Egyptian Armed Forces

[Amun]

Thank you, man. Yep, the same one I posted but bigger. I've never seen the Egyptian Chinook landing in water. I think @Frogman is full of it. No such pic exists.

Do you know how much is it....?!
and how big will be the paper work if it sank....?!

 

[Gomig-21]

Do you know how much is it....?!
and how big will be the paper work if it sank....?!

That would be a disaster for sure. One Chinook costs $38.55 million! That's more than a JF-17 Thunder! That's crazy if you think about it in those terms.

JF-17 Thunder:
Unit cost Block 1: US$~25 million Block 2: US$ ~28 million Block 3: US$ ~32 million (planned)

It looks like it can easily sink if the cabin get's overflowed and flooded. The Iranian one looked like the water had filled most of the cabin and the rear cargo door barely had any space for the dinghy to get in!

EDIT: Actually, now that I looked at it again, the Iranian one has the rear cargo ramp up and it doesn't look like any water is in it. Pretty slick.

They probably need to keep the rotors running and create a bit of lift to prevent it from sinking, is my guest. But if you look at some of those pics, some of the rotors are barely spinning. It is risky for sure.

 

[Gomig-21]

WingLoong

 

[Frogman]

WingLoong

Iraqi Air Force ya Gomes. Apart from a crap selfie there aren't any pictures of Egyptian CH-X UAVs.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

That would be a disaster for sure. One Chinook costs $38.55 million! That's more than a JF-17 Thunder! That's crazy if you think about it in those terms.

JF-17 Thunder:
Unit cost Block 1: US$~25 million Block 2: US$ ~28 million Block 3: US$ ~32 million (planned)

It looks like it can easily sink if the cabin get's overflowed and flooded. The Iranian one looked like the water had filled most of the cabin and the rear cargo door barely had any space for the dinghy to get in!

EDIT: Actually, now that I looked at it again, the Iranian one has the rear cargo ramp up and it doesn't look like any water is in it. Pretty slick.

They probably need to keep the rotors running and create a bit of lift to prevent it from sinking, is my guest. But if you look at some of those pics, some of the rotors are barely spinning. It is risky for sure.

Actually a JF-17 block II costs 35 million... off the shelf...

That would be a disaster for sure. One Chinook costs $38.55 million! That's more than a JF-17 Thunder! That's crazy if you think about it in those terms.

JF-17 Thunder:
Unit cost Block 1: US$~25 million Block 2: US$ ~28 million Block 3: US$ ~32 million (planned)

It looks like it can easily sink if the cabin get's overflowed and flooded. The Iranian one looked like the water had filled most of the cabin and the rear cargo door barely had any space for the dinghy to get in!

EDIT: Actually, now that I looked at it again, the Iranian one has the rear cargo ramp up and it doesn't look like any water is in it. Pretty slick.

They probably need to keep the rotors running and create a bit of lift to prevent it from sinking, is my guest. But if you look at some of those pics, some of the rotors are barely spinning. It is risky for sure.

Also note that Pak bought MI35M/Es for 34 million a pop.

That would be a disaster for sure. One Chinook costs $38.55 million! That's more than a JF-17 Thunder! That's crazy if you think about it in those terms.

JF-17 Thunder:
Unit cost Block 1: US$~25 million Block 2: US$ ~28 million Block 3: US$ ~32 million (planned)

It looks like it can easily sink if the cabin get's overflowed and flooded. The Iranian one looked like the water had filled most of the cabin and the rear cargo door barely had any space for the dinghy to get in!

EDIT: Actually, now that I looked at it again, the Iranian one has the rear cargo ramp up and it doesn't look like any water is in it. Pretty slick.

They probably need to keep the rotors running and create a bit of lift to prevent it from sinking, is my guest. But if you look at some of those pics, some of the rotors are barely spinning. It is risky for sure.

Air te=ractor... weird choice... should have bought Tucanos instead.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Any Egyptian members or others ever see the Chinook actually land in the water like it's designed to do?
This is the closest I've seen it come to that in these recent Aqaba 3 exercises.

The Iranian Chinook floating, and floating pretty deep!

US Marines do it quite frequently.

EAF Chinook.

Chinook is an awesome chopper... even Pak wanted them once upon a time... specially after 2006-7 floods which drowned quarter of the country...

Egyptian army M-60A3 defending a military checkpoint from a cockroach attack.

Egyptian-built Fahd-280 IFV version during the joint Egyptian/Jordanian military drills "AlAqaba-3" - armed with 2A42 30mm cannon & FN MAG machine gun & 9M113 Konkurs launcher.

