Egyptian Armed Forces

[Hydration]

Yair Lapid was never a defence minister...

Does anyone have an idea what this vehicle is?
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a foreign affairs minister sorry
and youve asked this question before
I think its a mine clearing veichle on an m60 chasiss

 

[Ghostkiller]

 

[Ghostkiller]

"MBDA company wants to set up a production line
Missile munitions in Egypt and the LCA plane, Europe accepted the integration of European munitions with it"

@sami_1 you have a source for your claims?

 

[sami_1]

"MBDA company wants to set up a production line
Missile munitions in Egypt and the LCA plane, Europe accepted the integration of European munitions with it"

@sami_1 you have a source for your claims?

It is normal, there are negotiations between the MBDA and the Egyptian Ministry of Defense because there are requests for it

300 SCLAP EG missiles
240 METEOR Missle
Large numbers of MICA NG missiles for Rafale fighters and corvettes CC.60
1000 SmartGlider Light/SmartGlider Heavy
AASM Hammer new patch
Exocet Block 3 missiles
This deal is more than 3 billion dollars to arm the new fighters and corvettes
The current production lines of MBDA cannot meet the foreign demands of many countries, so there is a tendency to manufacture several products in Egypt.

Egypt did not get any offset from the first and second Rafale deals, and locally producing munitions is important for Egypt to meet local needs, as was done in the previous assembly of the Magic 2 missile for the Mirage 2000.
Therefore, the MRO Rafale Center will be established, as well as local production of some munitions

Negotiations with India to obtain LCA Tejas and Indian munitions are putting pressure on European, Russian and Chinese suppliers

MBDA studies partnership with ministry of military production in some local missiles production in Egypt: Fouche​

Middle East represents 25% of our market, annual turnover, says MBDA's Regional Executive export, Sales Director
Nehal Samir December 10, 2018

In view of the closing of Egypt’s Defence Expo, EDEX 2018, the first exhibition of its kind, not only in Egypt, which holds a leading position in the purchase of armaments in the region, but also in the entire African content, Daily News Egypt interviewed laurnet Fouche, regional executive export, and sales director for the MBDA, which specialises in designing and producing missiles. The MBDA Company was among the exhibitors in the EDEX, with its own pavilion.
Notably, the EDEX lasted from 3 to 5 December in Cairo, bringing together 373 Egyptian and foreign companies engaged in the manufacture and delivery of modern security and defence technologies and systems from 41 countries.
The interview addressed the company’s expansion plans in Egypt, in addition to its services, and also discussed the Egyptian market, the EDEX, and mentioned the obstacles facing Egypt in manufacturing weapons, underlining how beneficial the EDEX was for the industry, the transcript for which is below, lightly edited for clarity:

