U.S. agrees not to sell AMRAAM to Egypt [Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-air Missile]

F-16.net ^ | 8/18/2004 | unknown

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The United States was said to have agreed to an Israeli request to restrict the capability and use of advanced air-to-air missiles to Jordan and ban their sale to the rest of the Arab world.

The London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat reported on Wednesday that Israel persuaded the Bush administration to impose a set of restrictions on the sale of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile to Jordan. Earlier, the administration had agreed in principle to a Jordanian request for the AMRAAM for the kingdom's F-16 fleet.

The newspaper asserted that Israel agreed to an arrangement in which the AMRAAM would be sold to Jordan. But the agreement included a U.S. commitment to ban the export of the air-to-air missile to other Arab states.

Earlier this year, the administration relayed an informal request to Congress to sell the AMRAAM to Egypt. Several senior House and Senate members expressed their opposition to the proposed sale.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is a good step, but I am still disgusted with the arms that we are selling to Egypt.

[sukhoi-30mki]

I don't think the Egyptians would get too pi**ed about this-they can choose to buy the French Mica missile(range of 50-65kms) & wire it to their F-16s & is rumoured to be very good with many nations(Greece,UAE,Taiwan) all using it,some along with the AMRAAM.What Im more worried about is the US proposal to sell more M1A2 tech to the Egyptians & also the proposed sale of the Harpoon Blk 2-which has a limited land attack capability.

You just can't trust the Egyptians,Pakistanis & Saudis with modern weapons.