You know very well I'm talking about you and your lame attempt at deflecting you inability to support your silly comment about the former Egyptian Chief of Staff blasting away with the C8. Now you think you're trying to tweak the discussion away from that -- because you have nothing -- by trying to make it a personal thing with me and that didn't work either and now trying to make it sound like an attack on Algeria loool. Classic silliness.
Ok, so you have nothing to counter my 5 points about the shooting stance and discipline and all that, fine. Just a I expected anyway and like
@Amun said, it goes without saying that one should never feed a troll, but I'm gonna make an exception in your case because I want to nip this Algeria BS in the behind once and for all. After this post you'll never be able to bring it up again like you have been for a while because when you do, people can always refer to this post to put you back in your place.
According to the great Lieutenant General Saad El Shazly, in the October war of 1973 (which started on October 6th and lasted through October 25th) these are all the military units that Egypt deployed.
Egyptian Forces in the battle.
Air Force
- 400 combat aircraft
- 70 transport aircraft
- 140 helicopters
Air Defenese
- 150 SAM battalions
- 2,500 anti-aircraft guns
Navy
- 12 submarines M5 destroyers
- 3 frigates
- 12 submarine chasers
- 17 OSA and KOMAR class missile patrol boats
- 30 SHERSHEN and p-6 motor-torpedo boats
- 14 minesweapers
- 14 landing craft
Combat forces
- 19 infantry brigades
- 8 mechanized brigades
- 10 armored brigades
- 3 airborne brigades
- 1 amphibious brigade
- 1 R-17E SSM brigade
- 1,700 tanks
- 2,500 armored vehicles
- 2,000 artillery units
- 1,500 anti-tank guns
- 700 ATGM
- 2500 recoilless launchers and RPG's
What did Algeria supply:
Algeria
- 1 MiG-21 squadron
- 1 MiG-17 squadron
- 1 Su-7 squadron
- 1 Armored brigade
While Shazly praised the effort, he ranked the Iraqi contributions as the BEST and most helpful and especially the Iraqi Hunters. He said their pilots were the best of the Arabs because of their experience, their bravery and their training. Egyptian pilots, for the majority of them, were basically young and newbies with under 2000 flight hours while the Iraqis and Israeli pilots had over 4000 hours and were much more experienced and trained. He said (and I quote his exact comment) "I pay particular tribute to the Iraqi Hunter pilots for the daring and skill of their anti-tank strikes in Sinai. They swiftly gained such a reputation that our field commanders, calling for air support, would frequently ask for the Iraqi squadron."
I quote Shazly's comment about the Algerian forces: "Its 3 squadrons arrived in Egypt through October 9-11. The armored brigade arrived on October 17. Apart from this military support, Algeria deposited $200 million with the Soviet Union in the first days of November to finance Egyptian and Syrian arms purchases. (GHQ was ordered to prepare hundred-million-dollar list of needs.)"
He also said that Algeria sent the one armored division without being asked which is very admirable.
That's it. While it's certainly admirable and all us Egyptians are grateful for all the support, from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, let's not get carried away with the saving our asses fantasy, ok habibi?
Excellent move. Send the cavalry and project whatever power is necessary to send a message. I have absolutely no problem with what they did and I actually would be even more aggressive about it. Do whatever it takes to send a message that our national security is not something to be toyed with and that we will act in whatever way is necessary to protect that security. Enough of the shenanigans that these "outside" elements are trying to do. There will be consequences to those kinds of things. For their sake, let's hope they get the message.
...And à look at her COS handling the rifle speaks volume of its preparedness and professionalism...
Why is that, you think?
