Frogman
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This gets repeated often about Egypt, but I don’t believe it, I don’t think the US will sell Egypt AIM-120 whatever circumstance there is simply to keep te Israeli air force superior.
Do you mean AIM 7 with BVR ?
I personally believe the US would never deliver them (requests have been made but turned down) unless Egypt can pressure them into doing it somehow. The IAF maintains it superiority because of the F-15's and not the lack of AIM-120 in Egypt's arsenal. There were some rumors that Egypt has acquired Chinese BVR missiles to be placed on F-16s after (rumored) TAI help in nationalising the source codes. That may be hogwash then again with the Egyptian Armed Forces you can always expect the unexpected. The AIM-7 is a BVR missile (plus we have BVR missiles on the Mirages).