Doma I v Zamori některé zahraniční mise čs. letectva v 50. a 60. letech. Akce 103/106/117/122 // At home and abroad - some foreign missions of the Czechoslovak Air Force in the 1950s and 1960s

The foreign military and aviation activities of the Czechoslovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as the Czechoslovak Republic), which began in 1948 in relation to the newly established state of Israel, are now sufficiently well known. At that time, however, it was only about trade, without the direct participation of the Czechoslovak Air Force personnel. This campaign, known under the code name "Action DI", ended in 1950. In July of that year, the MNO issued a ban on any export of military material to Israel, although Israel's interest in further trade remained. Although this activity brought significant foreign exchange benefits to the state treasury, political reasons prevailed. Our and the Soviet leadership expected that aid to Israel would help strengthen the influence of the Communist Party of Israel, which might be able to take over power in the country and thus incorporate it into the sphere of Soviet influence. However, this did not happen, the Israeli communists were completely defeated in the elections in January 1949, and so neither our nor the Soviet parties were interested in further aid. For Czechoslovak foreign policy and trade, Israel was moved to the opposite side of the barricade for 40 years, and five years later, Czechoslovak air missions were already helping Arab countries in their efforts to retaliate for the defeat in the war for Israel's independence and to liquidate the state of Israel. The economic effect was probably also significant (for example, Egypt in 1955-1959 purchased 110 S-103 aircraft (licensed MiG-15bis from our production) for 400,000 USD each, i.e. 2,880,000 CZK according to the exchange rate at the time, while the Czechoslovak military administration paid less than a million CZK each. In addition, 42 UTI Mig-15 jets), so it is not surprising that these activities gradually spread to other states. Probably the largest scale was recorded since 1957 by Action 103 - military aid to Indonesia.