McDonnell F-4E Phantom II, Egyptian users

Despite Egyptian Air Force's interest for the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter, after Yom Kippur war and Egypt shifted allegiances. They decided to buy 35 F-4E Phantom in 1979 as the F-5 was already being dated and it was too expensive. They were bought together with some Sparrow, Sidewinder and Maverick in exchange of 594 million dollars as part of the Peace Pharaoh program. They were assigned to the 222nd TFB.
As most of the Egyptian pilots were used to the MiG fighters, they found the F-4E too complicated to fly, making it that only 9 of them were in flying conditions by the beginning of the 1980s, that's why an intensive training program took place in 1985 in order to solve those problems. An additional surplus of eight aircrafts were bought in 1988 together with three of them to replace aircrafts lost in accidents.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II#Egypt
2. Salamander Books - The Complete Book of Fighters