EGYPTIAN NAVAL FORCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05162A000400010095-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: July 1, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC
INTERPRETATION CENTER
PHOTOGRAPHIC
I NTERPRETATION
REPORT
EGYPTIAN NAVAL FORCES
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JULY 1975
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PIR-029/75
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NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Recipients of
SUBJECT : Egyptian Naval Forces
Please substitute the following for the second sentence in paragraph 5:
Several Egyptian combatants have already transitted the canal, both
strengthening the Red Sea Fleet and relieving some of the vessels which have
been trapped there since 1967.
On page 2, please designate the tables as follows:
Table 1. Egyptian Naval Forces
Table 2. Deployment of Egyptian Naval Forces
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1. This report contains the disposition of Egyptian naval forces noted
The naval order-of-battle and totals, provided in
Tables 1 and 2, are composite data derived from photographic coverag~
All naval vessels are included except miscellaneous auxiliaries and service craft.
Egyptian Naval Forces
2. The Egyptian Navy has a diversified fleet which includes destroyers, submarines, subchasers,
several types of patrol boats, minesweepers, and landing craft (Table 1). The Mediterranean Fleet
contains nearly 80 percent of these vessels with the remainder in the Red Sea. The Navy -consists
of Soviet-made vessels with the exception of the old British HUNT-1 PF, BLACK SWAN PF,
EMERGENCY DD and FAIRMILE PFs and the Egyptian-produced NISR PBs. OSA and KOMAR
guided missile patrol boats, considered to be the most effective combatants, were Egypt's main naval
participants in the October 1973 War with Israel.
Deployment of Naval Forces
3. Naval vessels are deployed to a number of different ports in both the Mediterranean and
Red Seas, but two-thirds of the total are at Al Iskandariyah (Alexandria), the country's main port
and naval headquarters (Table 2 and Figure 1). A majority of the combatants in the Red Sea are
at Bur Safajah Port Facilities, the Red Sea headquarters.
4. Guided missile and fire support patrol boats, among Egypt's most capable naval vessels,
are deployed to virtually every major port in the country. The fire support patrol boats (PTFS)
are former SHERSHEN and P-6 torpedo boats which have had their torpedo tubes removed and
BM-21 rocket launchers added.
5. Although the Red Sea Fleet has been small and insufficiently maintained in the past, the
opening of the Suez Canal is helping to rectify this situation. Several Egyptian combatants have
already transmitted the canal, both strengthening the Red Sea Fleet and relieving some of the vessels
which have been trapped there since 1967. The most significant additions have been two OSA PTFG
and two SHERSHEN PTFS which have been deployed from Alexandria to Bur Safajah Port Facilities.
I USAF Jet Navigation charts JN-34 and JN-35 (1:2,000,000) unclassified
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EGYPTIAN NAVAL FORCES
MEDITERRANEAN FLEET (80)
Destroyer/Patrol Escorts Landing Craft
SKORYY DD
3
POLNOCNY LSM
3
HUNT-1 PF
BLACK SWAN PF
1
1
VYDRA LFS?
MP-SMB 1 LCU
10
1
ROMEO SS
4
HUNT-1 PF
KOMAR PTG
WHISKEY SS
6
SKORYY DD
EMERGENCY DD
1
1
P-6 PT
P-6 PTFS
SKORYY DD
3
KOMAR PTG
BLACK SWAN PF
1
P-6 PTFS
ROMEO SS
4
T-43 MSF
OSA PTFG
6
WHISKEY SS
6
KOMAR PTG
2
SO-1 PCS
12
OSA PTFG
4
25X1
KOMAR PTG
2
P-6 PTFS
2
SKORYY DD
SHERSHEN PTFS
2
P-4 PTFS
2
EMERGENCY DD
P-6 PTFS
2
SHERSHEN PTF
2
ROMEO SS
P-4 PTFS
2
SHERSHEN PTFS
2
P-6 PT
5
OSA PTFG
P-6 PTFS
6
NISR PB
3
SHERSHEN PTFS
FAIRMILE PB
4
P-6 PTFS
POLNOCNY LSM
3
MP-SMB 1 LCU
VYDRA LFS
6
SHERSHEN PTF
2.
MP-SMB 1 LCU
1
P-6 PT
7
YURKA MSF
4
43 MSF
T
3
-
T-301 MSM
1
NISR PB
3
FAIRMILE PB
4
OSAPTFG
YURKA MSF
4
SHERSHEN PTFS
VYDRA LFS
T-43 MSF+
3
T-301 MSM
T-301 MSM
2
+ An additional T-43 deployed ? Two of these based in Great Bitter
to Libya Lake
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