You're our biggest bestest ally in the region.
Posted on 12/10/2012 9:30:32 PM PST by Nachum
Instability in Egypt, where a newly-elected Islamic government teeters over an angry population, isn´t enough to stop the U.S. from sending more than 20 F-16 fighter jets, as part of a $1 billion foreign aid package. The first four jets are to be delivered to Egypt beginning Jan. 22, a source at the naval air base in Fort Worth, where the planes have been undergoing testing, told FoxNews.com. The North African nation already has a fleet of more than 200 of the planes and the latest shipment merely fulfills an order placed two years ago.
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Some dare call it treason.
And the madness continues!
Almost as important as the pilots, who does the maintenance?
Replacement parts from eBay?
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Obama arming the Jew-Hating muslin brotherhood.
A few hundred more M1A1s will just add to their fleet - bringing to total M1A1s to 1130. The chassis, turrets, etc are made in Egypt, while the speciallized parts are US made.
The US is not shipping completed tanks to Egypt, just the armor etc needed to made the tanks servicible.
You're our biggest bestest ally in the region.
The ‘lost’ engines are most likely being sold for scrap metal by Arab metal dealers. Losses like this are common in most armies including the US.
That aside, the theft was obviously an inside job by Israeli military members. There would have been many very large trucks involved in carting these things off the airbase - not something that happens casually like stealing night vision goggles or some such.
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