Sergio wrote:
Did you identify them ?
YESIsraeli fighter jets involved in a military drill with the Cyprus National Guard prompted minor panic in Paphos on Monday morning with some residents mistaking them for Turkish warplanes.
A total of 24 Israeli F-15 and F-16 fighter jets took part in scheduled Onisilos-Gedeon military exercise that saw the fighters streaming between Paphos and Stavros tis Psokas in the Troodos Mountains.
It was however the low overhead flights between the Andreas Papandreou air force base and Peyia that brought out most Paphos residents into the streets and nerves were only settled later when the Defence Ministry announced the exercise.
While the Cyprus-Israeli drills are taking place, the Turkish navy is continuing naval manoeuvres with live ammunition just 30 nautical miles south-east of Paphos and well within Cyprus territorial waters – an act which has been reported to the relevant international bodies and organisations including the United Nations by the Cyprus government.
This is the first scheduled joint military exercise held between Cyprus and Israel this year and is scheduled to finish on Wednesday.
The last few years have seen increased military cooperation and joint exercises between Israel and Cyprus within the framework closer military ties between the two countries giving the National Guard personnel much needed anti-aircraft and radar training within realistic scenarios.
http://in-cyprus.com/paphos-panics-as-israeli-jets-buzz-the-town/As an aside Sergio, I am super impressed that you can identify the nationality of a fighter jet by the sound of its engines