Sunday, March 15, 2026

Egypt preparing to take the Suez Peninsula up to SAM limit 1973

Currently reading the memoir by Chief of Staff El Shazly written in London's exile and published in the US in 1980. Though proud to have spearheaded the first proper invasion of Israel, the author was even more prescient with respect to electronic air warfare.

The "Week of the Falling Aircraft" ... 

had ushered in the era of missile-vs-aircraft. And it was already clear that victory in any such conflict would go to whoever happened to have more sophisticated electronic detection, jamming and counter-jamming devices. --El Shazly, p.15


Cf. https://archive.org/details/crossingofsuez0000shaz