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Contents 1 The Yom Kippure War 2 Early history 3 Wikify and NPOV tags 4 List of EAF aircraft 5 NPOV problems 6 Israel Objects To US Sale of F-15s 7 planes list is uncorrect 8 aircraft flown 9 (Lack of) air supremacy in Yom Kippur war 10 Images positions

[edit] The Yom Kippure War

i apologize i had that bad edit but honestly i tried to change it but for some reason i couldonot find it. sorry for that, and i think the site have to do some thing with the EAF history laking the most important war in egypt's modern history.41.234.198.57 (talk) 22:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

some one deleted the Yom Kippur file does he have the right?......haaail no. i'll edit it again.

[edit] Early history

The early history section of this article was copied without acknowledgement from the identical pages at [1] and [2]. These pages are in very poor English - the writer has no grasp of tenses - and is rather jingoistic and not particularly accurate. Working from memory I have altered the early history sections but this is a temporary fix - someone really needs to do the job properly. Also something on the War of Attrition would be good.

and I shall see to its development.

Maybe the article need REW because: 1. "Egypt found itself attacking Israel with the British withdrawal from Palestine and the founding of Israel in 1947."

Maybe the British forces were withdrawing from Israel in 1947, but the withdrawal finished only in May 1948- and only then Israel was founded.

2. "The Egyptian Air Force contributed to this conflict with C-47 Dakotas and Spitfires, claiming two Israeli aircraft destroyed, although unfortunately many more Egyptian aircraft were lost"

POV

3. "After Nasser decided to nationalize the Suez Canal, Egypt got involved in a war with Israel, France, and the United Kingdom."

First of all, Israel declered war on Egypt because Egypt closed straits of Tiran- and it should but said here. Secondly, "got involved" is bad explanation for the situation - the meaning of closing straits of Tiran and naionalizing the Suez canal was a war - the leadership in Egypt, and Nasser knew it.

4. "These strikes were launched at 2 p.m. October 6 and were made without any air opposition from the Israeli air force"

It's not true. Please read 2-28 Air Battle.

well i did and i found the mansura air battle where IDF lost 18 sky hawks and Phantoms all by direct air-air fire while EAF lost 5 MIG-21MFs : 3-for fule run off , one by air-air hit and one because of the extremly neer distruction of an enemy plan , in man power only one fighter pilot died while god knows what happened to the IDF guys LOL , another fact that the total jets in the were 180 : 60 from EAF and 120 from IDF so EAF pilots were out numbered and out gunned thuse they made the enemy lose 2/3 more than them and far more economoic value for the jets and do u know the kicker ....the source is wikipedia the arabic copy of yom kippur war and acig pluse a national magazine "al-ahram" that is about the air -air conquest now to the air-ground targets that were believed to destroy 25%of the attacking warplanes for the destruction of 5% of targets while what happened was that 85% of targets were destroyed for the destruction of about 5% of the first attacking wave meaning that the first wave maneged to achive 300% of the expected targets for the loss of 20% of the expected loses!!!! and for the ground-air conquest well no need to tell LOL

[edit] Wikify and NPOV tags

I have added Wikify and POV tags, because:

- the syntax and grammar of this article should be improved.

- there is a pro-Egyptian bias,

- I don't have the knowledge to tackle the work myself.

(although I respectfully disagree with the critique of the term "got involved", as the vast majority of non-Zionist opinion is that Israel started the war by attacking Egypt - c.f. 1973, when Egypt started the war by attacking Israel, and I consider the article cited - "2-28 Air Battle" has a pro-Israeli bias and is liable to fall foul of the deletion police for being non-notable). Winstonwolfe 07:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Article has vastly improved, well done. Tags removed. Winstonwolfe 05:54, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of EAF aircraft

While a list of current EAF aircraft is appropriate in the article, I notice it has expanded to include some "retired" types. Perhaps the authors would care to create a new List of Aircraft of the Egyptian Air Force, including all types operated historically; such lists exist for many other air forces.Winstonwolfe 02:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

dose anyone know whether or not Egypt and Mikoyan amended a deal fro the 40 Mig-29 SE's

i support your request and also want to add that putting the planes into groups accourding to type or rule shall be much better than putting them separatly

[edit] NPOV problems

This article is fanciful at best. Besides the complete lack of citations, it's full of wishful thinking about the EAF performance. It desperately needs a cleanup. Bartleby 03:21, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

If egypt bought 40 Mig-29, why isnt it stated on the page of Mig-29 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.135.34.10 (talk • contribs)

It didn't buy them it's negotiating. And who the hell removed the Battle of Al-Mansourah article?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.205.227.195 (talk • contribs)

I deleted it because it was copied verbatim from acig.org. Bartleby 21:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Did u delete the 73 war article too ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.234.198.83 (talk) 13:04, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Israel Objects To US Sale of F-15s

The author says that Israle objected to the sale of F-15s to Egypt because Egypt was using wargames of which Israel was the "enemy", and the US supposedly confirmed this? I checked the person's sources and neither Israel nor the US says any such thing and one of the sources are no longer available. Besides, I don't see what the problem is, since Russia routinely maintains that its missile and naval program are based on hypothetical battles with the US, since any successful training against the US Navy is a successful program.MPA 00:40, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] planes list is uncorrect

The Egyptian Air forces air craft forces is not full cuz some many other Egyptian planes made like Huras nuclear planes , and Saqr 4 and Ahmus 80 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahmoud-Megahid (talk • contribs) 02:17, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] aircraft flown

You have at the list airplanes that are in service and aircrafts that are retired. This makes a confusion, you must have the planes that are only in service. the others belong to the past. in other case add all the types Egypt used in the past to honour them. John, Athens 11/4/08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.73.198.8 (talk) 00:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] (Lack of) air supremacy in Yom Kippur war

