Egyptian Armed Forces

[Harpcore_lover]

I believe so. I think there's like 9 or 10 of them and I believe a couple of them are equipped with recon equipment and are used in ELINT roles as well and the others perform other simpler duties.



19...

That's cool I think they are a bit out dated tho, I'm 18 I'm a college freshman lol, fucking hate college already

 

[MICA]

That's cool I think they are a bit out dated tho, I'm 18 I'm a college freshman lol, fucking hate college already

dakhalt gam3et eh 3ashan tekraha men el awel keda

 

[Harpcore_lover]

dakhalt gam3et eh 3ashan tekraha men el awel keda

Saydala

 

[Gomig-21]

EAF Rafale conducting buddy-buddy refueling training and qualifications with a L'armee de l'air Rafale.
They should be able to do this on their own soon as well as with the MiG-35s.

 

[HannibalBarca]

https://twitter.com/x/status/953253140169666560

 

[Gomig-21]

That's cool I think they are a bit out dated tho, I'm 18 I'm a college freshman lol, fucking hate college already

I was just kidding, BTW. I was 19 years old back in 1987 lol.
I was waiting to see if any of the others would jump all over that but no one did and maybe I should've kept playing it all along?

 

[Harpcore_lover]

I was just kidding, BTW. I was 19 years old back in 1987 lol.
I was waiting to see if any of the others would jump all over that but no one did and maybe I should've kept playing it all along?

I'm surprised, but thanks for being honest.
You know that some of our troops in eriteria are dressed as the eriterian army

 

[Gomig-21]

I'm surprised, but thanks for being honest.
You know that some of our troops in eriteria are dressed as the eriterian army

I'm afraid to ask why you're surprised! Yeah, my mind tries to be much younger than my body. Most of the time it's asking too much of it and the body is cursing back at the mind telling it to chill out.

BTW, when you signed up, did you mean to write your username as Hardcore_lover and made a mistake or was that on purpose?

Also, regarding our troops dressed as Eritrean army presents an interesting thought since article 48 of the Geneva Convention prohibits enemy combatants to dress in the enemy's uniform except for extenuating circumstances, and in this case, Eritrea is not the enemy but a friendly/ally so it presents a very interesting dynamic as to how that sits in relation to the rules of war.

 

[Harpcore_lover]

I'm afraid to ask why you're surprised! Yeah, my mind tries to be much younger than my body. Most of the time it's asking too much of it and the body is cursing back at the mind telling it to chill out.

BTW, when you signed up, did you mean to write your username as Hardcore_lover and made a mistake or was that on purpose?

Also, regarding our troops dressed as Eritrean army presents an interesting thought since article 48 of the Geneva Convention prohibits enemy combatants to dress in the enemy's uniform except for extenuating circumstances, and in this case, Eritrea is not the enemy but a friendly/ally so it presents a very interesting dynamic as to how that sits in relation to the rules of war.

I'm afraid to ask why you're surprised! Yeah, my mind tries to be much younger than my body. Most of the time it's asking too much of it and the body is cursing back at the mind telling it to chill out.

BTW, when you signed up, did you mean to write your username as Hardcore_lover and made a mistake or was that on purpose?

Also, regarding our troops dressed as Eritrean army presents an interesting thought since article 48 of the Geneva Convention prohibits enemy combatants to dress in the enemy's uniform except for extenuating circumstances, and in this case, Eritrea is not the enemy but a friendly/ally so it presents a very interesting dynamic as to how that sits in relation to the rules of war.

That harpcore name thing is just a pun, it's a funny name, regarding that eriteria-sudan thing I think the Egyptian operations there are gonna be covert, extremely secretive there but that's not so likely cause we need to do a show of power which is totally opposite to what should happen

 

[The SC]

I was just kidding, BTW. I was 19 years old back in 1987 lol.
I was waiting to see if any of the others would jump all over that but no one did and maybe I should've kept playing it all along?

I was laughing and let you play..

Another thing I have noticed after you talked about the points showing on the thread.. I think I found out the answer..it has to do with the points (likes) for the first post of the thread.. I guess as it goes beyond 10 or so points it will show.. ask some friends to put their likes there and we should see..

 

[Gomig-21]

I was laughing and let you play..

Another thing I have noticed after you talked about the points showing on the thread.. I think I found out the answer..it has to do with the points (likes) for the first post of the thread.. I guess as it goes beyond 10 or so points it will show.. ask some friends to put their likes there and we should see..

That's because you're such a classy fella, SC bro!

I've already given my like to @Amir_Pharaoh 's first post of the thread a while back, it's up to 5 ATM. Let's get at least 5 more likes from the rest you guys and see if that works.

BTW, interesting developments in the south of El Arish and Sheikh Zweid city offensive that has taken place in the last week or so with today's activities which include the EAF flying F-16s in that area. Fascinating stuff.

 

[Harpcore_lover]

That's because you're such a classy fella, SC bro!

I've already given my like to @Amir_Pharaoh 's first post of the thread a while back, it's up to 5 ATM. Let's get at least 5 more likes from the rest you guys and see if that works.

BTW, interesting developments in the south of El Arish and Sheikh Zweid city offensive that has taken place in the last week or so with today's activities which include the EAF flying F-16s in that area. Fascinating stuff.

We should end this situation in Sinai, quickly I fear it's scaring the investors

 

[Frogman]

Already the army is partially professional, it has 40% of it made by volunteers, 60% of conscripts we can say half of them are basically slave labor.

