3 companies helped destroy 100 tanks: Operation HLA exposed | Israel Today

The events of the Yom Kippur War are deeply ingrained in Israeli society, but precisely one of the moments that led to the Israeli victory over Egypt has not yet been fully revealed.

The siege of the Egyptian Third Army, which was one of the moves that led to Israel's supremacy at the end of the war, was made possible, among other things, by the operation of the electronic warfare unit, which blocked communication between the besieged army and nearby aid forces. In Cairo for its difficult situation.

Vehicle of the unit in the deserts of Sinai,

During the war, three IDF IDF companies were stationed in Sinai: one was stationed in front of the second Egyptian army, the other in front of the third army of the Egyptian army, and the third company at the seam between the two armies.

"Each company then had three vessels on trucks, and each such vessel had three large blocking transmitters, so that each had the ability to block nine networks in a certain frequency range," said Col. (Res.) M., former deputy commander of the SLA unit .

Thanks to media blockages

The siege of the Third Army by the 162nd Division was one of the more dramatic moves that allowed the IDF to end the war as it ended. "The commander of the army, 'Abad al-Manam Wassel, realized that his condition was dire, and he and his senior officers got into a truck and fled in the direction of Cairo," said Col. (Res.) M. "But the Egyptians did not give up, and sent the 25th Brigade of Army 3 Towards the Israeli forces who succeeded in trying to detach the head of the bridge built by the division of the late Ariel Sharon.

A vessel of the unit in the deserts of Sinai,

"The news was received by Unit 8200, then called 848, which was stationed at Umm Hashava, and our forces ambushed their axis of movement. The ambush was very successful, and in a matter of hours our forces managed to destroy more than 100 of their tanks, with very few casualties to our forces. “Our A blocked the command and control capabilities of the Egyptian brigade and the communication between its brigadier general and its battalions, and did not allow them to report back that they had been ambushed. "This allowed the IDF to destroy them completely."

He said, "Egypt had another division, Division 4, which wanted to impose a campaign. 848 passed the information to the PLO forces, with more than 30 targets of communications data between the Third Army and the Second Army.

"The forces completely neutralized the communication capability of Army 3, leaving it almost completely isolated from both the neighboring forces and the headquarters in Cairo."

According to Col. (Res.) M., "The blockades lasted several hours at a time.

When their fighting forces needed assistance, they were blocked.

The move (of the blockade; LS) lasted several days, although it was not continuous.

Since then, the LA unit has changed beyond recognition, and today we are already talking in terms of "spectrum warrior", and not just electronic warfare.

"The spectrum is really a physical - tangible dimension like the air, sea or land dimension," said the commander of the Spectrum Center, Col. A. "The dimension has become very dense, and today there is not a single frequency available in Israel and the entire region.

"The IDF is in a race to control the spectrum, see it, and translate it into control."

He said, "On Yom Kippur we fought armies. The fighting of the other side was more organized, with means of communication, coordination, synchronization, operation of tanks and aircraft."

In contrast to the IDF's operations in 1973, today the IDF operates in a more focused manner.

Thus, for example, in Operation Wall Guard, one of the reasons why Hamas failed to use its skimmer array extensively is the IDF's actions to disrupt their communications.

"The most complex part of BLA today is to be able to influence only what you want - to block the networks. In the past it was simpler, today the challenges have become more complex. There is daily friction in the spectral dimension, and there is no IDF activity "that we are not there."