FLYING Arab ACES (1967 - 1973)

[The SC]

A pilot who scored 5 air victories is awarded the ACE title


Egyptian Air force:

Ahmed Al Mansoori scored 6 wins with the MiG-15 and MiG-21

Ali Wajdi scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Sami Merhi scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Samir Aziz Mikhail achieved 5 wins with the MiG-21

Hussein Sami scored 5 wins with the MiG-21


Syrian Air force:

Fayez Mansour, from the city of Homs, won 14 wins with MiG-17 and MiG-21 aircraft

Bassam Hamsho from Idlib achieved 7 wins with the MiG-21

Adeeb Al-Jarf from Deir Al-Zour achieved 7 wins with the MiG-21

Majed Zoghbi from Damascus scored 7 wins with the MiG-21

Majad Halabi from the city of Aleppo achieved 6 wins with the MiG-21

Gohar Obaid from Tartus scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Mohamed Mansour from Daraa scored 5 wins with the MiG-21


Mig-15

Mig-17

The Egyptians engineered additional hard-points to carry bombs under the fuselage which were very type specific to their aircraft as seen in the photo below:

In addition wing-mounted rails equipped with unguided 76mm SAKR rockets were also an Egyptian indigenous design. These should appear on most Egyptian "17"s.

Mig-21

Arab Fighters circa 1967

 

[Sage]

A pilot who scored 5 air victories is awarded the ACE title


Egyptian Air force:

Ahmed Al Mansoori scored 6 wins with the MiG-15 and MiG-21

Ali Wajdi scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Sami Merhi scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Samir Aziz Mikhail achieved 5 wins with the MiG-21

Hussein Sami scored 5 wins with the MiG-21


Syrian Air force:

Fayez Mansour, from the city of Homs, won 14 wins with MiG-17 and MiG-21 aircraft

Bassam Hamsho from Idlib achieved 7 wins with the MiG-21

Adeeb Al-Jarf from Deir Al-Zour achieved 7 wins with the MiG-21

Majed Zoghbi from Damascus scored 7 wins with the MiG-21

Majad Halabi from the city of Aleppo achieved 6 wins with the MiG-21

Gohar Obaid from Tartus scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Mohamed Mansour from Daraa scored 5 wins with the MiG-21


Mig-15

Mig-17

The Egyptians engineered additional hard-points to carry bombs under the fuselage which were very type specific to their aircraft as seen in the photo below:

In addition wing-mounted rails equipped with unguided 76mm SAKR rockets were also an Egyptian indigenous design. These should appear on most Egyptian "17"s.

Mig-21

Arab Fighters circa 1967

What an amazing post ....There was a trailer of a good Egyptian movie about their air raid on Israel ....wish someone could post the link for that as well ....

 

[CrazyZ]

Good post. Too many folks on PDF make stereo typical comments about Arab pilots. This is just wrong headed. The Arab air forces have in general followed bad strategies and had technical limitations, but that does not mean they didn't have any good pilots. I believe if Egypt had a stronger air force in 1973, they would have won decisively.

 

[The SC]

What an amazing post ....There was a trailer of a good Egyptian movie about their air raid on Israel ....wish someone could post the link for that as well ....

This is the movie as such..

 

[Sage]

Not this one ...It was like a movie...

 

[The SC]

Not this one ...It was like a movie...

I found it for you..look at post #4 again..

 

[The SC]

There is also the movie .."Ababil"

 

[ezerdi2]

When the october war started Algeria deployed two sqns, one of mig21 based in Libya and one of Mig17 The egyptians installed SURA rocket pods on the algerian Frescos. AAF engaged Su-7BMK for CAS

the only MIG which had penetrated the Israeli space, it was 1 MIG.17 # Algerian which indeed had pricked on the center of Tel Aviv and ended up crashing in full city center
2nd MIG.17 was hit by 1 Phantom (the pilot ejected to not be captured)

 

[Trango Towers]

A pilot who scored 5 air victories is awarded the ACE title


Egyptian Air force:

Ahmed Al Mansoori scored 6 wins with the MiG-15 and MiG-21

Ali Wajdi scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Sami Merhi scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Samir Aziz Mikhail achieved 5 wins with the MiG-21

Hussein Sami scored 5 wins with the MiG-21


Syrian Air force:

Fayez Mansour, from the city of Homs, won 14 wins with MiG-17 and MiG-21 aircraft

Bassam Hamsho from Idlib achieved 7 wins with the MiG-21

Adeeb Al-Jarf from Deir Al-Zour achieved 7 wins with the MiG-21

Majed Zoghbi from Damascus scored 7 wins with the MiG-21

Majad Halabi from the city of Aleppo achieved 6 wins with the MiG-21

Gohar Obaid from Tartus scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Mohamed Mansour from Daraa scored 5 wins with the MiG-21


Mig-15

Mig-17

The Egyptians engineered additional hard-points to carry bombs under the fuselage which were very type specific to their aircraft as seen in the photo below:

In addition wing-mounted rails equipped with unguided 76mm SAKR rockets were also an Egyptian indigenous design. These should appear on most Egyptian "17"s.

