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The ruins of Medinet Maadi temple Amenemhat III's cartouche at Medinet Maadi temple. Medinet Madi (Arabic: مدينة ماضي), also known simply as Madi or Maadi (ماضي) in Arabic, is a site in the southwestern Faiyum region of Egypt with the remains of a Greco-Roman town where a temple of the cobra-goddess Renenutet (a harvest deity) was founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III and ...
Hakim rifle. The Hakim rifle is a gas-operated semi-automatic rifle. It was originally designed by Sweden and produced as the Ag m/42 for the Swedish Army. The tooling and design were later sold to Egypt, and the Hakim was produced there during the 1950s and early 1960s. It was replaced in the mid-1960s by the Maadi AK-47 (a licensed copy of ...
7.62×39mm. Action. direct impingement, gas-operated. Effective firing range. 300 m (330 yd) Feed system. 10-round removable box magazine, with latching magazine release catch. The Rasheed (or sometimes known as the Rashid[1]) is a semi-automatic carbine, derived from the Hakim rifle and used by the Egyptian military. Only around 8,000 were made.
The German government approved the sale of 7 IRIS-T SLM tactical medium range AD systems to Egypt in September 2018. Volga Soviet Union: Medium Range Air Defence: Tayer el-Sabah SA-2: 100 [123] 100 units were delivered by USSR from 1970 to 1972 for use in the Yom Kippur War. The Egyptians were impressed by the system's performance and acquired ...
The AKM is an automatic rifle chambered in 7.62×39mm intermediate cartridge. It is a selective fire, gas operated with a rotating bolt, firing in either semi-automatic or fully automatic, and has a cyclic rate of fire of around 600 rounds per minute (RPM). The gas operated action has a large bolt carrier with a permanently attached long stroke ...
Maadi (Egyptian Arabic: المعادى el-Maʿādi [elmæˈʕæːdi]) is a leafy and once suburban district in the Southern Area of Cairo, Egypt, [1] on the east bank of the Nile about 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) upriver from downtown Cairo. The modern extensions north east and east of Maadi, New Maadi and Zahraa al-Maadi are administratively part ...
The Buto-Maadi culture was the most important Lower Egyptian prehistoric culture, dating from 4000–3500, [7] and contemporary with Naqada I and II phases in Upper Egypt. The culture was best known from the site Maadi near Cairo, [8] but was also attested in many other places in the Delta to the Faiyum region. This culture was marked by ...
The Merimde culture (also Merimde Beni-Salame or Benisalam) (Arabic: مرمدة بني سلامة) was a Neolithic culture in the West Nile Delta in Lower Egypt, which corresponds in its later phase to the Faiyum A culture and the Badari culture in Predynastic Egypt. It is estimated that the culture evolved between 4800 and 4300 BC. [1]