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Operation Opera: Israeli strike on the Osirak reactor

Name: Operation Opera: Israeli strike on the Osirak reactor
Start: 1981-06-07

June 7, 1981

Eight Israeli F-16s, escorted by six F-15s, executed the strike against the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor.

Sources: Encyclopædia Universalis — 7-23 juin 1981 : raid israélien contre le réacteur nucléaire irakien Osirak