Lol, arrogance ? The only arrogance I have noticed is the one from you and other GCC fanboys. I have no reason to be arrogant at all - I am just stating the facts.
So, stating that you will have to sacrifice flying hours as a result of eastern air frames and engines is not stating facts?
It is well-known that several Arab countries with their air forces does not have high combat readiness - and they are massively dependent on Western assistance.
That may be so, but their is nothing pointing to Algeria being an exception to that rule. There is however evidence (the aircraft you fly) which points to you being an example.
Following Russian doctrine and using eastern aircraft will only ever result in lower combat readiness and combat effectiveness. The Russians remain in a rut with a large percentage of its AF, Navy, and Army unoperational.
You shouldn't worry about AAF at all. Your air force should rather worry about Israel - which can rape your air force in a couple of days (as always, no matter what fighters Egypt might have).
OK.
Algeria on the other hand is concentrated on terrorism, defending it's air space, having a "eye" on the regime in Morocco, and building its air force with its own pace.
As it should be.
Afterall, Algeria at least have their own money (190 billion USD in reserves) compared to another certain country that has to wait for the money from GCC terrorist regimes to fund their weapons purchases.
OK.
You don't understand what "reliant" means. It means that the West - or the U.S. especially will always choose Israel over any of your other states in the Middle East. Meaning, that you can never use your air force against Israel FREELY, EVER - because the U.S. would do what they did to Iran after 1979 and Venezuela since the 1990s. Full-scale embargo and sanctions on any possible Western tech or spare parts for their Western aircraft (Iranian F-14s and Venezuelan F-16s).
Soviets were not the most reliable partners either, nor are the current day Russians.
Algeria on the other hand doesn't need to "watch out" for Israel, as they're too far away, so that's not Algeria's problem. That should be Egypt, Jordan and GCC's problem - if they can soon stop killing other secular states in the Middle East by supporting terrorist groups
OK.
Second of all - Algeria would never be sanctioned by Russia on any spare parts or the aircraft as Algeria does NOT have ANY Russian ally that Algeria has "problems" with. The only problems Algeria has with are U.S./Western allies + islamic terrorism, thus Russia or China have ZERO reason to sanction Algeria in any way.
I'm sure the eastern block nations felt that way.
Yes, Egypt operates now S-300 VM, you can THANK Russia for that. Finally you have a SAM now that can be used freely, and won't be sanctioned by the U.S.
Apart from the PAC-3 nothing in the EAD inventory could be affected by US sanctions. Everything can be used freely.
How nice of the U.S. to finally deliver some Apaches to you, they were holding back now for a while, until the last week or so, lol lol.
Egypt already operated 35 AH-64D helicopters the additional ten are not as important as the PR out of the US and Egypt are making it out to be.
Furthermore I was talking about S-300PMU2 and not S-300VM. Most prefer to receive PMU2 over VM version. Iran didn't wanted VM version either, when they were offered that instead of PMU2, last year.
It's not a matter of preference but of requirement.
And S-400 is something Egypt is never going to get, but Algeria will. Same goes for PAK-FA fighter which Russia plans to export to Algeria when the time comes. I cannot see that Egypt will be allowed to operate PAK-FA or F-35 about 10 years from now on.
Because you have a crystal ball right!?
Once the S-300 line shuts orders for that system will diverted to the S-400. Egypt has been interested in the S-400 since 2009, you should maybe look that up.
PAK-FA isn't going to be anywhere near operational and exportable until a while after 2020, so you'll have to wait as well.
Anyway, good luck with your Egyptian Air Force against superior Israeli air power with Israeli-upgraded F-35s + Israeli subs with cruise-missiles. I am sure Egyptian Air Force will last about six days as they did last time
OK.
Your sole argument is based on what ifs and not on reality, in reality none of the Arab AFs are facing any sanction problems in the near future and if they were they would seek a replacement to their traditional suppliers.
What you've proved with this long rant which was only meant to offend others in order to inflate your ego is that you have no argument against what I had written before. The AAF gets less flying time than other AFs in the region and lacks vital components for net centric warfare. Along with being completely inexperienced in conventional warfare let alone modern air warfare and secluding yourself from the international exercise scene you might want to consider you're just not as good as you think you are.
