I was in the Golan Heights on a tour two weeks ago and visited the monument there, replete with two knocked out tanks: an Israeli Centurion and a Syrian T-62. During the October 6-9 battle, some 500 Syrian and about 80 Israeli vehicles were destroyed. The terrain is open and largely treeless. Neither side had initial air superiority and the newer Syrian SA-7 (man-portable) took a toll on the Israeli Air Force, which was needed in the south to block the Egyptians as well. I was weaned on M60s and M48s during my Army days and was surprised at how small the Centurions and T62s were, although I was very familiar with the T62 from OPFOR work. The Israeli training paid off: the Syrians attempted to bridge an antitank ditch and the Israeli gunners knocked out their bridging equipment from a range of 1800 meters with their 105 mm MTGs.
The battle was a surrogate for full on US-Soviet bloc warfare because the Soviets had flooded Arab armies with massive amounts of equipment and when it appeared Israel might lose, they were prepared to use their nuclear arsenal, which could have drawn in the superpowers. As it was, we sent our European war reserve equipment stocks to Israel and they stabilized the conflict and made further territorial gains after regaining air superiority. If you have never studied this battle, it is informative regarding a determined defensive force and how the outcomes of desperate battles are so often in the hands of junior officers and NCOs/EMs.