That's what we need to do, MICA, send out a very large contingency of specifically designated military to cleanse that disease completely and in a very swift and hard manner with minimal casualties because you know those subhuman creatures will be hiding in populated areas.
I'm afraid it's far more complicated than that due to systemic failures within the Armed Forces that span decades and the difficulty of the human terrain.
Apart from being woefully under equipped and under trained for this sort of operation there is a rather glaring mistake in strategy. Merely increasing the number or type of troops deployed will do little to 'solve' the problem.
The Armed Forces and Interior are still somehow convinced that traditional policing methods will eradicate the problem when it clearly doesn't work.
Static checkpoints are far too vulnerable with very little physical protection and a lack of firepower making them susceptible to SVBIEDs. They are often cut off from reinforcement by placing IEDs on route and so there's a over reliance on air power to repel attacks, by that time the position would have already been over run.
Another issue is a lack of light infantry. The entire Army being mechanised may have advantages in a conventional conflict but in the Sinai it falls flat on its face. APCs are stuck to patrolling the same routes (susceptible to IED) and are pretty crap for recce or fighting patrols in general let alone raids.
This brings me to my biggest frustration. A lack of structured sub company formations given freedom on a tactical level working out of forward operating bases with independent ISTAR assets. The Egyptian Army has always been top heavy but the lack of 'mission command' severely hampers our efforts.
I could honestly rant for ages about things as trivial as cam and concealment so I'm going to cut it short. When the US warned Tantawi that we should focus on COIN they were right but in our own pigheadedness we thought we were right as always, although hindsight is 20/20.
Glad we don't have to put those orange swaths on the non-US aircraft.
Bas kan lazem nehot 3aleha touch Masry so we put Tahy Misr on it in a large ugly white font
makes it look like a toc toc
I also read the upgrade to the Viper status and hope there is something in there about the AIM-120 which has now been upgraded to AIM-135 but I believe those are reserved for the US stealth planes if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong but without the CISMOA signed, it's probably doubtful. I just think that even with the Rafales and the new MiGs, by the time the training is complete it would be nice to have some if not most of the Vipers capable of firing that missile.
The AIM-120D I believe is the new variant/designation for the F-35. I think I also read somewhere that they're contemplating integration of the MBDA Meteor.
lol, awesome stuff. If you pause the 2nd video @ minute .32 you'll notice the Russians are dropping these combat vehicles (BMD-2) and armored carriers BTRD's with 10 large parachutes and another 7 or more smaller ones closer to the units. You can also see them coming out of the aircraft @ .37
If we're seriously considering expeditionary warfare this would be a great capability. Here in the UK we look at the Russians with envy in this regard. They're the only people that can do it.
