DRC

Yes i did, because i knew why he made the comment, and it has nothing to do with ya, unless you are a Nigerian, he was being negative, and i reminded him of the idiocy of such, simply because it concerns my country, so yes i did, no one is denying that, and i was done with that since yesterday.
And what you claimed doesn't fly, i wouldn't , but look at the poster next to it, you see what it will look like after it's done, which is quite better than the mock up we saw.
so unless his country can do better, he shouldn't have made snide remark, he knows what he was doing, so did i

jln115:
I never made anything an SA vs Nigerian thing!!! One bro simply states that his country will not by a ship(BTW his original comment did not trash that ship) and all of a sudden people(Funny enough it was YOU) start posting pictures of jetpacks and vehicles built by a priest to bash the bloke........All I tried to state was not to through stones if you live in a glass house!

Sizzorkay:
Yes i did, because i knew why he made the comment, and it has nothing to do with ya, unless you are a Nigerian, he was being negative, and i reminded him of the idiocy of such, simply because it concerns my country, so yes i did, no one is denying that, and i was done with that since yesterday.
And what you claimed doesn't fly, i wouldn't , but look at the poster next to it, you see what it will look like after it's done, which is quite better than the mock up we saw.
so unless his country can do better, he shouldn't have made snide remark, he knows what he was doing, so did i

good to see you actually admitting to making this issue a Nigeria vs Ghana thing!!!


BTW You could've sticked with your original response to him, which was 100% appropriate and dealt with the issue, yet instead you took it further and tried to humilate the bloke by posting pictures of vehicles and such which was built by a priest

The helicopter in question was actually built by a kid, not an actual defence company.... It was a hobby project hence it looked so ridiculous in the first place.

Unless you hit your head, i never denied going after the guy, he made a snide comment, that was how i interpreted it.
Move along.
I don't care about some helicopter and whether or not it flies.
Any idiot knows every first design of anything would look bad/ ugly, him trying to put down the vessel as something not good enough for Ghana was what i find laughable, in other words, he can show us their own made in Ghana Destroyer,( and I'm not suggesting the ship in question is a destroyer) they ain't got one, that's the point, don't look down on something when you currently couldn't achieve same.
We are done on this, point is, some people are already making this about SA and Nigeria, we don't need another melt down
I took the whole episode with the dude as a joke ( with some reality check), life's too short to be getting mad over these things, and he shouldn't feel humiliated either, what is he, 5 years old?
End it here and everyone should move on

jln115:
good to see you actually admitting to making this issue a Nigeria vs Ghana thing!!!


BTW You could've sticked with your original response to him, which was 100% appropriate and dealt with the issue, yet instead you took it further and tried to humilate the bloke by posting pictures of vehicles and such which was built by a priest

The helicopter in question was actually built by a kid, not an actual defence company.... It was a hobby project hence it looked so ridiculous in the first place.

Sizzorkay:
Unless you hit your head, i never denied going after the guy, he made a snide comment, that was how i interpreted it.
Move along.
I don't care about some helicopter and whether or not it flies.
Any idiot knows every first design of anything would look bad/ ugly, him trying to put down the vessel as something not good enough for Ghana was what i find laughable, in other words, he can show us their own made in Ghana Destroyer,( and I'm not suggesting the ship in question is a destroyer) they ain't got one, that's the point, don't look down on something when you currently couldn't achieve same.
We[b] are done on this, point is, some people are already making this about SA and Nigeria, we don't need another melt down[/b]
I took the whole episode with the dude as a joke ( with some reality check), life's too short to be getting mad over these things, and he shouldn't feel humiliated either, what is he, 5 years old?
End it here and everyone should move on

OK so it's fine if you make it a Nigeria vs"insertcountry" thing and meltdown this thread BUT other people should just move own because you say so please bro.... Get of your pedestal!!!

BTW please point out where I ever made this a Nigeria vs South African thing??It was in fact your own countrymen that mentioned SA not me!!!

jln115:
OK so it's fine if you make it a Nigeria vs"insertcountry" thing and meltdown this thread BUT other people should just move own because you say so please bro.... Get of your pedestal!!!

BTW please point out where I ever made this a Nigeria vs South African thing??It was in fact your own countrymen that mentioned SA not me!!!

