El-Said Hamdy

Graduated from the Military College on Feb. 1949. Commander of the Air Defence Forces from Dec.1979 to Jan.1986.

Major Activities:

Diversification of sources of Air Defence weapons and augmenting the following stern missiles and Radar equipment: Hawk, Amoun missiles systems, TPS 59, TPS 63 radar systems to the Air Defence forces. Starting the studies of applying command control and communication system to the Air defence forces. Participated in the following wars:


 * Tribal aggression war 1956
 * 1967 war
 * 1973 war