[The KG9 Kid]

You've got to remember that those Egyptian tanks would have to tool about a thousand plus miles across the hellish wasteland of the Sinai getting pulverized by the IDF air force before they ever had a chance to get within cannon range of Israel.

The Sinai is littered with the carcasses of the Egyptian tanks from all their other attacks against Israel. The Egyptians would just be adding new tanks to the same graveyard.

[Bobby777]

oh, I know ... and even though it's a different battlefield now, in 1973 (IIRC, not the 1967 war) the IDF took serious losses because the Egyptians had their SAM's nearby ... as you say, once they got into the Sinai, the IDF was able to give them the what-for ...

I believe Israel lost 500 tanks in the first 3 days in 1973 ...

but a coordinated attack by Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. would still put a heavy strain on the IDF ... I know Syria bought a bunch of old tanks from the Ukraine to be upgraded ... I don't know of their other forces but I'm guessing their stuff is more of the T-72 type ... (I think the Ukraine purchase was T-55, T-62-type old stuff?) ...