A huge deployment of tanks in Egypt with Spanish Pegaso military trucks

Military parades are always impressive, but the Egyptian Army seems to take them to a pharaonic level.

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On Tuesday, October 8, Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (who has ruled the country since 2014 following a military coup in 2013) chaired an inspection of the 6th Armored Division of the Egyptian Army in the town of Ismailia, in the northwest of the country, west of the Suez Canal. The inspection was a show of force by Africa's most powerful army at a very tense time in the Middle East, due to the attacks that Israel is suffering from Iran and its terrorist terminals in Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq and Yemen.

This inspection provided a good overview of the Egyptian Army’s military assets. Remember that Egypt is the largest foreign operator of the American M1 Abrams tank, with 1,360 M1A1s (the US Army has 2,645). In addition, the Egyptian Army has other older tanks, the largest of which is the M-60, with 1,150 units of the M-60A1 and M-60A3 variants, as well as some models of Russian origin, specifically dozens of T-80s acquired in 1997, and also hundreds of T-62s, T-55s and T-54s of Soviet origin, the latter retired from service and in storage.

The official Egyptian government channel has published a very long video (1 hour and 45 minutes) of this inspection, in which, in addition to tanks, we see various armored personnel carriers, M-109 self-propelled howitzers, trucks, ambulances and even public works machinery:

The large number of tanks seen in the video is explained by the fact that each Egyptian armored division has between 240 and 300 tanks, divided between two armored brigades (plus one mechanized brigade), with about 12,000 soldiers in total. The Egyptian Army has four armored divisions. You can see some screenshots from the video here.

Three rows of M-60A1 tanks (left) and M-60A3 tanks (center and right). These old, already obsolete Patton tanks are still in service in an army that still has a lot of outdated but potentially combat-useful equipment. After all, the Russians are using some even older tanks in Ukraine...

US-made AN/TWQ-1 Avenger anti-aircraft systems mounted on Humvees. Egypt has 75 of these systems. On the left is a MIM-72 Chaparral surface-to-air missile launcher (Egypt has 280 units). Behind the Avengers are MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missiles (right) and ZSU-23-4 Shilka anti-aircraft guns of Soviet origin. In the background on the right are two Russian S-75M Volga surface-to-air missile launchers, with four missiles in total.

A row of Soviet-made BMP-1S infantry fighting vehicles. The Egyptian Army has 300 units of this Soviet-made model.

M-113A2 armored personnel carriers, with the protection used by the US Army in Vietnam. Egypt has more than 2,000 vehicles of different variants of the M-113, being the most numerous armored vehicle in its arsenal. Egypt also has 250 BMR-600Ps of Spanish origin, but none are seen in this video. As you may remember, some Egyptian BMR-600Ps ended up in the Hurghada underwater museum, in the Red Sea.

Several rows of M-109 self-propelled howitzers. Behind them we see several rows of M-548 ammunition vehicles, also of American origin.

This part of the video is very interesting. In the front rows we see several M-981 FISTV anti-tank missile launchers, based on the M-113, and on the right we see several rows of M-113A2s. As @BLAS_002 pointed out on Twitter, the best part is what you see behind the M-113s. I'll show you more in the following image:

These trucks will be very familiar to many Spaniards. They are Spanish Pegaso 3046/10 trucks, a model popularly known in Spain as the "Egyptian Pegasus" , since several decades ago the Egyptian Ministry of Defense purchased 13,000 units of this vehicle from the Spanish company ENASA.

In the 1980s (specifically between 1981 and 1985), ENASA delivered 10,159 units to Egypt , according to a report by the Bofill Foundation. The rest were not delivered due to a default. Finally, some of the remaining trucks manufactured for Egypt were sold to Libya, which is why this model also received the nickname "Gaddafi Pegasus", since that dictator was the ruler of that country at the time. According to @Alco_1800, a great expert on Pegaso trucks, the remaining Pegaso 3046/10 that did not reach Egypt or Libya were "used to equip forest firefighters throughout Spain."

In this other image shared by Egypt News we can see three rows of M1A1 Abrams tanks (plus an M-88 recovery vehicle), three rows of M-113A2s. Behind these we see three long rows of Pegaso 3046/10. Here is an enlargement of the image:

Counting the columns of trucks, I estimate that there must have been more than 120 Pegaso 3046/10 trucks at this inspection.