Faithful007:
Many of these stories have ended being debunked as outright false, or just misunderstandings. Begin any evidence you have that such stories occurred.

Rather than spend time with telegram channels and all these other unknown sources which thrive on your desire to know "The real news they are hiding from you", spend more time reading Brookings or Canergie or other policy research institutions around the world that painstakingly research global events from a neutral standpoint.

Internal conflicts happen as a result of the kind of environment that exists there. Terrorism is usually not far from where there are uneducated Radical Islamic fundamentalists/revivalists. West Africa has them in millions. It is simple arithmetic.

SA for example does not have that demographic in any significant number. You'll hardly here about Islamic extremism. However, they have serious inequality problems that is always bound to spring problems in two directions.
Xenophobia - Other blacks are taking our jobs (Caused by hardships and systemic oppression - indirect effect of inequality-)
Riots - We are still under subtle apartheid (direct effect of inequality).
So if I predict a major xenophobic attack or riot in the next two-three years, I'm almost sure to be proven right.

You see why I don't believe those stories churned out from poor/no investigations about France and England sponsoring violence. Remove the root problem first let's see whether these surface problems wouldn't die.

NB: I'm not saying that foreign countries cannot capitalize on some of these problems through funding and misinformation. However with the current world situation, there is no existing reason for France or any western country to support extremists. If you know the amount of money that is being spent in attempts at deradicalizing the Sahel communities, you'll be really shocked. America ranks her threats by a points system I cannot go into right now. IS/BH is currently third or so. Ranked as significant.

I love this; I don't know why most people always point to one channel on telegram as their source of information it's like walking on sinking sand

A rare picture of the R6/LM6 rifle in the wild... It's one hard rifle to find on the market.

Nigeria @62 Independence Anniversary & impressive display of the Armed Forces

Confirmation of acquisition of the M346 FA,
2x Beechcraft King Air 360I, 3x DA-62 ISR,
12x AH-1Z. Daring stunts by the JF-17 Thunder on full after-burners introduced as the Guardian of The Sky & first line of air defence
[Audio confirmation, agile and versatile NAF fighter aircrafts performance from 32mins -- Where's the naysayers & doubting Thomases]

Plus The News Agency of Nigeria [NAN] did justice to the coverage of the celebrations at Eagle Square compared to other networks

Sub-saharan Africa isn't even playing catch up to the Armed Forces of Nigeria and with a new Administration in Abuja next year, Africa in general in few years should do Abuja's bidding


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Stfkw8V7o

Lurker4Long:

You do understand the difference between fact and analysis, right?

This long convo can be saved if you actually point out the wrong statements I made.

Incredible128:
I love this; I don't know why most people always point to one channel on telegram as their source of information it's like walking on sinking sand

According to some, media is a lie. The truth is found in some hidden channels somewhere. They cannot even differentiate between media and policy institutions.

Faithful007:
According to some, media is a lie. The truth is found in some hidden channels somewhere. They cannot even differentiate between media and policy institutions.

God is really trying concerning humans if it were a human controlling this world, he'd end it all but not before showing everyone who's boss

Faithful007:
This long convo can be saved if you actually point out the wrong statements I made.

This is your conceptual problem: superficial analysis does not mean wrong. I could even agree with the thrust of your argument, whilst still pointing out that your analysis is superficial.
Instead of assuming you knew which issue I thought you'd treated superficially, you should have asked which issue and how your analysis was superficial.
Now I understand the defensiveness: you heard "wrong".

Covert1:
Nigeria @62 Independence Anniversary & impressive display of the Armed Forces

Confirmation of acquisition of the M346 FA,
2x Beechcraft King Air 360I, 3x DA-62 ISR,
12x AH-1Z. Daring stunts by the JF-17 Thunder on full after-burners introduced as the Guardian of The Sky & first line of air defence
[Audio confirmation, agile and versatile NAF fighter aircrafts performance from 32mins -- Where's the naysayers & doubting Thomases]

Plus The News Agency of Nigeria [NAN] did justice to the coverage of the celebrations at Eagle Square compared to other networks

Sub-saharan Africa isn't even playing catch up to the Armed Forces of Nigeria and with a new Administration in Abuja next year, Africa in general in few years should do Abuja's bidding


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Stfkw8V7o

Is there any way this honest briefing can get to the Ramaphosa administration cause we are coming for Pretoria first. Saffers should not feel relaxed or think we have forgotten our invasion plans.
@Lurker4Long, @J115 hope you've made preparations to relocate to Madagascar. Infact we are also coming for Madagascar so "Way and Manner you thin out to Australia, just don't let us catch you when the kasala will burst.