Haven't seen it. Please post it if you have it, or anyone else. It would be nice to see it.

Is Fahd IED resistant? Also what protection standard is it?

 

[Gomig-21]

Iraqi Air Force ya Gomes. Apart from a crap selfie there aren't any pictures of Egyptian CH-X UAVs.

Yeah I know, bro. That's why I posted it. Figured it was the closest thing to what we have and what's a little sharing amongst brothers, right? Besides, you know where I got it from, right? Shameless plug for you, ma man.

 

[Gomig-21]

Actually a JF-17 block II costs 35 million... off the shelf...

Close enough. Someone should update Wikipedia.

Also note that Pak bought MI35M/Es for 34 million a pop.

I am fully aware of that, my friend. Excellent helo.

Air te=ractor... weird choice... should have bought Tucanos instead.

EAF has 55 Tucanos, but I believe they're only used as trainers. They bought an entire squadron of these Archangels/Air Tractors from the UAE to help reduce the high cost of continuous, verimincal, cretin crunching along with the UCAVs. Take the strain off the F-16 fleet and reduce flight-hour costs. And what a job it's doing. This is the armed version and many countries using the fire-fighting version. It's working out great.

There was a whole saga as to securing the Egyptian contract for these superb, COIN aircraft between the OEM and the new name it's under and it was a really complicated issue and they had misled the EAF as to who was the original builder of the aircraft, but it was resolved and they've been disinfecting many areas with them. @Khafee or @The SC or @Frogman might know what the exact story was. I'm pretty sure the EAF ended purchase 12 aircraft from the UAE in 2015/16 and those are the ones that are currently cleaning up the cockroaches.

IOMAX moves to secure Egyptian Archangel sale from competitor

Gareth Jennings, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

23 February 2017

The IOMAX Archangel aircraft at the Dubai Air Show 2015. The company has moved to safeguard a pending sale to Egypt from being poached by a competitor. Source: IHS Markit/Gareth Jennings

IOMAX has held high-level talks with the Egyptian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to safeguard an expected sale of armed turboprop aircraft from being poached by its Air Tractor and L3 Technologies competitors, a company official told Jane's.

The North Carolina-based IOMAX has for some months been negotiating with the Egyptian MoD to support and upgrade 12 AT-802s that have been gifted by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), at the same time as looking to sell the country 10 of its latest Archangel Block 2 Border Patrol Aircraft (BPA). However, emergency talks have been held after IOMAX discovered that L3 was trying to use the US government to have Egypt buy the AT-802L that it has developed with Air Tractor instead.

"We have found that Air Tractor and L3 have been misrepresenting their product in Egypt, but luckily we found this out before it had gone through the [Defense Security Cooperation Agency] DSCA, the State Department and the [US Air Force] USAF [approval process]. We have now corrected that narrative, and are in the final stages of discussions with the Egyptians for the sale of the Archangel," the IOMAX official told Jane's.

According to the official, Air Tractor and L3 had been looking to sell their AT-802L into Egypt on the basis that it was already fielded and in service with the UAE, whereas in fact this is the IOMAX AT-802 and its successor Archangel. "To say the Egyptians were dismayed when they realised Air Tractor and L3 had never built or much less fielded an armed AT-802, and in addition were not the ones who build the current Archangel, would not be an overstatement," he said.

Although IOMAX told Jane's that it had corrected the narrative with the Egyptians, it noted that this was not before the country's MoD had submitted a sole source letter of recommendation (LOR) request to the US government for the AT-802L based on its misunderstanding of the situation.

We also use the armed version of the K-8 Karakorum. We've seen it in action firing A2G missiles only a few times during exercises.

They also use the Grob 115 trainer.

And the L-59E as well, superb aircraft.

 

[Hell NO]

CZ-807 first appearance
Carrying ammo !!!!!
The colour of vest matches the colour of camo even the pads and boots!!!!!!!

 

[Gomig-21]

Egypt will hold its first International Defense Expo (EDEX) next year, December 3-5.

 

[Gomig-21]

Minister of the French armed forces, Florence Parly gets a tour of Egypt's Rafale base during her recent visit to Egypt.

 

[Gomig-21]

Badr 2017 is concluding.

Testing the locally built long-ranged, tracked, laser camera ST-HD-IP10KLS.

 

[The SC]

Inauguration of the Rafale training center in Egypt during French DM visit

 

[Gomig-21]

Can anyone identify the gadget right next to the roundel? Looks like a flare launcher but that's a strange spot for it.

 

[Gomig-21]

Back in the day, if they were building supersonic jets in the early 60's, shouldn't be a problem building one now.

Look how beautiful these things were!