Conflict catalog

1967 Six-Day War: Weapons and Equipment

The 1967 Six-Day War was the 1967 Arab-Israeli war that opened with Israeli air strikes and ended after six days of fighting.

The 1967 Six-Day War was the 1967 Arab-Israeli war fought between Israel and neighboring Arab states over airpower, territory, and control of strategic ground. It became a defining modern air-combat campaign for several export fighters and strike aircraft.

This catalog tracks weapon systems directly documented in 1967 Six-Day War use.

Entries should be limited to systems with direct conflict-use sourcing.

9 weapon systems

Israel

5 weapon systems in this catalog

Israel

Egypt / Jordan / Syria

5 weapon systems in this catalog

Egypt / Jordan / Syria

Context

Status: Published catalog
Domains: air, land

Dassault Mirage III/5, Single-engine delta-wing multirole fighter family, Aircraft & UAVs

Aircraft & UAVsDassault Mirage III/5Single-engine delta-wing multirole fighter familySide: IsraelRole: Interceptor and air-superiority fighterBuilt: Dassault Aviation / FranceThe Dassault Mirage III/5 is a French single-engine, delta-wing fighter family that evolved from the Mirage III interceptor into the Mirage 5 strike derivative. Exported widely and adapted by multiple air arms, it saw combat from the 1967 Six-Day War and 1969 War of Attrition through the Falklands, Paquisha, 1966 South African Border War, and Pakistan's 2019 air crisis.

S-75 Dvina / SA-2 Guideline, High-altitude surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense

Air DefenseS-75 Dvina / SA-2 GuidelineHigh-altitude surface-to-air missile systemSide: Egypt / Jordan / SyriaRole: Egyptian fixed-site air defense against Israeli air attackBuilt: Soviet state defense industry / Soviet UnionThe S-75 Dvina, known to NATO as the SA-2 Guideline, is a Soviet command-guided surface-to-air missile system built around V-750/V-755 missiles, single-rail launchers, Spoon Rest acquisition radar, and Fan Song guidance radar. It became a defining Cold War high-altitude air-defense system in Vietnam and Arab-Israeli wars, where fixed SAM sites shaped strike planning and suppression tactics. In Yemen, surviving S-75 missile stocks reappeared less as intact air-defense batteries than as source missiles for Houthi-aligned Qaher and Muhit strike conversions.

MIM-23 HAWK, Medium-range surface-to-air missile system, Air Defense

Air DefenseMIM-23 HAWKMedium-range surface-to-air missile systemSide: IsraelRole: Ground-based air defenseBuilt: Raytheon / United StatesThe MIM-23 HAWK is a U.S.-origin medium-range surface-to-air missile system built around acquisition radars, target illumination, and semi-active radar-homing missiles. Developed for mobile low- to medium-altitude air defense and repeatedly upgraded after its 1960 fielding, HAWK has a documented combat record from Israeli and Kuwaiti use to Turkish deployments and donated Ukrainian air-defense fire units.

Walid armored personnel carrier, 4x4 wheeled armored personnel carrier, Armored Vehicles

Armored VehiclesWalid armored personnel carrier4x4 wheeled armored personnel carrierSide: Egypt / Jordan / SyriaRole: UnknownBuilt: Kader Factory for Developed Industries / EgyptThe Walid, also rendered Al Walid or Waleed, is an Egyptian 4x4 armored personnel carrier produced by Kader Factory for Developed Industries. Open sources describe it as a BTR-40-like open-topped APC using a German Magirus-Deutz/UNIMOG-derived truck chassis made under licence in Egypt with a locally produced armored body, two crew, space for about ten troops, a pintle 7.62 mm machine gun, central tire-pressure regulation, and no amphibious, NBC, or night-vision equipment. It first saw combat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, later appeared in captured Israeli service, and was followed in Egyptian production by the Fahd APC family.

BTR-50, Tracked amphibious armored personnel carrier, Armored Vehicles

Armored VehiclesBTR-50Tracked amphibious armored personnel carrierSide: Egypt / Jordan / SyriaIsraelRole: Amphibious mechanized troop transportBuilt: Volgograd Tractor Plant / Soviet UnionThe BTR-50 is a Soviet tracked amphibious armored personnel carrier based on the PT-76 light tank chassis. Designed to move infantry and light weapons across rivers and broken terrain, it carried a small crew plus a large troop compartment behind light welded steel armor. Its record spans Arab-Israeli wars, the Iran-Iraq War, Syria, and Russia's Ukraine deployment of stored vehicles, including photographed and loss-documented BTR-50PK carriers fitted with BPU-1 turrets.

120 mm Soltam M65, 120 mm towed heavy mortar, Artillery

Artillery120 mm Soltam M65120 mm towed heavy mortarSide: IsraelRole: Israeli artillery fire supportBuilt: Soltam Systems / IsraelThe Soltam M65 is an Israeli-produced 120 mm heavy mortar derived from Finnish Tampella mortar design work and adapted for towed, vehicle-carried, and APC-supported fire support. Public references use M65 and K5 terminology unevenly, but they consistently place the weapon in the Soltam 120 mm mortar line that led to the K6/M120 and A7 derivatives.

D-25 122 mm tank gun, 122 mm tank and self-propelled gun family, Artillery

ArtilleryD-25 122 mm tank gun122 mm tank and self-propelled gun familySide: Egypt / Jordan / SyriaRole: UnknownBuilt: Artillery Plant No. 9 / Soviet UnionThe D-25 was a Soviet 122 mm gun family adapted from A-19-line ballistics for heavy tanks and self-propelled guns. D-25T armed the wartime IS-2 heavy tank and later IS-series vehicles, with directly sourced use on Soviet IS-2s in the Second World War, Egyptian IS-3M tanks in the 1967 Six-Day War, and captured Israeli IS-3 fixed bunkers in the 1969 War of Attrition. D-25S was the semi-automatic self-propelled-gun variant associated with ISU-122S, and the family used separate-loading A-19/D-25 ammunition including OF-471 high-explosive fragmentation and BR-471 armor-piercing projectiles.

160mm PM-43, 160 mm towed heavy mortar, Artillery

Artillery160mm PM-43160 mm towed heavy mortarSide: Egypt / Jordan / SyriaRole: Egyptian heavy mortar fire supportBuilt: Tulamashzavod / Soviet UnionThe 160mm PM-43, also known as the 160-PM-43 or MT-13, is a Soviet breech-loading heavy mortar developed from the idea of scaling up the 120 mm mortar family. Its hinged barrel let crews load a roughly 40 kg bomb from the rear, giving Soviet forces a short-range but very heavy indirect-fire weapon in the final stages of the Second World War before the longer-ranged M-160 replaced it in postwar Soviet service; open references also place Egyptian 160-PM-43 use in the 1967 and 1973 wars with Israel.

SS.11 anti-tank missile, Wire-guided anti-tank missile, Munitions

MunitionsSS.11 anti-tank missileWire-guided anti-tank missileSide: IsraelRole: UnknownBuilt: Nord Aviation / FranceThe SS.11 was a French wire-guided anti-tank missile developed by Nord Aviation as the heavier Model 5210 successor to the SS.10. First fielded by the French Army in 1956, it was sized for vehicle, ship, aircraft, and helicopter launch, and documented conflict use spans Algeria, Vietnam, the Six-Day War, and the Falklands.