Chapter 750 Egyptian Air Force Equipment
Egypt's behavior has not only caused dissatisfaction in the Arab world, but also some hardliners in Egypt are very disgusted. Therefore, at last year's military parade, Egyptian President Sadat died at the hands of extremists, along with the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces and seven other people.
After Sadat's death, the military's powerful figure, the former Air Force Commander, Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, came to power. He continued to implement Sadat's strategic plan. However, Mubarak's relationship with the Soviet Union was still good.
After all, Mubarak's experience includes graduating from the Egyptian Military Academy and the Air Force Academy, and later serving as an instructor at the Egyptian Air Force Academy. He has served as a bomber squadron leader, air base commander, and air force chief of staff, and has studied in the Soviet Union three times. Although the defense policy is different now, Mubarak's mind has been branded by the Soviet Union.
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What is different from history is that now, Israel and the United States have begun to weaken. In the last war, Israel was the last to join the war and used nuclear bombs. As a result, the nuclear bombs were intercepted and the nuclear pollution affected Israel's homeland. Since then, Israel has never recovered. Now, the Soviet Union has been urging the United Nations to conduct nuclear inspections on Israel. Although the United States is secretly obstructing it, this is the general trend. Israel must either accept the United Nations inspection or be sanctioned.
The U.S. economy has been hit hard and it is unable to take care of itself, so how could it provide assistance to Egypt!
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The Soviet Union, however, was thriving. It had made breakthrough progress in the Far East and the Middle East. Under such circumstances, its international influence was also greatly increasing. It can be said that Egypt may now regret abandoning the Soviet Union and throwing itself into the arms of the United States.
The last Moscow Air Show was a contact between the two sides. Egypt sent representatives to Moscow to participate in the air show and was amazed by Moscow's aviation technology. At the same time, Egypt also began to think about its own fighter jet update plan.
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Before Egypt signed the agreement with Israel, the Egyptian Air Force relied on the Soviet Union for technical equipment and its funding came from its wealthy Arab neighbors. The wealthy oil exporting countries took the money, and Egypt provided the manpower. That was the way it was.
However, Egypt's unilateral peace with Israel was seen as a betrayal by other Arab countries, and they cut off all aid to Egypt. Seeing that Egypt was about to go bankrupt, Saudi Arabia suddenly gave Egypt 50 F-5Es it had ordered, and the United States agreed to provide Egypt with 35 second-hand F-4Es, a project codenamed "Peace Pharaoh". In exchange, Egypt provided the United States with several MiG-21s and MiG-23s.
In 1979, the first F-4E was handed over to Egypt. As a result, Egyptian pilots found the Phantom difficult to control and not as easy to fly as Soviet aircraft. Egyptian ground crews, who were used to repairing Soviet aircraft, also found the Phantom to be an extremely complex big guy, much more difficult to serve than the MiG-21. As a result, within a few years after the F-4 arrived, there were not even ten Phantoms that could fly, and the Egyptian Air Force had lost confidence in the Phantom.
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In history, the US Air Force strictly trained the Egyptian Air Force, and in 1985, they finally learned how to operate the Phantom. Now, the Phantom is not adapting to the local conditions in Egypt. Egypt feels that it has been cheated by the Americans. Moreover, because the United States is busy with its own affairs, it has no time to take care of Egypt. Egypt really wants to throw away these F-4s and sell them as junk.
At the same time, in order to make up for the lack of air force power, Egypt had to find a new partner, and China was Egypt's new choice! Two years ago, Egypt and China signed an agreement to order 60 J-7 fighters. China's weapons were inexpensive and of good quality, and the total transaction amount was only more than 100 million US dollars. Moreover, since they were similar to the MiG-21 originally equipped by Egypt, they were easy for Egyptian pilots to operate. After these fighters were equipped with the Egyptian Air Force, they greatly alleviated Egypt's dilemma of lack of fighters. Since Egypt and Libya have turned against each other, most of these J-7s were deployed to the border area between Egypt and Libya to defend against the MiG-23 of the Libyan Air Force from invading Egyptian airspace.
Historically, in 1982, Egypt was satisfied with the J-7 and ordered 40 subsequent J-7II export aircraft. Now, this project has not been carried out yet, because Egypt found a more suitable option at the Moscow Air Show!
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Egypt is facing economic difficulties. Unlike the big oil producers, Egypt's oil production is not high. They mainly make money from the oil processing industry. In the era of high oil prices, oil importing countries prefer to import oil directly from crude oil producing areas rather than buying refined oil from Egypt. Therefore, Egypt does not have much money in its pocket. Although France tries hard to sell the Mirage 2000 fighter to Egypt, the cost is too high! The French asked for 30 million US dollars per aircraft. The money that can buy 60 J-7s can only buy 3 Mirage 2000s! How can Egypt cut meat! 60 J-7s, even if they go up to consume the missiles of Mirage 2000, the remaining fighters can beat up Mirage 2000!
Unfortunately, the J-7 with nose air intake cannot be installed with a large-diameter radar and has no medium-range air combat capability!
Therefore, Egypt needs a fighter jet with moderate price and advanced combat capability! This trip to Moscow is actually a chance to see if it can get a suitable fighter jet from Moscow. Although Egypt's peace talks with Israel angered the Soviet Union, after all, Brezhnev was in power at that time, and now it is Andropov. Moreover, General Andrei, who is in charge of Middle East affairs, is still a far-sighted man.
As expected, the trip to Moscow brought them a lot of gains. Moscow's MiG-29 fighter jets were originally one of their alternative options, but the MiG-29 has now been ordered by many Soviet satellite countries, and the production has been scheduled for five years. Egypt can't wait, and the price of the MiG-29 is 20 million rubles, which is not cheap. However, this price includes the price of weapons, while the French only have bare machines.
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While the Egyptians were depressed, they heard about the cooperation between China and the Soviet Union! The Soviet Mikoyan Design Bureau can help China improve the J-7 fighter, making it more advanced in combat power! Change the nose air intake to the belly air intake, install advanced radar, and change the engine to a turbofan. With this change, the J-7 will be revitalized! At the same time, although the cost has soared, the final offer will definitely not exceed 10 million US dollars!
After all, the RD33 engine that the Soviet Union now exports to China, which China installs on its own MiG-23 fighter jets, is priced at only US$2.3 million per unit!
(The price of engines in this era was not as expensive as in later generations. In this era, the F100 engine, which powered the F-15 of the United States, only cost $3 million per unit. The price of RD3384 was $2.6 million.)
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Adding the avionics exported from the Soviet Union, the value was at most about 2 million US dollars, and the supporting weapon system, about 1 million US dollars. The profit left for Chengfei is already not low.
This is just the price for Egypt to purchase the entire set. If we change the way and Egypt invests and jointly develops the product, then we can build a production line in Egypt and produce fighter jets on its own!
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Although the RD33 engine and avionics still need to be imported from the Soviet Union, Egypt can produce the rest of the fuselage and other parts by itself! This is a very attractive condition for Egypt, which has always sought to become a great power! This time, Andre came to Cairo to coordinate the three parties.
After all, it was Andre who proposed the plan in the first place. Moreover, Andre has a good relationship with China and has established a good strategic situation in the Middle East. Therefore, many people are looking forward to Andre's trip.
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When Andre's private plane landed at Cairo Airport, Egyptian President Mubarak personally greeted him at the airport, which was enough to show his importance to Andre.