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[The Dog 43490]

 

[Parliament 14022]

And most of that new gear is gonna come from the US i presume.

 

Edited April 25, 2023 by Parliament

[atomheartbevo 89053]

3 minutes ago, Parliament said:

And most of that new gear is gonna come from the US i presume.

Egypt could start buying stuff we put in storage over the last 30 years and it'd be an upgrade for a lot of their stuff, and they'd get it fairly fast.  Land-based stuff that we bought for Afghanistan/Iraq and are now retiring/putting in storage would probably do just fine in the Egyptian deserts.

And the largest number of aircraft they have in their Air Force are F-16s, so it would be cutting down on their maintenance and training costs if they picked up more F-16s.

[Parliament 14022]

God I love America.

[Schulz2.0 28652]

9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Egypt could start buying stuff we put in storage over the last 30 years and it'd be an upgrade for a lot of their stuff, and they'd get it fairly fast.  Land-based stuff that we bought for Afghanistan/Iraq and are now retiring/putting in storage would probably do just fine in the Egyptian deserts.

And the largest number of aircraft they have in their Air Force are F-16s, so it would be cutting down on their maintenance and training costs if they picked up more F-16s.

Their F-16s also apparently lack a lot of the upgrades. You would think we could offer to upgrade some of their existing ones abd offer more F-16s and maybe even see if they wanted a few A-10s.

[RPM 26098]

13 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Their F-16s also apparently lack a lot of the upgrades. You would think we could offer to upgrade some of their existing ones abd offer more F-16s and maybe even see if they wanted a few A-10s.

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[YGIFS 19445]

Did somebody say desert tanks?

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[Parliament 14022]

Don't we put kill switches on all the jets we sell?  So if Egypt gets all uppity we can render them useless?

[Dahobbs 17255]

18 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Don't we put kill switches on all the jets we sell?  So if Egypt gets all uppity we can render them useless?

I doubt we'd ever sell any if that were the case. Besides, our kill switch is an F-22. 

[RPM 26098]

Just now, Dahobbs said:

I doubt we'd ever sell any if that were the case.

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[dimyh 1873]

Egypt might be gearing up, either materially or politically, for a showdown with Ethiopia due to the new dam being built. On paper Egypt should dominate a 1v1 but as Russia has clearly demonstrated preseason rankings can be complete bullshit. Securing some new tech and maybe more importantly some USA interest may be their goal. Maybe enough political muscle to influence Ethiopia without becoming a hot war.

Defer to others as I'm not well read in this area. Maybe @InkaUtexas has got some background in this region?

 

[Brisketexan 103656]

Scenes from the Russian embassy in Tallinn. And yeah, those are scorched shoes in the last pic. Constant police presence, a van parked just out of view.

[YGIFS 19445]

Our previous generation jets, the ones that would backfill into Egypt, were not originally equipped with "kill switches."  

However, last summer...the 6th Maintenance Squadron began engineering a way to get incendiary grenade devices onto legacy aircraft.  There is the electronic shutdown from remote locations of the aircraft should the Pentagon want to stall sorties or advise further.  But there is also the option of just having a low-grade implosion of the entire plane (at least the cockpit and propulsion system) should the plane fall into the wrong hands (via capture, defection, or illegal re-sale, or Tucker Carlson tweeting the aircraft's vulnerabilities to Russia).  This began in anticipation that we would soon be backfilling other fixed-wing arsenals near the theater. 

It would appear that day has come.  Once you're now fighting U.S. made, Egyptian owned, Ukrainian flown fighter jets and recon aircraft...you're probably not in the position you thought you were a year ago.  Fucking Estonia and Moldova are doing more heavy lifting than Saint Petersburg.  My daughter has learned more geography from Putin's mistakes on the news than Dad has taught her in 8 years.

Somebody make up the meme of Uncle Sam dressed in yellow catapult officer garb, signaling the allied jets for launch.  It's fucking go time.  

[Chad Fuck 17309]

That'll buff out.

Mon père has an awesome set of tools.

[YGIFS 19445]

10 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

Mon père has an awesome set of tools.

I thought he was a television repairman?  

