Egypt's problem is their general economic and the defence budget, Egypt's economy have a huge dependency on US and it's allies, so the US can damage their economy in a serious matter. Even so they do somethings to guard themselves, they're not like China or Russia.
So Egypt will try to make an economic buffer, so that they can hold themselves if the US did anything. And of course they'll try to delay any announcement till the last minute they can reach, so that they lessen the capability & incentives of the US to hurt them.
Egypt's not a "sexy" county to follow as a military enthusiast, they're secretive & slow.
But Ayi's notion that Egypt left the deal is off the rail, and it's not confirmed in any way. Egypt literally had a huge joint training with China, they saw J-10C & KJ-500, and I'm sure there was a lot of missiles sent to be seen. And Pak-India fight actually will solidify the deal because it hurts any westernized lobby in the air force. And lastly Egypt have around 204 F-16s, all of the pilots of this aircraft will try to push for a new aircraft rather than this flying coffin.
Also, his historic comments are completely wrong and doesn't even deserve a reply.
I always advocate for 150 jets to be procured to be the core of Egyptian air force, 75 J-10C and 75 J-35A, with 6 KJ-500. and then start co-production of JF-17 to get the quantity needed for Egypt and get rid of the F-16 -- sell it or divest it.
But this project with the missiles stocks needed, maybe will between 15-30 billion dollars maybe raised to 40B, and that with my arbitrary estimation, and Egypt defence budget is so low to do something like that. But they have to do if they want to survive.
So Egypt will try to make an economic buffer, so that they can hold themselves if the US did anything. And of course they'll try to delay any announcement till the last minute they can reach, so that they lessen the capability & incentives of the US to hurt them.
Egypt's not a "sexy" county to follow as a military enthusiast, they're secretive & slow.
But Ayi's notion that Egypt left the deal is off the rail, and it's not confirmed in any way. Egypt literally had a huge joint training with China, they saw J-10C & KJ-500, and I'm sure there was a lot of missiles sent to be seen. And Pak-India fight actually will solidify the deal because it hurts any westernized lobby in the air force. And lastly Egypt have around 204 F-16s, all of the pilots of this aircraft will try to push for a new aircraft rather than this flying coffin.
Also, his historic comments are completely wrong and doesn't even deserve a reply.
I always advocate for 150 jets to be procured to be the core of Egyptian air force, 75 J-10C and 75 J-35A, with 6 KJ-500. and then start co-production of JF-17 to get the quantity needed for Egypt and get rid of the F-16 -- sell it or divest it.
But this project with the missiles stocks needed, maybe will between 15-30 billion dollars maybe raised to 40B, and that with my arbitrary estimation, and Egypt defence budget is so low to do something like that. But they have to do if they want to survive.
