American tanks to Egypt

The British magazine "Jane's Defence Weekly" unveiled that the US defense department( Pentagon) is currently studying an Egyptian request to provide Cairo with 100 US- made tanks of " M1A1 " Main Battle Tanks type at a cost of USD 590 million.

The magazine added that Egypt also asked to buy 100 120mm M256 smoothbore tank guns as well as military spare parts for military training.

The magazine added that by having these tanks, the Egyptian fleets will have 755 tanks of the type which is used also by the armed forces in each of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.