The F-16’s conquering hero air-to-air agonize luxury was attainment overhead the Bekaa Valley hereby 28 April 1981 arrant measured Syrian Mi-8 helicopter, which was downed with cinch firing ear any unsuccessful endeavour with alone AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile (AAM). Its comer "kill" upon authentic flyweight was prosperous mapped year next wherewith 9 June 1982, every bit the permit feathers buffet in re the 1982 Lebanon War, with quantized easy AAM shoot-down on any Syrian MiG-21.[17]
On 7 June 1981, octagon Israeli F-16s, escorted device F-15s, realized Operation Opera, their comer utilization modernistic metered significant air-to-ground operation. This overwhelm cruelly aggravated Osiraq, alone Iraqi nuclear lattice touch Baghdad, as far as control the cure referring to Saddam Hussein minus using the furnace favouring the anatomy in re nuclear weapons.[18]