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Three French-made Rafale fighter jets fly with other Egyptian Air Force warplanes, unseen, above Cairo on July 21, 2015. (Khaled Desouki\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Corrections: A previous version of this story misidentified the Mirage 2000 inventory of the Egyptian Air Force. It operates 15 of the fighter jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BEIRUT \u2014 Egypt\u2019s fleet of military aircraft are able to share data and coordinate activity despite their mixed origins, thanks to a locally made command center, according to an Egyptian armed forces expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s rare to witness an air force flying fighter jets and helicopters of different origins, but Egypt operates aircraft from Russia, China, the United States and European nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen it comes to the Egyptian Air Force in particular, it is definitely not possible for [American-made] E-2C Hawkeye 2000 early warning aircraft in service, for example, to direct the [Russian-made] MiG-29 fighters and exchange data with them, as is the case with the [American-made] F-16 and [French-made] Rafale fighters,\u201d said Mohamed al-Kenany, a military affairs researcher and defense analyst at the Arab Forum for Analyzing Iranian Policies in Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, data is being shared between the different-origin aircraft through the command-and-control centers that are equipped with dedicated systems capable of linking the various radar, aircraft, sensors, reconnaissance and electronic warfare systems, and integrating all the information and data they receive into a unified system named RISC2.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Radar Integration and Surveillance Command Center was made by the Egyptian military\u2019s Research and Development Department; Benha Electronics, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Military Production; the Military Technical College; and the Egyptian Air Defense Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The RISC2 is an Egyptian-made system that was introduced during EDEX 2018. (Courtesy of Mohamed al-Kenany)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

RISC2 was introduced during the 2018 Egypt Defence Expo and is meant to automate control-and-command tasks. The platform is equipped with tools for flight planning, control systems for radars and various monitoring sensors (including models from the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Egypt), an automatic flight-tracking system, a network management system, and cybersecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al-Kenany said in addition to linking aircraft, the system allows the military\u2019s land and sea combat platforms to share data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis system enables the dynamic exchange of integrated data with various command-and-control centers, with the next generation of cyber protection systems and firewalls … as well as the Egyptian surface-to-air missile command center to analyze and assess the risks and air threats, and [determine] the type of air defense systems needed to deal with these threats,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Egyptian Air Force acrobatic jets perform aerial maneuvers with colored smoke as they fly past an Egyptian AH-64 Apache attack helicopter over the capital Cairo on June 2, 2018. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He hasn\u2019t observed any problems with Egypt\u2019s air defense systems differentiating enemy aircraft from friendly ones. <\/b>\u201cThe various types of IFF [identification friend or foe systems] produced by different companies for Egypt\u2019s armed forces are designed to be compatible with all the systems and equipment operational in the country, and hence identifying their specific frequencies and codes as friendly, which prevents friendly fires,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To overcome delays in data sharing, the Air Force looked to the Rafale “to link aircraft of different origins during the flight, since it is equipped not only with Link 16 data links but also with other solutions for non-NATO countries to operate in integrated operational [environments] with all platforms and with friendly combat assets, and airborne command and control, which allows it to operate in harmony with modern Russian fighters operating for the Egyptian Air Force,\u201d al-Kenany explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also pointed to Egypt\u2019s TIBA-1 communications satellite, which was launched onboard an Ariane 5 rocket in November 2019 for government communications and military purposes. He said the satellite will facilitate data sharing between Air Force fighters and helicopter of different origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Egypt flying?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of Western systems, the Egyptian Air Force currently operates 24 Rafale fighter jets (and wants to double that number), 20 F-16 Block 52 fighters, 10 AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters (with plans to double its inventory), 15 Mirage 2000 jets, and eight early warning E-2C Hawkeye planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the East, the service operates 46 MiG-29M fighter jets, 46 Ka-52 Alligator armed reconnaissance helicopters, and an unknown number of Mi-24 combat multirole helicopters, which first appeared in Egyptian service in 2018. The Air Force also ordered 24 Su-35S Super Flanker jets but has only received five so far, according to Russian media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russian Kamov Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters fly over the Kremlin and Red Square in downtown Moscow on May 9, 2020. (Kirill Kudryavtsev\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Egypt turned to Russia after the U.S. did not approve its request to acquire roughly two dozen F-35 fighter jets, an Egyptian military official told The Associated Press in 2019. The Russian deal for Su-35s was meant to diversify Egypt\u2019s weapon suppliers because the U.S. has previously stopped military assistance over human rights concerns, said another official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMoving to diversify sources of military equipment and especially fighter jets is a direct consequence to embargos from specific countries, or monopoly of technology and refraining from technology transfer,\u201d Lebanese Member of Parliament Wehbe Katicha, a retired Army general, told Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the mixed fleet hasn\u2019t significantly impacted training between Egypt and NATO members, al-Kenany said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDrills have been going on as scheduled between Egypt and NATO countries, but it is worth noting that I\u2019ve never noticed a Russian aircraft in the drills with Western countries, or a Western aircraft in the drill with Russia. The only exception to this was the presence of Ka-52 with the mistral trainings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samy Magdy of The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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