Yom Kippur War 1973: The Egyptian Revenge

[totach7]

My editing from Yom Kippur 1973 war

IDF ARMOR

 

[ARSENAL6]

Egyptians aren't Arabs...

Yeah there're Pharos building Pyramid, who walk side ways and by chance speak Arabic !

 

[S-2]

Sadat's decision to attack out of the Egyptian enclave carved out along the east bank was politically-driven by Syrian pleas for assistance to pressure the Israelis.

The Syrians, with great bravery and less skill, were smashed by elements of two Israeli armor-heavy brigades who stood toe-to-toe with the Syrian and duked it out in day-night combat that was unceasing in its ferocity.

It was a ballsy fight with no quarter given or taken on the Golan. Unmatched by either Kursk or DESERT STORM because the Israelis certainly lost the best parts of both brigades but gave back even more. The relatively short frontage created huge numbers of modern MBTs fighting one another but the Syrians ended up stacked upon one another and simply couldn't penetrate into the valley behind the Israeli tankers. There was no room for Israeli retreat. It was DIP (defend in place) or more euphemistically known as die-in-place. And so they fought...and died but bought time for Israeli reserve divisions to slowly muster, come forth and eventually counterattack into Syria.

Whether you hate the Israelis or otherwise, it was an epic defense of the highest order against incredible odds on the Golan. In the Sinai, a different story where the IDF, both ground and air initially fought without heed to the development of Soviet anti-tank and SAM capabilities.

Had Israel better understood or appreciated the ATGW threat, they possessed the means to neutralize such. Their artillery was quite capable but underutilized. Both HE and WP/HC smoke would have served them well but their battle-plan didn't fully integrate these fires as they should have been.

Neither did they use artillery in SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) well. SAM-2 and SAM-3 sites were invulnerable to this type of attack by virtue of their distance from the front but, certainly, both AAA (ZSU-23-4 Shilka and ZSU-57-2) and mobile SAM (SA-7 GRAIL SA-6 GAINFUL) were vulnerable to artillery fires.

It didn't have to go as it did in the Sinai. It couldn't have gone any other way in the Golan.

Thanks.

 

[PakSher]

Israel's got an edge from the US with satellite imagery, reconnisance and intelligence information. There is no doubt about that. The claim of Israel that they did that all alone is not credible without USA extra ordinary overt and covert support.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Facinating thread

Jordanians King lol flew in to inform Israel talk about a sincere friend

 

[S-2]

Same imagrey was available to Syria and Egypt from the Soviet Union. Weaponry resupply. Same. U.S. resupply didn't stop the Syrians from taking the Golan. U.S. pilots sure as hell didn't FLY for Israel.

The Jews did their own dying.

Thanks.

 

[yuba]

what revenge are we talking about at the end of war the israeli army was less than 50 km from cairo and even nearer to damascus the sinai was only given back after peace with israel

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Very nice video post made me learn few more stuff about that time frame , I was not awar Mr Saddat was such a bold leader, but not very , nice to launch an attack on someone's holiday disrespectful - Kinda strange to see the only guy who won something back from Israelis and get Nobel Peace award ^_^ ...for peace efforts - how the story unfold after that ..wow

 

[su-47]

Actually the best tactical move was done AFTER the war, by Sadat. He recognised Israel. And in return, got the Sinai back. And more importantly, he lost an enemy. Egypt doesn't have to fear a war with Israel any more.

 

[totach7]

Israel's got an edge from the US with satellite imagery, reconnisance and intelligence information. There is no doubt about that. The claim of Israel that they did that all alone is not credible without USA extra ordinary overt and covert support.

Satellite?????? 1973 I don't think so
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For more info you may visit my humble blog on the "YOM kIPPUR WAR" post
http://idf-armor.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post_28.html

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

what revenge are we talking about at the end of war the israeli army was less than 50 km from cairo and even nearer to damascus the sinai was only given back after peace with israel

they got destroyed in suez and ismailia what makes you say they could do anything from going even 1 km to cairo ?

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

Really? So what they are? Kıpti?

no we are egyptian only

 

[PteX]

The delusions Egyptians have is very sad. Even Arab wikipedia articles about the wars dramatically lie about history.
Easy to see where wishful thinking has brought you.

 

[VanessaK]

It is hard to stay normal in such cruel world, according to such short screens.

 

[Mahmoud_EGY]

The delusions Egyptians have is very sad. Even Arab wikipedia articles about the wars dramatically lie about history.
Easy to see where wishful thinking has brought you.

then you say you won how ?
sainai is ours and we brought it back
your army got destroyed your once supierior air force was shot down your tanks destroyed the barlev line which was the most advanced defence line was captured in 6 hours