During the Yom Kippur/1973 war, Egyptian SAM batteries were very effective against the IAF, and limited its ability to operate in Egyptian airspace. That's not the same as air supremacy. If the EAF had attained air supremacy in 1973, they would have been able to fly anywhere they wanted in Israeli airspace, the way that the allies could fly in German airspace in spring 1945, or Israel was able to operate in Egyptian airspace during the 1967 war. I've removed (again) the statement that the EAF obtained air supremacy, since they managed very few operations against Israeli targets even in their own territory, and the IAF remained a major force to the east of the line of SAM defences (p.s. no axes to grind either way — I'm neutral in the mideast debate). David (talk) 20:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

neither the 67, or the 73 wars can be compared to the WW2 in that matter. in WW2 it had to end up with either germany having europe under it's control, or that the allies invad and take over the nazy germany. but in the last 2 wars between egypt and israel, non had the goal of taking the other under it's role, and non could do so. israel optained the air supermacy over the sinai in 67, and egypt optained the air supermacy over the suez ie, the battle field. so in the 2nd world war, one side had to optain the air supermacy over the other, because one side had to finish the other once, and for all. in the last 2 wars, the side that had the air supermacy is the side that had it over the battle feild or the territories that he would gain as a direct result of the war; israel had it over the sinai in 67 and it gained it, egypt optained it over the suez in 73, and it gained it. One last pharaoh (talk) 17:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

can you cite credible sources for any of those statements? From everything I've read, neither side managed to obtain air supremacy in the 1973 war, and the only widely effective weapon against the Israelis was the Egyptian SAMs, not the Egyptian Air Force. The war wasn't a disaster for the EAF like the 1967 war was, but avoiding a disaster is not the same as obtaining supremacy. David (talk) 02:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

i thought what i wrote was an already known fact, besides i was discussing , not editing an article. i recommend reading about the mansourah air battle were 62 egyptian MiG-21s were more than enough to repel an attack of some 160 phantoms, skyhawks, and Mirages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by One last pharaoh (talk • contribs) 16:08, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I ran into the same problem at first working on the War of 1812 article — what I thought was generally known and accepted turned out to be heavily biased information taught in Canadian schools (we all learned that Canada "won" that war against the U.S.). If you studied history somewhere in the Arab world, or somewhere under Arab influence, you may have had similar biases built into in your own education about the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars; I'm sure that Israeli schools do the same thing. As other people have noted, this current article has fairly serious problems with a non-neutral POV (not just the air supremacy issue), and it's going to need some work to make it more balanced. David (talk) 20:30, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

i believe, i would be happy to work for improving the article with u. but actually we were not told no thing about nothing.....all of what that stupid history book is telling is stopping at the 6th of ctober, not mentioning the libyan-egyptian boarder war, neither the egyptian participation in the frst gulf war, and ofcourse not even hinting to the presence of some thing called the yemen war. insteed some stupid roman and greek history, and mythologies that have nothing to do with egypt. back to our issue here, i ment that the allies had to gain the complete air supemacy to win the war, i realy think that no one disagree with that, also i knew about the 67, and 73 from mainly western sources -thanks to the greek-roman history book entiteled history for egyptian secondry school-. u may find this strange, but i for one donot trust the govenrmental history books. at the end, u can read about the battle from here http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_266.shtml

and there it is even mentioned in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Mansurah i am planning to make an article for it, but i donot have enough time to make a good wikipedian article about it. maybe u can help?One last pharaoh (talk) 23:31, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Images positions

i started that sub-article not to discuss an information, it's for images. i believe that there position now is fare better, and Orthopraxia, it took me a while to upload, and to put them in the current shape, so leave them for me ^^. One last pharaoh (talk) 23:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, perhaps it does not show on your screen when you open this page, but on mine, the two images are covering and superimpositing on the "Content" box and the "Egyptian Air Force" box on the right and it is veryugly to leave it as such. I am not sure whether this is only my problem or not. Also, the normal position of these two images would be where they are now since they represent modern and current planes and this would be more adequate to match the flow of description and content. I hope that this does not offend you, if it does, please find a way that it would not cause what it does where you had them although as I mentioned they would be out of context with the current layout of the page. Orthopraxia (talk) 07:06, 26 April 2008 (UTC)Orthopraxia

maybe u have ur system set to low resolution, that would make u see 800x600 images the same size i see... say 1240x1024 ones. however that's not the problem i think lowering their resolution to perhaps 200-250, and setting them beside the aircraft inventory table, or inside it each beside it's aircraft's name would be nice. One last pharaoh (talk) 15:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I use 1024*768 resolution and firefox, image(air fuelling f-16 and f-4 pics) positions are blocking the text. I am deleting them. I don't so much about wiki system, so someone should put them in a better place —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.233.20.127 (talk) 21:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

maybe u can replace them so that each image be in it's aircraft's raw in the aircraft inventory table. i think u would have to lower their resolution not to destroy the main frame of the table, but please do not make them less than 200px. i strongly recommend that they stay in their current position filling the empty space beside contents; besides, i for one have 10 degrees of resolution available, and the middle one (the 1152 by 864 pixels option) shows no problem. i use the 1280 by 1024 pixels option, and i really am not seeing them the pest way i want, but it serves the average since my middles resolution, and other's low resolution ie. people who have stronger hardware than mine, and use some 2560 by 2048 pixels or some thing. so if after all the majority still want to replace them, i hope u would follow the 1st suggestion. Thanx in advance. One last pharaoh (talk) 14:38, 15 May 2008 (UTC)