Don't be ridiculous, the whole incident was a joke, nobody took it seriously (except you apparently), even the wizzzmike character has long since fled into the wilderness.

Nobody mentioned SA (you are welcome to point where your country was directly mentioned), we merely corrected some misguided notions being bandied around, using traditional methods. Surely, even you are literate enough to have noticed.

So like earlier proposed, why don't we just forget all the whole episode and move on?.

EVarn:
Don't be ridiculous, the whole incident was a joke, nobody took it seriously (except you apparently), even the wizzzmike character has long since fled into the wilderness.

Nobody mentioned SA (you are welcome to point where your country was directly mentioned), we merely corrected some misguided notions being bandied around, using traditional methods. Surely, even you are literate enough to have noticed.

So like earlier proposed, why don't we just forget all the whole episode and move on?.

And I was going along with the joke It's you guys that got emotional when the joke was on you.....which btw I don't know why you guys took it so personal since your so called prototype was built by a child(thus actually really impressive!)

BTW:

EVarn:


Come on man, we don't want to go down that lane. Some of us have long memories indeed, long enough to remember the SANDF 's fascinating maneovers against seleka thugs,and such other... incidents

Think someone mentioned the marching video as well

P.S I actually moved on!!! was posting pics of the SANDFs DRC deployments then all of a sudden I get mentioned by You and Sizzorkay!

I did'nt know Zambia and Ghana had contributed police contingents in Somalia

A nice update of the preparation of AMISOM gradual withdrawal from Somalia in 2021.. Currently there are 10,000 police officers already trained against a target of 32,000. There are also road networks that need to be created for Somali security official to effectively dominate and secure its regions.
The first 1:30 of the video is intro stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVc4YxvACew

IDK all Zim AF losses but here's one that should be made into a movie! As their armed forces rescued Congolese from a holocaust by wicked Tutsis they took some serious casualties losing at least 4 aircraft including 1 Hawk,2 Alouettes and some say a 2nd Hawk in 2000 but I can't confirm.

23 March 1999, AFZ suffered the first and only Hawk loss of the war. One of two Mistrals launched hit the plane piloted by Flt Lt Michael Enslin, who had to eject behind enemy lines. Although injured, he managed to avoid capture and joined the encircled battalion – which broke trough and reached friendly lines after three weeks of fighting with the Rwandans.

http://www.saairforce.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3643

Nigerian Army SOF.

NA soldier on base security.

The last day on the bush/rural warfare course

How a (South African) lawyer and his friend started an aviation company and went on to build a 4-seater aircraft in a world record of 4 days.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oypteE-etXg

Off Topic...

The only aircraft to fly without vertical stabilizer for 5 hours!

In 1964, a B-52 lost almost 80 percent of the vertical stabilizer due to extreme turbulence.

The pilots received technical assistance from Boeing and managed to land the airplane.

They extended air brakes to provide longitudinal stability, lowered main landing gear to provide lateral stability and pumped fuel from one tank to another to shift the center of gravity forward.

Pilots managed to fly the airplane with this configuration for almost 5 hours from Colorado to Arkansas Air Force Base.

Nigeria should start taking illegal fishing seriously like Gabon by arresting these illegal fishers. If this was done we would reduce fish imports and save the precious forex without a bunch bans and restrictions.







An eco ranger holds up a monkey carcass found in abandoned nets. Like others, he also had to confront his family about illegal fishing. After warning his father on several occasions to avoid fishing in a restricted zone, he had to confiscate the family’s pirogue and motor.




A Gabonese eco-ranger uses binoculars during a patrol for illegal fishing vessels.

South African Hell March!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhTxZ6d5C8 [/url]

South African Special Forces taken close to the Angolan border in the 80's. Towards the end of their SF training cycle they would do a week bush patrol in enemy territory as part of minor tactics. This is very close to the soldier becoming a certified operator.

South African gunner at his post during a deployment to Burundi in 2003.

I beg who push the man lol, hahaha, that was insane, oh man.

