Will the AIM-120 still not be on there? The Jordanian F-16s can fire AIM-120s considering they were at war with Israel in the past and are right next to them.The SU-35 are coming.. _ it is a requirement before the SU-57 _
It is also important to upgrade a good number of the F-16s to V .. I've heard it'll be done with batches of 18 at a time..
What was negotiated before was the upgrade and a new weapons' suite..
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I don't know about the jets.
which ship is more capable? miko 200 or freem friget?
Not the same frigate category.. MekoA200 is 3400 tons while Fremm is 6000+tons (almost a destroyer or a small one)
Egypt has a C4i of its own capable of integrating Western and Eastern military systems.. as for the aircrafts.. the Russians have a link similar to the Western Link 16.. which means the Migs and the Sukhoi can communicate between them and with the C4i.. the same applies to the F-16s, Mirages and Rafales.. So it is clear that the C4i can communicate with both and serves as a master link for the Western and Eastern links.. the same goes for the Navy and the army.. and Also for the combined forces..
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Are you Arab? I assume this because your name has Nile in it which is in Egpyt.
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As you know by now the AW-149 won the bid..the numbers will tend more towards 30 than 20 due to being less expensive.. in fact the official order by the EN is 20 plus an option for 10..just found out on Wikipedia....Egypt might also get different versions which will be awesome..Good to see you again, it's been a while. How's everything in the land down under?
Indeed. 6 ships in one bang is a heck of a deal. This is exactly what we were saying about a year ago as far as the EN is concerned that they need to increase the number of modern frigates and they went out and did exactly that. Maybe they're listening to us? lol
What remains to be seen is what they end up with as far as these two are concerned.
I'd rather see the NH90 but if the deal for the AW-149 goes through, at least it'll be a helo that they're already familiar with having it already in the inventory for medivac. Either way, we'll need to see a higher level of maritime SAR caps, for sure.
Not worried about that at all. I do have a little concern regarding the US' reaction to this purchase. We'll have to wait and see if anything develops regarding that and Russian sanctions but if there is anytime to make these deals and take advantage of them is now, with the orange guy in office. The only thing is he might be powerless if congress decides to pass a resolution against Egypt since it's hell bent up against Russia, while Trump doesn't really care much about that.
BTW, there's some raging talk about a deal that involves a batch of JF-17 which would be rather interesting but a bit bizarre TBH. Should be an interesting next few months.
