Egyptian Armed Forces

[Lord Of Gondor]

Indeed. I remember a few months ago the order they put in for the 2 Gowinds and there was talk about possibly a FREMM as well, but wiki has no info on any FREMM ordered by the UAE for some reason. The French model is very nice and I'm sure quite capable especially with all the available MICA missiles as well and the MICA NG etc. But those Beghaminis are just so sweet with their own incredible systems, especially the AESA radar that can switch to PESA instantaneously along with other system comms. That mast and just size and appearance is superb and I can see why the EN is using it a lot more than the French FREMM it seems. Not only that, but ordering quite a few more is only an indication they prefer the Italian one over the French one quite a bit more as well as there was talk that the French FREMM is considerably more extensive and costly to maintain. That seems a bit strange but it is what it is, I guess.

One of the neat things I've noticed about the EN is their superb navigation abilities and especially their speed at being able to quickly begin operating all these new and incredible ships they've bought on their own. How we heard nothing from outsiders except for negative criticism about the usual "logistical nightmare" stuff looool and now we've seen the EN's captains and crews commanding and cruising those ships with the utmost proficiency and mastery it's just impressive as heck and suggestive that not only did they take advantage of their training with the French and Italians, but they seem to have innate abilities to command such ships from the storied tradition of the Egyptian Navy. Their selection of crew and of course captains is very strict and we see the results. As a recreational boater, I know how difficult it is to dock a simple 30 footer lol and I see how these fellas in the EN bring these massive ships so close to the docks before letting the tugs finish the last push-ins is really something. And they don't even use any tugs with the Mistrals because of its propulsion system makes it easy to dock without any tug help which is just incredibly impressive.



That would be quite something. They'll have to reinforce the deck at the areas where they would be firing these missiles is my guess, just looking at that brutal rocket flaming and pressure from your picture that it would cause some serious damage to the current deck the way it's constituted. Just assuming that they might need to double-plate and harden that area to protect it. But it's a great idea by you. Add that offensive capability to the possible naval Pantsir CIWS that they seem to be currently contracting and those big ships should be ready to receive the Katrans and be fully operational!

Some new pics of the EAF Rafales refueling with the French A330 MRTTs from a few weeks ago. @Lord Of Gondor , those EAF Rafales are so sweet-looking I bet you guys get the same feeling when you see the Indian ones, ey?

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Interesting we occasionally see one or two empty backseater.

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Sadly too expensive for the Indian Air Force/Navy. FBW aircraft with a lot of fuel and are ridiculously reliable, will be a gigantic force multiplier.Hope the prices can get more competitive for nations like India to afford these aircraft.Good wishes to the EAF as always.

 

[The SC]

Bright Star-2021 Multinational Military Exercise launched this year with participation of 21 allied countries between observers & participants with troops..The main activities of the Exercise will be conducted in Mohammed Naguib military base and Alexandria Naval Base.

The Egyptian army launches four joint military drills at the same time:

- The large-scale Multinational military exercise Bright Star-2021
- Joint training for Special Forces operators of Egypt & Cyprus
- Egyptian-US (SOF) Training on CT activities
- Joint Naval exercise with the UAE

https://twitter.com/x/status/1433456400424910853

 

[The SC]

South Korean Minister of National Defense Suh Wook said to have discussed several military cooperation projects with President El-Sisi and his Egyptian counterpart Zaki, including cooperation between the Egyptian naval industries and South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI).

 

[Philip the Arab]

Few days old video of Zayed-3 naval exercise

https://twitter.com/x/status/1433520125924237314

Forgot to mention, UAE also recently bought Falaj-3 OPVs.

 

[Titanium100]

Bright Star-2021 Multinational Military Exercise launched this year with participation of 21 allied countries between observers & participants with troops..The main activities of the Exercise will be conducted in Mohammed Naguib military base and Alexandria Naval Base.

The Egyptian army launches four joint military drills at the same time:

- The large-scale Multinational military exercise Bright Star-2021
- Joint training for Special Forces operators of Egypt & Cyprus
- Egyptian-US (SOF) Training on CT activities
- Joint Naval exercise with the UAE

https://twitter.com/x/status/1433456400424910853

When is this gonna take place? And why is Qatar not invited?

