Comment "U.S.-built in 2005" on Jiyanklis Air Base, Egypt

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U.S.-built in 2005

According to this story, the base a unit of the U.S.A.F. built this base in only a few days as part of Operation Bright Star (2005), to simulate setting up an emergency air base in combat conditions. Presumably, it was then handed over to the Egyptian Air Force:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2005/11/mil-051101-afpn01.htm

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