AIR DEFENCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FACILITIES

 The Establishment and Development of Air Defence College
 1-Historical Brief

With the advance in world weapons and systems technology, it was necessary to build a new generation of officers capable of understanding and accepting these new technologies in the Air Defence field.  

The necessity of establishing a specialized Air Defence college became confirmed to graduate officers who are capable of operating and maintaining the most complicated and  highly advanced Air Defence equipment.
 
 
  

The Air Defence college  was established  on the second of July 1974. Since then, the college has been developed to keep up with other military colleges.

2. The phases of the college education system since its establishment  till now

The study in the college started on the first of April 1974 with a period of 27 months.

Orders were issued on the first of July 1978 to develop the education in the military Colleges to be four educational years including university studies in addition to military sciences.

The studies concerning the development have agreed on engineering studies for Air Defence college to suit and serve the Air Defence specialization  with the cooperation with the faculty of engineering, Alex. University.

The developed education system started in 1978.

The cadet who joins the Air Defence college will study four years and graduate as a second lieutenant with a bachelor degree of Air Defence science, continuing his studies for a fifth year and getting a branch engineering in communication and electro-physics. The engineering study has been developed in 96/97 whereas the graduate gets a bachelor of communication and electronics.

3. College Objectives:

Preparing a qualified scientifically militant officer capable of commanding a sub unit effectively with high physical fitness as well as his capability of dealing with the high technology Air Defence weapons to keep up with the modern air war methods.

 4. Accepting foreign cadets

cadets must:
Finish the high school with a total not less than 60%.

Not be more than 21 years of age.

Pass the physical test according to the set rules of the military college council.

Pass the medical check up.

Pass a test of physics and maths.

Master the Arabic and English languages.

5. The scientific degrees awarded:  

Bachelor degree of Air Defence sciences after the completion of the education year.

Bachelor degree of Engineering in communications and electronics branch after the completion of the fifth year.

The Air Defence Institute was first established as the AAA branch in the Artillery school in Cairo to become afterwards the AAA school. In 1953 the school moved to the institute’s current premises at Alexandria where the commanding order was issued in 1967 to transform the school to become AD Institute (ADI).  

ADI Missions:
Preparing technical and practical bases of AD officers and non commissioned officers through obligatory courses starting from platoon commander to AD commanders courses.

Qualifying AD officers to get a master degree in the AD Science (Specialized AD Staff).

Qualifying graduates of reserve officers college in specialized and technical field.

Teaching and preparing officers and non commissioned officers from Arabic nations and friendly African countries.

Provideing Technical consultancy and research to AD forces.

The ADI holds the following Courses:

- AD Basic Courses
- AD Advanced Courses
- AD Command Courses
- AD Staff Courses

The Basic and Advanced courses are specialized in Missiles, Radar and Artilleries to qualify officers continuously . The topics and level of details depends on the position of the attendees.    

The organization of Air Defence Forces includes two training centers to train non commissioned officers .They are good examples  in receiving, preparing and training AD soldiers.   Sending soldiers to AD units at the field after complete modern education and training to ensure that they are fully qualified to deal with modern AD weapons and equipments. To support the execution of this mission these centers were providedby modern training aids and teachers skilled enough to assist in graduating a generation  capable of bearing responsibilities.

Air Defence Firing Range was first established in 1972. Then the unmanned aircraft (Shokar, Balloons, M6) were used. The firing command and control was done from a field command center.
After after modern technologies were used in fighting , it was indispensible that our firing range should be developed to serve Air Defence personnel and friendly nations.

The firing range Missions: 

1-Firing of all Air Defence Weapon Systems.
2-Possibility of practical training of Egyptian and Friendly Air defence Units.
3-Executing firing and analysis for all the Egyptian Air --Defence Weapon Systems.

The firing range development included the following:

1-Auto command and control center connected with computer networks for commanding and controlling --- missile battalions and resultsanalyzing center at the same time.
2-Missile battalion acquisition spots.
3-Many kinds of unmanned aircraft systems.
4-Tactical training building provided with the latest recording systems through the use of Multimedia.
5-Accommodation.