afale aircrafts for the
#EAF armed with AASM "Hammer" guided bombs
Very nice. And the 2nd Rafale in the rear is the first time we've seen the impressive Damocles pod on any of the Egyptian Rafales.
Here's a question for anyone
@randomradio would probably know this or
@MICA (since they're the experts in Rafales) but notice there's only one jet carrying the pod but both jets carrying Hammers? So will the one pod work for both aircraft or not?
-Damocles features a long-range laser designator, an integrated navigation FLIR and high-resolution imagery, and is fully compatible with Paveway and BGL laser-guided bombs, imagery-guided weapons, and AASM GPS/INS/LASER-guided weapons.
-It also features a reconnaissance capability with instant transmission of imagery to ground stations. Overall robustness and ease of maintenance have been improved.
-It is capable of guiding laser weapons to their extreme range (16 km) and identifying armoured vehicle targets at 27 km also conducting post-strike analysis at the same range.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles_(targeting_pod)
A big shawerma sandwich to whomever can answer that correctly!
A video filmed by a Libyan smuggler.
That's the one I was talking about in my previous post. That F-16 was humming! That guy was lucky that bomb didn't land on his head. Nice, precision striking by the F-16 boys. They're getting a lot of good practice.
Can you imagine that Al-Sisi said in a statement that in "the last year only, more than 1,000 vehicles used by terrorists to cross the border into Egypt had been destroyed" ?
I saw that, bro. This was why I was saying they're using a lot of precision munitions. Their hit ratio should be 100% considering they're using the Sniper XR pods with the Block 52's and Hellfires on the Apaches even the WingLoong success rate should be very high. It's just that they're using up a lot of weapons, and not just dumb bombs either.
They also did a nice job rescuing the Captain. This is the kind of stuff we like to see.
Egyptian naval and air force units are in Greece taking part in "Medusa 5" joint drills.
Who's the kid playing the trumpet? Oh ma God did they just hand any sailor a trumpet and told him to just blow in it? Do you hear that ridiculous noise? Fadiha ya Amir! lol
BTW the Hellenic Air Force intercepted over 37 violations of national airspace by Turkish F-16s & CN-235 patrol aircraft. Apparently they weren't happy about this Greek/Egyptian exercise (which is not the first) happening in the Aegean Sea. Ta3alu ya Torkeyeen entu malkom?
But the Greeks have some really nice equipment, landing their Longbow Apaches on the Mistral was very cool, amognst some other helos from their navy. Tikanis kala afgharisto parakalo.
By the way which BVR Egypt will use with Rafale and also with MIG-35
MICA IR & ER with the Rafales and R-73 and R-77 with the MiGs.