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Regardless of my love for the Turks or not or even accepting cooperation with them as a regional competitor and historical enemy
The Turkish Hurjet project is very difficult for Egypt to accept because it is not subject to the Egyptian purchasing standards for an aircraft that serves 3 years at the original factory. There is no light fighter version and it has not yet entered service
The Korean side has more than 200 aircraft in service. The aircraft has succeeded globally and therefore Malaysia has headed for the same reason
The matter is different from the Europeans. They always consider the risk an advantage for them if the project succeeds, such as the Spanish request in exchange for purchasing an Airbus A400 transport aircraft
The Korean side, Egypt's long negotiations with them were related to many things, the engine and they announced that they are developing their own engine with a capacity of 25,000 pounds and redesigning the internal design of the fighter by increasing the fuel volume and improving the performance of the aircraft as a fighter and arming it with missiles such as METEOR. Therefore, the fighter version will have sufficient propulsion capacity and the same thing with the radar that the Koreans pledged to use with an AESA radar with a distinctive performance, i.e. simply capabilities that will not The Turks can achieve it. Their project is planned for many years, and even a future training version for sixth-generation fighters and a UCAV derivative of the FA-50 with a payload of 4+ tons of ammunition and electronic warfare versions. Egypt's real requests for the T-50/FA-50 are more than 160 aircraft in stages. Therefore, the Koreans will continue to implement it.
As we see, the ball project is maturing and the long negotiations for the details of each part of the project will not disappear just because of the return or improvement of relations between Egypt and Turkey.
Egypt may be interested in the Kızılelma c aircraft, which is equipped with two engines with a capacity of 21,600 pounds as a total thrust, simply because countries are now looking for UCAV aircraft with higher capabilities such as a payload of 3+ tons and a longer range and an aircraft with a lower cost. The Russians Egypt redesigned the GROM aircraft by equipping it with an RD-33/93 engine with a payload of only 2 tons of weapons to provide a UCAV LOYAL WINGMAN aircraft. SU-35/57 aircraft at a low cost and at the same time The timing of the S-70 aircraft is being redeveloped to further improve its performance. This does not mean that there is no cooperation. On the contrary, I believe that there is cooperation in the maritime sector between Egypt and Turkey, whether in the ranks of landing small tanks or even missile launches and OPV ships. The Turks are aware of cooperation in armored vehicles with Egypt, and the Serbs are competing with them in 8*8 vehicles and the South Koreans in 6*6 vehicles. There is also extensive cooperation in subsystems, whether missile engines, air defense, China in MLRS missiles. It has already contracted with Egypt for all the needs for local manufacturing of 300/400 calibers and a new family derived from the M20/DF-12 missile with a wide variety of destructive warheads and range after the Egyptians' experience, which sees that the size of the traditional Russian destructive warheads for such missiles is not effective, so the focus is on versions with higher destructive capabilities at the expense of range. The Turks are also competing in a light attack helicopter such as the T-129, which competes with the Chinese Z-10ME and perhaps even another helicopter. Light medium as an alternative and competitor to the AW-149/189 aircraft. The H145 aircraft, its high price, took it out of the competition as part of replacing the SA-342 aircraft. In addition, Egypt is distancing itself from the European and American sides because of their absolute support for Israel and their desire to restrict the size of Egyptian armament and not meet Egyptian demands for armament. Therefore, Egypt is heading to the entire East. The Russians will also attend the exhibition and have a policy that Egypt denied with them, which is to manufacture Russian equipment locally instead of importing, which has restrictions and sanctions. This clarifies an important matter that military ties between countries need years to mature. For example, the Turks are restoring their relationship with Egypt after their decline in order to achieve cooperation programs. This needs years. There is still ice in relations between the two sides, even if each of them tries to show otherwise. For example, the Egyptian reception of the Chinese destroyer TYPE-52D with great celebration and warmth between the two sides. The Turkish corvette MILGEM was visiting Egypt and the training showed that there was a forced friendship between the two parties and that there was skepticism between them about any real cooperation.
