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Africa North
Egypt To Acquire 2 Submarines From Germany
2012-09-01
Osama Ahmed el-Gendy, Commander of the Egyptian Navy said on Friday that Egypt has signed an agreement with Germany in which the former will acquire two German-built Type-209 attack submarines. "Egypt will not allow anyone to enter its territorial waters," said el-Gendy.
 
He added that during the year 2013, Egypt will further add four US-built missile ships to its navy.
This is insane. Egypt is using Saudi money to feed their people, and the troops' guns and sandles are held together with duct tape. They have neither the mindset nor the technical skills to maintain the machinery necessary to keep a submarine running, even if they had the surplus funds to buy one.
The Israelis have to be snickering. But it's good: the Saudis pay the Germans, Dieter and Hans have honest work, and Achmed and Mustafa at Port Suez get to play with shiny toys, hoping like hell they never have to sail in the danged things.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  "Also all that "Inshallah" maintenance practice should keep them sitting in port."

More likely sitting on the bottom of the Med, davemac.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-09-01 21:20  

#6  oops, meant "and" before the four Romeos.

Anyway, I can't double-check the wikipedia info, because hazegray.org is down.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2012-09-01 20:28  

#5  I just checked wikipedia, they already have two of these subs four "Romeos" from way-back-when.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2012-09-01 20:25  

#4  Also all that "Inshallah" maintenance practice should keep them sitting in port.
Posted by: davemac   2012-09-01 16:01  

#3  As I've said before, any ship can be a submarine - once.

Handling a submarine is obviously much harder than a surface vessel. A very small error, like a valve left open can sink the sub. And when you are submerged, you can't see the enemy coming. If you're lucky, you can hear them. But you can't run away very quickly.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2012-09-01 14:01  

#2  same as camel/goat love.

The boats will also be filled with Arab seamen.

Not sure how these babies will be tricked out, but the Israeli boats carry the land attack variant of the Harpoon missile.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-09-01 10:51  

#1  "This is insane"

TW, we're speaking of the Muzzie Bro'hood here. Insanity pretty much goes with the territory, same as camel/goat love.
Posted by: AlanC   2012-09-01 08:19  

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