samuelgodson:

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Not to talk of dey hunger for WW3........saying NATO is scared for not confronting Russia on d battle field

NATO is not scared of confronting Russia on the battlefield should it happen (NATO country being attacked), the fact that they're openly assisting Ukraine with weapons is a sign of not being scared.

HOWEVER, no one wants WWIII so everyone avoids it in any possible way.

GreenandGold:


NATO is not scared of confronting Russia on the battlefield should it happen (NATO country being attacked), the fact that they're openly assisting Ukraine with weapons is a sign of not being scared.

HOWEVER, no one wants WWIII so everyone avoids it in any possible way.

that's what am saying .......NATO is not scared of Russia..... Dey are only avoiding an escalation...... Even Putin is not stupid to attack a NATO country....... Just dat a lot of people are mistaken NATO's cautious approach as cowardice

Lurker4Long:

I don't understand people who continue spreading this fake photo. In 1973 Putin was a 20 year old university student. He was never involved in African struggles. That is not Mnangagwa in that picture.

The photo is not "fake" as you claim..however, we can dispute the exact dates when the photo was taken ,there are some claims it was in the 80s either in Tanzania or East germany

NTSA:

The photo is not "fake" as you claim..however, we can dispute the exact dates when the photo was taken ,there are some claims it was in the 80s either in Tanzania or East germany

Be it 80s or 1999 or last year, the bottomline is that that's NOT Putin on the picture.

NTSA:

The photo is not "fake" as you claim..however, we can dispute the exact dates when the photo was taken ,there are some claims it was in the 80s either in Tanzania or East germany

You can put that pic up on your wall and pleasure yourself for all I care. The only true thing written there is "Samora Machel". Believe whatever, but know you can't falsify history and not expect to be called out!

Quote "Like clockwork: Just hours after the US signals it needs to buy oil from Venezuela again, Bloomberg has decided that Venezuela is no longer a socialist country" end quote

President Volodymyr Zelensky And Ukraine Capitulates No Longer Interested In Joining NATO Bowing To President Putin And The Russian Army In A Fortnight of The Invasion.

You See The F.ools Running Our World Goading A Poor Nation Into A Needless Senseless War. No One Should Have Died If These Id.oits Had Signed On The Dotted Lines of Neutrality.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220308-in-nod-to-russia-ukraine-says-no-longer-insisting-on-nato-membership

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10593573/President-Zelensky-admits-cooled-Ukraines-bid-join-NATO.html

Flash: It Mostly Takes A Good Military Only Two Weeks To Achieve Its Stated Objectives

Nemesis4you:
Quote "Like clockwork: Just hours after the US signals it needs to buy oil from Venezuela again, Bloomberg has decided that Venezuela is no longer a socialist country" end quote

I see Colombia and that puppet Guaido aren't too happy!

Nemesis4you:
News reports coming out regarding USA funding biological labs in Ukraine is upto 200 million dollars

....., if so engineered .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AugzqXPYaOc

The hypocrisy of the West. Well NATO or its Master the US and its little cousin the UK should never imagine ever going anywhere else in the world to fight because Russia will never forget their delivery of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine. Just imagine sitting in Argentina right now would be the time to take back the Falkland Islands and no matter what the Brits will throw at it with the Russian supply of game changing weapons the Malvinas would be rightfully repossessed. Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house.

The supply of Javelins and NLAWs though minimal in the overall effect of the invasion it did do some ignoble damage slowing light armoured Russian columns and low flying ground attack fixed wing and rotor aircraft. War itself being deception the Russians did very well anticipating the response of NATO support and kept much of its teeth combat arms at bay for any eventuality of the use of full lethal force.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9R5tuAaeQw

Throwback Thursday.

Quote ' Prince William said it's rather normal to see war and bloodshed in Africa and Asia but not Europe, during a visit to the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in London today. "It's very alien to see this in Europe. We are all behind you," he told the volunteers there. ' end quote

https://twitter.com/Nadine_Writes/status/1501637351273074690?

