Awesome, LOG. Thanks for the contributions and please keep it up. They've done a lot of PASSEXs with the US and Brits and French and even Russian (interesting considering what happened yesterday off the coast of Crimea) in the Red Sea. Most of these Passexes are performed in that body of water and not so much in the Mediterranean Sea which I find very interesting. I think it has a lot to do with gathering some intel as to who and what is passing through the Suez Canal, even though they are all friendly.
100 Rafale
100 MiG 35
100 F-16 Viper upgrade
64 Su-35SE
48 Typhoon
36 Su-57
Tell me why you're convinced of the Typhoons, bro. I'm not doubting you by any means since that would mean I would owe you another pizza, but something tells me they're going to scratch it out of the Italian Mega Deal, simply because of the additional Rafale deal that the French authorized really quickly and at cheap price once they heard about the Typhoons. I think it would be FANTASTIC since we know there is no issue with that crap about logistical nightmare baloney pony shmelony. Having the Typhoons with Rafales would be sweeeet!
Is the last image the result of f16 and jf17 marriage?
Funny you say that, I've been saying the Jeffrey 17 is a major inspiration of the F-16 since the late 90's or whenever it came out. I like it a lot and because it's latest block III will be the most advanced and like the K-8 Karakorum, if we get TOT of over 75% I would be all over it EXCEPT for one thing, that it would introduce a whole new spectrum of weapons. Unlike the Typhoon, many of its weapons are interchangeable with the Rafale (including the Meteor) and even the F-16s GBUs and other weapons with the exception of a the IRIS-T and Birmestones which I would bet can be integrated with little effort. But the Jeffrey introduces a whole slew of Chinese weapons that now would need to be looked at carefully to see how they would manage that.
Did the USA not threaten Egypt with sanctions if they went ahead with the SU-35 deal?
No, not really. What they did was the orange gaboon sent Pompeo who didn't know his *** from his elbow to talk us out of the Su-35SE and offered the F-15 instead. He never said we will be forced to impose sanctions on you and all that. Now we know for sure that they must've offered the F-15 without AMRAAMs or the AIM-9X because the EAF's answer was "no thank you, because we consider the Su-35SE to be a FAR SUPERIOR fighter jet than the F-15." And it was left at that. So it's up in the air now that Biden is in office and most of the Su-35s are already in Egypt. But because we brokered the ceasefire with Hamas and Israel, Biden was forced to call Sisi and thank him and make friends with him and so we (most of us Egyptians) don't think the US will impose any form of sanctions on Egypt at all.
Also, consider the fact that Egypt is really not a pushover state. We hold quite a bit of clout in the area that the US depends on considerably. And so that adds to the equation in that if they do, Egypt will be forced to react in its own way against the US, such as limit the amount of military ships transiting the Suez Canal, stop buying products from the US and switch to China or anything of that caliber. So this isn't like putting sanction on the Congo (no disrespect at all, just an example), but more like doing it to an ally which is not a good thing for the US' image.
I tell you one thing, had they offered the F-15EX with the AIM-120C-7 (not C-5) and the latest AIM-9X and JSOW and ASRAAM and I have a little bit more of a list of munitions to include AS WELL as upgrade at least 100 - 150 EAF F-16 to the full Viper package which would include the new SAARs radar and AMRAAMs and AIM-9X as well.............then and only then, would I say ok, forget the Su-35S. Other than that, a neutered F-15 instead of the POWERHOUSE Su-35SE, the US can kick rocks! lol
