OK, I think you are confusing the MiG-25 Foxbat and the MiG-23 Flogger, completely different aircraft with completely different roles.
I had a look at
http://backfiretu-22m.tripod.com/id11.html ... an anonymous website.
It is generally accepted that during Operation Peace for the Galilee and the 1982 Lebanon War, the IAF downed approximately 90 Syrian Migs without loss.
A good article was the one published by Aerospace Power Journal (Winter 1989):
The BEKAA Valley Air Battle. You can find a copy at
http://www.pakdef.info/forum/archive/in ... -8588.htmlThis is an extract:
Quote:
Reports of what happened next vary. It is generally accepted that in the course of the first attack against the Bekaa an 9 June 1982, the IAF destroyed 17 of the 19 Syrian SAM batteries and their radar sites, as well as 29 Syrian Air Force (SAF) fighters, without loss. The following day, the IAF destroyed the remaining two missile batteries. The SAF once more challenged the Israelis and lost approximately 35 more aircraft, again without downing an Israeli aircraft. By the end of July, Syria had lost at least 87 aircraft, while Israeli losses amounted to a few helicopters, one RF-4E, and an A-4 Skyhawk downed by a PLO SA-7.
Naturally, Arab claims differed from Western and Israeli accounts. The Syrian news agency SANA claimed that 19 Israeli and 14 Syrian planes had been downed on 9 June. The next day, the Syrians maintained that six Israeli and seven Syrian aircraft had been destroyed, while no mention was made on either day of any damage to their SAMS. The Soviets went even further in extolling the SAF's combat virtues: the military newspaper Red Star announced triumphantly that "sixty-seven Israeli aircraft, including modern US-made F-15 and F-16 fighters, were downed" in the fighting. Further Soviet reports included an account in Red Star about a meeting with a Syrian airman who eagerly recounted an engagement in which he shot down an Israeli F-15: "The victory had not been easy; the enemy had been subtle."
These claims met with great skepticism, even within Soviet ranks. After the Bekaa Valley debacle, for example, a story circulated around the Soviet military about how the Syrian Air Force maintained a departure control but no approach control. Even the Syrians themselves privately admitted defeat. After the Bekaa turkey shoot, Gen Mustafa Tlas, the defense minister, told President Hafez Assad and other government leaders that "the Syrian Air Force was outclassed, the ground-to-air missiles useless, and that without air cover, the army could not fight on." Indeed, it seems a bit odd that the Soviets would celebrate a great Syrian victory by sending the first deputy commander of the Soviet air defense forces to find out what went wrong. It seems even stranger that they would conclude that a new SAM system of SA-8s, SA-9s, and long-range SA-5s was necessary, manned by some 1,000 to 1,500 Soviet "advisers."
Wikipedia, to which any person can contribute, states at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force Quote:
During the 1982 Lebanon War, IAF planes destroyed many Syrian air defences (most of them in Operation Mole Cricket 19) and shot down 100 Syrian aircraft without losing a single fighter plane in an air to air combat.
From
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Israeli:Air:Force.htmQuote:
During 1982 Operation Peace for Galilee, IAF warplans destroyed the Syrian air defence without a single fighter lost and shot down Syrian aircraft
I very much doubt any F-16 has been shot down by another fighter in air combat.
I stongly suggest that you review your research sources. Anonymous websites, particularly the free ones, are not a good source of info. Compare that information with other sources, ones that are published, independant, open to scrutiny and who disclose their sources.
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the Gripen has been incorporated with double rail launchers which can use both Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground weapons thus increasing the missile carrying capacity and not forgetting a gun which is more than capable of shooting down an a/c.