Yom Kippur War 1973The story of the hardest fought air war of the jet era, where highly trained Israeli air forces almost met their match against Egypt and Syria's high tech MiGs and missiles. The Yom Kippur War 1973, also known as the October War of 1973, was perhaps the most intensive and savage air war in history. It pitted more than 300 Israeli combat aircraftincluding modern US built Phantoms and Skyhawksagainst nearly 1,000 advanced Soviet built jets from Egypt,