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Phase 3 began two weeks ago when older, Soviet-made SA-2s were moved -mostly in secret and at night-within eleven miles of the west bank of the Suez Canal. Israeli reconnaissance watched them, but no effort was made to bomb them for fear Russian MIGs would respond. In North Viet Nam the same type of SA-2s had a "kill" rate of less than one success per 1,000 firings. Suddenly they shot down two Phantoms within 30 minutes (the third downed Phantom was apparently hit by antiaircraft fire), indicating obvious improvements in their radar systems...
...2s, each with six missile launchers, had been moved to positions ranging from eleven miles to 35 miles west of the canal (see map). Just beyond the SA-2s, and outside the 20-mile swath west of Suez, at least two SA3 batteries were emplaced. According to Bar-Lev -and Washington intelligence sources agree-both batteries are close enough to protect some of the more exposed SA-2s and restrict Israeli jets. The SA-3s are manned only by Russian crews. But even though Egyptians crew the SA-2s, Bar-Lev claimed that "in every battery we have...
...more intense form." Her point was underscored when Soviet-made SA-2 missiles near the Suez Canal brought down a Phantom jet and an Israeli Skyhawk within half an hour of each other. The planes were the only ones to be destroyed by SA-2s since the Six-Day War other than a lone Piper Cub. The fact that Russia has apparently developed mobile platforms for the missiles, enabling Egypt to shift and hide them in an area that has been subjected to 25 consecutive days of bombing, convinced Israel that a temporary truce would be militarily devastating...
Tight Security. The SA-3, similar to the U.S. Hawk missile but equipped with better radar, supplements the less sophisticated SA2, which never measured up to Soviet expectations. In North Viet Nam, where Moscow installed them to defend against U.S. planes, SA-2s worked successfully only three times in 6,800 firings. The Israelis lost just one Piper Cub to the SA-2s. By flying low, Israeli jets easily evaded the missiles. They also bombed about 20 of the sites out of existence...
...sensible one. Even without the extra jets, Israel's air superiority puts it in good shape for what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan predicts will be "the electronic summer." This is the anticipated confrontation between Egypt's Soviet-supplied radar and surface-to-air missile systems, SA-2s and SA-3s, and Israeli jets loaded with sophisticated electronic countermeasure equipment...