Not really. Do you have an outlay of the Egyptian economy to give weight to that message?
Ok. recent events have meant that tourism has taken a huge hit. anf accoring to most lcc's [low cost carriers] they intend to go back to eygpt spring of next year. and eygpt being banned from russia does not help.
Monarch Airlines latest to cancel flights to Sharm el-Sheikh until January - Telegraph
from october of last year to may of this year. moodys upgraded eygpts economy from negative to stable.
and Standard & Poors (S&P) changed there outlook from stable to positive.
Will Sisi's economic reforms succeed? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
also the saudis are know to be replenishing eygpt with funds. and the large dael in france regarding the rafale and the friagate and presumably the mistral, eygpt got a french loan to pay for them.
Egypt Seeks Bank Loans for French Arms Buy
They have a pretty large fleet of Mirages and Mig-21 variants that they cannot all replace with F-16s or Mig-29s.
they do have a large fleet of aircraft that do need replacing. lets look at them on at a time shall we.
F16
total requirements 220.
ordered 20 more ordered all delevered by q4-15
nothing specail here and are pretty much useless as they are not brvaam capable.
Dassault rafale 24 ordered 3 delevered
mig35 46 ordered[ according to wikipedia] but more likely to be advanced mig 29.
mirage 2000-26
mirage v -82
mig 21
j-7 57
now the f16, mig-29, and the rafale are exempt as they are new and dont need replacing.
the mirage 2000 is very likely to be upgraded to serve up to 2040 max. which is similar to indian mk2's
the mirage v. older 73 models will be phased out which will be the all of the sde varient and some of the sdr varient whilst the sdd varient will remain so im not sure on the numbers here but i tink its safe to assume half will remain [40]
the half will be upgraded to some of the capabilities of the mk2. this does leave a void of 40 jets though.
of the 56 mig-21's left, they will be like for like replaced with the mig-35/29 ten more may be orderd.
the j-7. theres 57 of these in service. now the jf-17 would be ideal to replace these. but they are mainly being used as super sonic traners, sort of pakistanis is doing with some of the twin seat j-7's, that female pliot who died, she was training on a j-7. now all 57 can't be used as trainers.
i think the jf-17 is unsuitable for eygpt as the jf-17's payload and range is not long enough for it to do long range strikes. the mig 29 can do this. not a while back russain companies wanted to block the export of the rd-93 engine as it will be fitted on the jf-17 to compete with the mig-29. now the mig 29 has lost ground to jf-17 in regards to burma as well as to replace the j-7. this flexibility means one jet thf jf-17 can replace two models j-7 and the mig-29.
now there is an outstanding void for about 80 jets 40 from the mirage v and the j-7 this can perhasps be replaced with the jf-17 but again i doubt it.
Moreover, the Mig and the JF-17 share the same engine more or less.
yes i know they share the same core and have the same ratio compression as the jf-17, BUT this is only for the standard rd-33 more advanced varients like the rd-33 mk are not similar. but recently pakistan is try to get a maintaince and overhaul facility built in pakistan as well as development on the engine which will have features of the rd-33mk.
so to cut it short yes i know they share very similar engines the rd-93 on the jf-17
is differant in regard to the monting and positioning, hence why the gearbox of the engine is at the bottom. which is somthing i assume even you know.
to end yes i know the jf-17 is a good jet thats has a perck that the f16 does not have [bvraam's] but i just feel to much "interest" has deminished my hope on the jet in some markets.
also its all good when you hear when some countires are "interested" but actuall orders is somthing else. yes i know there are some that are serious about it. but i like to shine a critical on light on it, even if the many dont like what im saying.