AskiaHarem:
South African Hell March!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhTxZ6d5C8 [/url]

Nigerian Army random

AskiaHarem:
South African Hell March!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhTxZ6d5C8 [/url]

Local soldier is under the influence of the holy ghost
I no fit laugh abeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0LFeMYJpNs

Operation Albacore IV, a joint operation between Sea Shepherd and the Gabonese government to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Central West Africa, the crew of the Sea Shepherd ship, Bob Barker, assisted authorities from the Republic of Gabon with the arrest of an illegal fishing trawler caught inside the Grand Sud du Gabon Aquatic Reserve.

gripenc:
4 SF Regiment South Africa

weak South African soldiers, they got humiliated in Central African Republic by bunch of rebels, they fled without even fighting.

mysticwarrior:
weak South African soldiers, they got humiliated in Central African Republic by bunch of rebels, they fled without even fighting.

You mean where 200 SANDF soldiers defeated 4000 Seleke rebels??

mysticwarrior:
weak South African soldiers, they got humiliated in Central African Republic by bunch of rebels, they fled without even fighting.

This is the most detailed description of that battle with names, times and locations. Absolutely nothing humiliating about it. Stop drinking too much palm wine.


'It was controlled utter f****** chaos'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timeslive.co.za/amp/sunday-times/lifestyle/2014-11-09-it-was-controlled-utter-f-chaos/


Soldiers who survived the Battle of Bangui for the first time give a full account of their ordeal. The first sign of trouble was when the special forces Land Cruisers arrived at the base riddled with bullets. Some men were limping and bleeding. The rebel advance had begun.

The base was on the outskirts of the steaming capital Bangui, near a Y-junction where the two main roads into the city meet. One headed northwest to Bouar, the main route to neighbouring Cameroon, the other due north to Damara, 70km away. The junction would soon become a site of carnage, where 13 South African soldiers were to die in three days of fierce fighting against impossible odds. Two more would die later of wounds.

Hours earlier, at 3pm on March 22 2013, a special forces convoy of four Land Cruisers and two Hornets (rapid deployment vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns) pulling rocket launchers were attacked on the Damara road by 200 Seleka rebels. Three men were wounded in the 15-minute fight.

The men of Charlie Company from 1 Parachute Battalion in Bloemfontein had been settling down for a quiet night, but instead, the 150 paratroopers had to spring into action. They loaded mortars, machine guns and ammunition on to trucks. It was dark by the time they left the base and deployed on two hills 4.5km away, off the Damara road. "The streets of Bangui were quiet," recalls Rifleman Given Mulaudzi. "That's always a bad sign."

The next morning, force commander Colonel William Dixon had just left the French embassy on the banks of the Ubangui River when word came that his paratroopers on the hills were under attack. Dixon raced to the front in his Land Cruiser, which doubled as his tactical headquarters, consisting of a driver, a signaller, two pathfinders and his second-in-command, Major Michel Silva. "As we drove through town we saw civilians running everywhere," says Silva.

Waves of "technicals" - pick-up trucks carrying Seleka rebels and with Russian anti-aircraft machine guns bolted on the back - raced down the Damara road, straight into Charlie Company's arc of fire. Far from the small, ragtag force they had expected, the South Africans faced thousands of rebels armed with machine guns, AK47s, mortars, grenade launchers and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). Seleka Colonel Ali Abubaker's technical was one of the first hit. "I lost seven of my men and three wounded," he recalls.

In a pattern that would be repeated in the coming hours, he fell back into the bush to attack again. Soon rebels were fanning into the bush to attack two South African platoons positioned on the left hill. Combat medic Staff Sergeant Serole Mampa returned rebel fire while a wounded soldier was rescued. "They had to carry him on a stretcher behind our vehicle until we reached an ambulance while I kept firing back," he says.

When Dixon and Silva arrived at 10am, the platoons on the left hill had withdrawn under heavy fire. Now the priority was to retake the hill. By then the special forces group had joined the action. "It was a moerse firefight," says Silva. The South Africans unleashed a barrage of machine gun fire, mortars and rockets at the hill, catching some civilians in the crossfire. "Within 30 minutes we gained the initiative," says Silva.

By 2pm the rebels were being driven back. The South Africans thought the fight was over. The worst was yet to come. During the lull, civilians were streaming past the soldiers towards Bangui, some carrying the severed genitals, ears and hands of slain Seleka rebels. "They were cheering us and holding up those things and saying: 'Thank you, South Africa, see what you have done!'" recalls Mulaudzi.

