Egyptian Armed Forces

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EAF Rafales escorting president Sisi on his current trip to France on the right side. Birds on the left of the presidential plane look like L'Armee de L'air. EAF jets carrying full load of fuel tanks and no missiles while French Rafales carrying single belly tank an wingtip MICAs.

 

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EAF Rafales escorting president Sisi on his current trip to France on the right side. Birds on the left of the presidential plane look like L'Armee de L'air. EAF jets carrying full load of fuel tanks and no missiles while French Rafales carrying single belly tank an wingtip MICAs.

Beautiful Bird.

 

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Second Gowind under construction in Egypt..

 

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A report by La Tribune says the French Ministry of Finances has blocked the sale of 12 Rafale fighters to Egypt.




Cairo intends to purchase the fighters with a loan but the civil servants at the ministry are unwilling to grant the loan as Egypt had borrowed a huge amount to fund its weapons purchase from France.

Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to bring up the issue with President Emmanuel Macron during his visit to Paris this week.

In French for those interested:
http://www.latribune.fr/entreprises...ze-rafale-cloues-au-sol-par-bercy-755147.html

The English version do not speak about everything, What is interesting is that the ENtire loan funds meant for Egypt whatever for military or civil purposes is Already used in full.
What scare the French is whatever if Egypt will be able to pay for those loans or not.
Therefore if no more loan are given, Egypt will not be able to buy anything from France ( military or CIVIL (that the more important IMO) or will need to pay full cash at the first second of the contract.

SO egypt will have to put in percpective is annual growth and is GAS prospect as an insurrance for future/more loans.

 

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The English version do not speak about everything, What is interesting is that the ENtire loan funds meant for Egypt whatever for military or civil purposes is Already used in full.
What scare the French is whatever if Egypt will be able to pay for those loans or not.
Therefore if no more loan are given, Egypt will not be able to buy anything from France ( military or CIVIL (that the more important IMO) or will need to pay full cash at the first second of the contract.

SO egypt will have to put in percpective is annual growth and is GAS prospect as an insurrance for future/more loans.

Egypt has already signed a deal for 33 new Boeing airliners from its civil aviation budget. This 'blocking' of the Rafales is just business. The French are looking for not only guarantees on the loan, but to sweeten the deal for them as well, which makes sense. The original contract included this option for 12 more Rafales which means the main parameters were already agreed on, this is why it's an "option." The main reason Bercy "blocked" anything is because there are "guarantee clauses" that they want the details worked out.

This deal is also potentially much bigger than just the 12 Rafales since it also includes a possibility of an additional FREMM, 2 more Gowinds, 16 NH90 helicopters and even possibly a large fleet of A400M which they've been interested in for many years now.

If Egypt hasn't defaulted on any payments (which it hasn't and there is no reason it will) and they work out the guarantees (which they should easily be able to), the deal will be signed.

 

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Egypt has already signed a deal for 33 new Boeing airliners from its civil aviation budget. This 'blocking' of the Rafales is just business. The French are looking for not only guarantees on the loan, but to sweeten the deal for them as well, which makes sense. The original contract included this option for 12 more Rafales which means the main parameters were already agreed on, this is why it's an "option." The main reason Bercy "blocked" anything is because there are "guarantee clauses" that they want the details worked out.

This deal is also potentially much bigger than just the 12 Rafales since it also includes a possibility of an additional FREMM, 2 more Gowinds, 16 NH90 helicopters and even possibly a large fleet of A400M which they've been interested in for many years now.

If Egypt hasn't defaulted on any payments (which it hasn't and there is no reason it will) and they work out the guarantees (which they should easily be able to), the deal will be signed.

You nailed it.. but I'll stop at the 2 more Gowinds and a FREMM on top of the Rafales and the unmanned Heli.. I was following the news about the NH90 and the A400M, they both have problems, they have not matured enough despite top specs on paper..just too many groundings, the latest for the NH90 just happened 2 days ago in Germany..

 

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You nailed it.. but I'll stop at the 2 more Gowinds and a FREMM on top of the Rafales and the unmanned Heli.. I was following the news about the NH90 and the A400M, they both have problems, they have not matured enough despite top specs on paper..just too many groundings, the latest for the NH90 just happened 2 days ago in Germany..

Interesting. I'm not a big fan of the A400M either, TBH. Didn't know those two had issues. In a way it might be a blessing in disguise.

EAF Rafale @ Landivisiau NAS air base in La France.

 

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The rarer SIG 516 that you don't see that often.

I have no idea why they chose this monstrosity. The only thing I can think of is it's easily interchangeable caliber from 7.62x39 to 5.56. Other than that, seems very cumbersome for a standard issue rifle.

Maadi Misr, now we're talking. You know, before the ban in the US, these were THE BEST made copies to the Soviet AKM. Ask any collector who got his hands on one of these, they loved them and thought they were very well made. The post ban ones...not so great for some reason.

Now that's a tank. When you hear the word 'tank,' the Abrams is what comes to mind. Thank goodness we have almost 1,100 of these and hopefully they'll reach their goal of 1,500 and then they should probably stop there. We'll have to see if anything ends up materializing from the T90.

This new dock in Alexandria is very well engineered. It's basically a man-made inlet bay. Notice how calm the water is in all the pics. That's the basic premise of having it separated so that the current is put in check and it becomes easy docking for the tugboats with all these big ships and submarines. Very well engineered.

And they'rebuilding 3 new naval bases, one in Marsa Matruh, one in Port Said and one in the Red Sea. That way they'll be able to spread the naval assets across the majority of the shores of Egypt.

More SIGs, and those are them Czechoslovakian (I think) re-breather tanks I was telling you about before. Interesting how they prefer to use the belly ones. I find they get in the way more so than the back mounted re-breathing tanks, but these come off easily too so that is a plus.

Interesting group. Looks like maybe some Greek special forces with the Egyptian ones?