Henry240:


-Hamina is a Fast Attack Craft which is also designed for patrols.

- Cyclone is a littoral patrol craft deployed it is not an OPV.

- Vessels that are 63 meters are OPVs, that's a Corvette size ship

- Hayabusa-class, that's a patrol boat class of the JMSDF, they aren't considered to be an OPV.

- P400-class are not proper sea going vessels, they are designed to patrol EEZ of user Nations.


You succeeded in listing a bunch of MPVs, not OPVs.

- Hamita Class, designation "missile boat" by the user nation

- Cyclone Class: so a 50 Meyer vessel can be used as an IPV?

- That's not what Heitmann said when you quoted him

- See what I said about Cyclone

- Yes and what do you think the Senegalese will be using their OPV for? Patrolling the Pacific or patrolling their EEZ?

You told us that a vessel of that size is not a good IPV or OPV... But yet you mention MPVs, a class of vessels designed to full both roles.

Thus your critique of the Senegalese vessel is redunant - since they got two classes of ships for the price of one

sudan Hind gunship

recent UPDF air force pilots and technicians include a female pilot Jacinta Kyomuhangi, aged 27

Somali commandos

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Throwback... Rhodesians

jakeporeshenko:
Throwback... Rhodesians

For ten internets: Name designation of the helicopters in Rhodesian service.

RUBBISH.
You must be living in cuckoo land

What has this got to do with "Biafra or death"?

Keep on thinking that tanks and violence will resolve this.

Ask USSR,India,Pakistan, Bangladesh

You fought one boat war which was unsuccessful.

Now you want to start another one.

Oya kontinue ni

MEANWHILE....

Nigerian army commander: only weeks left for Boko Haram

Nigeria's army expects to seize Boko Haram's last few strongholds in the northeast over the next few weeks, the commander in charge of crushing the jihadist group's seven-year insurgency said on Wednesday.

The army missed a December deadline set by President Muhammadu Buhari to wipe out the group, which wants to set up an Islamic caliphate in the area around Lake Chad, but has retaken most of its territory - at one point the size of Belgium.

Major General Lucky Irabor, commander of the operation, said the jihadists were now holed up in a few pockets of the Sambisa forest - where more than 200 girls kidnapped from the town of Chibok in 2014 are believed to be held - and two areas near Lake Chad and would be flushed out "within weeks".

Despite the set-backs, Boko Haram still manages to stage regular suicide bombings in Nigeria and neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Since 2009, more than 15,000 people have been killed, 2.3 million displaced and the local economy decimated.

"Almost all of the locations held by the Boko Haram terrorists have been reclaimed. We are talking only of a few villages and towns," Irabor said in an interview at his base in Maiduguri in Borno state, birth place of the insurgency.

Much of the success is down to better military cooperation with Nigeria's neighbors, especially Chad, whose forces have been attacking Boko Haram fighters fleeing across the border.

"There are joint operations. My commanders have an exchange with local commanders across the borders. Because of the collaborations we've had Boko Haram has been boxed in and in a few weeks you will hear good news," he said.

He said the jihadists, who pledged loyalty to Islamic State last year, were still controlling Abadan and Malafatori, two towns near Lake Chad, apart from their main base in the Sambisa forest, south of Maidguri.

The army was planning a new push into Sambisa after abandoning an attempt due to torrential rain, he said.

"Earlier on this year we had a major operation in the Sambisa," he said. "Gains were made but unfortunately the weather conditions became such that we to pull out waiting for more favorable conditions."

He said the army had rescued some 20,000 people from Boko Haram, a fraction of the 2.2 million UNICEF said last week remained trapped in the region around Lake Chad.

LEADER "WOUNDED"

Irabor's base on the outskirts of Maiduguri, a sprawling military complex with rows of residential blocks for officers, is the most visible sign of a shake-up introduced by Buhari, a former military ruler.

Under his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, the army had a reputation for being poorly equipped and running away in the face of Boko Haram assaults.

Britain and other countries have recently increased military assistance, and two Westerners wearing flat jackets could be seen jogging in the compound.

U.S. officials told Reuters in May that Washington, which blocked arms sales under Jonathan amid concerns about rights abuses, wants to sell up to 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to Nigeria although Congress needs to approve the deal.

Irabor has set up a human rights desk to address the issue.

"The code of conduct is quite clear. Human rights issues are taken quite seriously," he said.

He said that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had recently been wounded, but backed off an Air Force statement this month suggesting he had been killed in an airstrike.

"Shekau was wounded. That's what I can confirm, but as to whether he is dead that I cannot at the moment confirm."