[Orange&White 5506]

59 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Don't we put kill switches on all the jets we sell?  So if Egypt gets all uppity we can render them useless?

Yes. I believe they are called Sidewinders.

 

Now I see that dahobbs beat me to the punch.

Edited April 25, 2023 by Orange&White

[Hefeweizen 5229]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

God I love America.

Need a new emoji for Fuck Yeah.

[AUS-97HORN 11558]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Egypt could start buying stuff we put in storage over the last 30 years and it'd be an upgrade for a lot of their stuff, and they'd get it fairly fast. 

 

1 hour ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 You would think we could offer to upgrade some of their existing ones abd offer more F-16s and maybe even see if they wanted a few A-10s.

[Kel Varnsen 8327]

[Brisketexan 103656]

Went in the Estonian orthodox cathedral…they are under the Moscow patriarch (so, psychotic warmonger fuckhead). Oh, and they are SO persecuted (not bombed to oblivion, so STFU). We went in, and I used google to translate their message. As we looked around, I said in a louder than appropriate voice “let’s get the fuck out of this fucking place.”

[Rimbo 25252]

55 minutes ago, dimyh said:

Egypt might be gearing up, either materially or politically, for a showdown with Ethiopia due to the new dam being built

Damn denial?

[jdhorn92 1534]

16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Loved that show as a kid.  Somehow I don't think it would work today.

No one ever died in the show "The A-Team".  Jeep hits an IED, flips over and rolls the Sandanistas in to the ditch....out of commission for that battle scene,  but not dead. 

[Kel Varnsen 8327]

41 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

Damn denial?

It's spelled The Nile.

[PTINS 3422]

2 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

I doubt we'd ever sell any if that were the case. Besides, our kill switch is an F-22. 

 

2 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

I doubt we'd ever sell any if that were the case. Besides, our kill switch is an F-22. 

 

[statsman 5355]

From the next AvWeek:

”Russia’s largest airline, Aeroflot, has sent one of its Airbus A330-300 wide body aircraft to Iran for technical maintenance for the first time.”

😂

[PTINS 3422]

1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:

Need a new emoji for Fuck Yeah.

[Schulz2.0 28652]

 

[YGIFS 19445]

I picture some confused Russian infantry CO hearing the reports like a confused Owen Wilson in "Armageddon" when he finally accepts the situation and says, "Landmines?  But from the sky?  So like, Skymines?  Okay, scariest environment imaginable.  That's all you had to say, scariest environment imaginable."  

[Schulz2.0 28652]

 

[MissingInAction 24431]

1 hour ago, Kel Varnsen said:

The two "D's" stand for a double dose of pimping.

[Schulz2.0 28652]

 

[InkaUtexas 24933]

2 hours ago, dimyh said:

Egypt might be gearing up, either materially or politically, for a showdown with Ethiopia due to the new dam being built. On paper Egypt should dominate a 1v1 but as Russia has clearly demonstrated preseason rankings can be complete bullshit. Securing some new tech and maybe more importantly some USA interest may be their goal. Maybe enough political muscle to influence Ethiopia without becoming a hot war.

Defer to others as I'm not well read in this area. Maybe @InkaUtexas has got some background in this region?

 

They could, but they have enough issues. I think the Ethiopians would fuck them up if invaded. 

[YGIFS 19445]

The Ethiopians successfully repelled an Italian invasion (though it took a long time and massive toll), during a fucking famine.  I'm sure they can handle Egypt.  Only reason Italy even remained competitive was because they committed atrocious war crimes and German desert armor.  Plus, we got reggae music out of it as a bonus!  Rasta!

Seriously, there is nothing the Italian military can't fuck up.  

Anyway, back to Egyptian air power.  God bless.  

[Schulz2.0 28652]

 

[Schulz2.0 28652]

3 hours ago, RPM said:

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In regards to A-10s, I was thinking Egypt could use them in fighting terrorism in the Sinai.

[statsman 5355]

10 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

I can agree with Kasparov, that the USshould do more and give more. I can also believe that Europe should do more and give more. 

