Originally posted by: Aegion
Originally posted by: MadRat
The reverse engineering never took place. Isreal scientists and missile specialists changed out the bootstrap, fire control and fusing parts in their Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles to make them operational. They never did get the Pheonix missiles operational.
Unless this is some really wacky conspiracy theory, I think you mean
Iranian scientists.
No, Isrealis did the changes to the Iranian equipment. Isreal wanted Iran very much to resist Iraq at that time. Iraq had resorted to the chemical weapons offenses which pretty well neutralized Iran's numeric superiority. If Iraq would have been allowed to deliver the same weapons into Iranian cities, not just to the front, then we'd all seen a rush by Iran to a dirty nuclear weapon or worse.