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Three different munitions the Mk81, Mk82 and longer-range Mk83 guided bombs made by EDGE subsidiary Al Tariq will all be integrated on the fourth generation plane in due course, Al Tariq CEO Theunis Botha told Breaking Defense.
Egyptian sources tell Breaking Defense that this may not be the last Rafale purchase. Egypt is now eying the Rafale F4. “We are looking to increase the (overall) number to 72 or 100 units, depending on Egypt’s financial capacity.”
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Chyrine Mezher on February 15, 2021 at 4:46 PM
A Rafale Right Fighter Jet Taking the Skies (Dassault Aviation)
BEIRUT: With potential French Rafale jet sales to Egypt and the UAE in the works, one crucial issue arises, especially in the face of the Iranian threat: can they share data with the American fighters that pervade so much of the region.
Some experts think that data sharing is quite challenging while others don’t see eye to eye.
Bilal Saab, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and former Pentagon official in charge of Middle Eastern security cooperation, says that the more platforms you operate, the harder integration and interoperability becomes with American systems.