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Source: Maghreb Confidential
Source: Maghreb Confidential03/02/2018
According to Maghreb Confidential,
the negotiations between the National People's Army (ANP) and the Italian Alenia,
for the purchase of six reconnaissance aircraft,
take an urgent turn for the Algerian military!
These six MC27-J Spartan will indeed have to replace in disaster
three Gulfstream G550 acquired with gold price with Raytheon ,
and which sleep today in hangars in Oklahoma City . Revelations.
Commissioned in 2016 ,
these three aircraft should have quickly reached Algeria .
But everything went wrong on this contract of a billion US dollars ,
negotiated directly by the Chief of Staff Ahmed Gaïd Salah,
without too much encumbrance of the wishes
expressed by the Air Force
according to the same letter confidential information.
Algiers has asked for the integration of the best technologies in the catalog of the American manufacturer:
long-range oblique LOROP DB-110 camera,
synthetic aperture radar,
without forgetting the whole range of electromagnetic communications interception modules.
But the installation of such a number of sensors has proved more delicate
than expected,
especially since Raytheon has little experience in aeronautical integration.
The group eventually turned to a Oklahoma City- based specialist ,
Field Aerospace, quotes the online media.
But this one, knowing little about the Gulfstream ,
himself quickly stalled before the task.
Also chosen by Ahmed Gaïd Salah ,
the Italian aircraft manufacturer has in its catalog an ISR version
(Intelligence, Surveillance and Recognition)
of its device originally designed for transport.
But its range is much less than that of the Gulfstream to which it will have to replace:
1.800km instead of ... 12.000km ,
indicates the same source.
Above all, the Gulfstream exists only on glossy paper:
no country would have acquired it,
despite the interest of Canada .
According to the analysis of Maghreb Confidential ,
Algerian airmen are afraid of wiping the plasters,
and that the delivery of the three aircraft goes on forever.
However, there is urgency:
while the ANP is more than ever on red alert, its fleet ISR is struggling.
The twelve Beechcraft 1900Ds , delivered between 2000 and 2002 ,
arrive at the end of the track,
and the cost of their modernization is considered prohibitive.
Remain the MiG-25 interceptors converted into spy planes.
But they are not very adapted to territorial surveillance missions
or counter-terrorism supports the same media.
THE ANP TO MANEUVER ON ALL FRONTS, BUT NOT ALLIES.
Delays in the Gulfstream contract come at the worst moment for the Algerian military,
the same source said,
adding that in addition to monitoring the Moroccan "enemy brother",
the ANP had to multiply its device on the Libyan border
since the fall of the Kadhafi diet, in 2011.
And any lack of vigilance has tragic consequences,
as recalled by the attack on the In Amenas gas site in January 2013 .
The Malian and Nigerian borders also require constant vigilance,
the online media continues,
and the Algerian military intelligence services
lend a hand to their Tunisian counterparts
to reduce the jihadist maquis operating between the two countries.
However, to respond to all these emergencies, Algeria is increasingly isolated.
The country is jumping alone on the Libyan issue ,
multiplying mediation efforts without much success.
There is no question of integrating the G5 Sahel ,
the military force uniting Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad .
This "coalition", aimed at securing the Sahel - which Algiers considers to be its square -
has the defect of being supported by France
and generously financed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates .
At the same time, as revealed by another source, Intelligence Online ,
Morocco is preparing to receive four Gulfstreams ,
paid by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi
and equipped with the latest US and Israeli surveillance technologies .
These planes will be supplied by the American arms manufacturer Raytheon
who would ship the Raytheon Sentinel system ,
known as ASTOR ( Airborne Stand-Off Radar ) as evoked by Intelligence Online .
They could also ship a platform manufactured by the Canadian Bombardier ,
while the Israeli company " Elta Systems ",
a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) ,
would be engaged in the project invisibly ...
The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar , quoting Intelligence Online ,
is quoted as saying that Elta Systems' mission
was to integrate offensive equipment on intelligence-equipped planes to intercept signals
used in conversations with individuals or other signals that are not directly involved in conversations ...
According to the same article,
the United States has endorsed the transfer of spy technology,
listening and recognition in Morocco .
These technologies would be much more modern and sophisticated
than those that Washington wanted to sell to Algeria according to these sources.