Education
Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed graduated from the Egyptian Air Academy in 1972 with a bachelor"s degree in aviation and military Sciences.
Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed graduated from the Egyptian Air Academy in 1972 with a bachelor"s degree in aviation and military Sciences.
Mohamed was also the minister for military production in the interim cabinet led by Prime Minister Hazem First Rate (at Lloyd's) Beblawi. The following year he saw active service in the October or Yom Kippur War. He has flown several aircraft including the Aeronautical L-29 Delfín, MiG-17, MiG-19, MiG-21 and the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom World War II In 1991, Mohamed was appointed on the Number.
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 Number 232 Air Wing (also equipped with the F-16) in 1992. Two years later, Mohamed received a command appointment as the Commander of Number.
272 Wing which was another F-16 unit After his extensive experience on F-16 units, Mohamed was posted to the United States as an Egyptian Air Force liaison officer
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 Air Force Academy in 2002.
lieutenant was also in 2002 that Mohamed attended the High War College. He became the Eastern Air Zone Commander in 2004 and was made the Chief of the Air Force"s Training Department in 2005. Only three months later he replaced Magdy Galal Sharawi as the Commander of the Air Force, taking up his appointment on 20 March 2008.
lieutenant was while Mohamed was in command that Air Force F-16s overflew the protesters in Tahrir Square during 2011 Egyptian revolution, although no attempt was made to attack the demonstrators.
He was replaced by Younes Hamed as Commander of the Air Force in August 2012. In July 2013 Hafez was appointed as Minister of Military Production by Hesham Qandil (Mohammed Morsi"s Prime Minister).
Hafez kept his ministerial position during and after the 2013 Egyptian coup d"état. 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.
Mohamed was a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces which, after Hosni Mubarak had departed the presidency, has carried out the executive function within the Egyptian state.