Reality of wokes

Amateurs discuss tactics
The professionals discuss logistics - Napoleon

Amateurs discuss tactics
The professionals discuss logistics
The ones who got their ass stuck in logistics, start discussing combat logistics - Nemesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFz-TXcAtro
Us and Kenyan forces interporability exercise

Kenya army operators

When you hear the Russians are coming you give way same like hearing the Nigerians are coming you give way or be crushed. Nothing like seeing a Russian soldier or a Nigerian soldier in combat mode and on the move.

For the Russian Defence Ministry to start releasing video footage of Russian combat troop movements is evidence of confidence of control of the battle space. Contrary to Western propaganda observe a decent force of CAS, anti-aircraft battery, dismounted infantry.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi_hoXvaE40

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Nemesis4you:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AugzqXPYaOc

Oof.. you reached a new level of credulity. God have mercy with you.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/09/media/biolab-ukraine-russia-qanon-false-conspiracy-theory/index.html

Analysis: Russia and QAnon have the same false conspiracy theory about Ukraine

New York (CNN Business)A new conspiracy theory has become popular among some of the online communities that formed around QAnon -- one simultaneously being promoted by the Kremlin as a justification for its invasion of Ukraine. The false claim: the United States is developing bioweapons in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin has stepped in to save the day and destroy the weapons.
QAnon's core prophecy has always been that there is a "plan" and that former President Donald Trump will rid the world of an evil cabal, culminating in the unmasking, imprisonment or even execution of cabal members. But that prophecy dates back to when Trump was actually president -- now that he's not, believers have been convincing themselves there is evidence that the plan is still very much in place, maybe even more so than ever before. In the Kremlin's disinformation, some have seen that hope.
There are US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, that much is true. But they are not building bioweapons. Actually, it's the opposite: Part of the reason for their creation was to secure old Soviet weapons left behind in the former Soviet republics. The State Department has described the claims as nonsense -- and the US and Ukrainian governments have repeatedly, and for years now, tried to bat down conspiracy theories about the labs and spoken about the work that is actually being done in them

Russia's falsehoods about labs like this have not been limited to Ukraine. Similar claims were made about a lab in Tbilisi, Georgia; those were proven false. Dr. Filippa Lentzos, co-director of the Centre for Science & Security Studies at King's College London, visited the lab along with other experts and debunked the Russian claims. She told CNN the Russians are spreading the same lies about labs in Ukraine.

There is a disinformation machine at work here.
It goes a bit like this. The Russian government makes suggestive statements, leaving breadcrumbs that are dutifully repeated by official Russian state media -- and then, increasingly importantly, by dozens of faceless websites (some of which the US has alleged are tied to Russian intelligence). Social media accounts push the idea further, build on it, make it more fantastical -- and those more fantastical claims eventually end up getting picked up by official Russian media and the cycle begins again.
Russia has been pushing various bits of disinformation about the US and biological weapons since the Cold War -- infamously publicizing, for instance, the false idea that the US manufactured the HIV/AIDS virus.
Matt Field, an editor with the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences, told CNN disinformation about US-supported bio-labs seems to peak when Russia finds itself under increased international scrutiny -- the allegations about the Tbilisi lab, for instance, bubbled up in 2018 amid the international scandal after Russia was found to have poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, England.
The methods used to spread this kind of disinformation are not new, either. Former KGB agents have said the KGB would plant stories in obscure or small publications in foreign countries and then those stories would be cited as sources in official Russian media.
That process can happen a lot more easily today. Instead of having to go to the trouble of convincing an editor at a newspaper to publish disinformation, Russia can push it out on seemingly independent websites that present themselves as news outlets but are no more than Kremlin cut-outs. The US government has identified websites working in tandem with Russia's FSB security service.
Russia still plants stories in real outlets too -- for example, in 2017 the leftwing US magazine Counterpunch detailed how it had been duped into running articles under the byline "Alice Donovan," which the US government later confirmed was a fake identity run by GRU Russian military intelligence.
Russia does not necessarily need to push its disinformation to QAnon adherents, because the two have enough shared interests. Today, many Americans find themselves in online groups and following accounts that mobilized around QAnon -- there, Russian disinformation is sometimes embraced with enthusiasm.
On an American QAnon online radio show broadcast Monday, one host read verbatim from Russian state media reports about biolabs.
Over on the show's online discussion forum a person who had intentionally misspelled the word "Patriot" so it would include the letter "Q" wrote, "I had a hunch that these bastards were getting ready to release another bio weapon and we needed SOMEONE to put a stop to it. Putin stepped up. IMO this was part of his deal with DJT."
"A central element of conspiracy theory belief systems is the constant refining of narratives and reactions to wider events to support the grand narrative," Ciarán O'Connor, a researcher with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank that analyses disinformation, told CNN.

