Military Aid for What?

The Questionable Legality of Military Aid to Egypt should really address the questionable aid  that military aircraft provides.  The Shah of Iran had the latest F14 aircraft similar to Maverick's, Tom Cruise character's call sign, in the movie Top Gun when the tipping point was reached in the streets of Tehran and soldiers refused to fire into their own people.  A lot of good those giant lumbering fighter bombers meant for cold war super power confrontation did for the Shah then. How embarrassing for the U.S. to have them in the arsenal of an intractable enemy after the revolution.  When the tipping point in Egypt is reached what good will our F16 aircraft, a lighter more nimble fighter bomber to be sure, do for Sisi to quell an economic street revolt caused by a corrupt crony capitalist state? How less than satanic will our image be when Sisi resorts to dropping barrel bombs from Blackhawk helicopters into resistant enclaves of Egypt?