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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 4:39pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
patches689: Exactly, don't mind Africaken and Centrifude. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Odunayaw(m): 5:23pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Henry240:in the voice of my cadet friend..."this is why they r civilians" 1 Like |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 6:09pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
interesting tv report about the south african air force mirage F1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXbXRKVOIX4 |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 6:16pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
south african army 2 Likes
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 6:30pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
south african air force 1 Like
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 6:41pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Oldies , nigerian army in the 60's in Biafra war 7 Likes 1 Share
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 7:19pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
seeing this photo (blood type written on his vest) of fomer late kenya GSU officer got me thinking... does your army in your country have dog-tags with a soldiers details like ID number and blood type... My uncle who is Ex-army uaed to have one but I think he made it on his own cause I've never seen any soldier with a dog tag on his neck? R.I.P words cannot express the gratitude, as a nation and a continent, lets strive to do our level best as a way of thanking those who paid the price so that we can be safe from harms way 1 Like
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Odunayaw(m): 7:33pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
denisfidha:last time I saw my buddy...his d.tag was hanging around his neck and it had his name, service number and blood group 1 Like |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by sheyiofficial(m): 10:59pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Nigeria’s Tiny, Low-Tech
Alpha Jets Have Flown in
Brutal Wars Across Africa
Now the former training jets are
blasting Boko Haram
by SEBASTIEN ROBLIN
On the morning of June 19, 2016,
seven Toyota Hilux trucks manned by
Boko Haram fighters lay in wait near
Daira Noro, Borno State in
northeastern Nigeria.
Members of a fundamentalist
insurgency infamous for its terrorist
attacks and kidnappings of young
girls, the fighters had recently been
chased out of their camps in Sambisa
forest by an African multi-national
task force.
As the African forces advanced north
in pursuit, the Boko Haram fighters
had prepared a road-side ambush
under tree cover. Two of their trucks
were armed with heavy machine
guns.
The distant whine of small airplane
engines sounded overhead. An
unarmed civilian plane flew by.
Then suddenly, a small twin-engine
fighter — an Alpha Jet — came
screaming over the horizon. Radioed
the position of the Boko Haram
fighters by the unarmed plane —
actually a King Air 350 surveillance
aircraft — the Alpha Jet unleashed a
barrage of rockets on the concealed
ambush, followed by 250-pound
bombs and strafing runs.
The Toyotas were all destroyed and
the ambush force thrown into chaos.
Nigerian ground forces followed close
on the heels of the jet and chased off
the survivors. They counted 15 bodies
and two abandoned rocket-propelled
grenades.
This incident, as reported by Nigerian
air force Group Captain Ayodele
Famuyiwa, highlights the role of air
power in the struggle against the
brutal Boko Haram insurgency in
northern Nigeria.
In addition to the Alpha Jets, Hind
attack helicopters and F-7 fighters —
Chinese-built copies of the MiG-21 —
have taken part in the air campaign.
But the Alpha Jets, taken out of near-
retirement five years ago, also played
in important — and at times
controversial — role supporting
Nigerian peacekeeping troops in
Liberia and Sierra Leone during the
1990s.
This is the story of how a diminutive
jet trainer made its mark on West
Africa. 3 Likes |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by sheyiofficial(m): 11:01pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
A Franco-German collaboration
France and Germany jointly designed
the Alpha Jet in the 1970s to serve as
a two-seat jet trainer — the airplane
fighter pilots fly and practice firing
weapons with before they begin
training on combat aircraft.
The French Dassault and German
Dornier aviation companies were
interested in replacing American T-33
jet trainers — adapted Korean War-era
F-80 Shooting Stars — with an aircraft
of their own manufacture.
In the end, the Germans decided
they’d rather stick with American
trainers — but opted to produce the
so-called Alpha Jet as a light ground-
attack plane. You can tell the French
Alpha-E Jets apart by their more
rounded nose, while the German
Alpha-As feature a needle-sharp nose
accommodating more advanced
avionics and sensors, including a
Doppler radar navigation system.
The Alpha Jet entered service in 1978.
Eventually some 480 Alpha Jets were
sold to 13 countries. The 93 German
Alpha Jets retired in 1997, but the
nearly 100 French Alpha Jets continue
to serve as jet trainers.
