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The story of the Air Force's ordnance needs is very large
In 1988, Egypt assembled about 5,000 Sidewinder missiles for the benefit of Egypt's large fleet of fighters. At that time, Egypt was assembling the AIM-9M/P and AIM-7M missiles for the F-4 and F-16 fighters, where things were going in a certain way through American aid. Since the beginning of the nineties, America began to object to various types of American weapons, starting with the refusal to supply the PC-3 ORION aircraft to replace the TU-16 aircraft.
Passing by the American M-110 cannon or the Tanker plane, and since 2003 with Egypt's objection to the invasion of Iraq, America has been refusing to supply weapons to Egypt extensively
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, countries' interests in military industrialization diminished, with huge quantities of Soviet weapons in the market for those who pay the price.
But since the invasion of Iraq, egypt has found herself forced to take an interest in military industrialization
So, the military production factories were developed in complexes called the Military Factory 300, which was almost ready in 2012 in the development plan since 2007-2012, but what hindered the equipment was personal interests in the purchase of more than 100,000 pistols and tens of thousands of rifles and machine guns from abroad, and that could not be achieved. From personal favor
The military industry was effectively neglected from 2013 to 2020, as the focus was on buying political consent from Europe for any local manufacturing, which was reflected in the bad and miserable economic performance and dumping Egypt in the debts.
In any case, Egypt's military demands cannot be met by importing.
The problem of missiles, BVR, is the problem of leadership, not politics, and lack of interest in industrialization, as a result of corruption.
We still need to modernize in huge quantities. You need BVR air-to-air missiles greatly for the fighters, up to at least 1,600 missiles. 100 MICA missiles and 300 R-77 missiles were purchased, and perhaps the Sukhoi deal includes 200 R-77M and 120 R-37M missiles.
That is, you still need large numbers, and they have not reached even 50% of your needs, and the Rafale has yet to be equipped with ammunition for the new deal, and it has not been contracted until the signing of a $2 billion deal that has not yet been implemented.
This is in contrast to the crossbars of the BVR missile that serves the air defense systems. The needs are great, so what were purchased from 23 IRIS-T batteries is less than the actual needs category
The same is true for the WVR missiles, as it still relies on the old AIM-9M missile, while the AIM-9X/II missile has been around for 20 years.
And your reliance on the R-73/74 missile with 300 missiles is not enough and is not even classified as the best
Producing ammunition in Egypt is not expensive The program to produce BVR and WVR missiles will not cost Egypt more than 300 million dollars
We gave a simple example of the anti-tank missile TOW 2A, which Egypt requested 5,000 missiles at a price of 690 million dollars. It is considered a variety of provocation and backwardness. The number is astronomical, and it is enough to develop a new missile instead of this, for the old, backward missile, according to modern standards, and to produce more than 10,000 new missiles, to clarify the matter simply
The HJ-11 missile costs between 11-25 thousand dollars The HJ-12 missile costs 60 thousand dollars The KORNET E missile costs 25-60 thousand dollars
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The modern Chinese missile KD-21 or CM-502KG has a price of not more than 100,000 dollars and a range of 20 km, which China recently released on the Z-10 aircraft.
To establish a military industry requires a will
efficiency
Leadership and honest patriotism is a reality, not a slogan
proper planning
A private sector with freedom of production and development and a wide scope for export
Rather, the matter was under the control of the military with their usual efficiency, which is the reason for Egypt’s backwardness since 1952, successive military defeats, debts, and an economy that is begging to continue.
Russia, since the end of 2013, has been putting forward the joint development of weapons and new weapons, not old designs or production lines, because Egypt refused for fear of Western anger.
