During 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, there were many dogfights between Syrian and Israeli jet fighters. In the end, the Syrians reportedly lost over 80 fighter planes and had quite a number of SAM Batteries knocked out as well, while the Israelis lost no planes at all.
Sometime later, Syria's Defense Minister visited Moscow, Russia again to shop for more weapons to rebuild their arsenal. His host, the Soviet Defense Minister, was quite embarrassed about Lebanon's poor military scorecard as a result of the inferior weaponry previously sold to them.
So he told his Syrian guest, "Go ahead and take anything you want. You can have our best tanks, rifles and Surface-to-Air Missiles."
"No! No!" remarked the Syrian Defense Minister, "You don't understand. Last time, you gave us Surface-to-Air Missiles. This time around, make sure you provide us Surface-to-Jet missiles!"
