@Gomig-21 @The SC @Hydration @sami_1
Shaklena keda 90% done deal.
Ma3lesh o3zorni I haven't replied to the last couple of tags and questions you had.
I honestly don't think this MoU means they're close to a full contract with India and ToT of the Tejas and Dhruv helicopter TBH. I have nothing to back that up except just intuition alone.
The Tejas presents way too many obstacles from the engines to the armament to the avionics and more. The Dhruv needs to be evaluated as to whether it's a significant step up from the Gazelle (which we already produce and have been for a very long time) or if it's just a small step up?
Egypt has all the capabilities of building its own light attack helicopter from start to finish and the only difficulty is the metallurgy for the fuselage panels, be it titanium or composites but it can achieve the knowledge in a few years time especially with the recent steel and aluminum textile industry it has just announced it will be developing and exporting in huge quantities. So I think it should just go that way as far as helicopters are concerned. For a fighter program, I still think the MiG-29M/M2 or even a Sukhoi-30 or 35 assembly line like India agreed with Russia to do with their Su-30MKI would be the BEST solution for Egypt and its own fighter program.
Then it can take much of the European technologies it has been able to acquire and customize these Russo/Egypto airplanes and make them spectacular as well as dance their way around CAATSA. I just don't think Tejas is the right option because of the reasons I mentioned.
"I am confident that the MoU on Defence Cooperation will take our partnership to historic heights."
Lessa wakhed baly men this message. He said "take our partnership to historic heights" ya3ni there is something very big going to happen (production locally, JV between the two countries). Usually when someone sign a MoU, that isn't big, they will not say this.
@Gomig-21 what is your opinion about my statement?
Honestly, I think it's just the usual statements they always make when they sign on with a new ally. It's basically an understanding that they will cooperate together in mostly exercises, really, more so than technology transferring of any kind.
The tweets are ok to see when you're not a twitter subscriber, but for me it's much better to post the actual pictures to see them in full size and the story behind this aircraft is interesting but I would love to see the interior and how they've arranged the seating rooms, the meeting rooms, the coms room etc. How advanced is it and how technically built is it for the president of Egypt to be able to get into it in times of war or nuclear disasters and still be able to run the country etc. Just like the way the US' Air Force One operates which brings me to the name. The definitely need to name it something else other than Air Force One ya3ni a7a meten marra calling it the same thing is total bullshit. Must be much more original than that. Call it something like Air Tutankhamun or Air Pharoah One would be much better than the same name the US uses.
And this is the 7478I with the much larger 2nd floor area. This is one of the ridiculously large 747s almost as large as the ridiculously stupid and failed Airbus A380.
And one of the beauties of this thing is it has the new, revamped GE high powered engines with reverse thrust of course.
@Gomig-21 @Buschlaid does Egypt still use Swingfire ATGMs or we retired them.
They might still have them fitted on some of the very few T-62s they have in use with the Republican Guard, whether in Cairo or in Luxor etc. But most likely not since they have much more advanced ATGMs than those old British ones that they most likely put them away in storage.
Sinai patrol with a Nimr of the EGY Army leading a pair of RG-33 MRAPs in the Sinai.
The Egyptian Army has bought dozens of these fully equipped mobile EW jamming field trucks that is uses mostly in Sinai and used them extensively during operation Sinai 2018 when they cleansed the northeast Sinai of vermin and cretins and actually froze the entire norther sector as well as all of southern Israel's cell towers with these things. I forget the name of the SA company but these are some of quite a bit of South African equipment the EGY army uses.
Is this one of the greatest submarine pictures you've ever seen? What a great view of an Egyptian Navy (most likely a Romeo submarine) on the surface of the Mediterranean skimming across. Not sure who took the picture, but my guess is most likely a US aircraft of some kind.
From Cleopatra 2022 with the French Navy. We should be seeing a lot more great pics soon.
Captain Mustafa and admiral Jean-Pierre.
Looks like Egyptian Gowind flanking a French frigate in the process of fueling from a French navy replenishing ship to starboard flank.
ENS Alexandria in the Red Sea passing by a US unmanned sea drone.
Part of the new Naval Task Force which is responsible for enhancing maritime security in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden as part of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF). The Egyptian Navy has taken the first command leadership role of the task force.