I'm not sure where you have got that statistic from but either way it doesn't convey the top heavy nature of the Armed Forces.

Volunteers are Officers and NCOs. In a Infantry Platoon of 30 troops there are five professional soldiers (3 Corporals, 1 Sjt, and 1 Lt).

Beyond that Officers are caught up in Coy command positions (Cpt - Major) and for the most part are not involved in combat unless something has gone wrong. Beyond that is Staff appointments.

It's a conscript Army lead by volunteers. The only part that is fully professional is Army Special Forces, although the support personnel attached to them are conscripts.

We can't do anything more regarding this cause of low GDP,

Not convinced it would have a major effect on budget constraints, especially in a time of greatly increased Defence spending. The Thunderbolt and Paras are several thousand strong, that would be the place to start.

I can pretty much see our paratroopers or thunderbolt units preforming very well abroad

They have preformed poorly in the Sinai. What makes you believe they will fair any better in an environment that is likely to be far more complex?

 

[Gomig-21]

Another thing I have noticed after you talked about the points showing on the thread.. I think I found out the answer..it has to do with the points (likes) for the first post of the thread.. I guess as it goes beyond 10 or so points it will show.. ask some friends to put their likes there and we should see..

Yaaay, you were right, my bro. The first post now has 8 likes which suddenly gave this sticky thread 8 thumbs up in the sticky thread section of the Arab Defense Forum. Funny how that worked like that.

We should end this situation in Sinai, quickly I fear it's scaring the investors

Luckily it's mostly confined to the northeast section and really centered around El Arish. They've done a good job in the main tourist areas. It looks like They're currently making a big push to clean house which has been a much needed effort from a while ago. Let's just hope they don't pop up somewhere else. This type of war is very difficult to not only fight, but to win.

They have preformed poorly in the Sinai. What makes you believe they will fair any better in an environment that is likely to be far more complex?

Looks like they've finally taken check points setups and tactics a bit more seriously. Not sure how much Chinese JABSCO protective barriers will help, but it's a start and too bad it took many hits and deaths for them to experience before they finally realized something drastic needed to be done. I'm still dumbfounded at the Blackhawk hit. The carelessness that went into that entire visit was abysmal considering the personnel involved in that visit.

 

[Harpcore_lover]

I'm not sure where you have got that statistic from but either way it doesn't convey the top heavy nature of the Armed Forces.

Volunteers are Officers and NCOs. In a Infantry Platoon of 30 troops there are five professional soldiers (3 Corporals, 1 Sjt, and 1 Lt).

Beyond that Officers are caught up in Coy command positions (Cpt - Major) and for the most part are not involved in combat unless something has gone wrong. Beyond that is Staff appointments.

It's a conscript Army lead by volunteers. The only part that is fully professional is Army Special Forces, although the support personnel attached to them are conscripts.



Not convinced it would have a major effect on budget constraints, especially in a time of greatly increased Defence spending. The Thunderbolt and Paras are several thousand strong, that would be the place to start.



They have preformed poorly in the Sinai. What makes you believe they will fair any better in an environment that is likely to be far more complex?

Yeah well the statistics I got were majorly from the internet regarding the percentage of volunteers, Wikipedia pardon me if it was inaccurate .

what I meant is more money and more time should be spent on the conscripts, more training courses on how to handle and fire their weapons, better gearing, better helmets and stuff like that, that's where the money comes.

The thunderbolts and paratroopers are sure professional, not as professional as their American or isreali counterparts but if you look at Afghanistan or iraq, unconventional warfare needs time, money and sharing experience.

I highly doubt our paratroopers we will be ever deployed against an enemy which uses unconventional warfare or gurilla tactics, assuming they will be deployed against unconventional armies, we been training with the ruskies and exchanging experience, taking some experience of them from their deployment in Syria.

I would say they would be deployed against a conventional army, they are well trained for that since they are professionals or include some.

Moreover the army needs to decrease it's numbers and start relying more on conscripts since that's how modern day armies work, isrealis started implementing such a plan already.

I'm sorry if this reply is long but I have one more thing to say, more money should be also used to fix the Weak NCO spine that we have, not only that I even think conscripts shouldn't be allowed to even take NCO positions, it doesn't make any sense.

Furthermore, one more thing regarding Sinai is that I think we should use planes as the A-10 thunderbolts or the flying tank su-25s since they are used in close support, the su-25 preformed magnificently in Syria.

Yaaay, you were right, my bro. The first post now has 8 likes which suddenly gave this sticky thread 8 thumbs up in the sticky thread section of the Arab Defense Forum. Funny how that worked like that.



Luckily it's mostly confined to the northeast section and really centered around El Arish. They've done a good job in the main tourist areas. It looks like They're currently making a big push to clean house which has been a much needed effort from a while ago. Let's just hope they don't pop up somewhere else. This type of war is very difficult to not only fight, but to win.



Looks like they've finally taken check points setups and tactics a bit more seriously. Not sure how much Chinese JABSCO protective barriers will help, but it's a start and too bad it took many hits and deaths for them to experience before they finally realized something drastic needed to be done. I'm still dumbfounded at the Blackhawk hit. The carelessness that went into that entire visit was abysmal considering the personnel involved in that visit.

Well I'm glad you mentioned that visit, the minister of defence and the minister of interior both were almost killed, having their helicopter hit while both of them were three in an unofficial visit means that we have a fox in the henhouse