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- Rubinstein, Red Star, pp. 192–3.
- Stein, Heroic Diplomacy, p. 65, citing Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Autumn of Fury: The
Assassination of Sadat, London: Andre Deutsch, 1983, p. 46; for contemporary sources
on the continuing supply of Soviet arms to Eg ypt, see Ra’anan, “Rift,” p. 33n. - Vladimir Marchenko, “Voyna sudnogo dnya i amerikano-izrailskie otnoshennya: Tridtsat’
let spustya,” Ve s t n i k (Cockeysville, MD), 22–9 October 2003, http://www.vestnik.com/
issues/2003/1029/win/marchenko.htm - Central Intelligence Bulletin, “Arab States–Israel,” 18 July 1972, http://www.foia.cia.gov/
sites/default/files/document_conversions/1699355/1972–07–18.pdf. The T-62s would
be among the first sent across the canal, but despite their “more powerful gun than the
T-55s that now make up the bulk of Eg yptian armor,” they would be effectively countered
by antiquated Israeli Sherman tanks refitted with even better guns. - Maj. Richard Owen, “Operational Valiant: Turning of the Tide in the Sinai 1973 Arab–
Israeli War,” Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 1984, http://www.globalsecu-
rity.org/military/library/report/1984/ORL.htm - Ra’anan, “Rift,” p. 31.
- “Intelligence Memorandum Prepared in the Central Intelligence Agency,” June 1973,
FRUS N-XXV, no. 66. - Amir Oren, Devar ha-Shavu’a, 16 November 1979, p. 4.
- Interviews in Marchenko, “General-Mayor VVS Vagin” and “Siriyskaya komandirovka.”
Vagin said that after the 1973 war, Mubarak on a visit to Syria “observed the results of our
work” training Syrian pilots and invited him back to Eg ypt, as “everything has changed.” - Interviewed in D. Belebentsev, “V poletakh nad piramidami,” Gazeta Sovetskaya
Chuvashiya, 4 February 2005. - “9-y gvardeyskiy minno-torpedy Kirkenesskiy Krasnoznamenny aviatsionny polk,” http://
http://www.airaces.ru/stati/9-jj-gvardejjskijj-minno-torpednyjj-kirkenesskijj-krasnoznamjon-
nyjj-aviacionnyjj-polk-9-jj-gv-mtap-vvs-sf.html - Two missiles were fired at Tel Aviv in the first hours of the war: one malfunctioned and
the other was shot down just off the city’s waterfront by a Mirage. Ro’i Mandel, ynet news
website, 17 September 2010, http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3955622,00.html.
Of the other missiles, which were fired at military targets in Sinai, most were shot down
by anti-aircraft cannon, but one destroyed a radar station near Sharm-el-Sheikh, killing
five of its operators. Haggai Huberman, Channel 7 (Israel), 20 September 2010, http://
http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/209414. The Soviets accounted for the Kelts’ “low effi-
cacy” by pointing out they were of an old variant, which was not adequately equipped
against electronic countermeasures. “Na voennoy sluzhbe,” in S.V. Ivanov (ed.), Voyna v
vozdukhe, no. 26 (Tu-16), 2004?, http://betta.vlz.ru/il2/AirWar/26/04.htm - Rubtsov, memoir.
- Bar-Joseph, Angel, pp. 133–6.
- AC, final report, vol. 4, p. 1488.
- Three were shot down while attacking IDF installations on Mt Miron, northern Israel.
Golan, Decision Making, p. 442.