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The news talk about Egypt having already started making some Dassault civilian airplane parts.. next step is the establishment of an aerospace design school to train Engineers and technicians on both civilian and military aircraft design, maintenance and manufacturing..the last step is to make spare parts and many other parts of the Rafale in Egypt..and to assemble the aircraft itself..With a percentage of localization.. it might start at 30% or a bit more and go up in time..Just like they did with the Abrams where the localization ended up at 98%..So what's actually happening, bro? Is Dassault going to set up a ToT assembly line in Egypt? Or is it a maintenance & overhaul depot for the Rafales similar to what the EAF has for the Mirage 2000?
I'm also curious if you have any latest info on where they stand with the T-50? Have they signed the final contract to assemble the aircraft in Egypt yet, or are they still negotiating? I figured if they selected it, that means they already agreed on pretty much all the nitty gritty so that there isn't much left to negotiate.
It would also be nice to see where the UAE stands with its Mirage 2000-09s and the offer it made to Egypt and Morrocco for the 50 jets it wants to sell. What a terrific addition that would be to the EAF's fleet of measly 15 2Ks. It would beef that model up bigtime. Even India is interested in the Greek 2000-05s which I'm surprised there was no interest from the EAF considering our close relations and continuous exercising with them and those specific jets.
Well the decision about the T-50 was final..now they need to establish the production line.. it needs a lot of modern machinery, new manufacturing techniques to be learned...etc
We haven't heard anything new about the Mirage-2k 9..I still guess they will split them on Egypt and Morocco..





