The Soviet Union provided the Arab nations with more than $2.6 billion in military equipment during the Yom Kippur War, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Appropriations Committee yesterday. His estimate compared with the $1 billion the United States said it spent on supplies to Israel and the $2.2 billion in aid voted by Congress for Israel, He said that while the heavy use of Soviet-made anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles by Egypt and Syria did not represent a new era in military strategy, it had spurred development of better U.S. weapons to deal with them.
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