It was the first of two Mistral-class ships sold by France to Egypt. The Egyptian Gamal Abdl "Nasser" (formally named "Vladivostok") Mistral-class ship leaves the harbor of Saint-Nazaire, western France, on June 12, 2016. “And current talks are underway with the German Lürssen Shipbuilding Company to transfer shipbuilding technology to Egypt,” he added. The shipyard will also host the construction of the MEKO A-200 frigate. In addition, al-Kenany noted that Egypt is working on technology transfer to the Alexandria shipyard, which participated in the Gowind 2500 contract, three of which were built locally.
Two Bergamini-class FREMM frigates from Italy.An Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate from France.This effort has so far produced contracts for: The armament aspect includes ordering surface combat ships and submarines. The construction piece consists of establishing new and efficient naval bases, further developing existing bases, and strengthening the infrastructure of all naval facilities to accommodate new naval vessels, advanced training methods and simulators.
“This could help create a perception of an advanced marine corps born in the Egyptian naval special forces units, or the application of completely new tactics and methods in special missions and amphibious landing missions, and methods of attacking and storming coastal targets that include the use of advanced technologies represented in the marine, air and land platforms unmanned, network-centric communications and modern live-imaging systems.”Īl-Kenany also noted that the Egyptian Navy is working on a three-part development plan: training, construction and armament. “The British Navy began to implement this technique through ‘Littoral Response Group-Experimentation,’ LRG-X, a task group conducting for three months at the Mediterranean Sea to test the concepts of future commando force and the littoral strike group - the same group that participated in the T-1 amphibious training with the Egyptian Navy,” al-Kenany said. The exercises also provide experience with the concept of a “Smart Army,” in which quality is more important than quantity. He said Egypt benefits from participating in a number of drills in a single month because it accelerates its war fighters’ understanding of and assimilation with new combat platforms that have been ordered or recently entered service. “This included intensifying joint exercises with allied countries to enhance military cooperation and exchange experiences achieving operational compatibility in any tasks and operations that may take place with partners against any of the common threats following the latest innovations in weapons systems, combat methods, training, concepts of modern warfare, and dealing with identical and asymmetric threats,” al-Kenany explained. The exercise will involve naval, air and special forces, and France and the UAE are also expected to participate. 6 that involves the three countries’ armed forces.
Toward that end, a military exercise dubbed Medusa is set to take place Nov. And during a recent tripartite summit held in the Cypriot capital Nicosia involving Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades, along with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Egyptian president underlined the need to enhance the trilateral relationship. In late October, Egypt joined Cyprus and Greece in denouncing Turkey’s energy exploration in the Mediterranean Sea.
It is also building military infrastructure such as the Berenice naval base in the Red Sea so as to demonstrate its ability to protect maritime shipping routes through the Suez Canal, in the hope of encouraging more global shipping to come through the canal.” “Second, by raising its naval profile in the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea, Egypt is signaling an ability and determination to protect offshore gas fields and future pipelines to Europe that it hopes to build with other Eastern gas producers. “In the first case, they reflect the effort by the Sissi administration to broaden and diversify its foreign strategic relationships, partly to demonstrate that it is not wholly dependent on the U.S., but especially at this time to deepen ties with countries with which it shares hostility or at least suspicion, of Turkey. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, told Defense News. “I see the primary significance of Egypt’s recent naval drills as political, and secondarily as commercial, not military,” Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Malcolm H.