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Vol. 1 Issue 58 August 2023 ELITE

Dr. Hisham Al-Halabi highlighted the
largest air battle, the Battle of

Mansoura, which lasted 53 minutes.
The general claimed that people are
the basis of the success equation, not
capabilities. He stressed that the lack
of capabilities is not an obstacle to
He pointed out that the Air Force was
success, but rather an incentive for
using MiG-17, MiG-21, and Sukhos-7
creativity and achieving what we
aircraft (of the first and second
dream.
generation), while Israel uses the
Phantom, Skyhawk, and MiG-3, and
During the symposium, Dr. Hisham
these aircraft have sensors, unlike
emphasized to us that the fighter is the
Egyptian aircraft. However, despite all
basis for dealing with military power,
this, the Major General pointed out the
and we enjoyed listening to a small
success of the Egyptian Air Force in using
part of Sadat and Sisi’s speech to
first and second generation aircraft in a
emphasize the valor of the Egyptian
scientific, competent, and intelligent
fighting army. In Sadat’s speech, he
manner.
concluded, saying: “The Egyptian army
has become a shield and a sword.” and
He pointed out that all elements of the
in return, Sisi concluded, saying: “The
comparison were in favor of Israel, which
Egyptian army is capable of doing it
was confirmed by the West, as the Soviet
every time.”
Union confirmed that Egypt would lose
all its air forces and would not destroy
more than 30 to 35% of their targets, and

the losses would be from 40 to 45%.

Nevertheless, Egypt achieved 95% of the

goals against only 5% of the losses. This is
due to the research and scientific method
used with the pressure on time, their lack
of sanctity for the West, and their lack of
belief in their opinions.

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