Egyptian Air Defense Forces vs M53/59 Praga

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M53/59 Praga

Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun

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6.92m

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6.92 m

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6.92 m (22.7 ft)^[source]

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2.35m

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Egyptian Air Defense Forces and M53/59 Praga configuration
Specification	Egyptian Air Defense Forces	M53/59 Praga
Founded	1968, 58 years ago (as separate branch) 1938–1968 (part of Artillery Corps)^[source]	—
Country	Egypt^[source]	—
Role	Anti-aircraft warfare^[source]	—
Size	10,000^[source]	—
Part of	Egyptian Armed Forces^[source]	—
Garrison/HQ	Cairo, Egypt

Nickname	حصن السماء (Sky Fortress)^[source]	—

Mottos	إيمان, عزم, مجد (Faith, Will, Glory)^[source]	—

March	سلاح الدفاع يرد المغير يصد العدو يلبي النداء^[source]	—

Anniversaries	30 June^[source]	—

Engagements	World War II 1948 Arab–Israeli War Suez Crisis North Yemen Civil War Six-Day War War of Attrition Yom Kippur War Gulf War^[source]	—

Commander, Egyptian Air Defence Force	Major General Yaser El-Toddy^[source]	—

Chief of Staff	Major General Ehab El-Faioumy^[source]	—

Insignia	Egyptian Army ranks^[source]	—

Source measurement	After role of aviation expanded during and after the First World War , Egypt saw at that time the formation of a limited force of anti-aircraft artillery enabling it to defend its main cities and economic centers in Cairo and Alexandria. Egypt began to form the first nucleus of the anti-aircraft artillery In 1938, the forces consisted of two regiments of anti-aircraft armed with 3-inch anti-aircraft guns. Since these cannons could not engage at night, as radar had not yet arrived, two searchlight regiments were formed, which were supplied with 90-cm searchlights. Anti-aircraft artillery, with its two sections, became artillery and searchlights, a branch of artillery corps.^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Foundation; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage These continuous attacks enabled the anti-aircraft artillery forces to gain practical experience and identify the tactical shortcomings and work to solve them, so they replaced the 3-inch anti-aircraft guns with their 3.7-inch counterpart with their fixed and mobile types.^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · World War II; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage In 1989 a large share of the EADF's equipment was imported from the Soviet Union . As of 1989, the most modern air defence weapons were the 108 medium altitude I-Hawk SAMs acquired from the United States beginning in 1982. These weapons were supplemented by 400 older Soviet-made S-75 Dvina (SA-2) SAMs with a slant range of forty to fifty kilometers and about 240 SA-3s , which provided shorter-range defense against low-flying targets. A British firm helped the ADF modernize the SA-2s. In addition, Egypt was producing its own SAM, the Tayir as Sabah, based on the design of the SA-2. The ADF had mounted sixty Soviet 2K12 Kub SAMs on tracked vehicles as tactical launchers. Sixteen tracked vehicles provided mobile launching platforms for its fifty French-manufactured Crotale SAM launchers . Egypt was also introducing its own composite gun-missile-radar system known as Amoun (Skyguard), integrating radar-guided twin 23mm guns with Sparrow and Egyptian Ayn as Saqr SAMs.^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · SAM Wall / After the October war; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage By the end of 2008, with the support of the United States (through Foreign Military Financing and private contractors and firms) all missile, radar, observation posts, command and control systems were to be linked into a complex multi-level, national computerized early-warning air defence command and control system via modified EC-130H Hercules (modified to AWACS -like specifications) transport aircraft, EW AWACS E-2C Hawkeye 2000 , EW ECM Beechcraft 1900 ELINT , and an underground sheltered-reinforced fiber-optic network.^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · SAM Wall / After the October war; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage Modernized SA-3 2M Pechora missile: 43 Batteries (each with 2 stationary units, 4 missiles per stationary unit plus 1 reload each) (low/medium-altitude, medium-range SAM)^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Weaponry and equipment / Regional/strategic perimeter-level SAMs; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage 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)^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Weaponry and equipment / Army corps and division-level SAM; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage Skyguard "Amoun" anti-aircraft system AIM-7 Sparrow missile: 72 Units " 18 battalion (3 units each) + 4 batteries for training " (2 4-cell Sparrow missile launchers and 2 Oerlikon GDF-005 twin 35mm guns with one Skyguard Fire Control System per battery, 1 reload per launcher) (Original Italian system is equipped with Aspide missile system, substituted with AIM-7 Sparrow missiles with the EADF).^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Weaponry and equipment / Brigade and battalion-level SAM; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage \| Fan Song \| PRV-11 \| P-12 radar \| Straight Flush \| P-19 radar \| P-30 radar \| P-40 radar \| Borisoglebsk-2 \| Krasukha \| Pelena-1 \| R-330Zh Zhitel \| Repellent-1 \| Podlet-1K Radar \| Barnaul-T \| KTM Kineto Tracking Mount Model 433 \| Nebo-SVU \| Aistyonok \| 1L121-E \| 67N6E \| Ranzhir \| Zoopark-1 \| Polyana-D4 \| SNR-125 \| P-15 radar \| Skyguard \| Fire Dome \| Snow Drift \| Scrum Half \| engagement \| post 3m \| ESR-32B \| ESR-32A \| EADS 3D TRS \| AN/SPS-49 \| AN/SPS-40 \| AN/SPS-67 \| JYL-1 Radar \| Selex RAT-31DL \| Polyana-D4 \| AN/MPQ-50 \| AN/MPQ-62 \| AN/SPS-48 \| AN/MPQ-46 \| AN/TPS-59 \| AN/TPS-77 \| AN/MPQ-64 \| AN/MPQ-53 \| AN/MPQ-65 \| AN/VRC-92 \| AN/APQ-164 \| AN/APY-9 \| flat box \| 1RL33 \| RA-20S \| P-11 radar \| P-14 radar \| P-18 radar \| P-35 radar \| P-40 radar \| Kasta 2E \| HT-233 \| Type 120 Radar \| Type 305A Radar \| TIGER \| TRS-2100 Tiger \| Lion System \| JY-9 Radar \| YLC-6 Radar \| JLP-40 Radar \| JLG-43 Radar \| AN/TPS-43 \| Ground Master 400 \| Protivnik-GE \| AN/TPS-63 \| Giraffe radar \| Avtobaza \| Nebo-M \| JY-26 Radar \| 96L6E \| 64N6 \| Commander SL \| Repellent-1 \| Rezonans NE3^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Egyptian Air Defence Radars; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage	—

