Germany delivers the second batch of patrol boats to Egypt

[The SC]

The German company Lurssen delivered the second batch of patrol boats to Egypt as part of an order involving 10 ships.

AIS data showed a second batch of three ships arriving at Alexandria Port on the heavy lift ship Rolldock Sun on February 14, Jane reports. The ship left Germany on January 28 carrying a 60-meter patrol boat carrying the 710 flag and two OPB 41 (previously marketed as CSB 40) coastal patrol boat 705 and 706.

In November 2020, it was revealed that Egypt would receive nine Lurssen patrol boats and one coastal defense boat from Germany under a deal worth 130 million euros after a failed contract with the original customer, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia had ordered 35 ships from Lurssen around 2013, but by the time Germany imposed an arms export ban on the country in November 2018 due to the Yemen war and the Jamal Khashoggi case,

Jane's said that the first batch of four 40-meter hulls (701-704) was transferred to Egypt in early November 2020. On December 5, 2020, one of the 704 patrol boats was seen participating in the Medusa 10 exercise.


https://www.defense-arabic.com/2021/03/05/ألمانيا-تسلم-الدفعة-الثانية-من-زوارق-ا/

 

[Gomig-21]

Outstanding. Those are terrific patrol ships. Well built and full of excellent systems for patrol boats. Too bad they only ended up with 10 and the order for 35 for Saudiya didn't get completely transferred to Egypt. They should work out a deal like that where all those ships under the Saudi contract be built and shipped to Egypt (then put in storage so that they don't become used) until things cool down and maybe even the conflict with the Houties comes to some kind of an end in favor of Saudiya and then the boats be transferred to Saudiya. But I'm guessing that the Mamlaka is not happy about the order being cancelled in the first place, especially after all the $$$$ Saudiya has invested in Germany through all the Typhoons and many other systems. I wouldn't be happy either if I was in their place. So they might not want them now and will move on to a different manufacturer from a different country. Something tells me Italy is on standby....