Mampa confirms the story: "Some carried testicles and some had hands as souvenirs. They said: 'Good, you have won! But tonight we will beat you at soccer.'" They were referring to a World Cup qualifier between the Central African Republic (CAR) and Bafana Bafana played in Cape Town that night. Ten minutes after the special forces group and Dixon's tactical headquarters reached the base in Bangui to rearm, the observation post on the Bouar road reported that 30 technicals were bearing down on the city from the northwest.

The special forces group raced past the Y-junction to form a skirmish line 10km from the base with four Land Cruisers and two Hornets armed to the teeth, along with Dixon's tactical HQ. An estimated 4500 rebels descended on the 35 South Africans , who held the line for two or three hours .

"It dawned on us that the Damara road attack was just a diversion," says Silva. A platoon of CAR soldiers on the road fired a few shots at the rebels, then fled. "While they were running, they changed sides and some of them started firing on us," says Silva. "We were being shot at from all sides." Four Hornets armed with 20mm cannon arrived from nowhere . They had just been flown in from South Africa and drove straight to the front from the airport - but only after an hour had been wasted offloading canteen stock from the plane, including crates of beers .

"The rebels just kept coming, in wave after wave," says Dixon. "It was controlled utter f****** chaos." Mohamed Tahir, a Seleka commander, says he lost "more than half" of his 500 men. "It was a very hard fight. The South Africans had very good materials and were good fighters," he says. With the sun setting, Dixon ordered his men to fall back. They limped to base on the rims of their Hornets and Land Cruisers, whose tyres had been shot to shreds. Nine of the men were wounded, including the special forces commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Solomon Lechoenyo, who briefed Dixon holding a drip in one hand, while medics attended to the bullet wounds in his legs.

Incredibly, not a single South African soldier had been killed yet, although both roads were littered with Seleka dead. By now it was getting dark, and Charlie Company on the Damara road would soon be cut off. Silva was sent with every available vehicle to evacuate them. When he arrived, Charlie Company was under attack again and had given up the left hill. Returning heavy fire, the men piled into a convoy of four Geckos and four Land Cruisers.

The convoy set off in the dark. Even though Dixon had requested armoured personnel carriers two months earlier, he had to evacuate his men in unprotected vehicles. It would cost them dearly. Mampa and Mulaudzi were in one of the lead Geckos. Mampa recalls seeing four men in Muslim robes sitting at the Y-junction. "They looked sad, as if they knew something bad was about to happen," he says. Next he saw a bloodied Muslim robe laid over a checkpoint rope lowered to the ground. Then sparks started flying as AK47 bullets struck the road ahead. Suddenly bullets, rockets and grenades rained down on them.

The survivors leapt off the vehicles, found cover and returned fire. Mampa heard frantic calls of "Medic! Medic!" He found himself dressing neck wounds on the run while rockets fell around him. But he had to prioritise, attending only to those he could save. "Some said: 'Go, go, I'm going to die fighting them,'" he recalls.

Some Land Cruisers exploded with drivers still in them. A CAR pick-up loaded with RPGs went up in a ball of flame. In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat one soldier beat a rebel over the head with the butt of his rifle and another buried his bush knife in a rebel's chest. Rebels interviewed described the encounter. "It was a big battle, very hot. There were many killed and wounded on both sides," says Captain Amin Ndojokama.

Silva says: "The force broke out of encirclement and fought their way back to the base in different groupings." Some of the troops lay low for a while before they made their way stealthily back to base at about midnight. By then Dixon's combat force of 200 soldiers had fired off 10 tons of ammunition and killed 1200 rebels. Headquarters ordered him to keep fighting, but he was virtually out of ammunition.

"I told them: 'Either we start negotiations or we will be wiped out to the last man.'" At 9pm a Seleka commander called to ask for a ceasefire. By then 25 of his men were unaccounted for. Dixon agreed. Not to would have been suicide.

Can't you guys stop this stupidity? I wonder why some people don't have the wisdom to ignore trolls.

In DRC.

mysticwarrior:
weak South African soldiers, they got humiliated in Central African Republic by bunch of rebels, they fled without even fighting.

Actually they killed 700 rebels for only 15 total losses. Shows you 5000 soldiers are worth absolutely nothing against 236 South Africans. Worst military performance in modern military history. CAR should stick to attacking woman and children. Best of all the 5000 rebels called a ceasefire to the 221 South Africans still fighting, hahaha.

mysticwarrior:
weak South African soldiers, they got humiliated in Central African Republic by bunch of rebels, they fled without even fighting.