Mig-21

Arab Fighters circa 1967

Well finally a post worth reading about the arabs. Welldone. Better than the regular bs drama

 

[Kompromat]

More details please

 

[The SC]

More details please

... On the second day of the fighting, Algerian Mig-21s which had been rushed to the battle area, made several surprise attacks, mainly on the coastal sector in the north of Sinai...
David Eshel - 1978 - ‎Extraits from "The Israeli air force" book

 

[Gomig-21]

A pilot who scored 5 air victories is awarded the ACE title


Egyptian Air force:

Ahmed Al Mansoori scored 6 wins with the MiG-15 and MiG-21

Ali Wajdi scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Sami Merhi scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Samir Aziz Mikhail achieved 5 wins with the MiG-21

Hussein Sami scored 5 wins with the MiG-21

Two of those guys were actually Egyptian Coptic Christians; Samir Mikhail and Al Mansoori who was a rare, blue-eyed Egyptian. He was allowed a private viewing of the first MiG-35 arrive in Egypt after it was all tucked away in its hangar.

But he and his wingman's sortie against 6 Israeli F-4 Phantoms over the Gulf of Suez in 1970 (I believe that's the year) was the highlight of his career. The radio call between him and his wingman is hair-raising to listen to. It also included ground control warning since that was the way the MiG-21 operated at the time when they were issued an interception. They relied a lot on ground control for enemy intrusions and vectoring etc. His MiG-21 is in the museum now if I'm not mistaken.

This was the newspaper article the next day after the shootdown of the Israeli Phantoms over the Gulf. I think 2 were shot down and the rest were forced to flee. They barely had enough fuel left in their 21's to get back, essentially on fumes and IIRC, his wingman was forced to land on a highway and crashed and died. Maybe @Amun can correct me if I got the story wrong.

Some other great images of some of the dog-fighting and bombardments during the October war of 1973.

The interesting and ironical aspect of this photograph below is that the Egyptian pilots started using the Israeli techniques on them. During the war of attrition, the Israelis would draw Egyptian fighters with decoys and set them up while another group of fighters flying below radar would pounce on them. The same technique was used on the Israelis in 1973 and here's an example of it. Once the enemy is on your tail, you're not concentrating on the one in front of you anymore.

 

[Amun]

Two of those guys were actually Egyptian Coptic Christians; Samir Mikhail and Al Mansoori who was a rare, blue-eyed Egyptian. He was allowed a private viewing of the first MiG-35 arrive in Egypt after it was all tucked away in its hangar.

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But he and his wingman's sortie against 6 Israeli F-4 Phantoms over the Gulf of Suez in 1970 (I believe that's the year) was the highlight of his career. The radio call between him and his wingman is hair-raising to listen to. It also included ground control warning since that was the way the MiG-21 operated at the time when they were issued an interception. They relied a lot on ground control for enemy intrusions and vectoring etc. His MiG-21 is in the museum now if I'm not mistaken.

This was the newspaper article the next day after the shootdown of the Israeli Phantoms over the Gulf. I think 2 were shot down and the rest were forced to flee. They barely had enough fuel left in their 21's to get back, essentially on fumes and IIRC, his wingman was forced to land on a highway and crashed and died. Maybe @Amun can correct me if I got the story wrong.

Some other great images of some of the dog-fighting and bombardments during the October war of 1973.

The interesting and ironical aspect of this photograph below is that the Egyptian pilots started using the Israeli techniques on them. During the war of attrition, the Israelis would draw Egyptian fighters with decoys and set them up while another group of fighters flying below radar would pounce on them. The same technique was used on the Israelis in 1973 and here's an example of it. Once the enemy is on your tail, you're not concentrating on the one in front of you anymore.

Yes my dear friend ..... they were 6 Israeli F-4 phantoms against Emansouri and his wing man Hassan ..... it was in Feb 1973 before October/Ramadan war ....
Also it was one of the longest dog fights ever .... till MANSOURA AIR BATTLE ....which was the longest dog fight ever happened since WWII between hundreds of Egyptian and Israeli fighters.

 

[Sage]

Excellent stuff guys ...Bravo

There is also the movie .."Ababil"

Can you share the link, plz.

 

[The SC]

Excellent stuff guys ...Bravo


Can you share the link, plz.