Egyptian Armed Forces

[Gomig-21]

Some Chinese military websites have reported that Egypt has 76 Wing Loong 1 aircraft acquired in the period 2015-2017 and 32 Wing Loong 1D aircraft contracted in 2018, with a total of 108 aircraft.

Yes, I've read similar numbers and then you can also add the other types it has at least tested and most likely picked up a few of. It's really quite something and this type of technology is a good example of having large numbers of, for sure.

I believe Egypt will build its arsenal in cooperation with Lurssen to acquire the German technologies.. And when it comes to ships.. mostly the military ones.. the license and ToT can be acquired from the other bidders..

Very true. You wonder if for example if they did what you said, then went and asked Fincatieri for ToT to build their own Berghaminis that the Italians would hold a grudge for not being picked for the entire package? Maybe not show the grudge in an obvious manner but then raise the prices significantly? lol.

I haven't seen a lot of good pics come out of Bright Star, yet anyway but the few I found...

EAF Apache behind Major Tracy Norris of the Texas Airmen with Egyptian Air Marshall Lieutenant General Abbas touring the Cairo West airbase and then posing for a pic. Apache looks good, even with the blue duds.

EAF Mi-24 Hind beastly overshadowing the Chinook and mixed special forces.

 

[The SC]

Yes, I've read similar numbers and then you can also add the other types it has at least tested and most likely picked up a few of. It's really quite something and this type of technology is a good example of having large numbers of, for sure.



Very true. You wonder if for example if they did what you said, then went and asked Fincatieri for ToT to build their own Berghaminis that the Italians would hold a grudge for not being picked for the entire package? Maybe not show the grudge in an obvious manner but then raise the prices significantly? lol.

I haven't seen a lot of good pics come out of Bright Star, yet anyway but the few I found...

EAF Apache behind Major Tracy Norris of the Texas Airmen with Egyptian Air Marshall Lieutenant General Abbas touring the Cairo West airbase and then posing for a pic. Apache looks good, even with the blue duds.

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EAF Mi-24 Hind beastly overshadowing the Chinook and mixed special forces.

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The Italians will be happy to sell more with ToT.. not the whole Tot for the Berghamini.. that is too much to ask even if you propose more money!.. but the full ToT of the OPVs is possible..

 

[Titanium100]

Peter Lurssen, owner of the leading German shipbuilding company, Lurssen, will visit Egypt next month to present his plan to the Egyptian navy commander and President Sisi, to establish a huge marine arsenal and facilities south of the Suez Canal to manufacture civilian and military naval vessels, including light combat naval vessels (OPV).

German experts will provide their extensive experience in the field with technology support..

The company seeks to win this offer and build combat naval units in the facility in Egypt at an appropriate price instead of importing them from Western companies at great prices..

There will be cooperation with Croatian experts for the design of the marine pieces..

Peter Lurssen seeks to win this plan and solicitate the Egyptians instead of buying marine ships from European companies.

There are 4 shipbuilders that submitted bids to Egypt: Italian Fincantieri, French Ocea, Dutch Damen and Spanish Navantia. European companies seek to compete with each other to win Egyptian contracts, and each of them offers more attractive offers than the other.

Egypt wants 20 OPV ships and 6 corvettes..

Peter Lurssen visited Egypt five times, during which he met with President Sisi, and he visited the Alexandria Arsenal since before, and he will visit Egypt soon to present his plan and offers to Egypt to establish an industrial base for military and civil ships near the Suez Canal and to meet Egypt's needs of marine vessels locally.

https://www.africaintelligence.com/...w5zXsxZthvwv1xUqtOPRxLp-6dgSQKit9M_97FObNVXRI


Lurssen light corvettes

Croatian experts will most likely come from: Brodosplit Shipyard the biggest Croatian shipyard with a long tradition and experience in designing and building various types of ships, always significant in their class.

Area of expertise:

• Shipbuilding
• Offshore/onshore engineering carpentry
• Industrial plant & engineering
• Engine & machinery
• Construction in civil engineering
• Renewable energy

https://www.eldmarc.com/brodosplit-...5rn059iBTr1uk-bbX72TxYwIhZ6FfzdOJrT0E0jLVLvEg

So as we said earlier, the deal is huge, and it is a long-term partnership to enter Egypt in the era of civil and military marine industry with German technology..

Location wise it is quite stragetic and also an under water tunnel linking to KSA will come handy even tho there is already road link via Jordan but adding an extra source won't harm either

 

[The SC]

The Egyptian Air Defense Forces managed to win the third place in the “Clear Sky” competition within the 2021 International Military Games in China.

Brigadier General Ali Ragaei, captain of the Egyptian team, also won the best captain award in the competition.

