Operation Advent Crown

[chico20854]

Here's a (badly translated) link on Egyptian production of reverse-engineered D-30s, ZU-23-2s and M-46 130mm guns and the ammunition (basic HE, AP, HEAT, smoke and illum) for them.

Egypt also manufactured small arms, 82mm and 120mm mortars, grenades, land and naval mines, radios, radars and bombs. The Helwan plant assembled M1 tanks from kits received from the US (gradually adding more locally sourced parts); as the war goes on that assembly line becomes the primary source of replacement tanks and spares for CENTCOM.

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by chico20854

Here's a (badly translated) link on Egyptian production of reverse-engineered D-30s, ZU-23-2s and M-46 130mm guns and the ammunition (basic HE, AP, HEAT, smoke and illum) for them.

Egypt also manufactured small arms, 82mm and 120mm mortars, grenades, land and naval mines, radios, radars and bombs. The Helwan plant assembled M1 tanks from kits received from the US (gradually adding more locally sourced parts); as the war goes on that assembly line becomes the primary source of replacement tanks and spares for CENTCOM.

Keep in mind that Egypt gets nuked in Dec 1997 (at least several of their refineries do) per the East African Sourcebook which is canon - so the question may be does that plant stay in operation with the damage that the nukes do to Cairo and also when the Libyans take out the Aswan Dam with the resultant flooding down the Nile (also canon)

"Cairo, Suez and Alexandria are left in ruins by multiple strikes against the major refineries in those cities."

Target in Cairo would have been Mostorod Refinery which is in northern Cairo so the plant wouldnt have been affected by the blast but very likely by EMP

"December 9, 1997

Taking advantage of the chaos gripping Egypt, Libya launches an attack by Tu-22 bombers against the Aswan Dam, causing the dam to collapse and send a wall of water down the Nile, drowning hundreds of thousands of Egyptians and displacing even more"