less far from this base.. The smoke caused by the explosion of airplanes and warehouses filled the entire space, and ground defenses and missiles fired at the enemy air from all sides to shoot down the phantoms.. Brigadier Bratpur seeing this situation, instead of attacking the third base from the predetermined route, he made a right turn to attack them from the opposite side, thus succeeding in surprising them..
The enemy's base was very well camouflaged, in such a way that even the color of the roof of the hangars was the color of the ground and the equipment was also well covered.. When the third group under the command of Brigadier Bratpur arrived at the base, the Iraqis, who did not think that the Iranian pilots had the courage and ability to attack there, were completely surprised.. They, who were busy with Zoomreh work, first thought that it was their own plane that was coming towards them, also because of the change of direction that was given, the tubes of their anti-aircraft cannons were also pointing in the opposite direction, and their so-called fire wall on the side there was another. When the phantoms reach the top of the base, they dive and drop all their bombs and turn the base into a hell of fire, so that in some places, due to the low height of the phantoms, the tongue of fire is as high as the planes. Receipt.

All the bombs are carefully dropped on the planes and hangars, destroying almost all the predetermined targets, then the Phantoms move away in the opposite direction.. At this stage, one of the planes was damaged by the pilot of Brigadier General Shahid Mahmoud Khazarai, who quickly withdrew from the battle.. On this return, Brigadier Bratpour noticed a truck carrying military cargo on the Iraq-Jordan international road, which was allegedly loaded from the port of Aqaba in Jordan and entered Iraq.. Immediately, he dives towards the trailer with the plane and targets and blows it up with the plane's machine gun. Then they immediately decrease the altitude and fly towards them after contacting the frequency of the contract with the fuel tankers..
At this moment fuel tankers in the same area (The western part of Iraq) At a low altitude and out of sight of the enemy's radar, they were patrolling and waiting for the phantoms until the third stage of refueling was done.. Brigadier Bratpur notices his plane's fuel for a moment and sees that it has reached its minimum and he does not see the tankers either, and this was because he had destroyed the trailer on the way back.. On the other hand, in order not to break the radio silence and to prevent the enemy from targeting himself and the other planes, trusting in God, he takes the route from which the fighter planes were supposed to reach the tankers and continues on his way until Finally, he sees one of the fuel tankers from a distance. At this moment, the plane's fuel had reached its minimum and he did not take his eyes off the tankers in order not to lose them.. Finally, with God's help, all the phantoms reached the refueling place and refueled with cold blood and caution. After the refueling was finished and all the tankers were refueled, the tankers immediately entered the territory of Turkey and returned to Iran via the Ankara-Tehran international route..

Phantom planes also returned to the homeland from the northern part of Iraq, on the border strip and from the same original route at full speed..
All-round pursuit by the enemy
Moments after this fatal blow, the enemy immediately launched a large number of interceptor fighter planes in order to intercept and shoot down the Iranian phantoms and prevent the phantom planes from returning in any way possible.. Brigadier General Bratpur reports that the two squadrons saw several landings and fortunately they could not intercept our planes..
While the Phantoms were approaching the border, their own F-5s and F-14s were waiting for them near the border, waiting for the Phantoms to come to their aid.. As the phantoms approached the border, another air strike was carried out on the common border so that the phantoms could easily enter Iran..
The eagles are back
Fortunately, the Phantoms were able to reach the border and all of them did the fourth refueling at the appointed place, and the Iraqis' attempt to shoot them down was unsuccessful..
After refueling, the phantoms all returned to Shahid Nojeh base in Hamedan. The maintenance personnel, who were informed about the attack in the last moments of the Phantoms' return, were talking excitedly about how this operation would work, and because they did not know anything about the details, they went to the deputy commander of the base and expressed their concern about the health of the group. They expressed a flight. The personnel of the base, who were stunned by the courageous actions of the pilots, impatiently waited for the return of all the pilots, counting the minutes.. Finally, the wheels of the first group of phantoms touch the airport runway and the personnel of the flight and maintenance battalion, with tears in their eyes that indicate the reunion of the pilots, and with the cry of Allahu Akbar and the sacrifice of a sheep, go to welcome them..
The flight had paid off. After flying for four hours and forty minutes at high speed and covering a distance of 1000 kilometers with four refueling times on the way back, the brave pilots had succeeded in making the impossible possible and inflicting a fatal blow on the Iraqi Air Force..
Operation results
After the operation, it became clear that the damages were more than expected:
– 48 fighter planes - bombers (including MiG 21 - MiG 23 - Sukhoi 20 - Sukhoi 22 - Tupolev 16 and Mirage ) destroyed or seriously damaged.
– 3 large hangars, 2 radars and several concrete shelters were completely destroyed.
After this proud operation, the Iraqi air defense commander was dismissed by Saddam. He was later executed, but Iraqi sources announced his suicide.
This operation had a great impact on the morale of the fighters of Islam, so that a few months later, the successful operation of Saman al-Aimah was carried out, and after that, the successful operation through Al-Quds and Jerusalem was carried out with complete success and again with the appropriate support of the Air Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran. became.

Meeting with Imam Khomeini

Three days after this operation, on 1/18/1360 without any ceremony, all the pilots participating in this operation in the presence of Imam Khomeini (way) they went.
The light of happiness and satisfaction on the Imam's face (way) It was clearly seen as one of the Imam's relatives said: They had never seen him so happy.
After the complete success of this operation, the Islamic Republic of Iran broadcasted the pilots' anthem for the first time in order to pay tribute to these brave men..
Swifts who later became celestial

We remember the eagles who participated in this operation and later attained the high degree of martyrdom:
Major General Shahid Hossein Khaltabari Makram
Brigadier General Shahid Mahmoud Khazarai pilot
Major pilot Shahid Ali Khosravi
Martyr pilot Major Abdullah Rezaei
Major pilot Shahid Poursarabi