He was about to attack another F-4 with cannon fire, but was shot down by friendly fire from a SAM battery.

There's a SAM battery on that point that doesn't like American military aircraft.

The SAM battery turned on its search and fire-control systems while the launch vehicles slewed their missiles into firing position.

The SAM batteries hide in the day.

Of the SAM battery, almost nothing was left.

The smaller tracking radars used to direct the SAM batteries switched on, picking their targets.

When SAM batteries were damaged, parts were quickly replaced.

The strike force could come in now, and that SAM battery was out of business.

When Egypt tried to push beyond the range of its SAM batteries on October 14, it lost 28 planes.

The second wave which attacked the SAM batteries at 3:50 PM was made up of 92 planes.