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Yes and there is a lot of excess electricity in Egypt so cooling storage is not a problem at all..$1 BILLION in weapons alone, and if that doesn't tell you 2 things, then you're not paying attention in that 1) either it's a TON of weapons and/or 2) the French are hosing us big time looool.
Even when you look at the SIPRI sheet for the Russian weapons on the MiG-35, they bought 300 R-73 and 300 R-77. That doesn't seem like a lot and one of the Russian fellas on another forum (because you won't get much info from the Russians on this forum that's for sure!) told me that typically the Russians will suggest that at the start and use up the 300 rounds for target practice and get your pilots really used to using them so they get very acclimated and have a lot of on-hands experience and then when the time is right, the 2nd batch you purchase is the one that you're going to use for real and then storage in hot environments like Egypt becomes very tricky and special buildings with certain cooling systems and heat exchangers etc, in them have to be built to accommodate and store them properly. It makes a lot of sense what those Russian fellas were saying.
With France it is different.. it is mostly the 1).. you mentioned....Egyptian negotiators wanted to make sure they get a lot of missiles for both the Rafale and the FREMM.. since they were not totally sure of the US interventions in those deals .. so they wanted to get huge amounts of missiles (upping the Ante) but the deal went up to $7.2 billion Euros with a second FREMM.. note that the Price of a Fremm frigate is just around $500 million.. so imagine the quantity of weapons they wanted first.... just to make sure..
With Russia it is very different.. as the latter is very happy to have Egypt as a strategic partner in the region again.. and with Sisi wearing Putin's military jacket as a gift.. all Russian doors seem to be open for Egypt to just chose and get what it wants, in quality and quantity alike..
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