The Egyptian Armed Forces are the largest in Africa, and the Arab World, and is the 10th largest in the world, consisting of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy, Egyptian Air Force and Egyptian Air Defense Command.

The Egyptian Air Force or EAF is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces.

The Egyptian Air Force has 216 F-16s ( plus 20 on order ) making it the 4th largest operator of the F-16 in the World.

* The Egyptian Air Academy

* The Egyptian Air Defense Academy

** Israeli Air Force F4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill forty-seven Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as Bahr el-Baqar massacre.

Nasser personally took over command of the military and, aware that he was unable to stop the invasion, he coordinated with King Saud to land Egyptian Air Force planes in Saudi Arabia and Sudan to avoid destruction.

On the morning of 5 June, the Israeli Air Force ( IAF ) struck Egyptian air fields, destroying much of the Egyptian Air Force.

* Operation Focus, the Israeli name for the attack against the Egyptian Air Force in the Six-Day War

Units were sent to the Middle East and Palestine as part of an air policing policy, in cooperation with the Israeli Air Force and Egyptian Air Force to prevent conflict between the two countries owing to the formation of the state of Israel in 1948.

* Egyptian Republican Guard, under the control of the Ministry of Defense and numbers about 60, 000 personnel and they are mainly for ceremonials and parades.

The Egyptian Air Force and Air Defense Forces performed poorly.

Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi affirmed during a phone call with his Israeli counterpart Egypt's commitment to maintaining the 1979 Camp David peace treaty with Israel according to Arabic-language news agency Al-Hayat.

Operation Assaf (, Mivtza Asaf ) was an Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) operation against the Egyptian Army between December 5 – December 7, 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

It is a good-hearted satire movie about the Israel Defense Forces which tells the story of a reserves company, watching the Egyptian border in Sinai.

After the official end of the Yom Kippur War, Tal, serving as commander of the southern front, received an order from Chief of Staff General David Elazar and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to attack Egyptian forces.

Israel Defense Forces-Tunnel Found Near Egyptian Border

In the 1948 Arab – Israeli War, the vicinity of Beit Hanoun, and later Beit Hanoun itself, served as a tactical wedge ( Beit Hanoun wedge ), stuck by the Israel Defense Forces to disrupt the movement of the Egyptian army from Majdal to its forces to the south in the area that later became the Gaza Strip.

Born in Egypt, Darwish is the daughter of an Egyptian Army lieutenant general, who was called a " shahid " by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, after being killed in a targeted killing by the Israeli Defense Forces in 1956.

It is home to the embassies of Qatar and Spain, as well as to the Egyptian Defense Office.

Vancier was the National Chairman of the Jewish Defense League, but resigned in December 1978 after he went to jail for bombing Egyptian targets in an effort to stop the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.

The Israeli delaying action at Yad Mordechai bought the newly established Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ) time to organize a defensive line against the northward Egyptian drive toward Tel Aviv.

Nirim remained an Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) outpost against the Egyptian army throughout the war.

The Agranat Commission was a National Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate failings in the Israel Defense Forces in the prelude to the Yom Kippur War, when Israel was found unprepared for the Egyptian attack against the Bar Lev Line and a simultaneous attack by Syria in the Golan — the first phase in a war in which 2, 812 Israeli soldiers were killed.

The name, which means " intensity ", refers to the intensity of the battles that took place here between the Israel Defense Forces and the Egyptian army during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

The Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ) were on high alert ; Israel was in a state of war with Egypt at the time, and thought it suspicious that no Egyptian missiles had been fired at the plane, nor MiGs scrambled to intercept it, despite a similar incident a month earlier, in which an Ethiopian plane was shot down.

* Died: Ahmed Badawi, 54, Egyptian Defense Minister, in a helicopter crash at the Siwa Oasis.

The Free Officers then renamed themselves the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ), with Naguib as chairman and Nasser as vice-chairman.

King Hussein arrived in Cairo on 30 May and committed Jordan to the United Arab Command — an alliance which also included Egypt and Syria — under the command of Egyptian general Muhammad Sidqi.

Simon Dunstan notes that despite the fact that Israel continued to hold the Bar Lev Line, the war ’ s conclusion " led to a dangerous complacency within the Israeli High Command about the resolve of the Egyptian armed forces and the strength of the Bar-Lev Line.

* Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council

He was General Officer Commanding the Egyptian Expeditionary Force between 1919 and 1922 and then Commander-in-Chief Southern Command between 1923 and 1924.

* Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council

After the war, he served as Chief of the British Military Mission to the Egyptian Army in 1946, Chief of Staff of the Scottish Command in 1948 – 1949, Commander of the Highland District and 51st ( Highland ) Infantry Division ( Territorial Army ) 1949 – 52, and retired in 1952 as a Major General.

The Napoleon_I_of_France # Egyptian_expedition_of_1798-99 | Egyptian Expedition Under the Command of Napoleon I of France | Bonaparte, ceiling at the Louvre, 1835

This cooperation eased integration of the Egyptian Army into the Gulf War coalition of 1990-91, during which the Egyptian II Corps under Maj. Gen. Salah Mohamed Attia Halaby, with 3rd Mechanised Division and 4th Armoured Division, fought as part of the Arab Joint Forces Command North.

The Chief of Military Intelligence Major General Eliyahu Zeira, his deputy Brigadier David ( Aryeh ) Shalev, the head of the Egyptian Department Lt Colonel Yona Benman, and the chief intelligence officer in the Southern Command Lt Colonel David Gadila.

)( Schwartzkopf was in fact the general in charge of Central Command, the man with the responsibility of leading the coalition forces in the Gulf war ( multinational forces, French, British, American, Egyptian, Syrian, Canadian, Saudi, Gulf Emirates etc.

* Khaled Mohieddin – Party founder, former chairman, and a member of the Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council.

He was made Adjutant General of the Egyptian Army 1901 and Commanding Officer of 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards in 1904 before becoming a Brigadier-General on the staff of the Irish Command in 1907.

Nawal El Saadawi, the Egyptian feminist physician, spoke out against FGM in 1980.

* 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk ( b. 1919 )

* 1954 – Mahmoud El Khatib, Egyptian footballer

Other prominent Egyptian writers include Nawal El Saadawi, well known for her feminist works and activism, and Alifa Rifaat who also writes about women and tradition.

Egyptian football clubs especially El Ahly and El Zamalek are known throughout the Middle East and Africa and enjoy the reputation of long-time champions of the sport regionally.

The most popular Egyptian pop singers are Amr Diab, Tamer Hosny, Mohamed Mounir and Ali El Haggar.

While Nasser was president, in 1963, Egyptian director Youssef Chahine produced the film El Nasser Salah El Dine (" Saladin The Victorious.

In the second stage El was absorbed into the god Yahweh, the national god of the kingdom of Judah, who took over El's role as creator-god ; in the third stage the theme of creation by battle was replaced with creation by divine command ( paralleling an earlier development in Egyptian theology some 300 years previously ) and the process of creation itself was " de-mythologised ".

File: El Alamein Commonwealth Cemetery 11. JPG | El Alamein Commonwealth cemetery plaque-' 1939 – 1945 The land on which this cemetery stands is the gift of the Egyptian people for the perpetual resting place of the sailors, soldiers and airmen who are honoured here.

alt = The cartoon depicts Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as the next to fall after the Tunisian revolution forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country.

* The Hilton Nicosia in Nicosia, Cyprus, was the scene of the assassination of Youssef Sebai, an Egyptian newspaper editor and friend of Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, on February 19, 1978.

* El Fateh, Egyptian city

In this role, Nephthys was given the name " Nephthys-Kheresket ," and a wealth of temple texts from Edfu, Dendara, Philae, Kom Ombo, El Qa ' la, Esna, and others corroborate the late identification of Nephthys as the supreme goddess of Upper Egyptian Nome VII, where another shrine existed in honor of the Bennu.

In 1980, Egyptian born-Iraqi nuclear scientist dr. Yahya El Mashad, head of the Iraqi nuclear program, was assassinated by Mossad.

El Mokhtar, an Egyptian Arabian racehorse, was the producers ' first choice to portray the Black, but they were unable to secure his services for the film from his owners, who declined any offers.

Resin balls were found in many prehistoric Egyptian tombs in El Mahasna, furnishing tangible archaeological substantiation to the prominence of incense and related compounds within Egyptian antiquity.

The lowest estimate comes from the former Egyptian Army Chief of Staff, Saad El Shazly, who notes Egyptian casualties of 2, 882 killed and 6, 285 wounded.