Sahal80 is showing off that some planes, not even 2nd hand, but 3rd/4th hand planes that came from Abu Dhabi==>Jordan==>Oman==>Somalia were given to us by generous Arabs. Xasbunallah wa ni3mal wakeel.The Somali planes were in a batch upgraded to F.76 and T.77 standard, which incorporated a lot of the advances of the FGA.9. But while the FGA.9 was essentially a ground-attack aircraft, these late 60s updates for export were more multi-role. Most seemed equipped to carry Sidewinder AAMs. Anyway, the F.76s and T77s first went to Abu Dhabi. In 1975, the survivors were passed to Jordan.
Jordan's Air Force had been badly mauled in the 1973 Yom Kippur war. But it seems the Jordanians needed more modern equipment and passed all their Hunters, including the Abu Dhabi examples, to the Sultan of Oman, who already had Hunters in service.
This is where it gets murky. Oman gave Somalia several Hunters in 1983. It is claimed these were the survivors of the original Abu Dhabi F.76s and T.77s but who knows. After all these years and users, there would have been little commonality among the F.76s.
Look at the situation of Khartoum, Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Tripoli. Can you tell me what the Arabs can do? If you are only interested in a couple million dollars handouts for DJ to bribe local politicians then yes ofcourse the Arabs can do that. All you have to do is go to Gulf countries and request that, that's no problem. The Arabs cannot build Somalia nor do they care to build it. This is a matter for Somalis to do and if they can't do it then it's finished.
As of now, Saudia Arabia invests more money in Ethiopia than they do in Somalia.
Erdogan just got into the Somali game in 2011 and look at the effects Turkey has had on Somalia. And the Arabs have more money than Turkey. So who is more serious about Somalia? Turkey has exposed the rich Arabs for how little they do or care about Somalia. Even Iran could do a better job.
Do you know Sayid Mxmd Cabdille Xassan wrote a poem when one of his men asked him why he doesn't get help from the Arabs. Ask your parents what was the contents of that poem.
Axmad Gurey was getting his weapons and support from the Ottomans.
Arabs do not have the ability/interest or technical expertise to help develop Somalia. Don't wait on that. Let's have more ambition than to depend on them.
If the Arabs cared to develop Arab capitals then you wouldn't see Cairo looking the way it is. Now that Iraq is finished, Cairo has the most potential in the Sunni Arab world and it's clear that the Arab countries are not investing billions of dollars in Egyptian industry, education, agriculture.