The Russian team won the second place, the silver medal, and the Chinese team won the gold medal. The other places were distributed as follows: “Belarus team ranked 4th, Uzbekistan ranked 5th, and Venezuela ranked 6th..

 

[Gomig-21]

The Egyptian Air Defense Forces managed to win the third place in the “Clear Sky” competition within the 2021 International Military Games in China.

Brigadier General Ali Ragaei, captain of the Egyptian team, also won the best captain award in the competition.

The Russian team won the second place, the silver medal, and the Chinese team won the gold medal. The other places were distributed as follows: “Belarus team ranked 4th, Uzbekistan ranked 5th, and Venezuela ranked 6th..

Here's a short clip. They should adopt that digital camo which looks pretty good. QBZ-95 6x6 amphibious was flying!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1430644500158947332

 

[The SC]

The new magnificent Russian Kh-58USHK-IR anti-air defense missile is the latest version of the Kh-58 anti-radar missile..

This version features a modern design and a passive seeker that can passively monitor all radars. In addition to a thermal detector, if the hostile air-defense systems turn off the radar or work with the intermittent pulse, the missile will also detect the radar thermally..The missile is guided by inertial INS, passive seeker and IR thermal seeker.. This missile represents a great danger to air defense systems.

The missile is also distinguished by the fact that it can be carried internally on the fifth generation fighters or on the external suspension points on the MiG and Sukhoi fighters.

 

[The SC]

The CZ 805 BREN-2 Czech combat rifle appeared in the Egyptian army, which was its first appearance in Egypt. It is of the eastern caliber 39 x 7.62 mm, and there is a version of it with a NATO caliber of 5.56 mm.

Egypt had contracted on the Czech rifle CZ-807 before..with efforts to obtain the right to manufacture it to be the main rifle in the Egyptian army.

 

[Gomig-21]

The CZ 805 BREN-2 Czech combat rifle appeared in the Egyptian army, which was its first appearance in Egypt. It is of the eastern caliber 39 x 7.62 mm, and there is a version of it with a NATO caliber of 5.56 mm.

Egypt had contracted on the Czech rifle CZ-807 before..with efforts to obtain the right to manufacture it to be the main rifle in the Egyptian army.

That was a while ago, wasn't it? I remember them talking about doing this back in 2016/17. Figured they either didn't get a contract done or agree on a deal and moved on since we would only see a few soldiers with one here and there on special occasions and such, kinda like in the below pics from this past week during the Cyprus special forces exercise. Very decent rifle to produce and have as the army's main issued rifle. I personally think it's a great selection because of its size, weight and all its technical capabilities. It sounds like they might've put it on the backburner back then and have now reached an agreement perhaps.

 

[The SC]

The Bright Star Maneuver 2021 from September 2-17, 2021

 

[Gomig-21]

The Bright Star Maneuver 2021 from September 2-17, 2021

This one has been a pretty big one so far. A lot of activities happening between several of the forces and other participating members, kinda like back in the 80's when it was new and many countries were participating and conducting quite the exercise. Having the Mohamed Naguib Center they built a few years ago specifically for these large, joint military exercises with all the terrific amenities to make each staff and their superiors very comfortably stationed throughout the entire 2 weeks has certainly made it much easier than in the past. That's probably a big reason for being able to comfortably host such a large contingency of militaries.

Also the usual, familiar passing of jets over the pyramids was highlighted a couple of days ago with probably the first flight of a Eurofighter Typhoon belonging to the UK, along with a few EAF F-16s, Rafale and I what appears to be a pair of US F-15s. Sometimes it's tough to distinguish those and MiG-29s in rough pics. But I'm pretty sure they're part of the US' F-15 Strike Es that have come to the exercise.

A lot of really great footage and pics also. This one below of EAF F-16s loaded with GBU-12s (which you can't really see very well in this pic) and LANTIRN pods is pretty cool along with others like the refueling exercises and things of that sort. Maybe we'll get someone to post those pics instead of either you or me lol.

Notice the mixture of canopy types. I thought that was very interesting as I had not noticed that much different ones before.

Block 52s doing a lot of participating exercise with the Hellenic air force including this air refueling with a US KC-135.

 

[Gomig-21]

Nice pics, all EAF. Really looks like a logistical nightmare looool. @Wilhelm II

Mirage 2000 x2
Rafale x2
MiG-29M x2
& F-16 x2

And over the Suez Canal.

 

[The SC]

British "Eurofighter Typhoon" fighter planes participated for the first time in history in maneuvers with the Egyptian Air Force through the Bright Star maneuver.!??

The United Kingdom Air Force had decided to early take out 30 Eurofighter Typhoon Trench 1 fighters from service by 2025 in an unexpected move after there was an intention to develop them and keep them in service until 2040.