Boko Haram, which normally communicates via video or audio clips posted on the Internet, has said nothing since the Aug. 24 Air Force statement about Shekau being hurt.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-security-idUSKCN116188




(Editing by Ed Cropley and Louise Ireland)

thedarksider:



they called this prevantive-actions on them selfs..

werent they yarning biafra or death last year....!?

the oneness of nigeria is non negotiable!......

try dont *in joda style*....

we have heavy tanks too!....we can parade our heavy tanks up and down the streets of the south-east if that brings you to be reasonable,,,thennnn..


so be it!!!....

MUNISMA traning component traning the Mali National police

gottfried21:
MUNISM traning component traning the Mali National police

Lovely!!


I just wonder when we would start taking HD photos like these Europeans and Americans.


The guy who designed the Ops Core FAST helmet deserves multiple raises.

giles14:
wots dis one saying

Please ignore him.

MikeCZA:
For ten internets: Name designation of the helicopters in Rhodesian service.

So I asked a guy who knows a guy and of course I googled it, I only found this "G cars" and "K cars" designation, based on the helicopters weapon configuration.
Educate me

[quote author=Henry240 post=48967694][/quote]neat

rugged7:
RUBBISH.
You must be living in cuckoo land

What has this got to do with "Biafra or death"?

Keep on thinking that tanks and violence will resolve this.

Ask USSR,India,Pakistan, Bangladesh

You fought one boat war which was unsuccessful.

Now you want to start another one.

Oya kontinue ni

MEANWHILE....

Nigerian army commander: only weeks left for Boko Haram

Nigeria's army expects to seize Boko Haram's last few strongholds in the northeast over the next few weeks, the commander in charge of crushing the jihadist group's seven-year insurgency said on Wednesday.

The army missed a December deadline set by President Muhammadu Buhari to wipe out the group, which wants to set up an Islamic caliphate in the area around Lake Chad, but has retaken most of its territory - at one point the size of Belgium.

Major General Lucky Irabor, commander of the operation, said the jihadists were now holed up in a few pockets of the Sambisa forest - where more than 200 girls kidnapped from the town of Chibok in 2014 are believed to be held - and two areas near Lake Chad and would be flushed out "within weeks".

Despite the set-backs, Boko Haram still manages to stage regular suicide bombings in Nigeria and neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Since 2009, more than 15,000 people have been killed, 2.3 million displaced and the local economy decimated.

"Almost all of the locations held by the Boko Haram terrorists have been reclaimed. We are talking only of a few villages and towns," Irabor said in an interview at his base in Maiduguri in Borno state, birth place of the insurgency.

Much of the success is down to better military cooperation with Nigeria's neighbors, especially Chad, whose forces have been attacking Boko Haram fighters fleeing across the border.

So you get time to dey answer this guy. Everyone knows the guy is not alright.

Xbee007:

So you get time to dey answer this guy. Everyone knows the guy is not alright.

Nigerian Air Force "Buffalo" Pilot and crew with their C-130 at Amani Africa II exercise in South-Africa

Close up look at the FLIR system on Senegal's MI-35P attack helicopter

SANDF

algerian air force exercice yesterday , Mi 28 NE

start from 3 mn 40


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68dc8in4Zp4

Henry240:


Lovely!!


I just wonder when we would start taking HD photos like these Europeans and Americans.


The guy who designed the Ops Core FAST helmet deserves multiple raises.

The Australian Army is rolling out a variant of it as their new standard infantry helmet

Dude needs to get more than a raise

female pilots of the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6AFuoKGWA

happy new month make I drop this here

rawswag:
happy new month make I drop this here

i hope you didn't infect me with something

New Nigerian Air Force video




NIGERIAN AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT ATTACKED BOKO HARAM
LEADERSHIP LOCATION AT TUMBUN REGO IN NORTHERN
BORNO



The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), in a series of another well-
coordinated air operations conducted on 29 August 2016,
successfully attacked a Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) camp at
Tumbun Rego in Northern Borno where some wounded
commanders of the notorious sect were believed to be
receiving treatment. Intelligence report has it that some BHT
commanders, who survived the air assault on the night of 20
August 2016 leading to the death of over 300 insurgents, had sustained serious injuries and were said to have relocated subsequently to the Camp at Tumbun Rego for medical treatment.


The latest strike followed the trail of this piece of
intelligence to neutralise these suspected leaders of the sect
who are high value targets. While the NAF is yet to ascertain
the casualty figure, post-strike Battle Damage Assessment
mission shows that the degree of damage achieved was
devastating as the buildings were engulfed by large fire as
can be seen from the declassified video of the air operation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnTCYc4xhZU&sns=tw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnTCYc4xhZU

russia Tigr armoured vehicle with a 30mm remote gun turrent

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDcrA6z4qM

SANDF soldiers

Nigerian Air Force helicopters

africaken254:
i hope you didn't infect me with something

LOL.....