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Merkel greenlit A200 frigate and IRST air defence sale to Egypt

Darek Liam by Darek Liam
December 22, 2021 - Updated on October 13, 2022
in Missile & artillery Systems, Naval
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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government approved the delivery of three Meko frigates from ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and 16 air defence systems from Diehl Defence before leaving office.

Former Minister of Economy Peter Altmaier sent a letter about the deals on December 7 to Bundestag President Bärbel Bas, a day before the swearing-in of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

The arms disclosed in the letter include the delivery of three MEKO A-200 EN frigates to Egypt from Kiel-based Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, along with 16 air defence systems from Diehl Defense, which is located in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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The arms sales agreements were approved by the Federal Security Council, which includes not only the chancellor but also several ministers, such as the minister of finance. The Finance Minister under the previous Merkel-led government was Scholz, meaning Germany’s new chancellor was aware of the agreements.

The first Batch of the IRIS-T SLM medium-range air defence system has been delivered to Egypt a few months ago. Egypt signed a contract to purchase seven batteries of the IRIS-T SLM and an additional ten IRIS-T SLX Long-range GBAD system batteries were received.

The Egyptian IRIS-T SL GBAD contract includes 10 IRIS-T SLX Long-range GBAD systems, 7 IRIS-T SLM medium-range GBAD systems, and 6 IRIS-T SLS short-range GBAD systems.

In 2019, Germany’s Bundestag’s Budget Committee gave its approval for an export credit guarantee for six A-200 vessels, thereby clearing a path for the frigate deal to go ahead.

The export credit provides guarantees of up to 2.3 billion euros for the transaction.

Besides this new agreement, the Egyptian Navy is expecting the delivery of four Meko A200 frigates from TKMS valued at 2 billion Euros, one of which will be built in Egypt. TKMS has also delivered four Type 209/1400mod submarines to the Egyptian Navy.

In September 2018 the frigate deal was reportedly signed, but the deal only mentioned a possible order for just two MEKO A-200 frigates for a total of 1 billion Euros.

The A200 frigate will be armed with French-made MBDA VL-MICA after South Africa’s Denel Dynamics’ failure to complete its own part of the deal to supply dozens of Umkhonto surface-to-air missiles to Egypt,

Germany earlier sold the nine Lurssen patrol boats under a 130 million euro deal to Egypt after the contract with the original customer, Saudi Arabia, failed to materialize.

The boats were initially intended for Saudi Arabia but the deal was cancelled following an arms embargo placed by Germany in November 2018, due to Saudi’s involvement in Yemen and the Jamal Khashoggi affair.

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