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The Armoured Production and Repair Factory (Egyptian Arabic: مصنع إنتاج وإصلاح المدرعات) or Military Factory 200 (Egyptian Arabic: مصنع 200 الحربي) is an Egyptian government joint-stock company, one of the companies of the National Authority for Military Production, affiliated with the Ministry of Military Production. [1]
Egypt purchased the original 215 units from the Soviet Union and a domestic production license renaming all the future machines Sakr. Sark-4 are tripod-based units, while Sakr-10 and Sakr-8 are jeep-mounted units, and the rest are truck-mounted units. Egypt also developed a wheeled based MRL called Sakr-45. RAAD 200 Egypt: 122mm MLRS N/A [83] [73]
Now, Egypt designs small and medium weapons, produces heavy weapons, and develops them through self-production. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The volume of Egypt's military production reached 3.8 billion Egyptian pounds ($717 million) in the last fiscal year 2008, an increase of about 20% over the year 2007, [ 14 ] according to the former Egyptian Minister of ...
The RAAD 200 measures 6.5 meters in length, 2.85 meters in width, and 3.1 meters in height. With a ground clearance of 400 mm, it can navigate challenging terrains. It also has a combat mass of 18,580 kg (18.58 tonnes) and a curb weight of 16,600 kg (16.60 tonnes), allowing it to carry a payload of 1,980 kg (1.98 tonnes).
Starting production in 1988, the factory soon experienced numerous cost overruns, inflating the price of each tank to a level beyond the cost of buying complete tanks—the initial production run was estimated to cost US$2.7 billion versus US$1.9 billion for purchasing tanks directly from the United States via General Dynamics. [4]
Egypt and a consortium made up of energy companies Total of France and Italy’s Eni will next month sign a key agreement to transport natural gas from an undersea deposit inside Cypriot waters to ...
The remainder of Egypt's territory, over 75%, was the sole responsibility of the Frontier Corps (Egypt). In May 1967, Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran to passage of Israeli ships. On 26 May Nasser declared, "The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel". [ 33 ]
The Walid is an Egyptian wheeled armored personnel carrier based on the BTR-40. It was built by the Kader Factory for Developed Industries. [1] It entered production in 1960 and was first deployed by the Egyptian Army during the Six-Day War. [2]