Egyptian Rafale Jets. Image courtesy of manufacturer Dassault Aviation.
Posted on 06/17/2016 8:59:12 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Egyptian Rafale Jets. Image courtesy of manufacturer Dassault Aviation.
Egypt needs to be selling Islam. Let it go bankrupt...
OK, so they like the airplane, or the price — it doesn’t matter. A hardball-playing president of the US would say: “either buy our planes or kiss our aid good-bye.”
After they threw out the Muslim Brotherhood and put their figurehead in jail, Obama cut their aid. That’s why they’re buying French now.
Capable planes?
Ohhhhkay......
Reasonably so, yeah. Somewhere in capability between the F-15E and the F-15SG (the latter of which we don’t field), but with added stealth features. They have been known to kill F-22’s in exercises.
Dear leader threw a billion in aid to Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood Candidate who won the election through threats of violence and after he won got the Zer0 billion support even though his MoBros were killing Coptic Christians and burning their churches. The threat to Israel and Christians in the middle east was great and the Egyptian Military overthrew the tyrant Morsi. Zero withdrew the aid so you can see whose side he was on. The countries Zero has gone against in the middle east are the secular governments of ytria, Iraq, Egypt, Lybia. Is this a coincidence that Zero seems to be on the side of the islamists? I don’t think so.
Very capable, but mighty expensive since its all French unlike U.S. jets, which benefit from larger domestic volumes!
A non muslim, non america hating us president.
What do they need these war planes for? I mean, really!!! There’s no power threatening Egypt except USA under Obama of course and he’s supposedly leaving soon
I remember Egypt under Nasser built an Egyptian version of a V-2 rocket—kind of beefed up rocket that the Nazis used. Do they still have them?
Sorry I do t know. But someone here will
[cough, cough] link please.
https://warisboring.com/the-french-shot-down-u-s-stealth-fighter-f59db16282ca#.prgg8g5ca
Rafales aren’t the only one. An EA-6G managed the same feat, as have the Germans in their Tornadoes.
No. They dumped it for various Soviet rocket systems. SCUDs, FROG-7s, etc.
To be fair, they were all exercises at close range, whereas in actual combat the 22 is designed to stand off undetected and fire missiles.
That’s great, if they have AWACS support to localize the enemy. Both China and Russia now have (and offer on the world market) AWACS killer missiles that are fired beyond visual range. Once the AWACS is gone, the F-22 has to find its targets for itself and it’s just as vulnerable as any other flying emitter.
Expecting the F-22 to not have to mix it up in a dogfight at some point is as stupid as taking the gun off jet aircraft because “the missiles will do all the work.”
And yet the design of the F-22 is BASED on AWACS.
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