Egyptian Armed Forces

[Gomig-21]

EAF MiG-35 flying rehearsal over Cairo for the military graduation ceremony coming up.

 

[Gomig-21]

More EAF MiG-35s, F-16s and Mirage 2Ks.
Supposedly there will be an official announcement of the MiG-35s being operational in the EAF during the ceremonies. Hopefully we'll start seeing more pictures of these machines and I truly hope they don't mess that beautiful camo scheme with some tacky Tahya Masr. Menfadlak, Ya Rab!

 

[HannibalBarca]

More EAF MiG-35s, F-16s and Mirage 2Ks.
Supposedly there will be an official announcement of the MiG-35s being operational in the EAF during the ceremonies. Hopefully we'll start seeing more pictures of these machines and I truly hope they don't mess that beautiful camo scheme with some tacky Tahya Masr. Menfadlak, Ya Rab!

How many delivered now? "approximately"

 

[Gomig-21]

Gamal Abdel Nasser Mistral.

How many delivered now? "approximately"

15 or so out of 46 ordered.

 

[Gomig-21]

Spacing is a Problem, that's for sure.

Says who, a bunch of Twitter wannabe journos? Show me 1 example where it was a problem.

And where is it a problem here? If anything, this is the opposite of it being a "problem" but you don't see the usual cast of Twitter journos complementing anything of the sort, do you?

https://twitter.com/x/status/997299833487716352

Where's the talk that spacing here wasn't an issue, or that they're using M60-A3s as lead vehicles to assess threats like IEDs and neutralizing them? Nothing by the usual cast of characters.

The Sinai events took too many Egyptian life, that's for sure.

That's what terrorists do. They are the scum of the earth and fight like scum and kill innocents like scum. The fact is that there hasn't been a real fight against them by the Egyptian army since the start of Operation Sinai 2018 4 months ago. If you want to use statistics as to their performance, start from that time frame and not 7 years ago. That's why those Tweets are nothing but negativity and don't portray the real picture.

If the criticism was "why did they wait until 4 months ago to start this fight," then yes, that is 100% legitimate. Other than that, it's not criticism but rather negativity.

Egypt Army could have done a better job, That's for sure.

Says who? No offense, but that's a ridiculous thing to say. Like I said, the mistake they made was not start this fight 7 years ago or at least in 2013 once Sisi was elected president. Otherwise, they've done an excellent job since the start of this operation and unfortunately that gets lost in the pool of unwarranted criticism and negativity.

I understand that many want to see the positive side or at least the Good result, and that is understandable But we have to understand, this isn't some game or every day "normal" news... Young people die everyday BECAUSE of simple rules that wasn't enforced or learned properly, Because of a tactics that wasn't chosen properly by the higher ups...
Egypt is not some Third world Army, that have no Doctrine, No training or no History But with just a better discipline, and the "right" training, We could get way better result and spare the life of many youngster.

Sorry, man, that's the same old same old. It's the same stuff the critics are parading left and right and really have no clue what is actually happening on the ground. Couldn't be further from the truth.

IMO, in such events, I'm for a full criticism, if they are "objective" ofc. not just some Insult and such.
As for the Tweet, it was mostly to highlight that many saw such behavior. I also posted answer that was interesting by Egypt Defence review

That's the problem, its not objective, it's subjective since your mind is already made up. The perfect example of that (and speaking of Egypt Defense Review) who started the conversation about poorly equipped Sa'qa which turned into the cultural aspects of rankings within platoons and squad commanders and how certain personalities that behave that way are loathed by certain members, your reply was "this is why the lose wars." lol, I couldn't believe it, but I wasn't surprised and I left it there. Go back and read that entire exchange and you'll see how that 'over the board' criticism of platoon commanders led to your comment that's why entire wars are lost! Sorry, but that is just so crazy and it's also proof positive that no matter the objective criticism or balanced views, they won't matter anyway since most people -- such as yourself-- have already made up their minds and it won't matter how well they perform. There will always be something that someone will point out not because something specific needs to be fixed, but to bring the whole ship down. That's the problem.

 

[Mhmoud]

Anyone know what that barrel or muzzle is on the manned turret of the M-60A3? Interesting modification, maybe some type of ATG or even a flamethrower?