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After role of aviation expanded during and after the First World War , Egypt saw at that time the formation of a limited force of anti-aircraft artillery enabling it to defend its main cities and economic centers in Cairo and Alexandria. Egypt began to form the first nucleus of the anti-aircraft artillery In 1938, the forces consisted of two regiments of anti-aircraft armed with 3-inch anti-aircraft guns. Since these cannons could not engage at night, as radar had not yet arrived, two searchlight regiments were formed, which were supplied with 90-cm searchlights. Anti-aircraft artillery, with its two sections, became artillery and searchlights, a branch of artillery corps.^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Foundation; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage

These continuous attacks enabled the anti-aircraft artillery forces to gain practical experience and identify the tactical shortcomings and work to solve them, so they replaced the 3-inch anti-aircraft guns with their 3.7-inch counterpart with their fixed and mobile types.^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · World War II; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage

In 1989 a large share of the EADF's equipment was imported from the Soviet Union . As of 1989, the most modern air defence weapons were the 108 medium altitude I-Hawk SAMs acquired from the United States beginning in 1982. These weapons were supplemented by 400 older Soviet-made S-75 Dvina (SA-2) SAMs with a slant range of forty to fifty kilometers and about 240 SA-3s , which provided shorter-range defense against low-flying targets. A British firm helped the ADF modernize the SA-2s. In addition, Egypt was producing its own SAM, the Tayir as Sabah, based on the design of the SA-2. The ADF had mounted sixty Soviet 2K12 Kub SAMs on tracked vehicles as tactical launchers. Sixteen tracked vehicles provided mobile launching platforms for its fifty French-manufactured Crotale SAM launchers . Egypt was also introducing its own composite gun-missile-radar system known as Amoun (Skyguard), integrating radar-guided twin 23mm guns with Sparrow and Egyptian Ayn as Saqr SAMs.^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · SAM Wall / After the October war; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage

By the end of 2008, with the support of the United States (through Foreign Military Financing and private contractors and firms) all missile, radar, observation posts, command and control systems were to be linked into a complex multi-level, national computerized early-warning air defence command and control system via modified EC-130H Hercules (modified to AWACS -like specifications) transport aircraft, EW AWACS E-2C Hawkeye 2000 , EW ECM Beechcraft 1900 ELINT , and an underground sheltered-reinforced fiber-optic network.^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · SAM Wall / After the October war; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage

Modernized SA-3 2M Pechora missile: 43 Batteries (each with 2 stationary units, 4 missiles per stationary unit plus 1 reload each) (low/medium-altitude, medium-range SAM)^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Weaponry and equipment / Regional/strategic perimeter-level SAMs; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage

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)^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Weaponry and equipment / Army corps and division-level SAM; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage

Skyguard "Amoun" anti-aircraft system AIM-7 Sparrow missile: 72 Units " 18 battalion (3 units each) + 4 batteries for training " (2 4-cell Sparrow missile launchers and 2 Oerlikon GDF-005 twin 35mm guns with one Skyguard Fire Control System per battery, 1 reload per launcher) (Original Italian system is equipped with Aspide missile system, substituted with AIM-7 Sparrow missiles with the EADF).^[source]Egyptian Air Defense Forces · Weaponry and equipment / Brigade and battalion-level SAM; only the objects and conditions stated in this passage

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