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Egyptian air force MiG-21 (note air speed boom lower left) makes a strafing attack on the Israeli air field at Ras Nasrani at the extreme southern end of Sinai near Sharm al Sheik in photos above. Attack was made as part of opening Egyptian offensive on afternoon of Oct. 6, 1973. Note three Israeli air force Mirage fighters parked(arrows along taxiway in the open (above). MiG-21 gun camera sight centers on two Mirages scrambling down runway for takeoff (circles) while bombs from other EAF strike planes explode on airfield. |
Offense, Defense Tested in 1973 War
By Robert Hotz
Cairo-Egyptian air force mounted one
major offensive battle in the October, 1973, War and then fought a series of
defensive battles to parry the offensive thrusts of the Israeli air force.
Pilot Rescue Cairo-Egyptian air defence commaners are puzzled by an episode that occurred late in the October, 1973, War when an Israeli Phantom was shot down in Sinai and the pilot ejected and parachuted safely into no-man's land between the two armies. The Egyptians routinely sent a jeep and two soldiers to pick up the pilot and were driving back toward their lines when an Israeli helicopter appeared. It disgorged a commando team who captured the Egyptians, spirited the pilot into an armored personnel carrier and sped off. "They never made that much of an effort for any other pilot during the whole war," an Egyptian commander noted. "it must have been very important to them. Could it have been one of their American pilots?" |
C-97 Shot Down Cairo-Egyptian air defence force concealed its newly developed capabilities until the outbreak of war on Oct. 6, 1973, despite constant Israeli air force 'robes to test them. Sole exception was the shooting down of an Israeli air force Boeing C-97, equipped as an electronic intelligence snooper, during regular atternoon patrol along the Suez Canal over Israeli-occupied Sinai. The flint aircraft was shot down by surface-to-air SA-2 missiles at a range of 17 ml. inside Sinai on Sept. t 7, 1971. Israel said it was an unarmed transport. |
“Aviation Week & Space Technology” , vol.103, No.1 от 1975.
Статью прислал В.Михалин