Egypt has been working for years to add various packages of air ammunition to Egyptian fighters. Simply put, Egypt is working to develop various guided bombs with higher performance than American bombs in terms of penetration and destructive capacity by specific percentages. And converting rocket artillery into air-to-ground missiles with 122/300/400 mm calibers. Egypt is working to produce two missiles, the MICA-NG missile and the Chinese PL-15 missile. India is offering Egypt several types of Indian ammunition such as the ASTRA-MK2 missile and the SAAW projectile, which will be transformed into a family of them, a projectile with a range of 250 kilometers as a miniature cruise missile, in addition to supplying the Egyptian MiG-29 and Rafale with various Indian ammunition in addition to French ammunition. There is a point that some ignore. Any country that buys fighters in numbers of more than 60 fighters seeks to integrate ammunition other than the original source. Therefore, there is an Egyptian-French understanding on this point. Why was it not? The agreements are satisfactory to Egypt when it contracted for French fighters regardless of some mentally hostile to Egypt for other purposes that do not concern us.
Let us remember India, which integrated Russian missiles into the Mirage 2000 fighters such as the KH-29/R-73, and India's request to integrate the Russian KH-31 missile into the Rafale as a purchase condition. Some do not know that the same missile is also integrated into the Egyptian Rafale. Russian missiles have become accurate and at a low price.
Several years ago, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were negotiating with China over the CM-400AKG missile, although the two countries do not possess Chinese fighters. It is true that China manufactures adapters to integrate missiles into non-Chinese fighter carriers SWFCS.
Stand alone weapon and fire control system
These systems only appear in times of war and not in international maneuvers. It is not normal for countries to use huge numbers of fighters with very old ammunition that makes them ineffective in air combat. What country possesses a type 200 missile that does not have ammunition integrated into it? PAVEWAY bombs are used by countries to find various solutions to overcome the restrictions of manufacturing countries, as long as the supplying countries may turn against the enemy at any moment. Let us remember when America imposed a ban on spare parts for the Pakistani F-16, Pakistan found a solution to obtain them from Egypt. This is a natural thing. Any country is looking for solutions, and not everything is announced.