Originally Posted by
tonker
How can a country the size of Isreal put out an operation with 200 combat aircraft ,when the RAF say it’s impossible to crew such a fleet with a population nearing 70 million?
Time and time again I keep hearing “yeah but who will crew them” be it for the airforce or the navy etc. What are they doing we aren’t?
Citizens of Israel have compulsory military service so they all have to do a few years. Also, they've already been on a war footing
for a few years so their available reserve forces would be quite large.