Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed (

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: ) (3 March 1952 – 3 December 2013) was the commander of the Egyptian Air Force. Mohamed was also the minister for military production in the interim cabinet led by

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Biography

Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed graduated from the

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in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in aviation and military Sciences. The following year he saw active service in the October or

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. He has flown several aircraft including the

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and the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II. In 1991, Mohamed was appointed Chief of Staff on the No. 242 Air Wing which flew the F-16 Fighting Falcon. This appointment was short lived and Mohamed took up post as Second-in-Command of No 232 Air Wing (also equipped with the F-16) in 1992. Two years later, Mohamed received a command appointment as the Commander of No. 272 Wing which was another F-16 unit. After his extensive experience on F-16 units, Mohamed was posted to the

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as an Egyptian Air Force

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. Returning to Egypt, Mohamed was appointed the Deputy Chief of Armament Department in 2001 followed by a brief spell as the Deputy Commander of the

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in 2002. It was also in 2002 that Mohamed attended the High War College. Now ready for higher command, Mohamed was the Chief of Staff at the Eastern Air Zone headquarters in 2002/03 before becoming the Southern Air Zone Commander in 2003. He became the Eastern Air Zone Commander in 2004 and was made the Chief of the Air Force's Training Department in 2005. On 1 July 2007 he became Chief of the Operations Department and towards the end of the year he was appointed Air Force Chief of Staff. Only three months later he replaced Magdy Galal Sharawi as the Commander of the Air Force, taking up his appointment on 20 March 2008. It was while Mohamed was in command that Air Force F-16s overflew the protesters in Tahrir Square during

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, although no attempt was made to attack the demonstrators. Mohamed was a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces which, after

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had departed the presidency, has carried out the executive function within the Egyptian state. He was replaced by

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as Commander of the Air Force in August 2012. In July 2013 Hafez was appointed as Minister of Military Production by

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(Mohammed Morsi's Prime Minister). Hafez kept his ministerial position during and after the

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. In the Autumn of 2013 Hafez began to suffer from severe heart problems and he died at the International Medical Centre hospital on 3 December 2013.

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