Posted on 10/31/2007 7:36:22 AM PDT by SJackson
Egypt - TOW IIA Anti-Armor Guided Missiles
(Source: US Defense Security Cooperation Agency; issued Oct. 30, 2007)
[With thanks to www.defense-aerospace.com ]
WASHINGTON --- On October 29, 2007 the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Egypt of TOW IIA anti-armor guided missiles as well as associated equipment and services.
The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $99 million.
The Government of Egypt has requested a possible sale of 2,000 TOW 2A Missiles, plus 28 buy-to-fly missiles, containers, test sets and support equipment, spare and repair parts, publications and technical data, maintenance, personnel training and training equipment, U.S. Government (USG) and contractor engineering, technical and logistics support services, and other related elements of logistics support. The estimated cost is $99 million.
This sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that has been and continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.
Egypt needs these TOW 2A missiles and launchers to augment its current inventory and provide mechanized infantry and field artillery units with an anti-armor capability. Egypt will have no difficulty absorbing these additional missiles into its armed forces since it already has TOW missiles in its inventory, which were previously procured from the United States.
The sale of this equipment and support will not affect the basic military balance in the region.
The two U.S. Government representatives already in country, who currently manage the existing TOW 2A programs, will also manage this program.
The prime contractor will be Raytheon Company, Tucson, AZ. There are no known offset agreements proposed in connection with this potential sale.
There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale.
This notice of a potential sale is required by law; it does not mean that the sale has been concluded.
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Wonder who Egypt is planning to use these on?
Surely not the unidentified country to the northeast the train their officers to invade, that can't be.
Can’t wait until the State Dept tries to tell us it’s for invading Sudan to free the Darfur people. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
‘There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale. ‘
If I were a Abrams tank crew member, I’d have a big problem with this assumption.
Lovely. Sell the Eqyptians an anti-tank missile that pierces the thin deck armor on a tank. Now who do you suppose those missiles will get used against?
...make that Merkava tank commander.
Who can Egypt possibly use these against besides Israel?
Ah, yes, the Pentagon's "Missiles for Muslims" program at work. After all, muslims need missiles, too; otherwise, they get chafed and upset and feel insulted and all.
The Egyptians have Abrams tanks.
Worse, the US will first give aid to Egypt to enable them to buy the missles; IOW, they will be a free gift.
And Egypt has no possible use for these; neither Sudan nor Libya has a large, competent tank force, nor anything that can’t already be dealt with by the Egyptian air force.
Doesn’t change my point of view on this. Egypt has been in effect under martial law since Sudat was assasinated. Mubarak is the most overrated ‘world leader’ in the Middle East. I think Egypts internal politics are just as unstable as Pakistan’s, we’ve just grown used to living with it.
Which is equipped with an radio frequency kill switch if they ever use them to oppose us or are allies...no doubt...
they need these to fend off beduins with camels
They can be used against Israeli armor and Israeli positions. This is exactly how Hizbollah used them in July 2006
With an anti tank missile Hizbollah took out a building that killed 7 Israelis
Sometime in the future Egypt may have a close quarters war with Israel
How about if the fundamentalists get rid of Mubarak and send the anti tank missiles to Gaza?
Libya
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Egypt knows that if they were to attack Israel, they would get their head stopped into the ground.
They were assembled in Egypt under a joint venture, I doubt it.
Assembled from components shipped to Egypt from the USA, no doubt...so...it’s plausible...
Where is Egypt going to get $99m? (as if we don't already know)
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