[quote author=Nemesis4you post=117243244][/quote]
The meme says it all

Exnavyboy62:


Is there any way this honest briefing can get to the Ramaphosa administration cause we are coming for Pretoria first. Saffers should not feel relaxed or think we have forgotten our invasion plans.
@Lurker4Long, @J115 hope you've made preparations to relocate to Madagascar. Infact we are also coming for Madagascar so "Way and Manner you thin out to Australia, just don't let us catch you when the kasala will burst.

Just when I'm starting to relax, you again!

GreenandGold:
A rare picture of the R6/LM6 rifle in the wild... It's one hard rifle to find on the market.

Which type of boot/shoe is this.
Someone should enlighten me.

Rapid Mobile releases new naval communications technology

Rapid Mobile, the Pretoria based designer and manufacturer of advanced military communications technology, recently launched a new naval solution at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) show at Waterkloof Air Force base in Pretoria.

The RapidM Multi-Gateway capability was launched at the show (21-25 September), just weeks after its trials in South-East Asia. It is aimed at enhancing shore-to-ship and ship-to shore communications to ensure reliable and continuous high frequency communications. One of the system’s use cases is for joint force operations with a naval component.

Karel Koster, RapidM’s Tactical Product Leader, said the Multi-Gateway routing capability is a game changer for high-frequency networks in allowing existing transmit and receive stations to be connected and opens options for lower cost solutions. Due to interference, legacy systems often require a distance between receive and transmit stations. The Multi-Gateway solution allows messages and data to be routed through multiple possible shore stations and ensures improved connectivity, redundancy, as well as compression of messages, and prioritisation of messages.

While high frequency radio networks are widely used by militaries around the world, they can be unreliable because the ionosphere, upon which the waves from these transmissions bounce back to earth, change in its characteristics with the time of day due to changes in the sun. The Multi-Gateway solution allows different frequencies to be automatically tested and remembered.

Previously RapidM’s solutions had only a single gateway which allowed a radio network to connect via an internet protocol. The new capability allows high frequency radio voice, internet, transmission, and receiving gateways to operate off one system allowing substantial cost savings, said Koster. Older systems for high frequency transmission and receiving would have to be separated because of problems with interference.

Another attribute of the system is that it can remember which frequencies have been previously used for a specific connection and which have achieved the highest quality. One use case would be for the system to be placed in naval shore stations for both communication with ships and with other stations. A network using this solution can allow for transmissions to be re-broadcast from station to station.

Rapid Mobile also launched the RM10 Wideband Software Defined Modem with an Automatic Link Establishment capability at AAD 2022. While this product and the RC10 ARQ Server and IP Controller have been launched abroad and have NATO stock numbers indicating conformity to the alliance’s standards, the Africa launch of these products took place at AAD.

Koster said the RM10 addresses the need for higher speeds in data communications over wideband channels in the HF, VHF, and UHF bands. The RM10 design allows operation on crowded ship platforms where space and power consumption are paramount. Together with the companion product to the RM10, the RC10 allows broadcast chat and messaging, and email communications over long ranges at high speeds over a radio network.

Rapid Mobile supplies communications technology, particularly in the field of HF and V/UHF radios. It has a range of HF/VHF modems, software and voice encryption solutions. Adding RapidM’s software-defined modem technology, radios can provide encrypted digital voice communication, secure transmission of digital text, messages, SMS and e-mail, and gateways to link HF/VHF radio networks to intranets, Internet and GSM networks. Another of its products is its CommandPoint battle management system, which has been sold to forces in South East Asia, Australia and NATO. Since inception in 2001 the company has supplied naval, tactical and government communications solutions to customers in 45 countries.

