But that's trivial. It's because of the Palestinian issue and everyone knows that but it shouldn't matter because the policy and the treaty and the government's attitude and dealing are the most important thing and all of those have been nothing but abiding by the treaty. And trust me, the UAE, Saudiya, Sudan, Oman they will all be feeling and sharing the same exact sentiments as the Egyptian people are despite normalization of things. The same stuff goes on in the entire Arab world. There are those who support the normalization and those who don't because they're loyal to the Palestinian cause. It won't be any different.
I remember that. But now when you look back at it, you realize that was a bit premature to feel that way, right? There is no way any leader, no matter how he comes to power in Egypt who will cancel the peace treaty and go back to a state of war. There is nothing in the world that makes that worthwhile unless Israel instigate FIRST. And that brings us back full circle to the weapons and why we want to be as strong as possible and have the right weapons to fight with instead of being short-handed like we always have been. You realize that aside from 1948, all the other wars we fought we were underhanded in weapons compared to you?
I can give you all the statistics I was reading from one of Shazly's books that
@ARCH٤R sent me a couple of days ago and he lists all the equipment including manpower. That was the really fascinating thing about Israel in that as small of a country that it is/was with a tiny population, yet it was still able to mobilize a much larger army in manpower than most European countries combined as well as the United States!!! There were some staggering figures he shared in that book and they're right on the money.
So any of these weapons would be nothing but defensive in their use.
I don't think that was true actually. I think the Israeli heads of state and military leaders weren't happy about this at all. Why else are they discussing compensation and other gifts to keep the QME in Israel's favor? So Israel does have reason to argue against the sale of those AC.
As far as Egypt not relying on the US only for weapons, well yeah, we know why! lol. If it wasn't for giving us the 4th most F-16s in the world and then telling us we can't upgrade the radars to AESA nor can we get the AIM-120 (not even the B which is 60km range like Turkey has loooool) is crazy.
So I'll ask you, why does Jordan get the AIM-120? They were Israel's enemy and made peace AFTER Egypt did by many years? And they're closer? Isn't that interesting? What about Saudi Arabia? They were definitely in a state of war with Israel since they helped us in many ways when we were fighting you guys yet they have the best of the best of the best! lol. Does that make sense? Something is veeeery fishy, Sling! BTW, Jordan is asking for the F-16 Block 70.
Something is very strange. Israel might have something to do with it because of Egypt's airforce reaching a high level of capability and challenging the IDF would make it a bit more of a challenge if the EAF had AIM-120 Cs for its huge fleet of F-16s. It would certainly make it a headache for Israel should there be an all out war except the likelihood of that war happening is almost 0%. That's what I'm getting at with this because of all the existing conditions.
We still don't know if the US offered the missiles with the F-15 if we canceled the Su-35s, right? So can you imagine them offering the F-15s instead of the F-35 we asked for and then saying "but we can't give you the AIM-120s with them and they'll be just like the F-16" ???????? LOL! Did they say that? I'd love to know!
Meanwhile, Israel operates the latest AIM-120 with all 3 of its aircraft in the F-16, F-15 and F-35. Plus it has its own medium air to air missiles in the Derby. The Pythons are all short range plus they operate the AIM-9s and even operate the AIM-7 Sparrow like us LOL! So the have an advantage even if we did get the AIM-120C. Not sure what the big deal is to keep it away like that including like we mentioned other things like the Longbow which would enhance our Apache fleet's fighting capabilities as a group and it's not necessarily cutting edge technology anymore. So what's the problem?
The only thing I can think of is they're worried we're going to share American systems with China and Russia. That must be the only thing and Israel is even more guilty than Egypt in that so there goes that excuse.
At any rate, thank goodness for our Russian friends! Interesting top view for this beast which I hope is the precursor to the Su-57 coming to Egypt in due time. As we've found out recently (actually we kinda knew about this for a while but we revealed it recently lol) is that stealthy aircraft are good against other aircraft. But against capable ground radars, they're pretty much toasted and buttered up!