According to our colleagues at La Tribune, France could conclude next month the sale of four new buildings to the Egyptian Navy. It is about two additional corvettes type Gowind 2500, the offshore patrol vessel L'Adroit and a building from Kership, a joint venture of Piriou and DCNS.
These commands could be formalized at the next visit to Cairo Francois Hollande, who must meet his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on 18 April.
For the record, Egypt commissioned in 2014 four Gowind 2500, the seeded currently being built on the DCNS site in Lorient for delivery in 2017. The next three will be carried out in Alexandria in technology transfer. The two units which are the subject of an option contract and could therefore be firmed next month, they should, if the original draft is respected, to be built in France.
In terms of L'Adroit, recall that this prototype model OPV 90, now marketed by Kership, was performed on equity by DCNS and is made available to the Navy since the end of 2012. He will leave the French fleet this summer. As for the additional vessel from Kership, it could be the former French patrol riotous, the type P400, that was renovated and re-engined Piriou last year (it was to be initially sold in Gabon but the project is developed death).
In addition to the first four Gowind 2500, Egypt acquired in 2015 a frigate FREMM type, Tahya Misr, DCNS delivered by last summer. And it took over the two buildings Projection and initially made by the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire command for Russia (contract worn by DCNS). These PCBs and Skippers (two and four L-CAT CTM NG) will be delivered starting this summer.
Besides the wish of the Egyptian Navy to acquire a second term FREMM, Cairo would also have, according to La Tribune, two additional PBCs .:وداع::أشهر ابتسامه:
