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It's time for another game! Elusive Victory provides a wide range of scenarios. This time it will be a short one, a harassing raid by the EAF against the newly established forward air field Refidim of the IAF: EV4 Alert Five.

The plan is simple: Hit the airfields three installations, runway, control tower and revetments, and then get back over the Suez to friendly territory. With the limited amount of available MiGs, I choose to go with 3 strike flights, 2 composed of 2 MiG-17s and 1 of 3 MiG-17s.

The picture shows the composition of the three flights on the EAF planning air field. Al-Jindi goes for the control tower with 2 MiG-17, Shararah against the revements also with 2 Frescos, and finally al-Masiri with 3 planes is tasked to bomb the runway. There are also two dummy flights around to confuse the IAF.

The flight plan is simple: Cross the Suez at Kibrit between the Great and Little Bitter Lake. The continue east to the Jiddi Pass, turn north, commence the bomb run and after turning west head back to the Suez channel between Missouri and Chinese Farm, passing by El Tasa on the way back.

The target area looks like this: A medium Flak blocks the valley just west of Rifidim. A couple of Mirage III CJ are ready on the runway and just wait for a sign of an incoming EAF raid.

It is 18:00 hours, 10th October 1967. The sky is bright and weather is excellent. The EAF raid forms west of Kibrit and heads over the water on the deck to enter enemy air space. A few minutes into the Sinai peninsular and the raid gets informed that an IAF is airborne out of Refidim. While pressing on with dash speed, the MiG-17 are still caught just where the rough

area leading to the Jiddi pass starts. An eager pair of Mirage III CJ is quick to engage the middle flight of Frescos. While the Mirage spends their guns in the engagement, the EAF flight al-Jindi does take no hits at all. But panicked the barely trained pilots decide to unload their bombs on the desert and head home.