The Fighter With a Perfect Record That Terrified the USSR

In June 1982, a Soviet delegation flew secretly to Damascus to investigate numbers that couldn't possibly be true: over 80 Syrian MiGs shot down in one week — against zero Israeli losses. At the center of the massacre was the F-15 Eagle. This documentary tells the story from the Soviet side: how the F-15 was born from the West's panic over the MiG-25, why its look-down radar abolished the sanctuary that Soviet doctrine was built on, the Bekaa Valley disaster in detail, the crash programs (MiG-29, Su-27) it forced, and how one aircraft's perfect record became evidence in the Soviet military's loss of confidence in its own future. CHAPTERS 00:00 The delegation to Damascus 04:00 The maximal machine (born from the Foxbat panic) 08:00 Bekaa Valley: 82-0 12:00 What the fear cost an empire #f15 #coldwar #aviation