What kind of services does the MBDA provide? And how many products does it offer?
Let me first say that the MBDA is a multi-national group with 10,500 employees working together in our branches. It is a joint venture of the three European leaders in aerospace and defence, Airbus with 37.5 %, BAE systems with 37.5%, and Leonardo with 25%.
It’s important also to mention that the MBDA works with over 90 armed forces worldwide.
In terms of the MBDA’s services, it is the only European group capable of designing, developing, and producing missiles and missile systems to meet the whole range of current and future needs of the three armed forces, including air, navy, and land armed forces.
Overall, the group offers a range of 45 products in service and another 15 in development.
How many branches does the company have? Any plans to expand ?in the Middle East, especially in Egypt?
The company has five branches in Europe, based in Spain, Italy, France, the UK and Germany.
Concerning the Middle East, we have only one branch based in Dubai, with offices also set up in the US.
Concerning your question of expanding in Egypt, I think this is something that we can look into, but it depends also on the projects that we will have here in the country and the activities.
Which are the most significant import countries?
It’s difficult to mention certain countries, but I can state that the Middle East is a major importing area for our products.
Daily News Egypt interviewed laurnet Fouche, regional executive export, and sales director for the MBDA, which specialises in designing and producing missiles
Can we estimate how much the Middle East represents for your market?
Up to date, the Middle East represents 25% of our market, of our annual.
To further elaborate, the order to take coming from the Middle East represents 25% of all orders that we receive.
How many factories do you have across the world? Do you have any plans to expand your factories in Egypt?
Currently, we have 10 factories across Europe, while concerning the Middle East we have only an office.
In terms of expansion in Egypt, I think it depends on customers’ needs in Egypt, but we are thinking of partnering with the Egyptian Ministry of Military Production, so that we can strengthen the relationships between the ministry of defence, armed forces, and the MBDA in some missile local production in the future here in Egypt, hence we will start discussions to help the Egyptian side to integrate our products into vehicles for example.
In addition, we will help them to establish an Egyptian system by transferring knowledge and technology, which will subsequently increase autonomy in production in Egypt.
Do you have any negotiations in that subject with the ministry of military production?
No, we are now just at the beginning of studying the partnership and will try to meet the expectations of the ministry of defence, as we understand well that it is an important need for the country.
How do you evaluate the Egyptian market currently?
I think Egypt is taking good steps, including the Egypt Defence Expo, EDEX 2018, which is the first event of this type in Egypt.
Let’s talk about EDEX in depth, including your experience with it, how was it?
I think it was a successful event as the companies that were present in the EDEX were very important companies, and subsequently the level of attendees was very important.
Notably, there is a demand in the region to know the latest technology of the defence industry.
I think the EDEX was extremely good, extremely professional, and the organisation was perfect, and it met our expectation, all the way from the top to the lower ranking officer in MBDA.
In your opinion, how was this event beneficial?
For our own side as a company, the event was very beneficial, to be there, to meet all the levels of highly-ranked officers will contribute towards strengthening our relationship.
To elaborate more, this event was important to strengthen and link relationships between the companies and the ministry of defence, and this kind of event is well spread out across the world, so it was very important for the MBDA to be present here in Egypt.
What are the obstacles that Egypt faces in manufacturing weapons?
The competence and manpower to be part of the sector, hence it needs help from all the different sectors to bring in and transform in knowledge and technology, then after that I think Egypt will face no obstacles to be able to manufacture.
Does the cooperation between Egypt and France in Rafale aircrafts, lead towards increasing orders to take of your missiles?
We have a long experience, and history of relationships between the MBDA and the Egyptian forces, especially the air forces, because in the past, we used to also equip aircrafts and helicopters from air forces to air forces with our missiles.
Thus, the new technology arriving with Rafale, are also equipped with our missiles, so we were part of the deal.
What are the obstacles that you face as a company in this sector?
I don’t see any obstacle to be mentioned.
You don’t face any difficulty in marketing your products?
No, as we are following the international standards to export our products, this is dealt with according to the level of the relationships between the government of the five countries of the MDBA and the customers.
What about the MBDA’s last financial results in terms of revenues, orders to take? And what are its targets?
FOR the MBDA we are achieving the target in terms of revenues, sales, and orders to take.
All these last years, we were around the target of about €3bn in revenues, and orders were around €4bn per year.
Concerning 2017, the MBDA achieved revenues worth €3.1bn, order backlogs were €16.8bn.
In terms of the financial results for 2018, it has not yet been consolidated, but I think that we are on the track to achieve our target.

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2018/12/...me-local-missiles-production-in-egypt-fouche/

 

[Buschlaid]

Does anyone have an idea what this vehicle is?
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I know it's a mine clearing vehicle on M60 tank chassis used in Sinai operations. It has camera in the turret and slat armour on the sides but I don't think it's remotely operated. Most likely only driven by a driver and perhaps also one more crew member. Anyway, I'd love to know official designation of this thing, how many were made and more pictures of it

 

[Hydration]

I know it's a mine clearing vehicle on M60 tank chassis used in Sinai operations. It has camera in the turret and slat armour on the sides but I don't think it's remotely operated. Most likely only driven by a driver and perhaps also one more crew member. Anyway, I'd love to know official designation of this thing, how many were made and more pictures of it

I dont think you will find that we found that pic with a miracle probably

 

[Ghostkiller]

Our Air Force Commander on kill switch and on other things

 

[ARCH٤R]

I know it's a mine clearing vehicle on M60 tank chassis used in Sinai operations. It has camera in the turret and slat armour on the sides but I don't think it's remotely operated. Most likely only driven by a driver and perhaps also one more crew member. Anyway, I'd love to know official designation of this thing, how many were made and more pictures of it

I’m not entirely a land warfare enthusiast, I generally thought it was a known variant among western militaries, doesn’t seem so...
You must know by now that Egypt does not recognize military publicity a thing, they aren’t intentionally silent about such a variant but it’s not the military that maintains a PR in general...

I have came across many footages and photos from the Sinai and never saw that vehicle before. I would suspect there isn’t much of it in the Armoured Corps.

Not a first time for the M60 tho:

 

[Gomig-21]

Our Air Force Commander on kill switch and on other things

Former EAF commander.

I've been telling people the same thing he just said about that silly, stupid kill switch theory some ding dong came up with and got everyone all riled up! lol. No such thing, never was and most likely never will be.