Reminds me of the Battle of Kibati in 2013 in the DRC when South Africa on their first major deployment killed the M23 rebellion in one fight, 500 rebel death for ZERO South Africans. How can you not even accidentally kill an enemy soldier. Probably spraying ammunition without aiming.

Reminds of the other incident this year when the quick reaction force of the SANDF was ambushed in the DRC, and then took the Congolese base back, even though the rebels held the trenches. 23 Rebels dead, and again, no SA losses. Damn, I think more South Africans die from animal attacks than armed rebels. That's seriously pathetic.

blacKDalia:
Can't you guys stop this stupidity? I wonder why some people don't have the wisdom to ignore trolls.

Seconded

NAF pilot undergoing Super Tucano flight training at Laughling Airforce Base, Texas.

saengine:


This is the most detailed description of that battle with names, times and locations. Absolutely nothing humiliating about it. Stop drinking too much palm wine.


'It was controlled utter f****** chaos'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timeslive.co.za/amp/sunday-times/lifestyle/2014-11-09-it-was-controlled-utter-f-chaos/


Soldiers who survived the Battle of Bangui for the first time give a full account of their ordeal. The first sign of trouble was when the special forces Land Cruisers arrived at the base riddled with bullets. Some men were limping and bleeding. The rebel advance had begun.

The base was on the outskirts of the steaming capital Bangui, near a Y-junction where the two main roads into the city meet. One headed northwest to Bouar, the main route to neighbouring Cameroon, the other due north to Damara, 70km away. The junction would soon become a site of carnage, where 13 South African soldiers were to die in three days of fierce fighting against impossible odds. Two more would die later of wounds.

Hours earlier, at 3pm on March 22 2013, a special forces convoy of four Land Cruisers and two Hornets (rapid deployment vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns) pulling rocket launchers were attacked on the Damara road by 200 Seleka rebels. Three men were wounded in the 15-minute fight.

The men of Charlie Company from 1 Parachute Battalion in Bloemfontein had been settling down for a quiet night, but instead, the 150 paratroopers had to spring into action. They loaded mortars, machine guns and ammunition on to trucks. It was dark by the time they left the base and deployed on two hills 4.5km away, off the Damara road. "The streets of Bangui were quiet," recalls Rifleman Given Mulaudzi. "That's always a bad sign."

The next morning, force commander Colonel William Dixon had just left the French embassy on the banks of the Ubangui River when word came that his paratroopers on the hills were under attack. Dixon raced to the front in his Land Cruiser, which doubled as his tactical headquarters, consisting of a driver, a signaller, two pathfinders and his second-in-command, Major Michel Silva. "As we drove through town we saw civilians running everywhere," says Silva.

Waves of "technicals" - pick-up trucks carrying Seleka rebels and with Russian anti-aircraft machine guns bolted on the back - raced down the Damara road, straight into Charlie Company's arc of fire. Far from the small, ragtag force they had expected, the South Africans faced thousands of rebels armed with machine guns, AK47s, mortars, grenade launchers and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). Seleka Colonel Ali Abubaker's technical was one of the first hit. "I lost seven of my men and three wounded," he recalls.

In a pattern that would be repeated in the coming hours, he fell back into the bush to attack again. Soon rebels were fanning into the bush to attack two South African platoons positioned on the left hill. Combat medic Staff Sergeant Serole Mampa returned rebel fire while a wounded soldier was rescued. "They had to carry him on a stretcher behind our vehicle until we reached an ambulance while I kept firing back," he says.

When Dixon and Silva arrived at 10am, the platoons on the left hill had withdrawn under heavy fire. Now the priority was to retake the hill. By then the special forces group had joined the action. "It was a moerse firefight," says Silva. The South Africans unleashed a barrage of machine gun fire, mortars and rockets at the hill, catching some civilians in the crossfire. "Within 30 minutes we gained the initiative," says Silva.

By 2pm the rebels were being driven back. The South Africans thought the fight was over. The worst was yet to come. During the lull, civilians were streaming past the soldiers towards Bangui, some carrying the severed genitals, ears and hands of slain Seleka rebels. "They were cheering us and holding up those things and saying: 'Thank you, South Africa, see what you have done!'" recalls Mulaudzi.

