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Theres been no official confirmation of from the armed forces itself but the Sig 550 and its variants have been widely circulated amongst members of the armed forces especially elite forces and paratroopers in addition to that the Sig 550 and its variants are built locally by the AIO. Me and friend were quite surprised that the paratroopers in the latest live fire exercise weren't using or issued to them.
@Frogman even if i would love to think so, i find it very hard to imagine the egyptians producing sig rifles. maybe the us-models (with help from sigsauer), but certainly not the swiss. too many restrictions concerning technology transfer... and a sig is nothing you reverse-ingeneer in a factory in helwan or maadi...
 
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Very intresting the upgrade of M60A3 , his new exterior design give him an agressive look, nothing to do with the basic M60A3 .
 
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@Frogman are the egyptians using the swiss-produced or the us-produced sig-models?

Well its not really clear, the presumption that it was/is being produced under license came from an interview with the Minister for Military Production Gen/Ridah Hafez. The program delved (although in no great detail) into Egypt's military industry and showed several weapons systems and small arms which are produced under license or indigenous, among the small arms shown the SIG-550 and its variants were present.


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this is egypt special ops, i know that. but is it MoD or MoI? anyone?

and this doesn't seem to be an armed forces unit either...
 

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this is egypt special ops, i know that. but is it MoD or MoI? anyone?

and this doesn't seem to be an armed forces unit either...

Both are with the MOI. The gentleman in the vehicle is one of the Central Security forces special operations units. The other gentlemen are with one of the Police Special Operations units.

Here's some other pictures which include the 550 series from the Armed Forces:

Special Forces

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Paratroopers

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Navy Special Forces

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Navy Special Forces Frogmen

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Republican Guard

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It's not regularly seen with standard infantry though. The 550 series is in large circulation within the Egyptian military as well as the security forces, however, the standard issue rifle is still the MAADI AKM.
 
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Great images. Any info about armed UAV's? Would be a lovely recipe to deal with the rats in Sinai
 
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Great images. Any info about armed UAV's? Would be a lovely recipe to deal with the rats in Sinai

The rats come from gaza through tunnels but since the previous operation on Gaza tunnels which resulted in destruction and closure of border Tunnels no longer rats have a save haven to hide in.

Most of Sinai is safe, its only in northern Sinai where there is some problems near gaza border but more than 500 rats have been killed and over 6000 captured " mostly Palestinians , yemenese and afghans " and the remaining escaped to the garbish of middle east " Syria" where they end up killed .
 
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"BADR 2013"- A annual maneuver involving the Third Army, Air force, and Air Defence. This years BADR is the biggest since its inception.


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