newafricaken254:
First picture of the Egyptian Air Force Helicopter Ka-52 Alligator test flight , May 2017

ViceAdmirlAgain:
Can someone I.D the APC next to the Denel RG32m

ActivateKruger:


It's an RG-34 Iguana

ViceAdmirlAgain:
Can someone I.D the APC next to the Denel RG32m

ViceAdmirlAgain:
The RG32M was procured for the Navy to patrol the coast line from the Orange to the Kunene after the Wolf mk11failed almost all mobility tests in the desert..says a local paper

ukemeramat:
@henry240 @jakeporeshenko @odunayaw I saw this variant of AK with Soldiers serving under 'Operation Delta Save' at the creeks last week and yesterday night too at 146 battalion calabar. I thought its being uses by rangers alone?. Are we gradually seeing the faze out of the obj006 Ak47? What is the update on the total over haul of the primary rifle of the NA? Cos I learnt dicon will soon start production of the beryl rifle.

kikuyu1:


Actually about 4 yrs back they picked up at least 4 Buks along with new APCs;Gunships and other ish. As for the radars can't speculate. Nemesis2u,where art thou??

newafricaken254:
marconi S-600 mobile radar,likely acquired back in the 70's

Maj Gen Samuel Thuita was enlisted into the Kenya Air Force as a Cadet Officer in 1978, and upon commissioning to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in 1979, underwent basic and advanced training in Air Defence systems (Radars /Missiles) eventually qualifying as an instructor in 1985.
Maj Gen Thuita is a graduate of the National Defence College (NDC) of Kenya, in Strategic Studies, holds a bachelors degree in Development Studies and a diploma and certificate in International Studies and Defence Diplomacy respectively.
He has held various Command appointments[b] including the Commanding Officer, Air Defence Control Uni[/b]t and Base Commander Moi Air Base and also, staff appointments at the Kenya Defence Headquarters, as Chief of Strategic Plans and Policy, Chief of Logistics and Assistant Chief of Defence Forces, for Personnel and Logistics.

Maj Gen Thuita served with the United Nations in the former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) as a Force Headquarters Operations Officer in 1992/93 and at the USA CENTCOM Tampa Florida, as Kenya’s Senior National Representative in the coalition war against terror in 2007/08.
He is decorated with honours and awards among them, the prestigious Moran of the Order of the Golden Heart (MGH), the Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear (EBS), the Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW), and Operation Linda Nchi and the UN Medals.
Together with his late wife Rachel, they are blessed with three grown up children (a son and two daughters) plus two grandchildren. His hobbies include bird watching, horseback riding and nature conservation.
http://kaf.mod.go.ke/?p=1249

Fidha254:
Yep, looks like the image, strangely enough SIPRI doesnt have that one , i though they caught most of the arms transfers except for small arms.. Makes me wonder what else they could have missed..

Anyway, looking at the current commander of Kenya Airforce, wonder what he has brought to the table so far, he studied Advanced Air Defence Systems

Makes me wonder what else they could have missed..

Henry240:


That's the 7.62x39 mm ARSENAL AR-M1, it's supposed to be the exclusive reserve of NA Rangers, but it seems it is now beginning to be more widely used.

I don't think the AK-47s are widely used by the Nigerian army. What i think we usually see is the AKM. If they are gradually been replaced with the AR-M1, i don't know, but i hope so.

It's in the budget, the production line for the Beryl M762 is currently being set-up.

kikuyu2:
Dude,you surprise me! Right after you said:

Fidha254:
H
ha! There are somethings that can be hidden from the public.... But other things cannot, especially in a small country like ours... You cannot hide a fighter jet! nor can you hide a rotary like Mi-28.. Esp the Mi-28, there is absolutely no strategic reason to keep it a secret... I rem talking to Africaken b4 we officially received the huey II , some days b4 it was announced that they had arrived in kenya, we had already noticed that there were different engines that the sounds we normally hear in the skies.... For me its harder to imagin that possibility than to imagin we don't have any, but its not a secrete that we were interested in acquiring maybe the cost was too much or something... Besides, if we really had them, where were they during eladde?
The somali residents in somalia are so used to airstrikes that they can tell you outright if an airstrike is carried by US or Kenya...


Anyway, I will bring you some article that will continue to fuel that notion of secretly running some 4th gen somewhere in the 254

kikuyu2:


Mwenzangu,i'm not a believer in things and go strictly by sight,facts and figures. The Havocs aren't at 50 ACB but in Laikipia-yes,they've been seen but they fly higher than usual. You saw my links? El Adde was a special event;a one off,a series of cascading tactical blunders that were so complete not even a squadron of hovering KA 50s would've saved those guys. I can tell you it was field tested simultaneously with the Havoc and the army wanted both but budget realities stuck the KDF with one Havoc squadron of 16.

MikeCZA:
Dedicated attack helicopters don't 'fly higher than usual'.

We have seen pictures of Algerian S300 SAM's! Strategic weapons!

You think Kenya can hide helicopters?

kikuyu2:


Mwenzangu,i'm not a believer in things and go strictly by sight,facts and figures. The Havocs aren't at 50 ACB but in Laikipia-yes,they've been seen but they fly higher than usual. You saw my links? El Adde was a special event;a one off,a series of cascading tactical blunders that were so complete not even a squadron of hovering KA 50s would've saved those guys. I can tell you it was field tested simultaneously with the Havoc and the army wanted both but budget realities stuck the KDF with one Havoc squadron of 16.

kikuyu2:


Trying but can't open your files. Mikecza,relax;its not an argument.

"I saw two jet fighters fly over Mandera town heading towards Somalia," Iyessa Seneta, a resident of Mandera, capital city of Kenya's Mandera County, told The Anadolu Agency.

"They flew over our town several times before dropping missiles on a hill across the border not far from our town," he said.

Mandera County, located near Kenya's border with Somalia, has recently come under repeated attack by Al-Shabaab.

"I saw F16 jet fighters over Mandera for some 30 minutes. Later, we could hear bombardments from the Somali side," Moalim Saleh, a Mandera County government official, told AA.
http://aa.com.tr/en/politics/kenyan-jets-hit-shabaab-targets-in-somalia/66492

newafricaken254:
weapon nerds,I.D this weapon