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@Amir Pharaoh I stole the vid from your channel :enjoy:

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Target practice ?!! Lol ..

We've been taking about BVR for many years !! ..
You can check the previous posts for more details ..

Don't underestimate the EAF or EADF ..
If you only knew what we did with mig-21 vs f-4 , mirage-3 ..
even vs. f-18 in 80s during bright-star exercises !!

Anyway .. you'll see in previous posts , why US provides F-16s without Active-bvr
Egypt is the only country in the world that operates f-16s without Active-bvr like AIM-120 .
we're talking about the 4th largest F-16 operator in the world !

Why .. How .. What are the countermeasures ...
We can talk for hours ..

And you should really know that EAF is more than f-16s / American fighters in general !
It's regarding policy strategy in Egyptian armament since late 70s ..
Various sources ..
Variety in all main branches in the Armed Forces ..
And the AF is not an exception ..
It's just the lack of media concerning EAF .. that's all !!

Most of pictures & videos here .. came up after 2011 uprising ..
Before those events , there was not a single photo of any SF brigades like 777 , 999 , Navy commandos
Before those events , people didn't know that M1A1s are in service in military northern region ..
Even rifles like SIG_SG_552_Commando , Beretta_ARX_160 , ... and many others ..

So , believe it or not ..
Egyptian army shows only a few of its power ..
Whats the problem in getting Flankers if US dont provide BVRs? hell even PAF was denied AIM120 and we got it just recently and that only because we were procuring Sd10 now from china as well.
I still believe BVR is very vital in modern day combat. Its been a headache for us for years for our Falcons had against indian Fulcrum Migs. Our problem was that we cant buy from Russia and USA is as usual US of As when we need them.

You have access to russian Weapons why not buy a couple of squadrons of Su30 flankers with Adder BVRs?
I read some where about egypt considering to buy Su35
 
Armament: DCNS Wins Contract 1 billion euros in Egypt
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Egypt buys DCNS four corvettes Gowind for € 1 billion
Michel Cabirol | 06/03/2014, 7:00 - 512 words
The naval group has recently signed a contract worth approximately one billion euros (excluding weapons) with Cairo for the sale of four corvettes Gowind type three will be built locally.


For DCNS, the test is transformed into Egypt. The naval group has recently signed a contract worth approximately one billion euros (excluding weapons) with Cairo for the sale of four corvettes Gowind type according to our information. A very nice shopping blow to DCNS in Egypt, which surprised the small world of defense in France.The naval group sold in Cairo four corvettes Gowind 2,400 tonnes (+ 2 options), equipped with its combat system, the Setis, which could be armed with surface-to-air and sea-VL Mica sea MBDA Exocet missiles. The European missile currently negotiating shooting facilities with the Egyptian army (50 million euros) and should provide a lot of missiles estimated at between 300 and 400 million euros.

Competition won against German shipyards ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), which proposed Meko A200, and Dutch Damen (corvette Sigma). Three of the four corvettes Gowind be manufactured in Egypt in a state in Alexandria shipyard. DCNS is a new success after it won Gowind Malaysia (6 corvettes) and perhaps before that in Uruguay, where the group was chosen persone by President José Mujica (three patrol Gowind, whose Adroit). A contract was negotiated smoothly, the naval group that has been selected in the first quarter of Egypt.

A choice of Marshal Al-Sissi
This is Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then Minister of Defence, who himself decided this acquisition. A strong gesture vis-à-vis Paris, who had not yet formed Cairo in recent months. Today Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won as expected a landslide victory with 96% of the vote in the presidential election in Egypt , 11 months after deposing the Islamist Mohamed Morsi. His only opponent, Hamdeen Sabbahi an old figure of the left and often regarded as a mere stooge, conceded defeat Thursday, pocketing only 3.8% of valid votes, according to preliminary results, but on almost all polling stations.