Aside from that interesting Pakistan is involved in this exercises

 

[Gomig-21]

When is this gonna take place?

Right now. Just started a few days ago last week, Check out @The SC 's post #7,937 it actually shows Egypt is currently involved in 4 different exercises.

And why is Qatar not invited?

EDIT: They are actually participants in an observational capacity (if I'm not mistaken) out of the total of 21 nations, just as is Pakistan this time around. But, there still needs to be quite a bit of political "issues" worked out with them first before we kiss and make up completely. Glad you didn't ask why Turkey isn't involved lmao.

Aside from that interesting Pakistan is involved in this exercises

This is an old time exercise that dates back close to 1982/83 I believe was the first one and Pakistan ended up being quite the participant with naval forces (I posted pics of them before) and other land forces as well as Turkey was doing air-air refueling qualifications and as the political dynamics with not only Egypt's riff with Turkey, but Pakistan's and US/NATO due to the war in Afghanistan, tensions built up a little and the exercise ended up getting smaller due to US and Egyptian budgets as it was huge and cost a lot, and so some members were dropped as well as they opted out themselves. But nicely things are slowly returning to normal again.

Part of the training the last few exercises was SAR Medivac and nice to see the Egyptian units working with US ones using the new AW-139s instead of the Mi-17 they used last time.

The US has the largest military contingent participating 2nd to Egypt with 600 personnel showing up for this one. A lot of armor and CT exercises on the docket.

 

[Tameem]

I don't see Indian flag there, Why Not? Egypt has more good relations with India than Pakistan afterall, Any explanations?

 

[The SC]

Wing Loong 1

Some Chinese military websites have reported that Egypt has 76 Wing Loong 1 aircraft acquired in the period 2015-2017 and 32 Wing Loong 1D aircraft contracted in 2018, with a total of 108 aircraft.


Wing Loong 1D

 

[Philip the Arab]

Not sure if this was posted before, but this is some great footage from the Zayed-3 air force exercise last month.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426777589801275392

UAE has some great pilots according to members here with connections to ex PAF pilots working in training roles and almost all pilots and crew are of Emirati origin. Btw their Mirage got a gun kill on a F-22 in the late 2000s.

 

[Titanium100]

Not sure if this was posted before, but this is some great footage from the Zayed-3 air force exercise last month.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426777589801275392

UAE has some great pilots according to members here with connections to ex PAF pilots working in training roles and almost all pilots and crew are of Emirati origin. Btw their Mirage got a gun kill on a F-22 in the late 2000s.

great footages from Zayed-3 the cinamatography is nice.

Why doesn't Egypt just go ahead and join the Peninsula shield military alliance because they are anyways defacto members of that military alliance currently as it stands together with other players such as Jordan is also a defacto member.

 

[The SC]

Peter Lurssen, owner of the leading German shipbuilding company, Lurssen, will visit Egypt next month to present his plan to the Egyptian navy commander and President Sisi, to establish a huge marine arsenal and facilities south of the Suez Canal to manufacture civilian and military naval vessels, including light combat naval vessels (OPV).

German experts will provide their extensive experience in the field with technology support..

The company seeks to win this offer and build combat naval units in the facility in Egypt at an appropriate price instead of importing them from Western companies at great prices..

There will be cooperation with Croatian experts for the design of the marine pieces..

Peter Lurssen seeks to win this plan and solicitate the Egyptians instead of buying marine ships from European companies.

There are 4 shipbuilders that submitted bids to Egypt: Italian Fincantieri, French Ocea, Dutch Damen and Spanish Navantia. European companies seek to compete with each other to win Egyptian contracts, and each of them offers more attractive offers than the other.

Egypt wants 20 OPV ships and 6 corvettes..

Peter Lurssen visited Egypt five times, during which he met with President Sisi, and he visited the Alexandria Arsenal since before, and he will visit Egypt soon to present his plan and offers to Egypt to establish an industrial base for military and civil ships near the Suez Canal and to meet Egypt's needs of marine vessels locally.

https://www.africaintelligence.com/...w5zXsxZthvwv1xUqtOPRxLp-6dgSQKit9M_97FObNVXRI


Lurssen light corvettes

Croatian experts will most likely come from: Brodosplit Shipyard the biggest Croatian shipyard with a long tradition and experience in designing and building various types of ships, always significant in their class.

