Egyptian Rafale Jets. Image courtesy of manufacturer Dassault Aviation.
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.”
Capable planes?
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
The Egyptian economy is an absolute basket case. Beefing up their military in this way when their principle enemy only has rifles is stupid. Unless, the money for this is not coming from Egypt, but from foreign aid. The way foreign aid works, a country gives another country credit to buy from the giving country. So the giving country uses its taxpayer dollars to have somebody else purchase their products. There are lots of reasons to do this. One is to disguise the true price of the hardware the donor country is making from its own taxpayers. Instead of spreading the cost of a weapon across just the domestic demand, say 50, they spread it across the cost of 100.
Egypt might be stronger in the long run if they spent their money on killing the Muslim Brotherhood and developing industry and agriculture. But, then again, if the hardware is of little or no actual cost to them why not engage in national display behavior? (When a peacock spreads his feathers or a cat puffs up and hisses, that is display behavior.)
Oh, I thought they were something like truffles.