This genuine plebiscite, predicted by all the experts since Marshal retired Sissi overthrew Mohamed Morsi July 3, 2013, precipitated at night in the streets of Cairo thousands of supporters of the strongman of the country, subject a cult of personality since he was ousted Islamists regularly elected but quickly became unpopular. Observers from the European Union felt that the election had "followed the law" but regretted the absence of"some players "of the opposition.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who demanded a massive popular dubbing had hoped not less than"45 million" votes. He was finally elected with over 21 million votes cast. The participation rate, which is estimated at 44.4%, is lower than the 2012 presidential election (51.85%), but the Marshal pocketed nearly double the votes had gathered while Mohamed Morsi (13200000) , argued the camp Sissi.
 
Its Bigger than that! It is the simple concept of yes, countries like Ethiopia can build a even start construction dam is what is threatening as it will encourage others to do so, and before you know it there will be many of them and Egypt is screwed!! So as Sudan! It is one of those situations, unfortunately, when one must make an example so the rest will be deterred, plain and simple! I understand why Ethiopia needs that project, and their reasons are justified, but it is one of those situations, were it is us or them, it can't be like we can both have it!

Here is a good read...on the watter issue!!!
People who think that the West's interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria are only about oil are mistaken. Broadly speaking, Western interest in the Middle East is becoming increasingly about a commodity more precious than oil, namely water.

According to the US-based Center for Public Integrity, Western nations stand to make up to a USD 1 trillion from privatizing, purifying and distributing water in a region where water often sells for far more than oil.

Although over two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute shortage. This scarcity flies in the face of our natural assumptions. The problem is that 97 percent is salt water. Great for fish, not so good for humans. Of the world's fresh water, only one percent is available for drinking, with the remaining two percent trapped in glaciers and ice.

Put differently: if all the water on the Earth was represented by an 11-litre jug, the freshwater would fill a single cup, and we can only access the last drop.

Nature has decreed that the supply of water is fixed; all the while, demand is rising as the world's population increases and enriches itself. By 2030, climate change, population growth, pollution and urbanization will compound, such that the demand for water globally is estimated to outstrip supply by forty percent.

Increasingly, for water to be useful, it needs to be mined, processed, packaged, and transported, just like gold, coal, gas or oil. Unlike oil, there are no substitutes, alternatives or stopgaps for water.

There have been three waves of resource-driven imperialism in the modern era.

A quest for gold fueled the first wave. Old-fashioned colonialists, regal and unembarrassed, rode in on horseback, brutally took control of American territories, sent in ostrich-plumed governors, minted coins with the Queen's head on them, and gazed proudly over natives toiling away in perilous mine-shafts. An unprecedented kidnapping of millions of Africans ensued, so as to replace the indigenous Americans that had initially been exterminated by their European conquerors. This coincided with white pioneers brutally conquering Southern Africa, also in search of gold.

The second wave of imperialism has been driven by an unquenchable, post-industrial thirst for oil.

Modern petro-imperialism, the key aspect of which is the US military's transformation into a global oil-protection armed force, puts up a democratic facade, emphasizes freedom of the seas (or pipeline routes), and seeks to secure, protect, drill, and ship oil, not to administer everyday affairs. Nevertheless, the means by which the US is centering its foreign policy around oil is hardly new in spirit, albeit unprecedented in scope.

The third wave of imperialist wars is currently being fought over nature's most valuable commodity: water.

Prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, CIA analysts reported on a prediction of a new theater of war: hydrological warfare, "in which rivers, lakes and aquifers become national security assets to be fought over, or controlled". These predictions became realized in quick succession, beginning with the recent wars in Iraq, Libya and Syria. It is now clear that the age of hydro-imperialism is upon us.

On April 17, 2003, in Iraq, the American company Bechtel received a no-bid reconstruction contract from US Agency for International Development (USAID) for USD 100 billion; thus, making it the largest Iraq reconstruction contract. Therefore, the most lucrative Iraq reconstruction contract was not used to repair oil facilities, build schools and hospitals, or to repair bombarded infrastructure: it was used to source, process, and distribute water.

The secretive, opaque and no-bid nature of the water contract award process is made even worse by one incredible fact. Bechtel has botched many of its previous projects.

In California, Bechtel installed one of the nuclear power plant reactors backwards. In Boston, what promised to be a USD-2.5-billion job for an infamous "Big Dig" project became the most expensive in US history costing USD 14.6 billion. The tunnel project was plagued by charges of poor execution, corruption, criminal arrests, and even four deaths.