The old forum I mention every now and then where some of us were participating in (including a couple of the guys from 73 Historians before they made their video series to counter the insulting History Channel's "Crazy Egyptian MiG-21 Pilot" those filthy bastards should be sued for such defamation of character, but that's another story for another time) and before those fellas became YouTube stars from those video series they made which were great, for sure; we were all on a very similar thread like this one about the EAF and Egyptian Armed Forces and at the same time, there was a former USAF F-15 pilot (username Chogy) who was also participating and I had asked him what he thought about this stupid kill switch theory and he laughed at it.

He proceeded to tell us that not only is there no way to install such a thing without the user not being able to not only find it, but EASILY find it. He also said something that made us all think and sounded so true that even if let's say hypothetically there was such a stupid thing, and in fact a situation arose that the US found itself needing to activate the stupid thing and they did. Suddenly Egyptian or Jordanian or Iraqi or Turkish F-16s are dropping out of the sky, it would be extremely easy to realize why they started falling and a huge scandal would befall the United States military export industry that would essentially ruin it! No one would trust them ever again and they would suffer huge losses in essentially their largest export products.

Even if somehow a malfunction (like the recent unfortunate F-16 crash near Port Said) was later inspected and found out that an electrical surcharge or whatever the case might've been, activated that stupid kill switch and brought the plane down and ensuing scandal erupted, would the US ever take on such an industry-killing option just to be able to prevent whomever is operating the aircraft from either attacking Israel or whatever the reason might be? Absolutely not and Chogy was 100% correct about that.

Then some numbskull brought up another stupider counter by claiming they could send an intrusion virus to essentially cripple the computer system and bring the aircraft down, since it would never be able to fly without a properly functioning computer. That theory was even more silly and stupid beyond ultimate stupidity! lol

Thank God the former commander came out and put an end to that crazy stupidity. Hopefully it's all said and done, now! Good post ya Basha.

 

[Ghostkiller]

Israel to ask Biden for okay to provide air defense laser to Saudi Arabia – report

Request said to be part of move toward regional cooperation against Iranian threats, with Israel part of an alliance that includes countries it has no official ties with

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Ghostkiller]

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxfjjlH0dA1mU1N65PXYyHC4DPV_XJY1aJ

#News: Egypt is set to acquire 24 newly built Eurofighter Typhoons from Italy With this purchase the Egyptian Air Force will operate the most diverse fighter fleet in the world. Yup, THE most - with American F-16s, French Rafales & Mirages, Russian MiG-29s, and now Italian Typhoons!

 

[The SC]

New young chap.. interesting some how..

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxfjjlH0dA1mU1N65PXYyHC4DPV_XJY1aJ

#News: Egypt is set to acquire 24 newly built Eurofighter Typhoons from Italy With this purchase the Egyptian Air Force will operate the most diverse fighter fleet in the world. Yup, THE most - with American F-16s, French Rafales & Mirages, Russian MiG-29s, and now Italian Typhoons!

Where is that freaking Italian Prime Minister..it was few days for his decision..and now it is a month..

 

[Ramses Akhenaten Ahmose]

Need meteors with them, not happy til we get those

 

[Ghostkiller]

Need meteors with them, not happy til we get those

True we need them. Plus I hope an indigenous A2A missile project. Maybe with Tejas deal we will Astra missile ToT if we sign it. We must rely on us more.

 

[Gomig-21]

Where is that freaking Italian Prime Minister..it was few days for his decision..and now it is a month..

That's what I was saying when I brought up the reason for him not making that announcement like he was supposedly going to make thinking it's quite possible the Regeni situation was influencing his decision because millions of Italians are not happy with the result of that case and he might be looking at that as a detriment to his next election. This is very plausible for why he hasn't made an official comment on the situation.

Speaking of official, I wish we were able to get such confirmation from our own MoD, or Army Spokesman or some official announcement from the perspective supplier, in this case, Leonardo. Anyone can get on YT, Facebook or make a tweet like this one...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546926368268718080

Not to mention all these YouTube star wannabes making all sorts of videos as if they're experts bless them lol. If only we could get a much better form of official announcements, things would be so much better.

I feel that with all this new generation, with all these outlets and the propensity to pursue Donald Trump's delusional creation of all media as the "enemy of the people" and being infamously dubbed by him as reporting nothing but "fake news" unless it was positive news about him, that childish scum, that many have taken that infamous concept to a whole other new level that leaves us poor souls whom are simply looking for the "real news" stranded in this brutal feeding frenzy of untrustworthy entrepreneurs looking for a piece of the limelight at any cost. It's such a shame. Times have really changed, I tell ya.