Toju200:
yeah but the CAD design is different from the Advanced version u posted look at the head lights and its weapons station

It's a further development from the CAD to what is operational.

All I was trying to show was development progress. From 2013 to CAD and final.

For instance the ARA looks very different from CAD made public. It just shows evolution.

The Hornet is quite a good looking vehicle.

SANDF

South-African soldiers assisting local police.

GTA South-Africa

nemesis8u:


Anybody who can tell what's wrong in the concept as shown in the pic ?

( Assuming a SSBN can be dropped from orbit )

Parachute deploying too early.

lionel4power:
Off topic:

Orbital drop for SSBNs... Something to ponder on.

Never seen this before. From air to friendly navy? Cant deliver package this slow to enemy

Xbee007:

Parachute deploying too early.

Yes , the parachute will get vaporized during reentry.

TayserMahri:


Never seen this before. From air to friendly navy? Cant deliver package this slow to enemy

It's a fantasy concept, not even science fiction

If unfortunately someone manages to send a SSBN and drops it back , 99% chance either

The earth will get a new orbit
Or
A extra moon
Or
Heaven and hell ( if they exist ) will get it's last and biggest batch of new entrants

jln115:

The fact that there's one huge gaping hole.....

The parachute is deployed while in space

It is useless in space vaccum and during reentry it will burn up

South African Special Forces Hornet RDRV

Henry240:

It's a further development from the CAD to what is operational.

All I was trying to show was development progress. From 2013 to CAD and final.

For instance the ARA looks very different from CAD made public. It just shows evolution.

Alright thanks

nemesis8u:


It's a fantasy concept, not even science fiction

If unfortunately someone manages to send a SSBN and drops it back , 99% chance either

The earth will get a new orbit
Or
A extra moon
Or
Heaven and hell ( if they exist ) will get it's last and biggest batch of new entrants

I imagine such a missile system being useful when enemy defenses is horizontally impenetrable. So that you launch straight up into orbit, then lock on enemy from orbit and then rain hellfire on him Then ofcourse it would carry too many MIRVs to stop Sort of like trident on steroids

Little lad at the Moi airbase, Eastleigh, Kenya

3 year old gifted kid who has displayed unusual reading abilities despite the fact that he has not set foot in a formal classroom. At his age, he has a high memory of Military equipment especially helicopters and jet fighters. His story has been featured by several media. Got himself a 15-minute flight aboard a Huey chopper.

Last month, a delegation from the Naval War College, Nigeria, led by its Commandant Rear Admiral Adeseye Oke Ayobanjo paid a courtesy call at the Defence Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya. The delegation was received by the Vice Chief of the Defence Forces Lieutenant General Robert Kibochi.

Free medical services by the Kenyan Contingent in the Second East Africa Community (EAC) Defence Forces Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) week at the Rwamagana Provincial Hospital in the nation of Rwanda.

Humanitarian and Peace Support School (HPSS), Kenya

Run by the Kenya Defense Forces, it mainly focuses on enhancing security forces training capacity on Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices in the region.

...

In a peer to peer conflict among nations. If an adversary attacks the logistics bases of the other, no supplies, no logistics would there really be a need to continue with that war?

Kenya Navy Full Mission Bridge Simulator

Kenya Airforce's Bell Huey II and crew

Good day all
Please forgive me for derailing the thread
Im aware a large number of frequents on this thread are in the military
Pls anyone has any idea of the next DSSC recruitment into the Nigerian Airforce
I'm aware they just graduated the last set from NDA late last month.

Pls Someone shud kindly reply
Thanks

Henry240:

The guy on twitter that is peddling this story frequently contributes to this thread.

In my response to your comment a couple weeks back, I shared this photo as evidence that Nigerian Air Force fighter jets have operated from Niger. Funny thing is, I mentioned the air port as Diffa, however there is no evidence that those Nigerian planes truly were pictured in Diffa.

Lionel4power, Bidexii and African all copied that from his twitter handle.

Let me state clearly that he, Alameen Yaqup lifted the photograph from here, and proceeded to imagine a newly established FOB for the Nigerian Air Force.

There is no Nigerian Air Force Base or Forward Operating Base in Niger. It simply does not exist.