The Alpha Jet has a reputation for
excellent low-speed handling and
being very forgiving for novice pilots
— in fact, the French air force’s only
complaint was that it was actually too
easy for trainees, who received a nasty
shock when they graduated to more
difficult-to-handle combat aircraft.
The small, lightweight jets — weighing
fewer than four tons empty — are
known for being highly maneuverable
and can fly as fast as 621 miles per
hour — faster than a typical airliner,
but slower than the speed of sound.
They can lug up to 5,500 pounds of
munitions on five hardpoints,
including precision-guided weapons
like Maverick anti-tank missiles or
even heat-seeking air-to-air missiles.
However, a more typical load would
include two SNEB unguided rocket
pods, each carrying 18 68-millimeter
rockets and two 250 pounds bombs. In
addition, Alpha Jets come with a 27-
or 30-millimeter revolver cannon that
can spit out 22 explosive shells a
second.
Now, even with two extra fuel tanks,
an Alpha Jet loaded for battle has an
operational radius of only 380 miles
and lacks many modern electronic
systems.
However, Alpha Jets are very cheap
and easy to maintain compared to
sophisticated jet fighters — and when
fighting insurgents hiding in the bush,
they are nearly as effective.
How cheap? An Alpha Jet requires
seven hours of maintenance per flight
hour, compared to 19 for an F-16. In
1978, Alpha Jets sold for $4.5 million
each — equivalent to $14 million
today. Used Alpha Jets are
considerably cheaper — one is being
advertised right now for $950,000.
This has led Alpha Jets to be widely
resold to both civilian and military
customers. Google even owns one.
Most military Alpha Jets have been
used in their original intended role —
as jet trainers. The Moroccan air force,
however, employed some of theirs in
its war against the Polisario rebels in
Western Sahara.
It’s the Nigerian air force, however,
that has made the most combat use of
the type. Nigeria reportedly acquired
its initial 24 aircraft — nicknamed “A-
Jets” — from Germany, but additional
aircraft have been acquired over the
years. Most of those photographed
appear to be the French models. 3 Likes |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by sheyiofficial(m): 11:04pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Peacekeeping air strikes
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous
country, with more than 180 million
inhabitants, and has long suffered
from tensions stemming from ethnic
and religious divisions. The Nigerian
air force is probably most famous for
the widely condemned bombing of
the Biafra secessionist state — the
1960s equivalent of the conflict in
Darfur.
However, in the 1990s the Nigerian
military embarked on a more
defensible mission, at least in theory
— trying to restore order to a Liberia
torn apart by Civil War as part of a
West African peacekeeping force
called ECOMOG.
By 1990, the corrupt and brutal
Liberian government of Samuel Doe
had been nearly overthrown by two
rebel factions, the National Patriotic
Liberation Front led by Charles Taylor
and a splinter group called the
Independent NPLF.
Funded by the sale of diamond and
making wide scale use of child
soldiers, the two rebel groups
descended on the Liberian capital,
Monrovia, in an orgy of killing,
kidnapping and rape.
In 1990, the English-speaking Western
African countries agreed to form a
roughly 3,000-man peacekeeping force
called ECOMOG to prevent the capital
from being seized by the rebels.
ECOMOG’s largest contingent
consisted of Nigerian troops. Up to
12,000 ECOMOG troops deployed at
one point.
Things did not begin auspiciously
when Doe visited ECOMOG’s new
headquarters to register a complaint.
While there, he was kidnapped by
INPFL soldiers, and videotaped being
tortured to death while their leader,
Prince Johnson, drank a beer and
watched.
Unlike a typical peacekeeping force,
ECOMOG had to militarily subdue the
rampaging NPFL first before it could
try to organize a peaceful political
settlement. In the last four months of
1990, a detachment four Alpha Jets
hammered rebel enemy gun
emplacements and supply convoys at
Robertsfield International Airport and
Charles Taylor’s headquarters in
Kakata, forcing him to move his base.
Later, ships running guns for Taylor
were sunk in the seaport of Buchanan.
“The firepower of NAF fighter aircraft
has finally dealt an incalculable blow
to the war effort of the NPFL leader,”
Time reported.
