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Its current commander is Major General Abdel-Aziz Seif. It consists of 30,000 officers & soldiers plus 40,000 conscripts.


HISTORY

After most of the country's aircraft was destroyed on the ground by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967 , the military placed responsibility for air defense under one commander. Responsibility had previously been divided among several commands.


WEAPONRY

It is undergoing extensive modernization with bugdetary constraints being the only hindrance to what was once dubbed by Israeli air force generals during the 1973 Ramadan (Yom Kippur) war as "the most extensive and sophisticated air-defense system in the world after the one defending the U.S.S.R..." It is believed to possess the following weaponry:

Modern low, medium and high altitude SAMs of western, local or Soviet design, including:
  • MIM-104 Patriot PAC-3 missile: 6 Batteries (4 SP units per Battery, 16 missiles per unit plus 1 reload each) (Short/Medium Altitude, Short/Medium Range ABM/SAM)

  • Modernized MIM-23 HAWK "Improved HAWK" missile: 18 Batteries (6 SP units per Battery, 3 missiles per unit plus 2 reloads each) (Medium/High Altitude, Medium Range SAM)

  • Modernized SA-3 2M Pechora missile: 10 Batteries (6 SP units per Battery, 2 missiles per S/P unit plus 1 reload per unit) (Low/Medium Altitude, Medium Range SAM)

  • Modernized SA-3 2M Pechora missile: 43 Batteries (4 missiles per Stationary unit plus 2 reloads each) (Low/Medium Altitude, Medium Range SAM)

  • Indigenous "Tayer el-Sabah" (Morning Bird) (reverse-engineered SA-2 Guideline S-75 Dvina missile: 40 Batteries (6 single units per Battery, 2 reloads each)(Medium/High Altitude, Long Range SAM)

  • Modernized SA-6 Gainful missile: 14 Batteries (6 SP units per Battery, 3 missiles per unit plus 2 reloads each)(SP Low/Medium Altitude, Medium Range SAM)

  • Ground-launched AIM-120 AMRAAM "SLAMRAAM" missile (SP Medium Altitude, Medium Range SAM) on HUMVEE 36 SP units (5 Missiles per unit plus 2 reloads each) with ANQ-TPS 67 radar

  • AA guns + Oerlikon-Contraves fire-control system)

  • Crotale Missile missile: 12 Batteries (6 units per Battery, 4 Missiles per unit plus 2 reloads each)(SP Low/Medium Altitude, Short Range SAM)

  • MIM-72/M48 Chaparral low-altitude SAM AIM-9 "Sidewinder": 48 SP units (4 Missiles per unit plus 2 reloads each)(SP Low Altitude, Short Range SAM)

  • SA-9 Gaskin Strela-1 missile: 9 Batteries (6 SP units per battery, 4 missiles per unit plus 3 reloads per unit)(SP Low Altitude, Short/Medium Range SAM)

  • )

  • Indigenous Hawk-eye based on modernized SA-7 Strela 2 missile: Several hundred missiles (IR-seeking Low Altitude, Short Range SAM)(MANPADS & SP on Jeep)

  • FIM-92 Stinger missile: Several hundred missiles(IR-seeking Low Altitude, Short Range SAM)(MANPADS & SP on Jeep)


By 2008, all missiles, radar, command and control systems, EW AWACS "Grumman" E-2 Hawkeye , EW ECM Beechcraft 1900 ELINT , reconnaissance UAV and AA guns are to be linked into a single multi-altitude, national computerized early-waring air defense command via modified C-130E Hercules (modified to AWACS -like specifications) transport aircraft and underground sheltered-reinforced fiber-optic network.

It also deploys several thousands of AA guns (flak), either self-propelled (sp) or towed, radar-controlled with IFF systems of multiple calibres, including 100mm, 85mm, 57mm, 37mm, 35mm Oerlikon Contraves , 23mm (Nile 23, Sinai 23 SP radar-controlled, ZSU-23-4 Shilka with GUNDISH radar, being modernized with SA-18 Ukrainian SAM system), 14.5mm Quad, 12.7 mm, and others.


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