How about, helping to topple the same Egyptian dictator so the muslim brotherhood could take control of those tanks and planes.
We're brilliant!
A few hundred more M1A1s will just add to their fleet - bringing to total M1A1s to 1130. The chassis, turrets, etc are made in Egypt, while the speciallized parts are US made.
The US is not shipping completed tanks to Egypt, just the armor etc needed to made the tanks servicible.