In Bolivia, Bechtel's record is one of privatizing water by inflating prices by 35 percent. The inflation caused public riots, in which several people died. Bechtel was ousted from the country and tried to sue the Bolivian government for canceling their contract.

Since the turn of the century, Iraq was the first casualty of hydro-imperialism, and Colonel Gaddafi's assassination marked the second. Libya sits atop a natural resource more valuable than oil: the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer, which is a vast underground reserve of fresh water, estimated to be the largest in the world. Mr. Gaddafi had invested USD 25 billion into the aquifer, which had the potential to turn a country that is 95 percent desert into an arable oasis. As it now stands, France's global mega-water companies: Suez, Ondeo, and Saur, control almost half of the world's USD-400-billion water market. They are poised to rake in billions of dollars from Libya's eighth wonder of the world.

Mr. Gaddafi had intended the scheme to be designed by Libyans, constructed by Libyans, for the benefit of the Libyan population. Now it is being redesigned by Frenchmen and women at inflated costs, constructed by French contractors, largely for the benefit of French shareholders. Libyan taxpayers will undoubtably be stuck with the bill and higher water bills.

The most recent case of hydro-imperialism is the war in Syria. Israel has been leading a Western campaign to support Syrian rebels; in part, because its leaders assert that the Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, poses an existential threat to Israel on the issue of water. Assad has vowed to reclaim the Golan Heights – a strip of land that Israel captured from Syria in the Six Day War of 1967. The Golan Heights provides a staggering 40 percent of Israel's fresh water.

"Syrian control of half of our water poses more of a threat than Iran with one bomb," once remarked ex-Israeli intelligence head, Meir Dagan.

Assad has also been reticent to privatize the water industry and expose the population to predatory pricing, thereby preventing the West from tapping into a multi-billion- dollar revenue stream.

Mr. Assad's refusal to play ball on water privatization and his choice to play hardball over the Golan Heights meant that the Syrian President, like Mr. Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi before him, is an obstacle to the West's hydro-imperialist agenda.

Control of nature's most precious and increasingly valuable commodity will, for any nation, spell the difference between greatness and decline. Mr. Hussein, Colonel Gaddafi and a defiant Mr. Assad know that all too well.

By Garikai Chengu

This commentary was first released on Global Research on May 26.

Farsnews
 
Kerry 'Confident' Egypt To Get Apache Gunships Soon
Jun. 22, 2014 -By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

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US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry attend a joint press conference June 22 in Cairo. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

CAIRO— US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he was “confident” Egypt will receive Apache gunships soon, as he made a surprise visit to Cairo.

Kerry became the highest-ranking American official to visit Egypt since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power after overwhelmingly winning an election in May.

“The Apaches will come and they will come very, very soon,” Kerry said at a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri.

US officials have revealed that $572 million (€420 million) of US aid, which had been frozen since October, was released to the Cairo government about 10 days ago after finally winning a green light from Congress.

The funds will mainly go to pay existing defense contracts.

US officials announced in April they planned to resume some of the annual $1.5 billion in mostly military aid to Cairo, including 10 Apache helicopter gunships for counter terrorism efforts in the Sinai Peninsula.

But the aircraft remain in storage in the US, an official had confirmed Sunday.
Kerry 'Confident' Egypt To Get Apache Gunships Soon | Defense News | defensenews.com
 
Here is a good read...on the watter issue!!!
People who think that the West's interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria are only about oil are mistaken. Broadly speaking, Western interest in the Middle East is becoming increasingly about a commodity more precious than oil, namely water.

According to the US-based Center for Public Integrity, Western nations stand to make up to a USD 1 trillion from privatizing, purifying and distributing water in a region where water often sells for far more than oil.

Although over two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute shortage. This scarcity flies in the face of our natural assumptions. The problem is that 97 percent is salt water. Great for fish, not so good for humans. Of the world's fresh water, only one percent is available for drinking, with the remaining two percent trapped in glaciers and ice.

Put differently: if all the water on the Earth was represented by an 11-litre jug, the freshwater would fill a single cup, and we can only access the last drop.

