The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967–1973. The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict

INDEX

Stratocruiser (Israeli aircraft), 243–4, 283
Strela–2 (SAM–7, Soviet anti-aircraft
missile), 94, 119–123, 133, 136, 141,
175, 179, 196, 213, 277, 345
Streletsky, Nikolay (Soviet political officer),
196
Styx (Soviet naval missile), 36–7, 167,
439n35
Su- (Sukhoi), Soviet aircraft:
Su–7, 8, 45, 95, 137, 193, 216, 222, 242,
435n5
Su–7B, 20
Su–17, 267, 289, 290, 311, 321
Su–20, 267, 289, 290, 440n37
Submarines
Dakar (Israeli), 56–58, 384n16, 17
Israeli, 141
Polaris (United States), 61, 392n48
Soviet, 27, 68, 81, 213, 298, 327, 331,
348, 458n2
K–172 (Soviet nuclear), 70, 388n19
K–181 (Soviet nuclear), 70, 81
K–313 (Soviet nuclear), 261
Suez City, Eg ypt, 24, 26, 39, 48, 76, 106,
117, 220, 344, 390n20
Sunday Telegraph, 81. See also Daily
Te l e g r a p h
Super-Mystère (Israeli aircraft), 121, 197
Suslov, Mikhail (Soviet ideologue), 293,
359
Sutyagin, Boris (Soviet naval officer), 42, 59
Syria: challenge to Hashemite regime, 205;
coordination of 1973 offensive with
Eg ypt, 295, 309, 311–2, 316–8, 320,
323–31, 332–3, 333, 337, 347401n32;
current crisis, xxix; dogfight with IAF,
180; false report that Soviet experts
banished on eve of Yom Kippur War,
65; federation with Eg ypt and Libya,
232, 312, 318; IAF depth bombings,
322; Moroccan troop support, 312,
327; refueling stop for MiGs, 45; Soviet

advisers and, 65, 92, 95, 205, 289,

301–2, 317, 331, 341–2, 344–6,

369n44, 413n17, 423n45, 448n54,

454n46, 462n56; Soviet arms resupply,

5, 6, 8, 15, 30, 45, 147, 224, 341, 389;

Soviet nuclear guarantee, 386n6,

388n20; Soviet pilots, 95, 448n54;

Soviet political backing, 357; Su–17 use

in 1973, 290; Yom Kippur War, xiv, xv,

178, 301–2

Sysoev, Viktor (Soviet naval officer), 27–9

Tal, Yisra’el (IDF general), xiii, 245, 324,

383n7

Talaat (Eg yptian general), 43

Tanks, 112

Eg yptian, 26, 271, 342, 348

Israeli, 16, 21, 25, 62, 75, 83, 108, 110,

111, 117, 118, 129, 309, 339, 342,

343, 346, 352, 356, 390n4, 401n32,

404n21, 408n28

Sherman (Israeli), 448n49, 463n40

Soviet, 6, 16, 22, 33, 44, 83, 94, 117,

120, 128, 129, 139, 140, 218, 260

326, 341, 356, 408n28

Syrian, 25, 317, 333

United States, 310

PT–76 (Soviet, amphibious), 22–3

T–34 (Soviet), 250, 407n20

T54/5 (Soviet), 56, 321

T–62 (Soviet), 288, 321, 343, 448n49,

463nm40

Tanta, Eg ypt, 215, 409n48, 51

Taran, Pavel (Soviet Air Force general), 153

Tartus, Syria, 153

TASS (Soviet news agency), 48, 102, 233,

275–6, 341, 345, 359, 397n8

Tawila, Abdel Satar (Eg yptian journalist),

282, 288, 290, 445n11

Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR, 6

Teko’a, Yosef (Israeli diplomat), 98–9

Tel Aviv, Israel, 13, 57, 63, 76, 93, 167, 184,