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/rapid-mobile-releases-new-naval-communications-technology/

Hensoldt South Africa introduces new radar electronic surveillance solution

Hensoldt South Africa has introduced its new RES9000 radar electronic surveillance solution for the detection, location and analysis of modern radar emitters.

The RES9000 from the company’s GEW business unit was launched at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition on 22 September, and complements the company’s extensive tactical electronic warfare portfolio.

The RES9000’s objective is the interception of modern radar signals for precision direction finding (DF), tactical visualisation of gathered emitter information, emitter classification and matching of intercepted emissions to an emitter library, and reporting and tracking of radar threats in the 0.5 GHz to 40 GHz frequency range, GEW explained.

Artificial intelligence is used to match signals to a user-populated threat library. Electronic intelligence (ELINT) processing and analysis is available with the addition of analysis software.

“Collected information on surface-based and airborne search and targeting radars can now be fused together with intercepted electronic communications information to provide a collated and concise overview of the electronic order-of-battle (EOB) to battlefield commanders for decisive operational command and control”, said Wimpie van den Berg, Portfolio Management Executive of GEW.

“Being well known in the spectrum dominance field, GEW has recognized the boundaries between the communications domain and the radar domain are fusing and our customers no longer focus on each domain separately. We have invested heavily over the past few years in the development of a modern and compact radar electronic surveillance solution closely integrated with our tactical EW systems to create a complete electromagnetic intelligence solution, which we believe will offer significant value to our customers in dealing with their electromagnetic threats,” said Christo Fouché, the Chief Executive Sales and Marketing of GEW.

“GEW is well-known in the field of spectrum dominance for its specialisation in communications intelligence and jamming solutions. However, we recognised that with the continuous evolvement of technologies in the communications domain and in the radar domain, the lines in the spectrum between the two domains are becoming blurred and our customers can no longer focus on each domain separately. We want to provide our customers with the ability to see a total electromagnetic intelligence picture that fully integrates intelligence of communications and of radar threats. So we have invested heavily over the last few years in the expansion of our capabilities with the development of a modern and compact Radar ES solution, closely integrated in our tactical EW systems, which we believe will offer significant value to our customers in dealing with their electromagnetic threats,” he concluded.

Long history, wide portfolio

GEW is one of the leading players in the spectrum dominance industry in South Africa, having been active in the COMINT (communications intelligence) field since the 1960s. The company develops and manufactures strategic, semi-mobile and tactical systems, as well as airborne and ship-mounted systems, some of which include sophisticated electronic attack capability in addition to search, direction-finding and basic jamming capability. GEW’s signal intelligence and spectrum monitoring systems have been sold and are in operation in more than 30 countries worldwide, including with the South African Air Force, Army and Navy, and the spectrum regulatory body ICASA.

A more recent development has been jamming systems to protect fixed targets, convoys, individual vehicles and foot patrols (manpack system) against remotely controlled improvised explosive devices (RCIEDs), such as the roadside bombs encountered in Afghanistan and Iraq. GEW recently launched two new jammers: the GRJ8500 and GRJ6000 jammers covering the V/U/SHF and HF frequencies. The two new jammers join the existing GMJ9 multirole jammer, and GMJ900 and GMJ9000 man-portable multirole jammers. The GMJ9 has been designed for counter-remotely controlled improvised explosive device and tactical communications jamming and is ideal for convoy protection. The GMJ900 specialised jammer system is specifically designed to counter new-generation targets, such as cellular networks, satellite phones, commercial drones, GNSS and Wi-Fi.

GEW is also active in the fields of airspace surveillance and security systems, particularly perimeter and border fencing systems with integrated alerting systems to localise a breach. Such systems have been successfully used to counter wildlife poaching, amongst others.

Hensoldt South Africa/GEW is increasing its involvement in the radar, data link, identification friend or foe (IFF), customer services and business development fields, among many others, and this has been helped by the recent acquisition of Tellumat’s air traffic management and defence business units, which now form part of the company’s new Radar Business Unit. This offers 3D radar, synthetic aperture radar, radar for counter-UAV operations and passive radar. One of the biggest radar projects in South Africa in recent years is Hensoldt South Africa’s Quadome dual-mode, three-dimensional (3D), multi-mission naval radar for air and surface surveillance as well as target acquisition. It was launched in 2021 and the land version in September this year.

