The outbreak of a marketing war for advanced training aircraft for the Egyptian tender
The Italian company Leonardo offers to sell 20 M364 planes with a copy of the M346FA at a price of 500 million euros for 20 planes, that is, at 28 million dollars, less than the Indian plane by 2 million dollars, while India offered 30 million dollars, a price that Italy did not offer to any country, but less than the offer it received. Israel 10 years ago
Italy sold the M346 plane to Nigeria at a value of 50 million dollars for 24 planes and Italy sold Greece a training program to Israel that includes 10 M346 planes and the development of 20 T-6 planes and a service for 20 years worth 1.6 billion dollars We see the size of the Italian fierce competition for Egypt
Italy offers to manufacture components for drones in various systems such as electronic components, communications systems, electronic warfare and mission computers, and to present the Falco Xplorer uav as Italian offset
Italy also offers financial facilities to Egypt
While India offers a wide package of technology transfer to Egypt
Both for the LCA SPORT aircraft, which manufactures the mission computer and the AESA radar
Approved the export of BRAHOMOS/NG missiles
they want to export anti-tank missiles MILAN 2T
Egypt was offered to produce the HAL Dhruv aircraft to replace the SA-341/342 GAZELLE aircraft
Of which Egypt has produced more than 154 aircraft locally during the past thirty years
The plane could Egypt develop a more advanced version derived from it, but it enabled Egypt to discuss the production of a plane derived from the LCH plane with the applications of techniques and methods of higher quality than those applied in India to ensure the safety of the planes significantly
My personal choice The Indian plane is still 1000 times better than the Italian plane for many reasons
The Indian plane is considered a light fighter, and Egypt can develop and modify it significantly in a light fighter version. Egypt also needs large numbers of fighters. True, Egypt is working on a project to produce more than 10 different drones at the same time with 6 countries, including China, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, France, South Korea and Greece
New variant will ne welcome
India offers a wide range of equipment and technology transfer to Egypt, starting with anti-tank missiles, which are nine years old, to sell Egypt MILAN 2T missiles developed to Egypt, and various missiles ranging from NAG to Akasha missiles
The ASTRA MK2 missile was also exposed to Egypt
India announced to Israel that it will sell the BARHOMS missile to Egypt because China is offering the CM-400AKG missile at a lower price to Egypt, and that India will not sell it a copy of BRAHOMS with a range exceeding 300 km by restricting the volume of fuel
India considers Egypt a gateway to selling arms to Africa and the Arab states. Its success with Egypt will make it a real source of arms for these countries, so it is fighting fiercely with Italy in these deals.
china refuse tech transfer for SD-10 for that Egypt refuse FC-1
The problem of the Italians, Europeans , and the Americans, which destroyed their economy, think that they are the ones who determine the required level of technology transfer so that countries will continue to import from them and never develop, so they do not want to transfer technology technology.
The Chinese know that in order to have a foothold, they must offer the technologies they have, even if they are less developed than the European, but it is possible to pump more money to provide a better level as a result of export deals, while the Europeans are investing in grants, aid and lower prices, provided that the technology is not transferred
Egypt is also working on the production of huge numbers of all types of drones. There is also a need for fighters to purify the airspace from unmanned aircraft, which requires large numbers of fighters, and the role of the M346 aircraft will be sterile in this role, as the payload is very weak and the arms package is not large
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