What
about the reality of the American airlift and
where was the Russian airlift?
U.S.A. established
an airlift to compensate the losses of the
Israeli army of aircrafts and tanks and
others, since the 10th
of October unofficially, and on 13th
of October the
American airlift became official under the
name of "Nickel Grass" where used C5
and C141 which are American giant military
transport aircrafts. You can follow up their
specification and have information about
Nickel Grass operation or the American
airlift from these sites:
Nickel
Grass operation
The
aircraft C5
The
aircraft C141
The chief of
operations organization of the war of 1973,
Mohamed Abdel Ghany Al-Gamsy stated in his
memorials (Israel had not been satisfied by
the seven Jambo jets of "El Al"
company to transport their needs of weapons
and equipment. Israel tried to rent American
civil aircrafts to secure a rapid transport,
but air companies refused for fear of Arab
boycott, so they used the American military
aircrafts for weapons and equipment transport.
This airlift continued for 33 days from 13
October to 14 November 1973...)
About the Soviet
airlift, Gamal Hammad, the military
historian, in his book "Military
Battles on the Egyptian Front" says ( it
had been difficult to compensate losses of
tanks, specially where had been no reserves
in the stores of the Egyptian military forces.
And the Soviet sent 400 tanks type T55 and T62
from Odessa port on the black sea to the
Syrian
Latakia port (Syria's
main port on the north coast),
that could not result in arrival of any
shipments of new Soviet tanks to Egypt)-Gamal
Hammad.
