not too sure they seem to be fitted with french equipment not russian as the russians took out all thier stuff.
I think this maybe just a ploy egypt doesnt have the funds to keep these operational for extremely long time i think personally the russians have agreed with france and egypt that if the egyptians buy the units through russian funds once the political situation calms down we may see these ships end up in russian hands anyway so the egyptians are just being the guardians of them.
lets face it egypt is still using Romeo class SSK's and only recently entered into talks to purchase type 209's and the mistrals have no strategic value to the egyptians either, unless they intend to invade israel from the sea
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