As part of the MNJTF, Nigerian Air Assets can cross into Niger and also land in Niger or Tchad or Cameroun. However to make up a story based on a conjecture only goes to drive a narrative that Nigerians are dishonest and untrustworthy.

There are many positives we've seen particularly from the Nigerian Air Force, however it would be reprehensible to go about hunting for glory.

Pls lemme know the Twitter handle and also other twitter handles that tweet on military news and all. thanks

jln115:
dude it's weekend I literally couldn't be more relaxed.
However if you think you're going to take the p1ss out of me, then you're seriously mistaken.

And what I pointed out is 100% a leg of a soldiers(if you can't see then you're blind) . And yes it might not 100% confirm my argument but what it does is it puts serious doubt on your argument.

You know what my brother? Let's agree to disagree.

Its a leg.. it's a tree stump or its a leg made from tree stump.

What does it matter?

It's Saturday.

@Jln115

Can you help me out real quick,there was a particular SAAF fighter jet which was made from different parts of another aircraft. I think it eas either a Mirage F1 or a Cheetah i can figure out.

lionel4power:



You know what my brother? Let's agree to disagree.

Its a leg.. it's a tree stump or its a leg made from tree stump.

What does it matter?

It's Saturday.

It's a leg bro .....or do tree stumps wear camo trousers?

lionel4power:
@Jln115

Can you help me out real quick,there was a particular SAAF fighter jet which was made from different parts of another aircraft. I think it eas either a Mirage F1 or a Cheetah i can figure out.

Cheetahs were upgraded Mirage 111s.... Don't know about any SAAF jet which was made from different parts of other aircraft.

..

nemesis8u:


The parachute is deployed while in space

It is useless in space vaccum and during reentry it will burn up

well that..... And the huge hole in the aircraft...

Slightly OT but relevant. Sneak peek into KDF's theater of Operation in Somalia (todays issue).

Referral Hospital run by the KDF deep in the bushes of Somalia.

Inside busy Kenya Defense Forces medical facility where gun, scalpel go hand in hand.

As the gloved fingers gingerly slide in the weapon into the barrel, the eyes squint at the imaginary dots that could mark out the slippery enemy lurking out there in the thickets.

Suddenly the night lights up. Two artificial stars hover high above the guns and the gunners, as if taunting the insurgents, wait for a chance to strike.
And as the orange stars flood the area, the silence of the night is violated yet again by bursts of rapid gunfire. The staccato stops suddenly. Darkness reigns and there is a deadly silence.
Although all these manouvers take less than 30 seconds, it feels like eternity as the lethal missiles criss-cross the theater of conflict, illuminating their pathways on their mission to destruction like angels of death.

Suddenly, the heavens unloosen choreographed chaos sufficient to make the enemies quake in their cells. To append their signature in the unfolding script, the camouflaged machine gun also opens fire.
A few kilometers away, four men cow in their cells.

This was quite some welcome for four outlaws from Tanzania captured in the heartland of Jubaland in Somalia. They were trying to adapt to a new life in a tiny cell very far away from the 72 virgins promised by their recruiters.
Here, they were not martyrs but common criminals wanted for mass murder.

They were arrested in Jilib and transported more than 200 kilometers by their captors to Dhobley.
Now, they are guests of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and the Somali National Army, who are interrogating them.
They will later be handed over to the Judiciary in Jubaland to face justice for their role in the murderous campaigns perpetrated by Al Shabaab, the terror group they owe allegiance to.
Back to the drills, the reverberations of the bombs and the machine gunfire were all over the place. The troops had to be in a state of high alert for they are dealing with a cunning enemy.
The man tasked with leading the Kenyan troops in Somalia and annihilating Al Shabaab in Jubaland, Brigadier Dickson Ruto, explains: “There are very many foreign fighters in this region. Shortly before Ramadhan celebrations, a young man from Kenya surrendered to us. There are many others from East Africa and beyond.”

Away from the cacophony created by Ruto and his troops in their campaign to rid Somalia of its ‘mad enemy’, a 34 year-old Somali soldier flinched in his hospital bed. But as the noise from the explosions eased, he was left with a painful itch in one of his legs.
Daudi Abdi, considers himself lucky to be alive. Three months ago, he was in a squad of Somali National Army soldiers when their vehicle hit an improvised devise which had been placed on a route they were using in their patrol.
All he remembers is a thunderous explosion, an overturned vehicle and a searing pain in his right leg which was bleeding profusely. And then there was darkness. Some of his comrades died.
“I have been on this hospital bed for the last three months. I feel lucky because I can now stand up and walk slowly around the bed. My leg is still painful although the bullet which tore part of my foot has been extracted,” Abdi says through an interpreter.
At his hospital bed is Dr Solomon Muriithi Wahome, the KDF’s consultant neurosurgeon.

Wahome says he has treated a lot of soldiers from Kenya and SNA as well as civilians at the referral hospital run by the KDF.
But even in the ward, the deadly enemy has been known to sneak in at the most unexpected time, and so the scalpel and the bayonet are never far away. No one knows which will be needed when.
That is why Wahome and his colleagues have their guns at the ready, even when they are undertaking complicated surgeries.
When we visited the facility, a doctor kitted in his pseudo shoes over his military boots and the theatre operation uniform is clutching an AK 47 rifle, his finger at the trigger ready for any eventuality.

Referral hospital

The medical officer in charge of the military facility inside the Dhobley KDF command headquarters, JM Mnjalla, is also wielding a loaded rifle as he does his round in the wards.
“Sometimes back, a patient was rushed into a local hospital in an ambulance. As medics were preparing to receive him and save his life, the ambulance exploded. It was Al Shabaab disguised as a patient,” he says.
Since February this year, Mnjalla says they have treated 85 patients, some of whom were soldiers blown up by explosives, but the majority being locals.
“Somalia’s healthcare is tattered. We are a referral hospital and we handle most of the cases. However, the most complex which require specialised treatment are referred to Nairobi where the patients are flown in African Union or KDF choppers,” Mnjalla adds.
In one of the wards, five year old Deko Abdi is coiled in his bed alone and sleeping. He is recovering from a rare case of cancer triggered by a prick from a poisonous thorn.
His mother, Galan Abdi, is breastfeeding her youngest baby who is barely a year old from the next bed, which has been her home since May 8. “I do not know what I would have done. At first I went to the public hospital at Dobley but I was referred here. He is responding well after he underwent some skin grafting and I hope to go home soon,” says Galan through an interpreter.
According to the military doctors, the most common ailments afflicting both troops and locals are Al Shabaab inflicted gunshot injuries, hemorrhoid fissures, anal sphincters and skin problems.
Although the primary responsibility for Kenyan troops working in Jubaland is to wipe out Al Shabaab, Brigadier Ruto says he has to ensure that businesses and people are safe.
“Our mandate’s strategic task is to see Somalia take over all state institutions by December 2021,” says Ruto.
Amisom Force Spokesperson Lt Col Charles Imbiakha explains: “Besides flushing out the insurgents, they are involved in renovation of schools, drilling of boreholes as well as road engineering.”
At the end of the day, as the special representative of the AU Chairperson, Fransesco Jose Madeira explains, what matters is not the number of insurgents killed by Amisom troops.
“What is important to us is the number of Somalis won over so that normalcy can return. This is the only guarantee that when Amisom troops are withdrawn in the next one year, the country will be stable.”
Supply routes
Major General Nakibus Lakara, the man commanding all the 4,000 Amisom troops in Somalia, says it is difficult to completely wipe out the insurgents.
In a bid to open up the regions under AU troops, Amisom is undertaking road engineering to create supply routes where there are none, expand roads and create diversions where Al Shabaab has been placing their explosive devices.
The road to the future for Somalia looks misty and bumpy but the UN, Amisom and indeed the whole world is optimistic that as early as next year, the war torn country will ultimately know peace.

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001336537/the-gun-and-scalpel-tour-of-kdf-camp-in-somalia

jln115:
Cheetahs were upgraded Mirage 111s.... Don't know about any SAAF jet which was made from different parts of other aircraft.

There was a particular SAAF fighter jet which was made from cannibalized parts of another aircraft.
this particular aircraft was finally donated to a university if memeory serves me right..

the aircraft was named "half of something (cant really remember)

lionel4power:


There was a particular SAAF fighter jet which was made from cannibalized parts of another aircraft.
this particular aircraft was finally donated to a university if memeory serves me right..

the aircraft was named "half of something (cant really remember)

RKA2

Chinese made Wing-long II UAV has been shot down in Libya.