Hobby Master Archive

In the spring of 1967 with the build up of Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian troops and machinery everyone knew war was coming to Israel. On June 5th 1967 Israel launched a pre-emptive strike essentially destroying the air forces and air fields of the opposition. Israeli forces moved toward heavily fortified Egyptian forces in the Rafah/El Arish sector bordering on the Mediterranean. Here Israeli Patton tanks faced Egyptian IS-3s and initially suffered heavy losses but because of the IS-3 slow fire rate and engines that couldn’t stand up to high heat conditions the Pattons and Centurions were able to destroy 73 IS-3s over the 6 days of the war.