Methinks it is some sort of grenade launcher.
As the video from Raytheon suggests, its SLEP for the M-60 gives it an RCWS, which is equipped with a minigun. However, in this case, we see a single thick long barrel. Considering the utility and availability of multiple grenade launchers, maybe even automatic, in COIN operations, I'm willing to vouch for it being that.

 

[Gomig-21]

Methinks it is some sort of grenade launcher.
As the video from Raytheon suggests, its SLEP for the M-60 gives it an RCWS, which is equipped with a minigun. However, in this case, we see a single thick long barrel. Considering the utility and availability of multiple grenade launchers, maybe even automatic, in COIN operations, I'm willing to vouch for it being that.

Mmmm...I would love to agree with you if not for the sole reason that you are one heck of a swell individual, but I must respectfully disagree with the grenade launcher theory because of 2 reasons. 1) typically, grenade launchers on tanks are usually in the 40mm range and their launchers off of tanks almost always look something like this.

2) If you take a closer look at the pic in question, you can see that it looks like the 50 cal machine gun is still there and coming out of the turret, then this housing is attached to it.

That space where you can still see the original gun barrel is probably needed space to allow for up and down movement of the gun, sort of a spacer. That more than likely means that housing is probably something close to what @500 suggested. Either a custom, cooling housing or more likely just simply a dust cover to protect the 50 cal M85 machine gun from all the sand and dust being wiped around from the tank tracks and/or other vehicles.

Another question: anyone know what unit that new and different camo belongs to on the solider to the far right?
Woodland camo?

 

[The SC]

Mmmm...I would love to agree with you if not for the sole reason that you are one heck of a swell individual, but I must respectfully disagree with the grenade launcher theory because of 2 reasons. 1) typically, grenade launchers on tanks are usually in the 40mm range and their launchers off of tanks almost always look something like this.

2) If you take a closer look at the pic in question, you can see that it looks like the 50 cal machine gun is still there and coming out of the turret, then this housing is attached to it.

That space where you can still see the original gun barrel is probably needed space to allow for up and down movement of the gun, sort of a spacer. That more than likely means that housing is probably something close to what @500 suggested. Either a custom, cooling housing or more likely just simply a dust cover to protect the 50 cal M85 machine gun from all the sand and dust being wiped around from the tank tracks and/or other vehicles.

Another question: anyone know what unit that new and different camo belongs to on the solider to the far right?
Woodland camo?

looks like a silencer..

That cammo might be from a marines unit.. just my guess..

 

[Gomig-21]

looks like a silencer..

Yeah, a huge suppressor! lol

That cammo might be from a marines unit.. just my guess..

Almost looks like a GCC country like Kuwait or Bahrain unit joining the fighting. I'd rather see the Sa'qa wear that woodland than that awful sand yellow with blotches of turd brown. I personally think it's one of the worst camos ever.

Some more EAF MiG-35 beauties.

 

[Gomig-21]

EAF Mirage 2K. Still looking very sharp.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1003299595546451969

 

[Gomig-21]

Hopefully we'll see the Ka-52's at the ceremony as well.

 

[The SC]

Men of the Navy Special Forces of the Northern Fleet with Thunderbolt, Paras and police special operations..

 

[The SC]

Ramadan war 1973

 

[Mhmoud]

Mmmm...I would love to agree with you if not for the sole reason that you are one heck of a swell individual, but I must respectfully disagree with the grenade launcher theory because of 2 reasons. 1) typically, grenade launchers on tanks are usually in the 40mm range and their launchers off of tanks almost always look something like this.

2) If you take a closer look at the pic in question, you can see that it looks like the 50 cal machine gun is still there and coming out of the turret, then this housing is attached to it.

That space where you can still see the original gun barrel is probably needed space to allow for up and down movement of the gun, sort of a spacer. That more than likely means that housing is probably something close to what @500 suggested. Either a custom, cooling housing or more likely just simply a dust cover to protect the 50 cal M85 machine gun from all the sand and dust being wiped around from the tank tracks and/or other vehicles.

You're right. Thanks for clearing it up.

 

[The SC]

Let's go, bring the next one in, got 4 total under this contract and need at least 4 more after that. The speed they put this one together is exceptional, a sign of superb ship-building capabilities in Egypt and should move to another level. Expand that drydock to accommodate 2 ships being built at once. That'll produce more jobs and speed up the process so they can start building frigates also, not just corvettes.

We gotta get past this tragedy, though.

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