[texasdago 7465]

34 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

The Ethiopians successfully repelled an Italian invasion (though it took a long time and massive toll), during a fucking famine.  I'm sure they can handle Egypt.  Only reason Italy even remained competitive was because they committed atrocious war crimes and German desert armor.  Plus, we got reggae music out of it as a bonus!  Rasta!

Seriously, there is nothing the Italian military can't fuck up.  

Anyway, back to Egyptian air power.  God bless.  

Hey, at least we have twice as many aircraft carriers as Putin.  If anything, the food in the mess hall must be awesome.  Can't vouch for anything else, really.  Uniforms probably quite fashionable. 

[YGIFS 19445]

Oddly, the germans had better looking uniforms.  But yes, the whole of the Axis powers did enjoy Italian wine & food when available.  I just give 'em a hard time, some old beefs from Chicago, the Reich, and Franco Spain.  My people hold grudges apparently.  

[Macanudo 12798]

4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Did somebody say desert tanks?

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Yeah but so has Patton and he's read Rommel's freaking book?

[Schulz2.0 28652]

 

[Dahobbs 17255]

15 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

 

I'm not sure if that is a sick burn on Russia or a massive own goal. Maybe it is both. Seems sort of like admitting Israel's actions in Palestine are similar to Russia's actions in Ukraine. 

Edited April 25, 2023 by Dahobbs

[Parliament 14022]

28 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Yeah but so has Patton and he's read Rommel's freaking book?

And Bernard Mongomery is walking around trying to figure out whos d*ck to suck.

[atomheartbevo 89053]

1 hour ago, statsman said:

I can agree with Kasparov, that the USshould do more and give more. I can also believe that Europe should do more and give more. 

Yep, and toss this one in

 

[atomheartbevo 89053]

 

 

 

 

[InkaUtexas 24933]

1 hour ago, texasdago said:

Hey, at least we have twice as many aircraft carriers as Putin.  If anything, the food in the mess hall must be awesome.  Can't vouch for anything else, really.  Uniforms probably quite fashionable. 

Came with a bottle of wine or brandy. Traded for their rations every chance I had. 

[RDCanecutter 25995]

2 hours ago, texasdago said:

Hey, at least we have twice as many aircraft carriers as Putin.  If anything, the food in the mess hall must be awesome.  Can't vouch for anything else, really.  Uniforms probably quite fashionable. 

It's good, and more to the point, better than a US mess hall. Used to sneak over and eat with the Carabinieri during my brief stay at Camp Darby near Pisa.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11730]

I still can’t understand why we aren’t providing ATACMS unless some of the reports I read are accurate, that we don’t have enough to give away.  I understand the original excuse of distance and non-escalation but shit man, smoke’em if you got’em.  

[Dahobbs 17255]

35 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I still can’t understand why we aren’t providing ATACMS unless some of the reports I read are accurate, that we don’t have enough to give away.  I understand the original excuse of distance and non-escalation but shit man, smoke’em if you got’em.  

They are old, no longer in production, and kept alive by expensive modernization for existing inventory. The replacement, the Precision Strike Missile, is just now entering service. I suspect our reluctance to provide it stems partly from lack of ability to replace at scale (yet), partly due to lack of available modernized missiles, partly due to the cost of missile relative to something like a GMLRS rocket (ATACMS is ~8x-10x more expensive), and maybe partly a concern for how effective (or lack there of) they would be. I'm sure we also have concerns about how they would be used, but I wouldn't be surprised if that is just an easy excuse to hide the real reasons. 

[Superhero 8636]

7 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Did somebody say desert tanks?

Rommel has entered the chat.

Did someone say Rommel?

Montgomery has joined the chat. 

[Superhero 8636]

8 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Their F-16s also apparently lack a lot of the upgrades. You would think we could offer to upgrade some of their existing ones abd offer more F-16s and maybe even see if they wanted a few A-10s.

Problem is there is only one General Dynamics and there are a lot of customers waiting for their F-16s, including Taiwan which are waiting for their Viper upgrayyds and brand new F-16Vs.

There needs to be a bigger audience for Saab Grippens which is a bad ass plane in its own right.