An Egyptian Air Force MiG-29M2 connects with a PLA Air Force YU-20/YY-20A during the Eagles of Civilization 2025 exercise. (Image credit: X/Sina Weibo/Chinese internet) SHARE.

For example, the MiG-23 served in early engagements during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, being used by the Egyptian Air Force in direct engagements against the U.S.-provided F-4 Phantom IIs and A-4 ...

The 18-day ‘Eagles of Civilization 2025' aerial drills between China and Egypt, which ran from Apr. 19 to May 4, 2025, saw the PLA Air Force's YU-20/YY-20A tankers refueling Egyptian […] ...

Egypt first showed interest in MiG-29s in 2013, after that July's infamous coup, as part of its efforts to lessen its heavy dependency on the U.S. by diversifying its sources of military hardware ...

Libyan MiG-23s were routinely outperformed by Egyptian MiG-21 jet fighters during the Libyan-Egyptian War, and two of these fighters were destroyed by two U.S. F-14 Tomcats during the 1989 Tobruk ...

On Monday, Israel announced its jets had shot down two Soviet-built MIG 17’s. Israel now claims to have shot down 140 enemy planes since the end of the Six-Day War–28 Syrian and 112 Egyptian.

The Moroccan Istiqal Party’s newspaper Opinion yesterday reported that the Soviet Union has begun delivering to Egypt 200 MIG-23 jet fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons.