Editing Six-Day War (section)

==== Initial response ====
Shortly before 12:30&nbsp;pm, the [[Israeli Air Force]] attacked Jordan's two airbases. The Hawker Hunters were refueling at the time of the attack. The Israeli aircraft attacked in two waves, the first of which cratered the runways and knocked out the control towers, and the second wave destroyed all 21 of Jordan's Hawker Hunter fighters, along with six transport aircraft and two helicopters. One Israeli jet was shot down by ground fire.{{Sfnp|Oren|2002|pp=187–188}}

Three Israeli [[Sud Aviation Vautour|Vautours]] also attacked [[H-3 Air Base|H-3]], an airfield in western Iraq used by the [[Iraqi Air Force]]. During the attack, three MiG-21s, one Hunter, one [[de Havilland Dove]] and one [[Antonov An-12]] were destroyed on the ground. They also damaged the runway, although it was repaired by the next morning.<ref>{{harvnb|Sipos|Cooper|2020|pages=67-68}}</ref> The Jordanian radar facility at [[Ajloun]] was also destroyed in an Israeli airstrike.{{Sfnp|Oren|2002|pp=187–188}}

Israeli [[Fouga Magister]] jets attacked the Jordanian 40th Brigade with rockets as it moved south from the [[Damia Bridge]]. Dozens of tanks were knocked out, and a convoy of 26 trucks carrying ammunition was destroyed. In Jerusalem, Israel responded to Jordanian shelling with a missile strike that devastated Jordanian positions. The Israelis used the L missile, a [[surface-to-surface]] missile developed jointly with [[France]] in secret.{{Sfnp|Oren|2002|pp=187–188}}

The next morning, three Iraqi Hawker Hunters attacked a group of tanks in the process of refueling next to the road between [[Nazareth]] and [[Haifa]]. An Iraqi [[Tupolev Tu-16]] also bombed a military installation 10 kilometers southeast of [[Afula]], killing two Israeli soldiers, while another attacked [[Netanya]] and [[Ramat David Airbase]], before being shot down near the Megiddo airfield. The aircraft crashed into a military storage complex hidden in a forest, killing its crew and 16 Israeli soldiers.<ref name="GSHaaretz" /> Four Israeli Vautours escorted by two Mirages re-attacked the H-3 airfield, resulting in one Hunter crashing on take-off, and a Hunter and a MiG-21 being damaged in air combat.<ref>{{harvnb|Sipos|Cooper|2020|pages=69-72}}</ref>

On 7 June, four Vautours escorted by four Mirages attacked the H-3 airfield for the third time. This resulted in an air combat with Hunters, piloted by Iraqis, as well as a Jordanian and Pakistani pilot [[Saiful Azam]]. One Iraqi Hunter was shot down and its pilot killed, while the Israelis lost two Vautours and one Mirage, with three crewmen dead and two taken prisoner.<ref name="GSHaaretz">{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/2002-09-20/ty-article/the-gathering-storm/0000017f-dede-d856-a37f-ffde638c0000|title=The Gathering Storm|work=Haaretz|date=20 September 2002|first=Amir|last=Oren|quote=A pilot and two navigators were killed, and two pilots - Gideon Dror and Yitzhak Golan - were taken prisoner. |ref=none}}</ref>