Mampa confirms the story: "Some carried testicles and some had hands as souvenirs. They said: 'Good, you have won! But tonight we will beat you at soccer.'" They were referring to a World Cup qualifier between the Central African Republic (CAR) and Bafana Bafana played in Cape Town that night. Ten minutes after the special forces group and Dixon's tactical headquarters reached the base in Bangui to rearm, the observation post on the Bouar road reported that 30 technicals were bearing down on the city from the northwest.

The special forces group raced past the Y-junction to form a skirmish line 10km from the base with four Land Cruisers and two Hornets armed to the teeth, along with Dixon's tactical HQ. An estimated 4500 rebels descended on the 35 South Africans , who held the line for two or three hours .

"It dawned on us that the Damara road attack was just a diversion," says Silva. A platoon of CAR soldiers on the road fired a few shots at the rebels, then fled. "While they were running, they changed sides and some of them started firing on us," says Silva. "We were being shot at from all sides." Four Hornets armed with 20mm cannon arrived from nowhere . They had just been flown in from South Africa and drove straight to the front from the airport - but only after an hour had been wasted offloading canteen stock from the plane, including crates of beers .

"The rebels just kept coming, in wave after wave," says Dixon. "It was controlled utter f****** chaos." Mohamed Tahir, a Seleka commander, says he lost "more than half" of his 500 men. "It was a very hard fight. The South Africans had very good materials and were good fighters," he says. With the sun setting, Dixon ordered his men to fall back. They limped to base on the rims of their Hornets and Land Cruisers, whose tyres had been shot to shreds. Nine of the men were wounded, including the special forces commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Solomon Lechoenyo, who briefed Dixon holding a drip in one hand, while medics attended to the bullet wounds in his legs.

Incredibly, not a single South African soldier had been killed yet, although both roads were littered with Seleka dead. By now it was getting dark, and Charlie Company on the Damara road would soon be cut off. Silva was sent with every available vehicle to evacuate them. When he arrived, Charlie Company was under attack again and had given up the left hill. Returning heavy fire, the men piled into a convoy of four Geckos and four Land Cruisers.

The convoy set off in the dark. Even though Dixon had requested armoured personnel carriers two months earlier, he had to evacuate his men in unprotected vehicles. It would cost them dearly. Mampa and Mulaudzi were in one of the lead Geckos. Mampa recalls seeing four men in Muslim robes sitting at the Y-junction. "They looked sad, as if they knew something bad was about to happen," he says. Next he saw a bloodied Muslim robe laid over a checkpoint rope lowered to the ground. Then sparks started flying as AK47 bullets struck the road ahead. Suddenly bullets, rockets and grenades rained down on them.

The survivors leapt off the vehicles, found cover and returned fire. Mampa heard frantic calls of "Medic! Medic!" He found himself dressing neck wounds on the run while rockets fell around him. But he had to prioritise, attending only to those he could save. "Some said: 'Go, go, I'm going to die fighting them,'" he recalls.

Some Land Cruisers exploded with drivers still in them. A CAR pick-up loaded with RPGs went up in a ball of flame. In the ensuing hand-to-hand combat one soldier beat a rebel over the head with the butt of his rifle and another buried his bush knife in a rebel's chest. Rebels interviewed described the encounter. "It was a big battle, very hot. There were many killed and wounded on both sides," says Captain Amin Ndojokama.

Silva says: "The force broke out of encirclement and fought their way back to the base in different groupings." Some of the troops lay low for a while before they made their way stealthily back to base at about midnight. By then Dixon's combat force of 200 soldiers had fired off 10 tons of ammunition and killed 1200 rebels. Headquarters ordered him to keep fighting, but he was virtually out of ammunition.

"I told them: 'Either we start negotiations or we will be wiped out to the last man.'" At 9pm a Seleka commander called to ask for a ceasefire. By then 25 of his men were unaccounted for. Dixon agreed. Not to would have been suicide.

You can blame Jean-Fraude for that sorry episode;he was warning you off his private estate-Vlad is now onsite and he won't dare! MRAPs would've helped,yes but frankly you'd still have taken casualties-look at the ammo/ordnance expenditure!