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COMNORD: Franco-Egyptian cross exercises in the English Channel
From April 15 to 17, the French Navy participated in an opportunity at sea exercise (PASSEX) with the Egyptian navy on the occasion of the transit in the Channel of the 3rd submarine S43 of class 209/1400 Egyptian and its escort unit, the Taba frigate type OH Perry.
The Egyptian group thus interacted successively with the Cormoran public service patrol vessel , then with the intervention, assistance and rescue tugs (RIAS) chartered by the French Navy Abeille Languedoc then Abeille Liberté.
For Lt. Amin Salhi - commanding officer PSP Cormoran, "this group navigation enabled us to perfect our interoperability, in particular by carrying out tactical evolutions in coordinated training. We also tested different communication systems to exchange views and successfully achieve a "gridlock", that is to say a radar contact without visual ".
The mission of the French units was also to ensure the group's nautical safety in an area where more than 25% of world maritime traffic operates. Indeed, the English Channel is a complex maritime area due to its natural conditions (narrowness, strong currents, strong winds, high tides) and the high concentration of navigation flows (60,000 ships each year). Also, the units of the French Navy in the English Channel and the North Sea act daily to ensure the safety of navigation, from land with semaphores, at sea with public service patrol boats or even in the air with Dauphin and Caiman helicopters marine based in Le Touquet and Maupertus.
On April 17, the Egyptian group left the English Channel to join the Atlantic where it was joined by the high seas patrol vessel LV Le Hénaff , in order to continue its navigation towards Alexandria - its future home port.
The Egyptian and French navies maintain an old and sustained cooperation. Each year, more than twenty PASSEX are carried out between French and Egyptian units sailing in the Mediterranean Sea or the Red Sea, as well as many major operational training sessions such as Cléopatra , Ramses or even recently with the Jeanne group Arc in the Red Sea in March 2020.
https://www.defense.gouv.fr/operations/maritime/autres/comnord-exercices-croises-franco-egyptiens-en-manche?fbclid=IwAR3re9afvGkIfa1AtGZiefjQsEukmPpFuU9KynE32i46z6PWBlGyOqV_icQ
George1 wrote:Egypt received the third German-built submarine of project 209/1400Mod
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Isos wrote:How do they plan to use the Mistral class ? IMO it's a useless ship for them. If they only had some ka-27 for ASW and search for subs in mediteranean at safe distance they would be worth something. But the ka-52 and Apaches are pretty useless against Israel which is the main threat.
Well, ka-52 with kh-35 is good but then not that much needed since they can use them from mig-29M from their mainland.
The helicopters are good but the ship is a big juicy target and israel has anti ship weapons that can target it from good distance even in their home port.
Isos wrote:They could invest in ka-27 and ka-31 to make them usefull even against a well armed enemy. Letting such ship with secondary roles is stupid.
Maybe they could base an s-300 on it
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Egypt requests sale of $417 million Maritime Domain Awareness system
Requested equipment includes: 34 Integrated Fixed Towers with supporting equipment; 28 Communication Towers with supporting equipment; 12 Relay Towers with supporting equipment; six Naval Base Operations Rooms, two regional Operations Centres, and one Strategic Operation Centre all with supporting equipment; six Harbour Protection Systems with supporting equipment; Intelligent Fibre Intrusion Detection System; 12 Vertical Take Off and Landing unmanned aerial vehicles with six Ground Stations; 14 Mobile Maritime Surveillance Vehicles; and three Aerostat ISR Integrated Platforms with supporting equipment.
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Russia, Egypt to hold joint naval drills in Black Sea this year
The drills aim to strengthen and develop military cooperation between the Egyptian and Russian Navies
SEVASTOPOL, October 8. /TASS/. The Russian and Egyptian navies will hold joint drills in the Black Sea until the end of this year, the Black Sea Fleet’s press office reported on Thursday.
"In Novorossiysk, the delegations of the Russian Navy and the Navy of the Arab Republic of Egypt held a three-day conference on preparing and holding the joint exercise Bridge of Friendship -2020. The main goal of the meeting of the naval sailors from both countries was to work out and approve a plan of the drills that will be held in the Black Sea for the first time," the press office said in a statement.
During the drills, the warships of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet and the Egyptian Navy will practice measures with the support of aircraft to defend sea lanes against various threats. Under the single scenario, forces will be deployed to organize communications and resupply at sea and the participants in the maneuvers will hold an inspection of suspicious vessels.
Also, the Russian and Egyptian naval sailors will practice measures under the command of the drills’ joint headquarters to organize all types of protection and defense at sea and will carry out missile and artillery firings, employing shipborne weapons, the press office specified.
"The drills aim to strengthen and develop military cooperation between the Egyptian and Russian Navies in the interests of security and stability at sea, and to exchange experience between the personnel in thwarting various threats in the areas of intensive shipping," the press office added.
https://tass.com/defense/1210037
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ahmedfire wrote:This is the first hit by surface-surface AShM in the history .
Today in History: Israeli Destroyer Eilat Sunk By Egyptian Navy, killing 47 Israelis and wounding 91 people
On October 21, 1967, Eilat destroyer (Displacement: 1,710 tons with 110m length) intruded into Egyptian national waters as a show of force in the Mediterranean off the coasts of the Sinai Peninsula.
The Egyptian Navy fired three P-15 (SS-N-2 Styx) missiles using Soviet Project 183R class (Komar) boats at the Z-class destroyer.
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Isos wrote:So in the black sea Russia has Buyan-M, Kilo subs and Grigirovitch frigates as very new ships. I wonder if this exercise is also made for the egyptians to test those new russian toys and maybe buy some for them.
I very well see them buy some kalibr equiped Buyan-M to add punch to their navy. Less likely to see frigates like Grigorovitch because they are not cheap and they are buying italian frigates. For the subs I don't know. I think thry already bought german type 209/214. Not sure.
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