The level of detail for the Arab Israeli wars is less…more dependent on historians such as Shlomo Aloni translating the data into English…but using the Vietnam data should be a good basis really.
Difference between Nam?.. there might have been less water in the air and probably more heat from the ground (Desert)
I don’t have any exact numbers regarding missiles fired…Aloni has the pilot accounts from these conflicts no doubt missing a lot of detail.
They do mention one Shafrir 2 not prox fusing, another just hitting the ground, and another IR missile homing in on a sand dune…but not the full picture.
in Yom Kippur 1973:
Shahak and Nesher used Shafrir 2, AIM-9D and AIM-9G (G is a D with SEAM basically)
F-4Es used AIM-9D and AIM-7E
Arabs primary missile (Like VPAF) was the R3S (AA-2) IR SRM…Israel captured a load of these in 67 and started using them…according to them it was better than Shafrir 1 and similar to AIM-9B.
in 1973 the Arabs were at some disadvantage because the AIM-9D could be fired at much higher G and could pull much higher G than those old R3s.
Overall performance I would say:
AIM-9B <0.15
AIM-9D <0.45
AIM-7E <0.10
But of course you cannot just assign that to the missile because if you say fire an AIM-7 (with no missile/radar failures) upwards at medium altitude its PK might be 0.7+ or even the AIM-9B/R3S when fired against a level flying adversary with zero angle off and a clear sky might with no failures be a 0.7 missile…so unfortunately finding a balance that gives the required behaviour is the trick.
