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| Operation Tagar | |||||||
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| Part of theYom Kippur War | |||||||
 Israeli A-4 Skyhawk | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Egypt |  Israel | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Hosni Mubarak Ahmed ibn Ali bin Hussein ibn Dawud † | David Elazar Benny Peled David Ivry | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 7 air bases damaged | 2A-4 Skyhawks lost, 2 pilots killed | ||||||
Operation Tagar (Hebrew:תגר, Quarrel) was the name of anIsraeli Air Force operation which took place overEgypt on October 7, 1973, the second day of theYom Kippur War.
The operation was preplanned as a sweeping operation to destroy all of the Egyptiansurface-to-air missile batteries on the Egyptian front, by using unguided,general-purpose bombs dropped from a medium altitude near the targets. The attacking aircraft were to approach the targets at a very low altitude, in order to avoid being detected by Egyptian radars (especially fire control and target acquisition radars such as theFlat Face andLong Track).
The operation was composed of three attack waves, the first of which was to disableEgyptian Air Force bases, while the aim of the following two waves was to demolish the Egyptian missile batteries.
The operation was discontinued after the first attack wave damaged several Egyptian air force bases, due to the need for more air power on the Syrian front and in order to executeOperation Doogman 5.[citation needed]
