Model 5
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Model 5 (Hebrew: דוגמן 5, Doogman 5) is the name of an Israeli Air Force operation, and the common name for the ensuing anti-aircraft battle, which took place over the Syrian Golan on the October 7th, 1973, the 2nd day of the Yom HaKipurim War.
Model 5 was preplanned as a sweeping operation to destroy all of the Syrian surface-to-air missiles batteries in the Golan front, by using unguided, general use bombs dropped from a medium altitude near the targets. The attacking airplanes were to approach the targets at a very low altitude, in order to avoid being detected by ground radars (especially fire control radars and such radars as Flat Face and Long Track, used for target search by SAM regiments).
Due to lack of updated intelligence, that is, reliance on outdated IMINT and suffering from an underdeveloped ELINT\ESM infrastructure, the Israeli aircraft did not find their targets, because those SAM batteries had alreay hopped to other places.
The outcome of Model 5 was catastrophic for the Israeli side: 4 F-4 Phantom aircraft were lost over Syria and 2 other F-4s were badly damaged but returned to Ramat David. Most of the damaged aircraft were hit by ZSU-23∙4 air defense artillery guns, which became so deadly due to the sortie's very low altitude. 8 aircrewmen were captured by the Syrians.
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