Egypt started MiG-35 procurement negotiations with Russia
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Egypt’s interest in acquiring the RAC MiG-35 has developed into negotiations with Russia to purchase 46 fighters in a deal which could be worth up to $2.2 billion. According to Russian media reports, RAC MiG chief executive Sergei Korotkov says the company is ready to supply MiG-35s to Cairo. The model is the Russian air […]
Egypt to buy Mistral warships originally built for Russia from France
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France has agreed to sell two Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt, which were originally ordered by Russia. “They agreed on the principle and the terms of the acquisition by Egypt of the two [ships],” the French President Francois Hollande’s spokesman told reporters in a statement on Wednesday. The Mistrals contract, worth €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion), […]
Egyptian AH-64 fired on convoy carrying Mexican tourists, killing 12 people
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Security forces in Egypt have mistakenly killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, during an anti-terror operation, the interior ministry says.The tourists were travelling in four vehicles that entered a restricted zone in the Wahat area of the Western Desert, the ministry said. Sources said eight of those killed were Mexicans.Ten Mexicans and Egyptians were also […]
Egypt didn’t buy Ka-52 «Alligator» attack helicopters
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Rosoboronexport has refuted an earlier report by TASS that Egypt has signed a contract to buy Ka-52 attack helicopters. “There was nothing of the kind, at least at this exhibition,” Anatoly Isaikin, director-general of Rosoboronexport, said. Previously, we reported that Egypt has ordered 50 attack helicopters Ka-52 «Alligator»
Egypt has ordered 50 attack helicopters Ka-52 «Alligator»
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Egypt has ordered Ka-52 attack helicopters to Russia. The first Ka-52 attack helicopter will be delivered to Egypt in 2016. It is planned to supply 50 helicopters to Egypt during the period 2016-2019. The Ka-52 Alligator is a next-generation reconnaissance and combat helicopter designed to destroy tanks, armoured and non-armoured ground targets, and enemy troops […]
Egypt Navy FREMM Frigate “Tahya Misr” FFG-1001 arrived in Alexandria
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Egypt Navy FREMM Frigate “Tahya Misr” FFG-1001 arrived in Alexandria
Washington to deliver eight F-16 fighter jets to Egypt
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The United States will deliver eight F-16 Block 52 aircraft to Egypt within the next two days, the U.S. embassy in Cairo said in a statement on Thursday, part of a military package that had been unfrozen earlier this year. The statement said Washington would deliver four more F-16s to Egypt this autumn. Despite U.S. […]
ISIS Released report of them attacking an M-60 Tank of Egypt Army
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Egyptian Sinai – ISIS published a report of them attacking an M-60 Tank with an ATGM
Egypt to Receive its First Rafale Fighters
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Egypt should receive its first three Rafale fighters later this month, before the 5th of August, day of the refurbishment of the Suez Canal, where a military parade is scheduled for this event. Egypt insisted to get the fighters before August and this term was very clear in the contract signed by Jean-Yves le Drian […]