Nature has decreed that the supply of water is fixed; all the while, demand is rising as the world's population increases and enriches itself. By 2030, climate change, population growth, pollution and urbanization will compound, such that the demand for water globally is estimated to outstrip supply by forty percent.

Increasingly, for water to be useful, it needs to be mined, processed, packaged, and transported, just like gold, coal, gas or oil. Unlike oil, there are no substitutes, alternatives or stopgaps for water.

There have been three waves of resource-driven imperialism in the modern era.

A quest for gold fueled the first wave. Old-fashioned colonialists, regal and unembarrassed, rode in on horseback, brutally took control of American territories, sent in ostrich-plumed governors, minted coins with the Queen's head on them, and gazed proudly over natives toiling away in perilous mine-shafts. An unprecedented kidnapping of millions of Africans ensued, so as to replace the indigenous Americans that had initially been exterminated by their European conquerors. This coincided with white pioneers brutally conquering Southern Africa, also in search of gold.

The second wave of imperialism has been driven by an unquenchable, post-industrial thirst for oil.

Modern petro-imperialism, the key aspect of which is the US military's transformation into a global oil-protection armed force, puts up a democratic facade, emphasizes freedom of the seas (or pipeline routes), and seeks to secure, protect, drill, and ship oil, not to administer everyday affairs. Nevertheless, the means by which the US is centering its foreign policy around oil is hardly new in spirit, albeit unprecedented in scope.

The third wave of imperialist wars is currently being fought over nature's most valuable commodity: water.

Prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, CIA analysts reported on a prediction of a new theater of war: hydrological warfare, "in which rivers, lakes and aquifers become national security assets to be fought over, or controlled". These predictions became realized in quick succession, beginning with the recent wars in Iraq, Libya and Syria. It is now clear that the age of hydro-imperialism is upon us.

On April 17, 2003, in Iraq, the American company Bechtel received a no-bid reconstruction contract from US Agency for International Development (USAID) for USD 100 billion; thus, making it the largest Iraq reconstruction contract. Therefore, the most lucrative Iraq reconstruction contract was not used to repair oil facilities, build schools and hospitals, or to repair bombarded infrastructure: it was used to source, process, and distribute water.

The secretive, opaque and no-bid nature of the water contract award process is made even worse by one incredible fact. Bechtel has botched many of its previous projects.

In California, Bechtel installed one of the nuclear power plant reactors backwards. In Boston, what promised to be a USD-2.5-billion job for an infamous "Big Dig" project became the most expensive in US history costing USD 14.6 billion. The tunnel project was plagued by charges of poor execution, corruption, criminal arrests, and even four deaths.

In Bolivia, Bechtel's record is one of privatizing water by inflating prices by 35 percent. The inflation caused public riots, in which several people died. Bechtel was ousted from the country and tried to sue the Bolivian government for canceling their contract.

Since the turn of the century, Iraq was the first casualty of hydro-imperialism, and Colonel Gaddafi's assassination marked the second. Libya sits atop a natural resource more valuable than oil: the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer, which is a vast underground reserve of fresh water, estimated to be the largest in the world. Mr. Gaddafi had invested USD 25 billion into the aquifer, which had the potential to turn a country that is 95 percent desert into an arable oasis. As it now stands, France's global mega-water companies: Suez, Ondeo, and Saur, control almost half of the world's USD-400-billion water market. They are poised to rake in billions of dollars from Libya's eighth wonder of the world.

Mr. Gaddafi had intended the scheme to be designed by Libyans, constructed by Libyans, for the benefit of the Libyan population. Now it is being redesigned by Frenchmen and women at inflated costs, constructed by French contractors, largely for the benefit of French shareholders. Libyan taxpayers will undoubtably be stuck with the bill and higher water bills.

The most recent case of hydro-imperialism is the war in Syria. Israel has been leading a Western campaign to support Syrian rebels; in part, because its leaders assert that the Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, poses an existential threat to Israel on the issue of water. Assad has vowed to reclaim the Golan Heights – a strip of land that Israel captured from Syria in the Six Day War of 1967. The Golan Heights provides a staggering 40 percent of Israel's fresh water.