International media also reported earlier that Egypt is interested in Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, as it was informed that the Egyptian army is conducting negotiations with Italy in this regard within the framework of the “deal of the century” signed by the two sides, which included Egypt’s acquisition of a group of highly advanced weapons from Italy, including frigates. “Frame Bergamini” and advanced training satellites and aircraft…

These British fighters may be a good opportunity for the Egyptian Air Force, especially in terms of price. The first cross version is said to lack a lot of capabilities, so it can be purchased at a reasonable price and later upgraded to more advanced versions, especially in terms of radar.

These aircraft have only 2500 flying hours and are tempting to buy and then upgrading them later, and they are still able to give another 20 years or more if they are developed and extend their life to 7000-7500 flight hours.

Noteworthy is that these are Tranch 1 block 5+ known as Typhoon FGR4.. dedicated to Air-to-air, air-to-ground and reconnaissance capabilities..The FGR4 has from June 2008 achieved the required standard for multi-role operations..

They can be upgraded either by the UK, Italy or Germany..

 

[joker88]

British "Eurofighter Typhoon" fighter planes participated for the first time in history in maneuvers with the Egyptian Air Force through the Bright Star maneuver.!??

The United Kingdom Air Force had decided to early take out 30 Eurofighter Typhoon Trench 1 fighters from service by 2025 in an unexpected move after there was an intention to develop them and keep them in service until 2040.

International media also reported earlier that Egypt is interested in Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, as it was informed that the Egyptian army is conducting negotiations with Italy in this regard within the framework of the “deal of the century” signed by the two sides, which included Egypt’s acquisition of a group of highly advanced weapons from Italy, including frigates. “Frame Bergamini” and advanced training satellites and aircraft…

These British fighters may be a good opportunity for the Egyptian Air Force, especially in terms of price. The first cross version is said to lack a lot of capabilities, so it can be purchased at a reasonable price and later upgraded to more advanced versions, especially in terms of radar.

These aircraft have only 2500 flying hours and are tempting to buy and then upgrading them later, and they are still able to give another 20 years or more if they are developed and extend their life to 7000-7500 flight hours.

Noteworthy is that these are Tranch 1 block 5+ known as Typhoon FGR4.. dedicated to Air-to-air, air-to-ground and reconnaissance capabilities..The FGR4 has from June 2008 achieved the required standard for multi-role operations..

They can be upgraded either by the UK, Italy or Germany..

Not only that, but there are two dry supply ships, C130J transport planes, and AWACS Sentry

 

[Philip the Arab]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1439440360535732228

 

[Gomig-21]

British "Eurofighter Typhoon" fighter planes participated for the first time in history in maneuvers with the Egyptian Air Force through the Bright Star maneuver.!??

The United Kingdom Air Force had decided to early take out 30 Eurofighter Typhoon Trench 1 fighters from service by 2025 in an unexpected move after there was an intention to develop them and keep them in service until 2040.

International media also reported earlier that Egypt is interested in Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, as it was informed that the Egyptian army is conducting negotiations with Italy in this regard within the framework of the “deal of the century” signed by the two sides, which included Egypt’s acquisition of a group of highly advanced weapons from Italy, including frigates. “Frame Bergamini” and advanced training satellites and aircraft…

These British fighters may be a good opportunity for the Egyptian Air Force, especially in terms of price. The first cross version is said to lack a lot of capabilities, so it can be purchased at a reasonable price and later upgraded to more advanced versions, especially in terms of radar.

These aircraft have only 2500 flying hours and are tempting to buy and then upgrading them later, and they are still able to give another 20 years or more if they are developed and extend their life to 7000-7500 flight hours.

Noteworthy is that these are Tranch 1 block 5+ known as Typhoon FGR4.. dedicated to Air-to-air, air-to-ground and reconnaissance capabilities..The FGR4 has from June 2008 achieved the required standard for multi-role operations..

They can be upgraded either by the UK, Italy or Germany..

You know how this guy feels about the EFTs. I say do it immediately if not sooner, although I do have a reluctance as far as the EAF purchasing the half-used British Typhoons. Even if it's a good deal, something just tells me to stick with the Italians and the latest Tranch with the AESA radar and all the new goodies. I would think that if they are part of that mega deal, that they would even be priced at a discount rate also. Obviously not as cheap as the British ones would be, or even as numerous as I would think the UKs number of Typhoons are up in the 40s or even 50s? But the difference is probably night and day, not to mention the upkeep on brand new aircraft vs ones that have a half life left in them. Either way, VERY exciting that they're thinking of doing this. Time to retime the Mirage 2Ks and replace those 2 squadrons with brand spanking new EFTs!