July 7, 1975

July 7, 1975

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Special Report: Egyptian Air Force—2

Offense, Defense Tested in 1973 War

By Robert Hotz8 min

Aeronautical Engineering

Stol Nomad Found Easy to Handle

By Herbert J. Coleman8 min

Special Report: Egyptian Air Defense

Setbacks Spur System to Counter Israel

By Robert R. Ropelewski7 min

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Special Report: Egyptian Air Force—2

Offense, Defense Tested in 1973 War

Cairo—Egyptian air force mounted one major offensive battle in the October, 1973, War and then fought a series of defensive battles to parry the offensive thrusts of the Israeli air force. The major offensive was launched in the afternoon of Oct. 6, 1973, against a broad spectrum of Israeli defensive positions in Sinai and began the Egyptian assault that crossed the Suez Canal and established a major bridgehead on the eastern bank, which the Egyptian army still occupies.

By Robert Hotz8 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Stol Nomad Found Easy to Handle

Leavesden Airport, England—Australian Nomad twin-turboprop transport, an easy-to-handle short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft with fighter-like capability in STOL turns, is branching out into world utility markets as diverse as South America and Africa.

By Herbert J. Coleman8 min

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Special Report: Egyptian Air Defense

Setbacks Spur System to Counter Israel

Cairo—Egyptian air defense force turned two setbacks into a formula for augmenting and revising its capabilities to meet the challenge of the Israeli air force in the October, 1973, War. The setbacks were: War of Attrition during 1969-70 when the Israeli air force attacked all over Egypt without much opposition.

By Robert R. Ropelewski7 min

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Air Transport

Air France Fails to Notify Ntsb on Turbulence Incident, Injuries

By David A. Brown6 min

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Avionics

Mini-rpv Data Link Readied for Testing

Washington—Data link for command and control of miniature remotely piloted vehicles, scheduled for test later this year, is expected to be extremely jam-resistant as well as small and low-cost. If the data link demonstrates these projected features, it could remove the last technical obstacle to the military use of mini-RPVs.

By Philip J. Klass6 min

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Missile Engineering

Cruise Missile Engine Design Pushed

Toledo—Teledyne CAE has returned to its entry in the subsonic cruise armed decoy engine competition, the F106-CA-100, for the technology base and cost-constrained design on which it is building its Model 471-11DX turbofan to compete for the strategic sea-launched cruise missile engine.

By Michael L. Yaffee6 min

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An Unsatisfied Customer

Editorial For more than a decade, Egypt was dependent on the Soviets for all of its military equipment and training. In mid-1972, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat expelled about 21,000 Soviet military advisors and abolished the Soviet air force and naval enclaves that had been established in Egypt to support the growing Russian presence in the Mediterranean.

By Robert Hotz5 min

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Air Transport

More Latin American Conflicts Expected

Solution of confrontation with Peru seen of limited impact against pervading philosophy there of exact reciprocity

By Rosalind K. Ellingsworth5 min

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Avionics

Usaf Seeks to Borrow Time on Nato’s Phase-3 Satellite

Los Angeles—Air Force has started negotiations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in hopes of borrowing at least some high-priority, long-haul communications capacity from an upcoming NATO Phase-3 satellite, to offset the impending squeeze on U. S. military communications satellites.

By Barry Miller4 min

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Management

German Resistance Growing to Renewing Offset Agreement

By Laurence Doty4 min

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