"Syrian control of half of our water poses more of a threat than Iran with one bomb," once remarked ex-Israeli intelligence head, Meir Dagan.

Assad has also been reticent to privatize the water industry and expose the population to predatory pricing, thereby preventing the West from tapping into a multi-billion- dollar revenue stream.

Mr. Assad's refusal to play ball on water privatization and his choice to play hardball over the Golan Heights meant that the Syrian President, like Mr. Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi before him, is an obstacle to the West's hydro-imperialist agenda.

Control of nature's most precious and increasingly valuable commodity will, for any nation, spell the difference between greatness and decline. Mr. Hussein, Colonel Gaddafi and a defiant Mr. Assad know that all too well.

By Garikai Chengu

This commentary was first released on Global Research on May 26.

Farsnews

Excellent article! Brings into prospective many things! Thank you for that.
 
Egypt-Iraq arms deal, any idea what kind of weapons besides the ammo will be purchased ?

http://www.ynewsiq.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=5249#.U6yKAo1_tiB

For more info
http://www.arabic-military.com/t97692-topic

@Dino R.

Mostly sakr MLRS series produced by Egypt and different artellery
Egypt-Iraq arms deal, any idea what kind of weapons besides the ammo will be purchased ?

http://www.ynewsiq.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=5249#.U6yKAo1_tiB

For more info
http://www.arabic-military.com/t97692-topic

@Dino R.

False news , besides Iran , USA and Russia are supplying what you need
 
Mostly sakr MLRS series produced by Egypt and different artellery


False news , besides Iran , USA and Russia are supplying what you need

Isn't false, months ago minister of defense said on video that they are talking with Egypt about arms purchase, this link isn't the only source.

I expect mainly ammo for all kinds of weaponry + heavy weapons as Egypt has many in storage. They need money we need fast arms delivery.
 
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Isn't false, months ago minister of defense said on video that they are talking with Egypt about arms purchase, this link isn't the only source.

I expect mainly ammo for all kinds of weaponry + heavy weapons as Egypt has many in storage. They need money we need fast arms delivery.

If any such agreements happened then it would have made it to credible news sources such as the latest iranian delivery of SU-25 planes to iraq .

If iraq is looking for ammunition and heavy weapons then iran would gladly offer it even at cheaper prices .
 
If any such agreements happened then it would have made it to credible news sources such as the latest iranian delivery of SU-25 planes to iraq .

If iraq is looking for ammunition and heavy weapons then iran would gladly offer it even at cheaper prices .
maybe there are ammunition types not available in iran but i did not hear anything about arms deal also
 
If any such agreements happened then it would have made it to credible news sources such as the latest iranian delivery of SU-25 planes to iraq .

If iraq is looking for ammunition and heavy weapons then iran would gladly offer it even at cheaper prices .

Not possible would go against the UN, cause too much trouble.
The only reason they're silent about the SU-25 is due to the crisis and the US being too slow to respond until SU-25's were brought. UN can be told that the country is to be overrun by terrorists if not for the SU-25's, USA's fault for not responding quick enough.

maybe there are ammunition types not available in iran but i did not hear anything about arms deal also

Abrams 120mm shells that is.
Also artillery shells and I think they will buy weaponry from Egypt, maybe tanks, armored vechiles, they might even buy some MIG 21's for all I know as they have some pilots ready.
 
Not possible would go against the UN, cause too much trouble.
The only reason they're silent about the SU-25 is due to the crisis and the US being too slow to respond until SU-25's were brought. UN can be told that the country is to be overrun by terrorists if not for the SU-25's, USA's fault for not responding quick enough.



Abrams 120mm shells that is.
Also artillery shells and I think they will buy weaponry from Egypt, maybe tanks, armored vechiles, they might even buy some MIG 21's for all I know as they have some pilots ready.

Yeah I see now , you mean ammunition for your American hardware from Egypt , well that makes sense .

Infantry fighting vechiles like these would be good and mobile in Anbar Deserts .

Egyptian Infantry Fighting Vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Forget about USA man , Russia is much more reliable , look how they stood beside assad to the end .
 

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