Operation Mole Cricket 19

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air campaign military operation

Operation Mole Cricket 19 was a 1982 Israeli Air Force air campaign that decisively destroyed Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, establishing Israeli air superiority early in the Lebanon War.

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Label	Occurrences
Operation Mole Cricket 19 canonical	2

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	air campaign ⓘ military operation ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Bekaa Valley Turkey Shoot NERFINISHED ⓘ
belligerent	Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ
conductedBy	Israeli Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ
conflict	1982 Lebanon War NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Israel ⓘ
date	1982-06-09 ⓘ
influence	development of modern SEAD doctrine ⓘ global air power and electronic warfare tactics ⓘ
involved	Israeli UAV units ⓘ Israeli electronic intelligence units ⓘ Israeli fighter squadrons ⓘ Syrian Air Force fighter units NERFINISHED ⓘ Syrian SAM brigades NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	Bekaa Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	extensive use of UAVs for decoy and reconnaissance ⓘ integration of electronic warfare and air power ⓘ large-scale coordinated SEAD operation ⓘ
objective	destruction of Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries in the Bekaa Valley ⓘ
opponent	Syrian Air Defense Force NERFINISHED ⓘ
outcome	heavy losses for Syrian air defenses ⓘ minimal Israeli aircraft losses ⓘ
partOf	1982 Lebanon War NERFINISHED ⓘ
precededBy	initial Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon in 1982 ⓘ
result	Israeli air superiority over Lebanon ⓘ decisive Israeli victory ⓘ destruction of most Syrian SAM batteries in the Bekaa Valley ⓘ suppression of Syrian air defenses ⓘ
target	Syrian SA-6 SAM batteries NERFINISHED ⓘ Syrian command and control facilities ⓘ Syrian radar sites ⓘ
theater	Middle East NERFINISHED ⓘ
typeOfWarfare	Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses ⓘ air superiority campaign ⓘ
usedAsset	E-2C Hawkeye NERFINISHED ⓘ F-15 Eagle NERFINISHED ⓘ F-16 Fighting Falcon NERFINISHED ⓘ Kfir fighter aircraft NERFINISHED ⓘ UAV reconnaissance drones ⓘ
usedCapability	airborne early warning and control ⓘ electronic warfare ⓘ precision-guided munitions ⓘ unmanned aerial vehicles ⓘ
year	1982 ⓘ

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Operation Mole Cricket 19
Description of subject: Operation Mole Cricket 19 was a 1982 Israeli Air Force air campaign that decisively destroyed Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, establishing Israeli air superiority early in the Lebanon War.

Referenced by (2)

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Israeli Air Force → notableOperation → Operation Mole Cricket 19 ⓘ

Bekaa Valley air battles → alsoKnownAs → Operation Mole Cricket 19 ⓘ