In October 1992, after a year and half
of sporadic negotiations, Taylor
launched a massive new assault on
Monrovia. A detachment of six NAF
Alpha Jets flew over a thousand
missions in response, employing
Beluga cluster bombs — a 628-pound
munition that disperses 152 small
bomblets by parachute.
Lethal against troops in the open,
cluster munitions are now banned by
convention in Nigeria because of their
tendency to leave behind unexploded
mini-bomblets long after hostilities
have ended.
The NAF’s search-and-destroy mission
were so effective in eliminating rebel
vehicles that the NPFL began attacking
at night. The Alpha Jet didn’t have
night-flying equipment, but the NAF
decided to give it a try anyway.
Experienced pilots flew several night
raids, fortunately without mishap.
The low-flying jets were reported by
to have chased and terrorized the
civilian population. “They say this is
proving Taylor was right, that
ECOMOG is coming to kill us,” one
journalist said to Africa Watch.
Humanitarian relief convoys and
civilian crowds were strafed and a
food-storage warehouse in Buchanan
bombed. A team of Firestone workers
described their horror as an air strike
hit a group of children playing soccer,
killing 40.
“”This is a low-tech war, and they are
sloppy,” one journalist concluded.
ECOMOG contended that it did not
deliberately target civilians, but that
the NPFL used them as human shields
— an assertion backed up by
independent observers. ECOMOG
troops, however, were implicated in
looting and humans rights abuses.
The siege of Monrovia was ultimately
broken in the spring of 1993, and
ECOMOG forces went on the offensive
toward Buchanan. However, the
Nigerian troops needed to cross Saint
John’s River Bridge, which had
already been wired with explosives.
Alpha Jets were sent to strafe anyone
trying to detonate the explosives until
ECOMOG troops managed to cross the
bridge.
From then on, the strikes planes were
involved interdicting the NPFL supply
convoys and sank six of the group’s
cargo ships. An air strike even took
out a captured Nigerian ZSU-23 quad-
barrel anti-aircraft tank. Several
aircraft were damaged by anti-aircraft
fire during the campaign but Nigerian
sources state that none were shot
down.
ECOMOG’s efforts culminated in an
election in 1997 — which Charles
Taylor overwhelmingly won. Six years
later, another rebel army brought
Taylor’s government to its knees. A
second African peacekeeping force
finally succeeded in installing a
democratic government, which has
kept the peace to this day under the
first female head of state in Africa,
Ellen Sirleaf Johnson.
In 1992, the civil war in Liberia spilled
over into neighboring Sierra Leone
when one of Taylor’s commanders,
Foday Sankoh — a.k.a. “General
Moskito” — led a force of 3,000
fighters called the Revolutionary
United Front to invade weakly-
governed Sierra Leone. The Sierra
Leone army rapidly lost control of the
country — and its soldiers began to act
almost as brutally towards the civilian
population as the rebels did.
Sierra Leone soon resembled the
wasteland of Mad Max, minus the
protagonists. Charismatic and
monstrous warlords with names such
as General Warboss III and Betty Cut
Hands led bands of drug-addled child
soldiers in a rampage of looting,
murder, rape, cannibalism and
mutilation with little apparent
ideological motivation. They did make
sure to capture profitable diamond
and uranium mines.
ECOMOG was sent to intervene in the
conflict in 1994 — and like in Liberia,
it would achieve temporary military
successes, and then utterly fail to “win
the peace” leading to a resumption of
war. In 1995, two NAF Alpha Jets
detached to support the ECOMOG task
force.
They soon paired with a small South
African mercenary contingent —
Executive Outcomes — which led a
counteroffensive to recapture the
uranium mines. The Alpha Jets, along
with mercenary Hind helicopter
gunships, pounded RUF positions with
bombs and rockets until they began to
flee — into the teeth of ground-based
ambush parties of tribal Kamajor
fighters.
The offensive succeeded in driving the
RUF from the country and led to the
Abidjan peace accords in 1996.
Unfortunately, coups and corruption
from within led to the resumption of
fighting. In 1997, the NAF is accused
of having dropped cluster bombs in
Kenema and the capital of Freetown.
In 1999 the RUF — now a group called
“the West Side Boys” — had overrun
Freetown in what was dubbed
“Operation No Living Thing.” More
than 6,000 were killed and much of
the city burned down while rebel
troops perepetrated mass amputations
of civilians. 3,000 Nigerian troops
supported by two rocket-firing Alpha
Jets led a bloody counterassault that
succeeded in driving the rebels out of
the capital — at heavy cost.
