At H-Hour on 6 October, 240 Egyptian Aircraft crosses over the canal. Their mission was to strike three airfields in the Sinai, to hit the Israeli Hawk surface-to-air missile batteries, to bomb three Israeli Command posts, plus radar stations. Simultaneously, 2000 guns opened up along the entire front.10.500 shells fell on the Israeli positions at a rate of 175 shells per second. At 14:15 hrs, when the aircraft had returned from their bombing missions, the first wave of 8.000 assult infantryman, moving exactly as they had been trained, prior to the war.

On October 15th, Israeli begins its counterattack by crossing the canal between the Egyptian 2nd an 3rd Army, and then encircle the complete 3rd Army by a pincer movement.(see the map, in french)