The Ofira Air Battle was one of the first air battles of the Yom Kippur War. On 6 October 1973, Egypt launched a massive surprise attack on Israel that included over 200 Egyptian aircraft participating in an opening airstrike.

Egypt and Syria launched the Yom Kippur War in a coordinated attack that confronted the IAF with its harshest challenge to date. Denied permission for a pre-emptive strike, IAF fighters scrambled off the runways in defense of Israel's skies.

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, [43] the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria.

The air battle of Mansoura was an air battle that took place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War between the Egyptian Air Force (EAF) and the Israeli Air Force (IAF) near the town of El Mansoura, in the Nile Delta.

2019年2月28日 · Chapter three explores the impact of the Yom Kippur War on Air Force equipment, training and tactics—the means, and elements of the ways, of modern air warfare. The conflict catalyzed a...

Yom Kippur War, damaging war between Egypt, Syria, and Israel in October 1973. After years of sporadic fighting since 1967, Egypt and Syria launched a full-scale assault, overwhelming Israel before U.S. support helped Israel turn the tide. The war led Israel to negotiate on terms more favorable to the Arab countries.

On October 6, 1973 — Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar (and during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan) — Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe was mobilized on Israel’s borders.

Bill Cross reviews Sholmo Aloni's book about the air battles in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Introduction. In 1967, Israel turned an attack by Egypt, Syria, and Jordan into a crushing defeat that humiliated these countries, and left them seething with resentment and a …

1998年10月1日 · On the former, the first day of the Six-Day War, the IAF immediately established air superiority when it struck 25 Egyptian airfields, damaging or destroying approximately 350 enemy aircraft.141 On the latter, the first day of the Yom Kippur War, the IAF lost 30 aircraft, 65 percent of the total lost during the entire previous war, by ...

2016年10月12日 · This article will elaborate on the military aspects of the Yom Kippur War and its aftermath in three unequal parts. A brief prelude will review the war concepts of the opponents and show specifically the critical role that surprise played in them; it will go on to show how Israel was caught by surprise, and conclude by describ-