During the campaign, 10 aircraft
sustained heavy damage from anti-
aircraft fire. Three Alpha jets were
lost, though all the crew survived. The
cause of the losses are unspecified,
though at least one is believed to have
been shot down.
Peace would not be secured for
another two years until the
intervention of Indian, British and
Russian troops. 3 Likes |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by sheyiofficial(m): 11:07pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Air power against Boko Haram
The Nigerian Alpha Jets wouldn’t see
action again for more than a decade.
Many of them fell into poor condition
for lack of maintenance.
Unfortunately the winds of war were
blowing closer to home for the
Nigerian air force. In 2009, an Islamic
fundamentalist insurgency called Boko
Haram — which means “Western
education is forbidden” — emerged in
North Eastern Nigeria in the states of
Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
Nigeria is marked by stark religious
divisions between the Islamic north
and Christian south. Boko Haram
wishes to institute Islamic law across
the entire country and bring an end to
Western influence on society.
Fueled by government corruption and
brutal military reprisals that resulted
in hundreds of innocent citizens being
tortured and killed by government
troops, the insurgency escalated its
violent attacks year after year,
employing terrorist bombings,
guerrilla warfare and large-scale raids
on villages and military bases,
culminating in the infamous 2014
Chibok raid in which 276 schoolgirls
were kidnapped to serve as “wives”
for Boko Haram fighters.
The terror group also has made
attacks in Cameroon, Chad and Niger,
and has recently proclaimed a switch
in allegiances from Al Qaeda to ISIS.
In 2013, the Nigerian air force began
to take measures to refurbish 13 of its
Alpha Jets. Two were sent to Niamey,
Mali to support a multi-national
peacekeeping force there — but one
crashed fatally in an accident that
May. As Boko Haram seized control of
more villages, Pres. Goodluck Johnson
declared a state of emergency in the
North Eastern state. Alpha Jets based
in Yola and Maiduguri soon were
flying combat mission in their own
country.
Deep in Boko Haram territory,
Maiduguri itself came under assault in
March 2014, and the A-Jets bombed
targets right next to their base. As
Boko Haram continued its offensive,
Nigerian troops were forced to
withdraw from the town of Bama on
Sept. 1, 2014. Alpha Jets again flew
into battle to recapture the town.
On Sept. 14, 2014, a lone Alpha Jet
flying out of Yola was shot down and
one of its pilots captured. Boko Haram
filmed their infamous leader Shekau
— frequently reported dead —
mounted on a machine gun-armed
truck, then showed pieces of
wreckage. A surviving pilot spoke
briefly to the camera, before a man
cut off his head with an axe .
The Nigerian air force at first denied
the pilot’s identity, but he was later
confirmed to be Wing Commander
Chimda Hedima.
The Alpha Jet’s arsenal also may have
contributed to rebel attacks.
‘Bomblets’ stolen from Nigerian
stockpiles of Beluga cluster bombers
may have been given to young girls
for them to serve as suicide bombers.
Nigeria has signed the convention
agreeing not to employ cluster
munitions, but has not yet disposed of
its stockpile. The Nigerian army has
claimed that the jets have hit friendly
ground troops — possibly because of
bad maps.
Alpha Jets of the Cameroonian Air
Force joined the fray in December
2014 with air strikes against Boko
Haram militants that had overrun the
Cameroonian military base in
Assighasia. The attacks reportedly
killed 41 insurgents and compelled the
rest to flee. Cameroon still operates 11
ground-attack Alpha Jets out of an
original 27 purchased.
In March 2015, Nigeria elected a new
president, Muhammadu Buhari, who
set in motion a new military campaign
against Boko Haram, forcing the
insurgents back into sanctuaries in
Sambisa Forest Reserve. In March
2016, a multi-national African force
moved in to clear out the woods in
Operation Crackdown, supported by
extensive air strikes by Alpha Jets.
Another Alpha Jet crashed while
landing that same month. Both crew
survived, but it is not clear if the
aircraft is recoverable.
Tragically, air strikes targeting Boko
Haram were also liable to hit hostages
and abductees. One 15-year old girl
recounted being kept as a prisoner in
a school repurposed as a base by Boko
Haram in Sambisa forest.