Area of expertise:

• Shipbuilding
• Offshore/onshore engineering carpentry
• Industrial plant & engineering
• Engine & machinery
• Construction in civil engineering
• Renewable energy

https://www.eldmarc.com/brodosplit-...5rn059iBTr1uk-bbX72TxYwIhZ6FfzdOJrT0E0jLVLvEg

So as we said earlier, the deal is huge, and it is a long-term partnership to enter Egypt in the era of civil and military marine industry with German technology..

 

[The SC]

Not sure if this was posted before, but this is some great footage from the Zayed-3 air force exercise last month.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1426777589801275392

UAE has some great pilots according to members here with connections to ex PAF pilots working in training roles and almost all pilots and crew are of Emirati origin. Btw their Mirage got a gun kill on a F-22 in the late 2000s.

 

[Gomig-21]

UAE has some great pilots

It does, all you have to do is look at some of the battle footage from the Houthis and this specific one from 2018, where a UAE F-16 had made either a "special delivery" to Sanaa or was doing recon. But either way, the Houthis had this brand new FLIR system they were showing off and fired 2 missiles (at least that's what we see in the video they put out) and the best part is watching the UAE pilot do what he did with the aircraft. First is to get it going in afterburner and reach that Mach speed quickly, then he gains altitude for the thinner air and distance himself as well. Then you can see his terrific use of flares at that speed while he's performing the flying duties, sparing them to account for several missiles instead of dumping them all in one shot like you see many times. That strategy seems to work very well as clearly the first missile is fooled by the flares, but the best part IMO is what he does with the 2nd missile in this video. When you watch it carefully, you can see how his situational awareness is incredibly spot on under such frighteningly exhausting circumstances and he still seems calm while flying the aircraft at supersonic speeds that he times his move just perfectly to dodge the missile. If you watch it carefully, he pulls the nose up just thousands of a second before the missile makes its final move to come down and hit the aircraft and that slight nose up pull he does is what makes the difference. Could have distanced it enough to not allow the proximity fuse to go off also since we know their missiles are equipped with PFs because of the one that went off near the Saudi F-15 that also managed to escape. Some great stuff if you watch that detail I mentioned here and when you put all those factors together, are enough to make you aware of how well trained and capable they are.

UAE's F-16 Dodge Yemen Air Defense Missile Attack Over Capital Of Sanaa #UAE #Dubai #Yemen - YouTube

There are 4 shipbuilders that submitted bids to Egypt: Italian Fincantieri, French Ocea, Dutch Damen and Spanish Navantia. European companies seek to compete with each other to win Egyptian contracts, and each of them offers more attractive offers than the other.

Egypt wants 20 OPV ships and 6 corvettes..

This will be a very difficult decision for Egypt to make since the relationship with Lurssen and Fincantieri is excellent and especially with all the massive, previous purchases between the submarines and the MEKOs (as far as German aspect is concerned and not necessarily just the specific builder) and of course, the Berghaminis and future ones on order that seem to be quite active in the EN. All those countries are storied maritime builders as well which makes it even more difficult. The only issue with Lurssen of course if their ties with Israel and if that would factor in the decision at the end. Exciting to see who they chose.

The near future of the next stage in stealth design and wouldn't it be something to see Egypt pump out ships in this configuration in the Middle East and Africa. Very exciting.

 

[The SC]

This will be a very difficult decision for Egypt to make since the relationship with Lurssen and Fincantieri is excellent and especially with all the massive, previous purchases between the submarines and the MEKOs (as far as German aspect is concerned and not necessarily just the specific builder) and of course, the Berghaminis and future ones on order that seem to be quite active in the EN. All those countries are storied maritime builders as well which makes it even more difficult. The only issue with Lurssen of course if their ties with Israel and if that would factor in the decision at the end. Exciting to see who they chose.



The near future of the next stage in stealth design and wouldn't it be something to see Egypt pump out ships in this configuration in the Middle East and Africa. Very exciting.

I believe Egypt will build its arsenal in cooperation with Lurssen to acquire the German technologies.. And when it comes to ships.. mostly the military ones.. the license and ToT can be acquired from the other bidders..

 

[F-6 enthusiast]

6th of October Medal. created from a fallen plane of the enemy from the battle of October. ( Not 100% accurate translation)