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The reason why they have so many tanks is probably just because geography. Egypt has no natural barriers so they compensate by having a massive conventional force.
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The reason why they have so many tanks is probably just because geography. Egypt has no natural barriers so they compensate by having a massive conventional force.
There is also the fact that tiny Usrael has more than 4000 MBTs .. and close to 15 000 armoured fighting vehicles.. and can mobilise almost 3 million soldiers males and females in case of war..Not mentionning the other branches like the air force and others..That's true in a secondary sense. But the original thinking of having a massive tank and armored army is to be able to serve the attrition rate in a war against the invasion of Sinai by Israel since that was a huge factor in the October war of 1973. The tank battles pretty much determined the land acquired by either force and the Egyptian army has created a plan to transfer an extremely large amount of tanks and armored columns over the Suez Canal and into Sinai to prevent any invasion since the peace treaty limits the amount of military equipment that can be permanently deployed in Sinai. Occasionally they will practice this "invasion" scenario where they shut down the Suez Canal for commercial traffic and engage in this training scenario where they quickly deploy mobile SAMs, huge armored columns that include many tanks in several armored divisions, set up floating bridges and cross in a predetermined amount of time. The exercise also includes a large influx of EAF fighters as well as other flying and mobile, ground assets. All of this is to have the ability to prevent an Israeli invasion of Sinai.
Future engineer.
I have a question for you - do you think Erdogan screwed up by insisting on purchasing the S-400 and basically ruining the F-35 deal pretty much permanently as long as those S-400 batteries are in Turkey? You were scheduled to get 100+ of those superb machines that would've made a much better difference than however many S-400 batteries. I thought that was one of the worst decisions ever made! I'm astonished be it him or the Turkish military made such a senseless decision knowing quite well the risk. If a good air defense was needed, there are quite a few good western options from US Patriots to Italian SAMP-T to even the Israeli stuff. Why such a stupid decision?
Yeah kinda. In the heat of the moment it made sense but lets be real there are alternatives, its just that we were looking for some Transfer of technology on the side. Infact shortly after purchasing the S-400, Turkey joined the SAMP-T program. Which makes the decision as to why we bought Russian S-400 that much more stupid. However F-35 isnt that big of a loss to be honest, most Turkish people and defence analyst actually kinda have this concensus that we could use something in the range of F-18's or F-15's much more then we could F-35's. I would also prefer the newer F-15EX version that even the American and Israelis are still buying. Ofcourse the irony is that Turkey is still producting components for the F-35 and will continue until 2022 atleast, despite it no longer being in the program. Israeli air defence is certainly not an option.
Just look in your pocket.. i bet you have none left..Where the hell they are getting this money from.
That can happen..if you lower the price..HaHaToo many armored vehicles are nightmare for logistic support, especially for big and sandy territory of Egypt. It'd be better to buy 1000 drones.
I have a question for you - do you think Erdogan screwed up by insisting on purchasing the S-400 and basically ruining the F-35 deal pretty much permanently as long as those S-400 batteries are in Turkey? You were scheduled to get 100+ of those superb machines that would've made a much better difference than however many S-400 batteries. I thought that was one of the worst decisions ever made! I'm astonished be it him or the Turkish military made such a senseless decision knowing quite well the risk. If a good air defense was needed, there are quite a few good western options from US Patriots to Italian SAMP-T to even the Israeli stuff. Why such a stupid decision?