“They hurriedly chased us out with
canes as military jets flew overhead,”
the girl said. “Bombs just started
dropping from the sky, and the school
buildings caught fire. Many of us,
including my three year-old sister,
were badly injured. She died within a
few hours.”
Operation Crackdown succeeded in
driving Boko Haram from Sambisa
Forest, and a new campaign called
Operation Gama Aiki — “See it
Through” in the Hausa language
common in northern Nigeria — sought
to push the fighters northward against
the shores of Lake Chad.
Three Alpha Jets and three F-7 fighters
have been assigned to provide ground
support for the ongoing operation,
leading to the attack described at the
beginning of this article.
Meanwhile, the United States
approved the transfer of four
unarmed Alpha Jets to the Nigerian
air force in 2015, and a fifth may have
been received this June. The Nigerian
air force set about jerry-rigging onto
two of the jet trainers its own
weapons hardpoints capable of
holding bombs or rocket pods.
Reportedly, the modifications cost just
four million Nigerian naira — roughly
$13,000. Some reports state a sum as
low as $2,000. Given typical military
equipment costs, this stands as a
remarkable achievement. Foreign
companies had requested up to
$30,000 just to assess the cost of doing
the refit.
A Nigerian car manufacturer, Innoson,
has also been contracted to produce
spare parts for the NAF to keep the
old aircraft flying.
Nigeria has requested approval to buy
new A-29 Tucano counter-insurgency
propeller planes to replace its aging
Alpha Jet fleet. However, a U.S. law
known as the Leahy Amendment
prohibits the transfer of military
equipment to military units
responsible for human-rights
violations.
Backers of the Leahy Amendment
have opposed the sale on the grounds
that the Nigerian military has done
too little reform its human-rights
practices.
Boko Haram has displaced more than
a million people and killed at least
10,000 others.
The Nigerian government has declared
that Boko Haram is “technically
defeated.” Most experts are skeptical.
Undeniably, substantial military
progress has been made by Nigerian
and its allied African troops. If that
military progress doesn’t lead to real
political and economic reforms,
however, northeastern Nigeria risks
succumbing to long-lasting conflict
just like Liberia and Sierra Leone did
under ECOMOG.
The Alpha Jet has proven to be a cost-
efficient weapon when employed in
counter-insurgency warfare, if not
always a discriminate one. 5 Likes |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by bidexiii: 11:22pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
chkil: @chkil, where did u get these pictures from.....? I know av seen the last picture before but the 1st three are rare pictures kudos. ![]() |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 11:24pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Although it breaks thread rules @ Sheyiofficial, damn beautiful article nonetheless. Here are some equally brilliant photos to go with the article. I made sure i screened the photos properly. 4 Likes
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 11:26pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
chkil: Quite beautiful photos, i especially love the one with the soldier Laughing and the other soldier trying to hold his laughter. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 11:30pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Pic 1. Nigerian AFSF COIN operations Pic 2. unsuccessful VBIED attack, bomb failed to detonate I guess Pic 3. AHQSG raid on a BOko haram camp 8 Likes
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 11:33pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Henry240: Lovely pics Henry I have some similar pictures of an Alpha captured at one of those European airports (maybe Manchester) during long haul flight. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 11:44pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
These are lovely Jakeporeshenko, not those! The article brilliantly articulates what's good and bad with the Nigerian Air Force. I'd first off like to correct the writer, the Alpha jets were affectionately nicknamed DoDo birds from Liberia upwards, i'm "hearing" the nick-name, which actually quit sounds gay, A-Jets for the first time. Which Nigerian would nickname anything A-jet.
