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In February 2015, Egypt signed a military cooperation agreement with France, under which Paris will supply 24 Rafale aircraft
Ami Rojkes Dombe | 16/10/2016
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Eight new Rafale fighter jets are joining the Egyptian Air Force next year, reports the Egypt Independent, based on a publication by the Egyptian state-owned newspaper al-Akhbar.
According to the publication, the commander of the Egyptian Air Force Younes Al-Masry said that “Egypt will receive eight new Rafale fighter jets next year." He added that the receipt of the fighter jets comes as “a result of political efforts to increase arming in this class."
Masry said that with the arrival of the new fighter jets next year, Egypt will own 14 Rafales, adding that “this resembles a huge force, doubling the capabilities of the armed forces."
In February 2015, Egypt signed a military cooperation agreement with France, under which Paris will supply 24 Rafale fighter aircraft, one multipurpose FREMM frigate, and the MBDA short/medium-range missiles, in a deal worth 5.2 billion euros.
Until January, Egypt had received six of the Rafale jets promised by France. Egypt is due to receive the rest of jets within two years.
http://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/content/egypt-receive-additional-rafale-fighter-jets-2017
Ami Rojkes Dombe | 16/10/2016
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Eight new Rafale fighter jets are joining the Egyptian Air Force next year, reports the Egypt Independent, based on a publication by the Egyptian state-owned newspaper al-Akhbar.
According to the publication, the commander of the Egyptian Air Force Younes Al-Masry said that “Egypt will receive eight new Rafale fighter jets next year." He added that the receipt of the fighter jets comes as “a result of political efforts to increase arming in this class."
Masry said that with the arrival of the new fighter jets next year, Egypt will own 14 Rafales, adding that “this resembles a huge force, doubling the capabilities of the armed forces."
In February 2015, Egypt signed a military cooperation agreement with France, under which Paris will supply 24 Rafale fighter aircraft, one multipurpose FREMM frigate, and the MBDA short/medium-range missiles, in a deal worth 5.2 billion euros.
Until January, Egypt had received six of the Rafale jets promised by France. Egypt is due to receive the rest of jets within two years.
http://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/content/egypt-receive-additional-rafale-fighter-jets-2017
please be silent just wait and see italians what will give us 
however, they (the French) are the first with guts to provide us with some of the latest BVR missiles so kudos to them unlike the US with the AIM-120 and since this is the first deal that includes advanced BVR missiles (or at least a known announced one) the hope is that either the MiG-29M/M2 or MiG-35 (whichever it ends up being - most are saying it's the MiG-35) will hopefully include a great package of R-73 and 77's. I believe the MiG-35 has the capability of carrying the R-77 whereas the 29M/M2 does not. If it happens to be the 35 with such a weapons package from Russia, this will certainly put the situation between the US and Egypt in a precarious position.
lol.....) but I do believe the new Russian jets will replace many of the 21's 
( and/or J-7's.) So in some respect, the maintenance will be greater as far as dealing with the "modern" element of maintaining these birds and not necessarily in a quantitative sense. But the training comes with the purchase. The question will be spare parts and replacement weapons. Just FYI, the Egyptian military is it's own entity, apart from the executive branch but with the former military chief of staff now the president.....lol....this is probably why we're seeing a lot of these purchases was/is mostly due to Obama's temporarily halting the delivery of the last few of the last batch of Block 52 F-16's because of the Morsi coup and the sanctions imposed on Russia and Putin's new and angry view towards the US for that. That opened the door for most of this other stuff because it all involved Russia and the eagerness for France to get the Rafale on the market with all it's struggles to do that. So we scored big time with what just fell onto our laps.
