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July 30th, 1970 - Israel Vs USSR
Egypt had launched the War of Attrition shortly after
the end of the Six Days War (1967), hoping to force
Israel into concessions the Arabs had failed to
extract on the battlefield or in the international
arena. Egyptian intensions were for a limited
conflict, where Egypt's superior artillery force would
barrage Israeli forces on the Suez Canal, inflicting
enough casualties to move Israel towards giving up
some of the land it had captured during the Six Days
War. On the ground however, things went rather
differently. Besides Egypt's failure to inflict the
heavy casualties it had relied upon, Israel had no
intension to sit idly by, waiting for an end to the
Egyptian attacks. Israel retaliated by means of its
own, using its army, navy, and most of all its air
force, to attack and strike at Egypt, sending a clear
indication that it will defend itself against these
attacks. By 1970 Israeli superiority was apparent,
with the IAF operating almost freely above Egyptian
terriory, the local air defences unable to stop the
IAF from attacking ground targets or flying air-to-air
missions.
This was not lost upon Egypt's main sponsor, the USSR,
which had armed Egypt with the best Soviet arms it had
to offer. But these were not enough and when Egypt's
president Nazer asked for further assistance, the
Soviet Union responded by actually sending Russian
pilots to help in the defence of Egypt's airspace.
February 1970 saw the arrival of these Russian pilots
along with 80 new Mig-21s, a large number of SAM
batteries and other weapons for the Egyptian arsenal.
At first the Russian pilots were confined to defending
their own air bases as well as to the defence of
Cairo's…
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