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Oh, we should not forget that the Egyptian navy had some rather high-tech equipment back in the old days too.
During this incident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident It appears that the Egyptian navy actually had some early type of stealth-ship operating in those waters, it was capable of altering the vessels appearance and trick the Israelis into attacking another (US) vessel instead. I'm talking about the El Quseir: http://sites.google.com/site/usslibertyinquiry/essay3 The fact that the El Quseir even managed to make it look like the vessel was still moored in Port Said with a machine failure goes to prove how efficient this tactic was... |
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Topic: this is wat my country's navy has
The current fleet
See: List of ships of the Egyptian Navy for detailed information about modifications, and major specifications The Egyptian Navy (EN) currently consists of 221 ships and craft: [3] [edit] Submarine force
[edit] Guided missile frigates
[edit] Large fast attack crafts missile
[edit] ASW coastal patrol boats
The Egyptian Coast Guard is responsible for the onshore protection of public installations near the coast and the patrol of coastal waters to prevent smuggling. Currently consists of one hundred five ships and craft. [edit] Patrol boats
[edit] Ship to ship/surface missiles
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Topic: Re: egyptian navy V.S. its israeli counter part
It all goes back to training and support. In the past, Egypt and Syria have used Soviet supplied equipment, which was designed for the Soviet Union. There virtually no changes in the equipment for the purposes of Egypt or Syria. Training was held to a minimum and in combat this was reflected in the combat performance. Now Israel was quite different in the ships and patrol boats were designed with significant Israel's input.
Eilat was sunk by Egyptian Navy Komar Class missile boats on October 21, 1967 off Port Said. the Sinai by two Styx missiles launched by Egyptian missile boats. Egyptian forces regularly received information from the naval leadership of Port Said about the movements of the destroyer. The Israeli destroyer INS Eilat (formerly the HMS Zealou, a Z-class destroyer). It was a capable destroyer for WW-2 but, not for dealing with anti-ship missile war fair. Eilat was sunk by Egyptian Navy Komar Class missile boats on October 21, 1967 off Port Said in the Sinai by two Komar missile patrol boats firing four Styx missiles. Egyptian forces regularly received information from the naval leadership of Port Said about the movements of the destroyer. Three of the missiles hit the INS Eilat sinking her quickly. The fourth missile hit the water near where the Eilat sunk, killing many survivors in the water. This event sent shock waves around the world to all navies, especially NATO! Are all capital ships now worthless? The response by the Israeli Navy was rather unique. It designed different types of chaff, one included unguided rockets the flew a straight path all the while dropping bundles of chaff. Two rockets would fly down both sides of the incoming anti-ship missile. This forced the missile to only be able to be guided down the path outlined by the chaff missiles. Meanwhile the Israeli patrol boat had moved to a safe position. This served the Israeli Navy well in the War of Yom Kippur. The another thing the Israeli Navy did was to develop its own anti-ship missile -the Gabriel missile. While the Styx Missile had greater range than the Gabriel Missile, Egyptian boats did not have any sort of protection, chaff, radar jamming. etc. So, the Israeli Navy used several forms ECM, having several Styx missiles shot at the but missed unit the Israeli patrol boats got within range of the Gabriel Missile then, launched and destroying most of the Egyptian and Syrian patrol boats. The Sa'ar 3 Israeli patrol boat used its Oto Melara 76mm gun to shoot down an incoming missile at 9,000m! It ought to be interesting now that Egypt is using non-Russian equipment. |
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russian equipment is supposed to be ammassed in huge numbers but a country like mine didnt have a stable economy at the time so we couldnt afford to use it the way the russians did but now our equipment is much more advanced than before (compared to israel's and ours at the time of the yom kippur war) and now we have more we just need a navy expert to rate both of em and say who's better
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An expert on naval warfare could come up with an analyse on the subject, but it would still be much like comparing apples and bananas.
It depends too much upon what specific doctrine the said naval forces are meant to operate under. The strongest naval force doesn't have to be the one with the greatest offensive capability, and vise versa. |
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