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  • ogini

Egyptian Programs

I heard that Egypt was in the market for 80 Zlin 242L primary trainers, with their recent purchase of 74 Grob trainers does anyone know the status of this? Also are they still with plans to assemble up to 100 K-8E’s. Its surprising the diferent types of trainers the EAF has, among these some 50+ L-39/59’s, 38 Alpha Jets, 46 Tucanos, 156 Gomhouriyas and 20 Zlins. Is this Grob/K-8 program designed to standarize the training fleet?
Which fighters are likely to be replaced first? The Mirage 5’s are still quite capeable, the MiG-21/F-7 fleet is still quite large and have been upgraded with western avionics and the F-4 is still their only stand-of killer. So, do you guys see any Rafales taking the Mirage’s place, surplus F-15 the Phantom’s or will it continue its route to an F-16 based airforce?

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