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by lionel4power(m): 11:48pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
sheyiofficial: beautiful piece... Nigerias exploit with the A jets have gone mostly unnoticed.... most people outside Nigerian soil does not and might not grasp the full knowledge of the great deeds of our proud air force men and women. we did more with soo little... imagine what we'll do with more. I salute my countrymen. none other like us.. NIGERIA 2 Likes |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 11:51pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Henry240: Check these out, credit to BHG FLIGHT
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 12:05am On Jul 30, 2016 |
jakeporeshenko:These are like "fine wine", beautiful! 1 Like |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 12:15am On Jul 30, 2016 |
jakeporeshenko: Nice photos. I like the way the rear of the Reva looks like that of a Rhinoceros! |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Centrifude(m): 12:51am On Jul 30, 2016 |
Henry240:" $25,000/bomb x 1000 targets"?? What are you talking about? Stop making it look like we're saying that every target needs to be hit with an expensive Bomb, we're not stupid.. What we're saying is that if a target is worth getting hit with a $25,000 bomb then it must me done. It has been discussed many times before, that if Countries like Nigeria had invested in quality weapons long before Boko-haram became a threat, this war wouldn't have lasted so long, Nigeria suffered unnecessary losses and set back because you didn't have the proper equipment to support your troops. We use to see videos of large Boko-Haram convoys moving in the open which could've been torn apart by two J-17's armed with targeting pods and Precision Munitions. After the Chibok kidnappings the Airforce could've dispatched air craft with night vision capabilities to track the girls and made it easier to find them. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 3:06am On Jul 30, 2016 |
patches689:let this just another civilian try to answer your question ,its a STK / CIS Ultimax 100 Mk.3 machine gun with 100-round drum ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Seened: 6:29am On Jul 30, 2016 |
patches689: Paaaaaatcheeeeessss! |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by sheyiofficial(m): 7:10am On Jul 30, 2016 |
Chibok girls: Soldier narrates how Sera Luka was rescued A Nigerian soldier fighting Boko Haram terrorists, Femi Adeolu has recounted what happened on the day Sera Luka, said to be be among the over 200 girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok by the extremist sect, was rescued. According to him, Luka was rescued in May 2016 along with 79 women and children held hostage by the terrorists. In a post shared on his Instagram wall, (femi_Adeolu), Adeolu stated that about 35 Boko Haram fighters were killed in the clash. He however regretted that he lost a soldier, who he described as a friend and brother, during the firefight.
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by patches689: 8:48am On Jul 30, 2016 |
africaken254: 10 internets to you good sir!! Its a remarkable SAW, allmost no recoil. One would think they would sell like condoms in a brothrel. But for some reason they are pretty rare, maybe Singapors limited manufacturing capacity has something to do with it. Suffice as to say, if the SANDF were to drop the R4 +50 round mag in favor of it, I would be thrilled. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by gottfried21(m): 9:08am On Jul 30, 2016 |
Let me just leave this here
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by MikeCZA: 9:13am On Jul 30, 2016 |
patches689:While the SS-Mini is available? I'm calling the SSA. Your unpatriotic behaviour has me thinking you are spying for some Asian country. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 Like |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by MikeCZA: 9:21am On Jul 30, 2016 |
gottfried21:There we go again! That Salva dude must just hire mercinaries or contractors to do what the Angolan leader did to the leader of the Kwachas. If fighting spills into the DRC. I wonder what damaging effects it will have on SA and Sudan relations. |
Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nobody: 9:23am On Jul 30, 2016 |
Centrifude: You're a classic case of the reason why i always tell contributors to always read properly before replying. Luckily for me, the internet does not forget. The following are my initial posts on the use of PGM, and your subsequent poorly thought out reply. Henry240: Then in reply to Africaken, i said this Henry240: ...Now, with out properly reading and understanding my comment, you jumped in out of nowhere and posted this, Centrifude: You see why it's paramount to read and understand what has been read. Centrifude: Another poorly informed, most likely ignorant comment. For operations in the North-East, Nigeria dedicated, Circa 2013 - 2x ATR-42 Surveillance Aircrafts. - 2x King Air350i surveillance planes - in 2014, 5x CH-3A drones with AR-1 Precision Guided Munitions were acquired. So we had/have that capability to track day/night and in any weather condition. Again you don't fire PGMs at a column of Boko-Haram convoy, what is required is a salvo of rockets or an aircraft's 30mm gun. You probably have been sleeping all through out your time here in Nairaland.com (2012 - Present), because if you weren't you'll know that we've had the capabilities to track targets both day and night even before the Chibok girls. 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by patches689: 11:07am On Jul 30, 2016 |
MikeCZA: ahhh you got me ![]() Mini-SS is neato too... just doesnt seem that the roll out is happening. I know that we are replacing the MAG's with SS-77's as they wear out... but I have yet to see any one with Mini-SS's in the regular battalions. |
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