The 130 mm coastal artillery elements represent the last line of defense for the Egyptian coasts (after warships, missile launchers and coastal defense missile batteries) against enemy attempts to advance towards the shores to carry out amphibious landings.
Self-propelled artillery elements can also be used to provide the required support against the enemy's amphibious landing elements, such as missile artillery, for example, to carry out surveying operations with missiles loaded with cluster warheads, infantry and armored gatherings on the beaches.
Egyptian coastal defense systems
The Egyptian coastal defense is one of the striking forces of the Egyptian Navy and consists of the coastal artillery and missile forces that are used in the direct defense of the sea coast. The Egyptian Navy owns a variety of coastal defense systems as follows:
Rubez system: coastal anti-ship defense
It is a Soviet system of origin that dates back to the 1960s and was used by the Egyptian Komar missile boats to sink the Israeli destroyer Eilat on October 21, 1967 off the coast of Port Said.
Egypt has many Russian, Chinese and Egyptian versions of it, where the Russian version is distinguished by the use of P-15 missiles and SS-N-2A missiles, which have a range of up to 40 kilometers.
China copied the Soviet system and produced many versions of it, and Egypt used three different Chinese versions of this system. (The HY-2 version, which has a range of 80 km / and the updated HY-2A-II version, which has a range of 100 km), the HY-2B version and the updated HY-2B-II version with a thermal seeker and a range of 130 km.
Egypt has worked on manufacturing this version with improved capabilities, including increasing the range, accuracy of injury, warhead and electronic anti-jamming system, and it was named HY-4.
This system operates across coastal platforms or from aboard ships or aircraft, unlike the offensive range of more than 230 km and the extremely low altitude of up to 8 meters above sea level before hitting the target in the last phase of flight.
Exocet coastal defense system
It is a French anti-ship system produced by the French company MBDA. The system is designed to strike small, medium and above-medium naval vessels as missile launchers, corvettes and frigates. The system also has a high impact on larger ships such as destroyers and aircraft carriers.
The Exost missile, when launched, relies on the inertial navigation system based on the coordinates previously received from the launch pad, and then activates its active radar seeker in the last stage to locate and hit the target. The missile flies at a very low altitude, not exceeding two meters above sea level, and is characterized by its low radar cross-section, and its high speed of 1,134 km per hour, which negatively affects the ability of hostile radars to monitor it from sufficient distances, before hitting the target.
The missile has a range of 180 km. The system consists of a vehicle with radar and thermal sensors, a command and control vehicle, and two vehicles carrying missile launchers, each carrying 4 missiles with a total of 8 missiles.
Automata coastal defense system
It is an anti-ship system produced jointly by Italy and France with a range of 180 km.
When an Automata missile is launched, it rises to 80 meters, then drops to a height of only 20 meters, and remains at this height until it reaches the specified target.
During the intermediate flight stage, the missile is guided by inertia, and relies on the altimeter radar to maintain its altitude above the surface of the water.
As for the final stage of flight, it uses a radar seeker mounted at the head of the missile, which does not start working except at a distance of 12 km from the specified target.
Just five kilometers before hitting the target, the missile rises to a height of 175 meters, to attack the target from the vertical direction, which is usually less armored.
Bastion coastal defense system
It is a Russian coastal defense system armed with Yakhont anti-ship missiles.
Egypt contracted this system in 2015 as part of the comprehensive replacement and development plan that is being implemented.
One system can protect 600 km of coastline and secure a marine area of 100,000 km², with the ability to engage marine targets up to 300 km.
The number of missile launchers in the system can reach a maximum of 18 vehicles, each of which is equipped with two vertical missile launchers, with a total of 36 missiles of the system with the ability to engage 24 targets in simultaneous launch mode.
The maximum range of the Yakhont missile reaches 300 km and has a warhead weighing 200 kg, and its maximum speed reaches 2700 km / h. hostile bases, giving the missile an additional ability to strike radar-operating coastal installations and bases.