Regarding technology transfer, many countries accept only high prices, but the spread of new manufacturers makes flexibility available
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South Africa has the Merlin missile project, the South Koreans, their entry into the field and the Indians, and even the presence of the Turks as offers themselves, puts pressure on China, Europe and America in the field of technology transfer and production licenses other than the spread of science and technology. At a price of 120 thousand dollars for the cannon, they received the German PZH2000 cannon from the ukrania
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Any simply a forbidden and forbidden story. This is an absurd reason. Even for example, F-16 Source code can be obtained in some way. Countries do not realize that they got it because they use it at the time of the American ban on it and there is no point in announcing it, so you find America wanting to update the fleets of the F-16 Block 72 for a simple reason Extremely
It is the development of new, developed programs that allow greater control over American weapons, which is what countries like Egypt began to reject because it would place restrictions on use, and they found the trend to buy new fighters better than developing American fighters, which will become under stronger American control and restrictions on the size of munitions
Fake policies are used that no one wants to transfer technology, and there is no choice but to buy, listen, energy, and pay astronomical numbers for weapons until the deals are passed to spoil, which is against the national interest
A country like Egypt is facing a very huge problem now, which is that it has decided to buy its needs from Western weapons due to the lack of funding despite the army’s control of more than 50% of the Egyptian economy.
But the Rafale astronomical price is 150 million dollars without ammunition
Typhoon at a price of 150 million dollars makes Egypt buy small numbers with large loans
Egypt bought 24 Rafales at a price of 3,500 million euros, excluding ammunition, which exceeded one billion euros. It bought 30 Rafales at a price of 4 billion euros without ammunition.
Eurofighter typhoon is on display for 20 planes at a price of $3 billion
MiG-29 bought 52 planes for $2.2 billion in ammunition
So, Egypt went to buy the LCA plane, because the price of the plane, the training version, was $30 million
And the light fighter at a price of 40 million dollars, especially in small quantities, which Egypt requires from 70-120 planes
Egypt can afford to buy large numbers of LCA planes without great economic pressure on the Egyptian economy, while buying 120 Rafale planes will cost Egypt 18 billion dollars, and even 50 planes at 7500 million dollars, so Egypt’s purchase of LCA planes, J-10C or MIG-35 is inevitable While Western fighters are being bought in smaller numbers
There is a comparative advantage for the eastern fighters. Simply, Egypt can buy 250 KH-35 missiles, 250 KH-31 missiles, and 500 KH-38 missiles at very low prices, one or a third of the price of similar Western missiles, which are subject to restrictions in sales in quantity, numbers and price as well, so rely on eastern fighters Having a good amount of ammunition is a must
Moving away from the American and European fight for expensive weapons is national security, contrary to what some people imagine. Egypt has bought weapons at a top of 40 billion dollars since 2013-2021. What did Egypt get from transferring the tanks and manufacturing assembling 5 corvettes from France and Germany, while German shipyards were rescued from bankruptcy and France was rescued from The failure of the LHD ship deal and the acquisition of the lowest-performance submarines in the Western arsenal currently, TYPE-209 and the antique Harpoon missile
Even in the industrial cooperation, we find that Egypt obtained 1000 Hummer chassis and 1000 Sherpa chassis with specifications that are not the latest, which prevents until Egypt exported due to quantity restrictions and American and French production licenses, as you see, the matter is desirable. Patriotism and honest people whose primary concern is Egypt, the situation will change and the arguments with which they justify what they are doing now will disappear.
The Russian-Ukrainian war proved the effectiveness of the SU-35 fighters and many of the Russian systems, contrary to Western propaganda that covers even the failure of the weapons without the desire to have any real effect on hindering the Russians’ goals in the war or the levels of their control over the Ukrainian lands.
It is something that should be taken into consideration
With this purchase the Egyptian Air Force will operate the most diverse fighter fleet in the world. Yup, THE most - with American F-16s, French Rafales & Mirages, Russian MiG-29s, and now Italian Typhoons!
BTW, I'm seeing a lot more similar tech to the Al Tariq in the way the missiles are mounted upside down on the pylons and then flip right-side up once fired. Seems like others are copying that very cool concept.