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/hensoldt-south-africa-introduces-new-radar-electronic-surveillance-solution/

Covert1:
Nigeria @62 Independence Anniversary & impressive display of the Armed Forces

Confirmation of acquisition of the M346 FA,
2x Beechcraft King Air 360I, 3x DA-62 ISR,
12x AH-1Z. Daring stunts by the JF-17 Thunder on full after-burners introduced as the Guardian of The Sky & first line of air defence
[Audio confirmation, agile and versatile NAF fighter aircrafts performance from 32mins -- Where's the naysayers & doubting Thomases]

Plus The News Agency of Nigeria [NAN] did justice to the coverage of the celebrations at Eagle Square compared to other networks

Sub-saharan Africa isn't even playing catch up to the Armed Forces of Nigeria and with a new Administration in Abuja next year, Africa in general in few years should do Abuja's bidding


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Stfkw8V7o

Was expecting this

CNS visit to Leonardo milan inspection of the navy helicopters production

Toju200:
CNS visit to Leonardo milan inspection of the navy helicopters production

see people wey serious abeg

Toju200:
CNS visit to Leonardo milan inspection of the navy helicopters production

Nigeria is expecting 3 x Grandnew helicopters from Leonardo Helicopters.

In total the Nigerian Navy would be operating 12 x units of AW-109 helicopters.


This is excluding the AW-139 and 3 x Bell helicopters used for pilot training.

QuietMynd:

Which type of boot/shoe is this.
Someone should enlighten me.

we call them vellies short for veldskoen(Bush shoes) .... I got several pairs, great for literally everything, from hunting and hiking to work and church shoes

Beautiful air flying video, Nigerian Air Force A-29 Super Tucano


https://twitter.com/Jakepor21/status/1577038038005583872

kabe1:


Nigeria is expecting 3 x Grandnew helicopters from Leonardo Helicopters.

In total the Nigerian Navy would be operating 12 x units of AW-109 helicopters.


This is excluding the AW-139 and 3 x Bell helicopters used for pilot training.

are we still getting the other AW139 it was included in the budget but CNS has talked about it since

Toju200:
are we still getting the other AW139 it was included in the budget but CNS has talked about it since

No word on that yet, so we cannot say.

I saw this circulating on FB, but it looks too plane to be from CDSAC

Lurker4Long:

jteku, you restless Saffer, you!

Now u bliv me abi

NTSA:
In other news Ugandan of Commander land forces Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba says it would take him just two weeks to capture Nairobi

The cartoon illustration summarises it all.


Anyway, His father had to step in for his son's rants

Stargate254:
The cartoon illustration summarises it all.


Anyway, His father had to step in for his son's rants

What a family!

Nigeria army SOF operators

jteku:
I saw this circulating on FB, but it looks too plane to be from CDSAC

It is actually true.

Stargate254:
The cartoon illustration summarises it all.


Anyway, His father had to step in for his son's rants

KOT are very mad

Bur on a serious note, what is Tanzanian doing?

Balogunodua:


KOT are very mad

Bur on a serious note, what is Tanzanian doing?

Is this accurate though? I have seen Tanzania military parades and equipment display and always thought they have an impressive arsenal. Does the 42 tanks include the VT-2?

Fynline:


Is this accurate though? I have seen Tanzania military parades and equipment display and always thought they have an impressive arsenal. Does the 42 tanks include the VT-4?

I also doubt its accurate, But it was posted by a Kenya news outlet 2days ago.

Vt4 tanks? I am not sure TZ has one.

Fynline:


Is this accurate though? I have seen Tanzania military parades and equipment display and always thought they have an impressive arsenal. Does the 42 tanks include the VT-4?

Tanzanian don't have VT4 tanks...I think you meant to say VT-2 instead.

Omofaye99:

Tanzanian don't have VT4 tanks...I think you meant to say VT-2 instead.

Correct. Thanks