Egyptian Air Force (EAF)

Egypt airforce carry out huge military exercises in all strategic positions .

Upgraded  Mig29 is protecting AWACS and work as a mini tanker .

Viktor wrote:Egypt has "diversified" its armed forces more than most countries has by buying arms left and right still it seems that it manages to keep them all in operating order

Mig and rafales are new. The real problems will appear in 5 or 6 years.

Those planes were financed by saudi arabia

Egypt is poor and won't have money to keep all of them serviceable. Maybe will put f-16 in reserve as they are the oldest and relations with US are not very good.

Good to see that after trusting US in camp david talks and switching from USSR to US they end up with another dictator and totally poor. Now they turn their eyes on Russia again. But they won't learn the lesson.

Viktor wrote:Su-35 range will mean Egypt can place them on the airfield far behind that could provide ample of warning time in case of Israel sudden attack and protected with air defense systems.

TheArmenian wrote:Hey,
When did Egypt get these Mi-24 gunships?

GarryB wrote:

Rafale will replace Mirage and Mig-29 will replace Mig-21

Which is pretty much what India was going to do and then didn't except they seemed to want a single medium fighter to replace all MiG-21 and Jaguar and MiG-27 and the M2K, but they picked the Rafale to replace all of them and it was never going to work it is just too expensive and overkill for most roles...

They should have just bought Rafale to replace the Jaguar and M2k for which it would have been excellent, and the MiG-29M2 for the MiG-21 interceptor roles and the MiG-35 to replace the MiG-21 in important interception duties and also short range strike to replace the MiG-27... the MiG-27K and MiG-27M were not cheap aircraft for their time but were quite capable, while the MiG-29M2 is basically a MiG-35 shell with cheaper filling that is still rather capable it is certainly more capable than anything you could upgrade a MiG-21 into... though not as cheap as a base MiG-21 it wont cost much more than a fully upgraded MiG-21 but has plenty of scope to be upgraded to MiG-35 level...

Yes and hunting their AWACS , also will be very helpful if Egypt went for war with Ethiopia over the water issue .

Well the photo of an R-37M (RVV-BD) under the wing of an Su-35 will be rather significant in terms of hunting AWACS aircraft as well as inflight refuelling tankers and transports...

TheArmenian wrote:Hey,
When did Egypt get these Mi-24 gunships?

ahmedfire wrote:

Upgraded  Mig29 is protecting AWACS and work as a mini tanker .

ultimatewarrior wrote:F-16 crashed. Pilot killed.

https://twitter.com/EmirLouise/status/1217100937015242752

they aren't upgraded mig-29s, they are new ordered MiG-29M/M2

GarryB wrote: and the MiG-35 to replace the MiG-21 in important interception duties and also short range strike to replace the MiG-27

jhelb wrote:

GarryB wrote: and the MiG-35 to replace the MiG-21 in important interception duties and also short range strike to replace the MiG-27

I read that India has placed orders with Russia for 21 brand new Mig 29s( that means MiG-29M/M2, isn't it?) . Since India will fly the Mig 29s for the next 10 years at least Russia can sell the Mig 35 incrementally as technological enhancements instead of selling the entire package/aircraft

So they can upgrade the engines of the Mig 29 with that of the Mig 35, then do the same for the sensors and weapons package. Eventually within 10 years the Indian Mig 29s will essentially be Mig 35s.

Isos wrote:No. India bought already build mig-29 and asked russia to upgrade them to indian UPG standard.

Isos wrote:Indian migs have nothing to do with mig 35. Replacing only the engines is also expensive. An engine is around 4-5 million $. 2 engines per jet and they have almost 100 jets that means 1 billion $ only to buy them. Then they need to train their ground crew and buy spare parts bringing the total cost to almost 2 billion $.

That can't be true. A variant of Klimov RD-33 powers both the Mig-35 and Mig29UPG.

That can't be true. A variant of Klimov RD-33 powers both the Mig-35 and Mig29UPG. Even for their Su 30MKI they are now replacing it with the Su 35 engines under the Super Sukhoi Program

Which spare parts are you talking about?

MiG 29UPG is fitted with N010M Zhuk ME Radar but then IAF plans to equip the MiG 29 with Zhuk AE AESA Radar.

How is training for Mig 35 radically different from training on Mig 29UPG ?

Isos wrote: Those are all old models already build that will be upgraded to UPG. There is no M/M2 variants being bought by India.

Isos wrote:Do you have any source for such claim. I don't remember reading about a program to upgrade mig-29 to mig-35.

In 2007, the MiG-29 fleet of the IAF was put through a comprehensive upgrade by Russia at a cost of $865 Million. Besides new avionics kits, the upgrade involves the replacement of its outdated N019 Topaz air-intercept radar with a new Zhuk -AME Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar with a range of 160km.

Isos wrote:The Super sukhoi program has not yet started and the official number is for something like 120 jets out of the total ~300 mki they have. Those upgrades are very expensive. You can't just switch the engines and the radar and make it work.

No, not old models. New Mig 29s that were never assembled, leave alone flown.

I never said Mig 29s are being upgraded to Mig 35s. Just said that Mig 29s are getting Zuk AESA radars.