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As requested by MICA, here's a tentative spread of upcoming Rafale deliveries for Egypt.
The 4th to 6th planes, all DMs, were delivered at the end of January making a total of 6 so far.
18 remain to be received.
This year, France will only get one Rafale M ( and a revision on a problematic one from last year ).
Qatar deliveries will only begin in mid-2018. At 11 planes made per year, this leaves 9 or 10.
All of these should then go to Misr AF although only 5 were initially planned.
2017 would thus see a remainder at 8 to 9 aircrafts. That year however, it is likely that the 3 Raffys
that were taken out of the AdlA's order book would be reversed to ensure that the next Nuclear
squadron is raised within proper time frame.
However, this schedule is further muddled by an imprecise repartition of the leftover from the 26 planes
French order for the 2015-2019 period.
My guess until we get a confirmation ( @halloweene might be able to provide that ) is then :
- 8 and not 5 this year leaving 5 minimum to be sent to Egypt in 2016;
- 8 at least next year, 2017 for a total of 19;
- and thus 5 in 2018 with Qatar "picking up the slack" afterwards.
This would fit the announced 2019 resuming of deliveries to the French forces.
One caveat though, 2018 is the year of the F3R standard arrival. Is this going to impact the above timetable?
If the hiking of the production line tempo already underway sees results by that date, the Egyptian deal
should be respected in full along the lines of what I just surmised.
Have a great day all, Tay.
LOL MICA my friend, when I saw that second picture, I had to do a double take on the flag because at first,
I thought it was one of ours, so used to it ... but no it was the Tahya Misr!
Very nice ship, you guys have excellent taste and sport her gallantly!
I'll check for more pics later, great evening all, Tay
Ah! Chut! Ne soit pas rabat-joie! Next upgrade?
Tay.