Battle of Baltim (Continued): One source states that upon its return to Alexandria, the fourth OSA claimed that the small fleet of Egyptian missile boats had sunk four Israeli boats which they believed were three motor torpedo boats and a single missile boat. This source goes on to state that many years later, the Commander of the Reshef met an Egyptian naval officer at the US Naval War College who had commanded one of the OSA's and was told that the Egyptian officer and two or three crew members survived the attack and were able to swim ashore. In his book, The Ramadan War, Mr. Hassan EL-Badri also states that four Israeli vessels were sunk earlier on 08 October. However, research has yet to locate any supporting evidence of a naval engagement between the Egyptian and Israeli navies on this date. The aftermath of the two naval engagements, the Battle of Latakia and the Battle of Baltim, gave the Israeli navy near total control of the eastern Mediterranean until the end of the war on 26 October. In the larger overall picture concerning combat-at-sea, the effective use of Electonic Counter Measures (ECM) and Surface-to-Surface Missiles (SSM's) by the Israeli Navy provided many lessons in the future development of ECM and SSM technologies for many navies throughout the world..... ________________________________________________________________________________________ OSA-1 Class and Sa'ar Class Missile Boat specifications: Name: Osa I (Project 205) Displacement: 172 tons standard, 210 full load Length: 37.5 m Beam: 7.64 m Draught: 3.8 m Propulsion: Three M504 B2 waterjets; 12,500 hp Speed: 38 knots Range: 500 nm at 35 knots Crew: 26 / 28 Officers and Crew Armament: Two AK-230 30mm/65 gun mounts                  Four SS-N-2A Styx missiles Name: Sa'ar Missile Boat Displacement: 415 tons/466-450 tons loaded Length: 58 m Beam: 7.62 m Draught: 2.4 m Propulsion: 4 MTU diesels 12,000 horsepower                  4 screws Speed: 33 knots Range: 4,800 nm at 19 knots, 2,200 nm at 30 knots Electronic warfare and decoys: Surface/air search radar                  Neptune/S.P.S Fire-Control Radar: Orion Armament: 6 Gabriel SSN missiles                  40mm or 76mm Gun Mount (varied with                  vessel mod.) STYX SSN-N-2 Surface-to Surface Missile                       Gabriel Surface-to-Surface Missile                                               (Pictures courtesy of http://commons.wikimedia.org) References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=21392260 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/saar.html http://www.eze33.com/pazan/hayam02.htm http://www.scribd.com/doc/12416181/Israeli-Navy http://www.historyandtheheadlines.abc-clio.com http://www.helium.com/items/440870-a-history-of-the-israeli-navy?page=6 Military aspects of the Israeli-Arab conflict: international symposium (By Louis Williams) Naval strategy and operations in narrow seas (By Milan N. Vego) To: Battle of Baltim (Page 1)