OOB Egypt Six Day War 1967

Airforce:

Egypt had 550 aircraft, 430 were concentrated at the Israeli border but only 222 of them were combatready on the first day of the war.
There also was a reserve with a small number of aircraft.

The airforce fielded 18 squadrons with good combataircraft.
The lack of good technical personell and many accidents had a dramatic effect on the operational readiness.
This was due to the fact that the Egypt airforce had a lot of low educated conscripts.
One of the biggest problem they faced was the lack of good/trained pilots there were about 700 qualified pilots.
But only 220 of them were able to fly and most of them could barely survive a dogfight.

Equipment:

Bombers:

30 TU 16
35 IL 28

Fighters:

100 MIG 15's
150 MIG 17's
140 MIG 19's
235 MIG21 F/PFM and U versions.At the start of war only 108 servicable)
64 SU 7BMK groundattackplanes

Helicopters:

1 Squadron with Mi-6
1 Squadron with Mi-4
1 Helicopter squadron with Mi-8

Transports:

1 Transport Squadron  with DC-3/C-47/Dakota
1 Transport Squadron with  Il-14
1 Transport Squadron with An-12B


The detailed losses of the UARAF during the Six Day war in 1967 were as follows:

- 89 MiG-15/17s (including 9 in air-to-air combat)
- 29 MiG-19 (including 16 in air-to-air combat)
- 98 MiG-21s (including 29 in air-to-air combat)
- 27 Su-7BMK (including four in air-to-air combat)
- 29 Il-28 (including two shot down in air combats)
- 29 Tu-16s
- 24 Il-14s (including one shot down by the Israeli fighters)
- 8 An-12s (including one shot down by the Israeli fighters)
- 1 Mi-4
- 10 Mi-6
- 4 other support aircraft were lost as well





Landforces.

Available in the Sinaii:
These were divided among 4 infantrydivisions , 1 mechanized infantrydivision and 2 tankdivisions.
There were also 4 independent brigades.

In total these units had:
100.000 soldiers
950 tanks
1100 armored vehicles
1000 different types of mortars and artillery.

Equipment:

WW2 type german MKIV tanks and STUG III's
T34
T55
light PT76 amphibious tank.

Armored vehicles:

BRDM's
BTR 40/50/60

Artillery.
82 and 120 mm Mortars
76mm field guns
122/152mm Howitsers
122 mm MLRS.

Source : Jeremy Bowen, 6 days war