Journalists and government officials have been trying to debunk the falsehoods and spread the truth. Big Tech companies have been trying to stop the conspiracy theory's spread on their platforms, too. But those measures have thus far been no match for the power of belief and the sustained campaign to promote this theory.
On Tuesday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman helped the Russian effort, making his own suggestion that the US was up to something nefarious at labs in Ukraine. The same official in 2020 promoted the idea that the US military brought Covid-19 to China.

All that investment in the Nigerian Navy has paid off.




Nigerian Navy Maritime Operations: International Maritime Bureau (IMB) exits Nigeria from piracy attack prone countries, award’s 77 per cent success to Nigeria

Following the significant decline in piracy attacks in Nigerian waters put at 77 per cent occasioned by the Nigerian Navy’s increased counter security operations against Maritime criminality, oil theft and other attacks, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has exited Nigeria from its Piracy List.

Near future such systems will be mature enough for relatively large scale deployment with wider op scope , already there for certain specific tasks at relatively shorter ranges

Video for reference


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM

Lurker4Long:
Throwback Thursday.

Around 1996/97, I witnessed a SAAF tanker refuelling an Atlas Cheetah above the N2 between Piet Retief and Pongola. Of course, as a kid I was mesmerised and that's when my interest in the military was sparked.

Germanic 7.62 NATO assault rifles-meaning those built in N Italy,Germany,Switzerland and Belgium. Strictly speaking Scandis are included among Germanics but they don't build firesticks,just like the Dutch who've a gunmaking tradition stretching back to the 1500s but are now reduced to fking around with lego,windmils and airguns!.

Beretta ARX 200
Swiss arms designed 751. They were bought by Sig.
Brügger & Thomet Feintechnik,a small Swiss outfit known for highest quality guns like the B& T APC .308.
New HK 716.
It's been said many times form follows function: look closely and see a general resemblance . Maybe cause they're all short stroke piston operating and are the pinnacle of gun making quality. The BT averages 5000 $ a pop retail ,the 751 4000$,the HK 716 2500$ and the ARX 2000$. On average an Armalite AR 10 is 1800 $.

Nemesis4you:
Near future such systems will be mature enough for relatively large scale deployment with wider op scope , already there for certain specific tasks at relatively shorter ranges

Video for reference


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM

Just thinking of one neglected aspect of UAV tech-CARGO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrR4uoP0KA

Regardless of whether the stories of Vlad's logistical issues are real a tactical need imo exists for a high capacity cargo drone capable of at least 120 kts,max distance 150 kms with max capacity 300-500 kg purely for delivery of fuel,ammo and other ordnance. Imagine a flight of 4 landing 82 mm rounds to a mortar group near Winchester or 2 tons diesel to a stalled platoon instead of risking a valuable 20 mn $ chopper and 3 highly trained flyguys to do the same.
Does the concept make sense?

Nigerian Navy participates in exercise obangame 22 with 10 ships, 2 helicopters and a detachment of Navy SBS

Russian Tanks ambushed in Ukraine.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_FCclN6_Y


The Russians always seem so vulnerable to ambushes, although in the case of this particular ambush, I think the attack was repulsed.

We can see a BTR-82 firing 30mm and 2 rear tanks firing on the Ukrainians.

So, India "accidentally" fired a cruise missile (BrahMos) on its Pakistani neighbour. I was damned surprised that sort an accident could happen following the hype of this missile and the "unquestionable competence" of the Indians. I just hope this situation doesn't escalate. The world already has enough on its plate.
Some Pakistanis are already saying Pakistan is gonna respond like the 2019 balakot incident. Hope not.
Jai Hind.

kabe1:
Russian Tanks ambushed in Ukraine.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_FCclN6_Y


The Russians always seem so vulnerable to ambushes, although in the case of this particular ambush, I think the attack was repulsed.

