The Egyptian Air Defence Forces is the Anti-aircraft warfare branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces. It is responsible for protecting the Egyptian airspace against any hostile air attacks. The EADF was e
An Egyptian anti-aircraft cannon during the 1956 Suez Crisis
Egyptian missile site captured by Israelis during the Arab-Israeli War.
Soviet/Egyptian S-125 anti-aircraft type missiles in the Suez Canal vicinity
An Egyptian Crotale P4R low-altitude surface-to-air missile system is positioned in the desert during Gulf War.
The S-75 is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude air defence system. It is built around a surface-to-air missile with command guidance. Following its first deployment in 1957 it became one of the most wid
Egyptian Air Defense Forces
…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…
S-75 Dvina in the National Museum of Military History, Sofia, Bulgaria
S-75 Guideline missile on display at the National Air and Space Museum
Rear view showing the solid-propellant booster nozzle, as displayed in Imperial War Museum Duxford
The S-75 in transport configuration