The German government had approved an €800 million ($899 million) arms export deal with Egypt during the period from 1 January to 5 June 2019, the country’s economic affairs ministry announced yesterday. Responding to a [ More … ]
Egypt will receive some 50 MiG-29 fighters from Russia as scheduled in 2020, reported Sputnik. The deputy director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Alexei Frolkin said that Russia’s contract on the delivery [ More … ]
Since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became president after he led a military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian military has embarked on a massive spending spree. Egypt ranked the second among [ More … ]
Despite its deteriorating economic conditions, Egypt ranked the second among developing nations for importing arms in 2015 – buying almost $12 billion worth of arms, according to a new US congressional report. On the same [ More … ]
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