We can see a BTR-82 firing 30mm and 2 rear tanks firing on the Ukrainians.

This Anti-Tank Missile was fired from really close distance maybe 50m or so. Maybe it was kind of an IED were a booby trap triggered the AT to fire while the operators sit in safe distance.

The J10c fighter aircrafts have arrived Pakistan. Seems the order is for 36 but currently has arrived Pakistan.
I do believe that Nigeria have at least 5 Mi 35m in Russia. We might never get them due to consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sanctions, CAATSA, etc. Nigeria claimed it will like to get Mig fighters from Russia, the specific type wasn't mentioned but it's speculated that it might be the 29/35 series. That wouldn't be possible anymore due to reasons stated already.

Nigeria, honestly needs fighters. This is a time for reasonable governments across the globe to build. We're much closer to World War 3 and Nuclear annihilation than ever. We need to get first grade military equipments. Our security is massively threatened.

Unless, we believe the Americans will sell us modern F16s, I do believe we need to purchase the J10c from China like our Pakistani friends did. This is the plane for us. We can't keep waiting on the JF17 block 3. We aren't even sure if they'll enter mass production yet.

Pakistan currently developing a fifth generation fighter aircraft.
Brings back nostalgic memories of when Turkey was developing its UCAVs. Some of us here never believed that they'll be able to make that kind of technology.
Some advocated for Nigeria to partner with Turkey and other Middle markets. Others saw it like another "jamboree". A particular moniker, compared the Turks to the Iranian fifth generation aircraft; calling it Toys.
Today, the Turks are Lords in the UCAV game.
I advocate, a Nigeria-Pakistan partnership in this field. It will be highly beneficial for both countries.

Sources has confirmed the purchase of the Akinçi bayrkratar UCAV from Turkey. Nigeria would be the second operator in Sub Saharan Africa after Ethiopia.
The drones might start arriving this month.

Stormtrooper11:
So, Ind "accidentally" fired a cruise missile (BrahMos) on its Pastani neighbour. I was damned surprised that sort an accident could happen following the hype of this missile and the "unquestionable competence" of the Ians. I just hope this situation doesn't escalate. The world already has enough on its plate.
Some Panis are already saying Pastan is gonna respond like the 2019 balakot incident. Hope not.
Jai Hind.

Do you think a missile can be fired accidentally ?

Inorder to initiate a launch simply speaking some of the steps will be as follows

1st FCS will need to be enabled to do automated pre firing checks ( everything ok or not with the various subsystems & health etc ), if FCS determines everything fine then it will ok proceed or disable further action

2nd after that Target coordinates will be recieved by system along with authentication codes , only after that further action enabled

3rd manually 2 persons have to key in authorisation to enable launch button

Also after launch within ~1 minutes self destruction mechanism of missile turns on and waits for the self destruct signal incase the launch officer decides to press self destruct button to terminate the missile in flight if so required

but the missile flew into pa... , not only flew but did 90 degree bend and ended up close to ~ 3 major bases and that too impacted into a populated area where no humans were resident at that time also if 'accidental launch' why was self destruct not triggered which will be even more easy to do 'accidentally' than the 'accidental launch '

(What is possible is that the missile changed direction midflight incorrectly and ended up where it should not have)

Could be it was a deliberate targeting or messaging of some sort ( eg lots of drones dropping weapons / drugs across border recently )

Interestingly A major IAF excercise got cancelled recently just after it began

Also same area a PAF fighter crashed , pics of drop tanks on houses surfaced in SM

NOTAM of a pa... missile test was active in the same area

Also a hijacker of ind... airline under protection of isi was shot dead

Wonder what's going on

https://twitter.com/i/status/1502225435354091523

https://twitter.com/i/status/1502235155347476481

Looks like Syrians and Central Africans are headed to Ukraine. With European volunteers on the other side the conflict is now a word war.

One mistake and human civilization will only be found in Asia and Africa

Russia has announced that they are accepting volunteers from anywhere in the world, for anyone wants to be a war tourist and either die or get Russian citizenship