Egyptian Air Force 1973

[macelena]

As i received a brand new, shiny and ass-kicking joystick from my GF this Christmas, i decided to start a new Yom Kippur War campaign flying Neshers. After a few missions, i started missing something: MiG-17s. One of the most annoying things to fly against, and after several missions, i had engaged several kinds of MiG-21s, Su-7s and Il-28s, and yet not a single Fresco. I checked the Map (thanks virtual Mossad for a great intel job on the enemy orbat) and found out there was just a Syrian MiG-17 Sqn near the Golan heights. There where Argelian, Lybian and Iraqi air forces, however.

 

I think there were still plenty of those in service, one of the first images that comes to my mind of that war is a photo of Egyptian Frescos flying low across the Canal. Also, despite i have the AI pack with the MiG-19 from Egypt, 67 vintage (Atoll armed) the only Egyptian Farmer Sqn is equipped with the standard model.

 

Should i edit the stock campaign to add more squadrons of those types or do what, historically speaking?

Edited January 8, 2014 by macelena

[jeanba]

I hacked and changed a lot of things in "my WOI" campaigns, including 1973, I can send you what I have if you want

[+paulopanz]

The ORBAT of Kippur from Arab side are not so good.

 

BTW Lybia never had Mig-17 or 19.

 

Algeria sent her best units so no MiG-17.

 

Maybe and probably Egypt had some.

 

Tk 6Days war isn't accurate too.

 

For example too many Mig-19 & Su-7, some ghost squadrons added as operational .... maybe to balance IDF power.

 

Somewhere I have a '67 camp upgraded and revised.

 

If we have a good arab OOB for Kippur it could be nice to upgrade too.

 

[macelena]

Thanks Jeanba, it would be great. 

 

Paulo, The Algerian MiG-21s i encountered were MFs, pretty much the best in the campaign. About Egyptian Frescos, i had a source, rather unaccurate, that claimed they had 200 of them, as many as Fishbeds. What i meant was not that Algeria or Lybia had Frescos, but that while the MiG-17s had not been represented, their many times forgotten contribution to the Arab forces is.

 

Indeed, i would love to revamp the Israel campaigns within the limit of the stock resources, maybe preparing them for taking DLC aircraft if appropiate and available to the player. Also, sometime ago i intended to make a campaign along these lines for the USN air operations over Lebanon in 1983, while the French contribution would take to use some mods at least