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Things are simpler than everyone imaginesTurkiye modernize its F-16 fleet with indigenous AESA Radar , EW System , long range BVR air to air Missiles
also Turkiye buys 40 new F-16V and 79 VIPER kits
better worry about Your Egyptian F-16s and RAFALEs without BVR Missile and land attack Cruise Missiles
btw HURJET is alternative to Korean T-50 for the Egyptian Air Force
FC-31 is another level ..... to compare with Turkish KAAN 5th gen Fighter Jet
Turkey How many F-16 aircraft have you developed and entered service with AESA radar in the Turkish Air Force? Zero There is no real product A product under development A product that has not been tested in local and international air battles or maneuvers is considered a risk
No product can be considered a real product unless it has served 2-3 years in the Air Force No one is naive You have not completed the F-16 development program with America until this moment The deal has not been completed And if you have a real national program to develop the F-16 Why are you running after the United States to develop 80 aircraft and buy 40 new aircraft with a very large number and with ammunition worth 23 billion, which is the price of buying 150 new Typhoon aircraft, it will be higher than the F-16 fleet even after developing it all
You always talk about the future being a reality and it has not happened and is still in the future Will you fight in the future? Greece has developed even this Moment 24 F-16 aircraft No one risks dreams or predictions or what will happen in the future to determine the fate of his air force
Egypt has a policy in purchasing aircraft. The aircraft must have served in the original air force and the HURJET aircraft is still in testing and has not entered service. There is not a single aircraft serving in the Turkish Air Force from serial production. Who would mortgage its fate?
The policy of reducing products globally depends on the level of technology possessed by the T-50 aircraft. Its performance is better than the Turkish HURJET aircraft and it was in the Malaysian tender with a partial technology transfer. However, the Turkish aircraft lost and until now the GE F-404 engine has not been contracted.
Egypt requested special specifications for the FA-50 aircraft and South Korea is working on developing it according to the Egyptian requirements. It consists of a light fighter with good performance. The HURJET aircraft has not yet completed a light fighter version. There are future plans, while the T-50/FA- 50 aircraft has more than 200 aircraft serving globally in more than one air force.
This does not mean that There is no cooperation with Turkey, but there will be cooperation in ammunition and after the equipment for the F-16 fighters because most of the fleet will serve 20 more years.
We explained previously that Egypt prefers to obtain new aircraft instead of developing old aircraft at a high cost, and this is the reason for not developing many American equipment regardless of political factors.
Why would I develop a bird like the F-16 for $30 million when I can buy a new aircraft for $50 million with performance equal to or better than the developed aircraft like the J-10CY?
Which is better for Egypt, developing 200 F-16 aircraft or a limited development of the aircraft and maintaining its operation and adding a new aircraft to the service that will serve 40 full years with good numbers? Egypt has third-generation aircraft like the MURAGE-5 that will be replaced by 50 J-10 aircraft and the F-16 fighters will be replaced by FC-31/RAFALE fighters.
Egypt has reasons for redeveloping the Egyptian Air Force by removing the American component to a large extent so that it will not be under any American restrictions. The United States has been providing since the end of 2013 Incentives for Egypt to return to American armament, but the American policy of armament provided to Egypt made Egypt insist on gradually removing American weapons and providing multi-source armament so that they would be under the control of another country again. The Turks do not understand some of the complexities of relations with South Korea. Egypt, the Koreans offered cooperation programs and technology transfer to Egypt with many advantages in exchange for Egypt reducing its military relations with North Korea. Egypt, for 20 years, refused unless Egypt changed its armament policy and its desire to restore African arms markets as an export market for Egypt, as it was in the eighties. It got rid of the South Korean competitor in exchange for a large sum. In addition, the Americans see selling weapons to Egypt through South Korea so that Egypt does not become completely Eastern in its armament, but rather using South Korea as a government to pass what Egypt requests in terms of weapons and technology. Therefore, the negotiations that took place over the years with South Korea and the understandings make it very difficult to back down from cooperation in the T-50/FA- 50 aircraft, in addition to some updates that are passed to the F-16 fighters. Which will be done locally without high cost
Things are simpler than everyone imagines
Things are not hostility, but a balance of interests, whether economic or military. I know very well that there is a future of great cooperation between Egypt and Turkey, and that thousands of Turkish factories will be transferred to Egypt, and even Turkish weapons production factories will be established in Egypt, and that there is cooperation in the reconstruction program for Libya between Egypt and Turkey, in that Egyptian contracting companies will say that they will obtain the implementation of works for Turkish companies in western Libya.