Nice AIT report on the Drone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kAPlBQd6A0

lionel4power:


Correction

till date there haven't been any real confirmation of the M27 replacing the M16 in USMC inventory. the M27 was supposed to replace or complement the M249 light machine gun in suppressive fire role.

http://www.military.com/news/article/corps-to-replace-saw-with-automatic-rifle.html

The M27 is essentially an HK416 with accessories, the M27 is carried by only one member of each infantry fire team: the automatic rifleman.

They want to do it. Though coinciding the cost they might only get certain units to use the M27.

Sorry no pics from armed forces day yet. I took pics of static display stuff for the most part. If there is any thing some one wants a pic of say now. I will upload them when I get back home. Just wanted to add. The Army engineers assembled there 10 meter Bridge in 11 minutes.

So, as part of the exercises with our elite units, we had planned a simulated plane hijacking and hostage rescue scenario at OR Tambo Airport tonight. Due to the unattended bag (resolved through a controlled explosion) which necessitated an evacuation today, we've moved it.
If anyone lives in Midrand around the area of the Pan-African Parliament, do not be alarmed by choppers, explosions and shots from 10pm tonight.

andrewza:
Sorry no pics from armed forces day yet. I took pics of static display stuff for the most part. If there is any thing some one wants a pic of say now. I will upload them when I get back home. Just wanted to add. The Army engineers assembled there 10 meter Bridge in 11 minutes.

Looking forward to the pics of the Recce static display

ViceAdmirlAgain:


Looking forward to the pics of the Recce static display

Took pics of the Wahoo and 4 hornets. I can take pics of there guns but really they have strange list of guns even a ww2 mg34, Lee Enfield to m16.

Still want to get a interior pic of the wahoo but I have only a few minutes free each day and wahoo is all full of kids from school groups.


You want pics of there survival stuff, like a condom filled with water to be a magnifying glass to make fire and all that fun stuff

lionel4power:


Correction

till date there haven't been any real confirmation of the M27 replacing the M16 in USMC inventory. the M27 was supposed to replace or complement the M249 light machine gun in suppressive fire role.

http://www.military.com/news/article/corps-to-replace-saw-with-automatic-rifle.html

The M27 is essentially an HK416 with accessories, the M27 is carried by only one member of each infantry fire team: the automatic rifleman.

The sources I have read state that the Marines have placed their first order for 50,000 M27's. They also state that the M27 will run for most roles, but certain combat jobs will stick with the M4 due to size constraints - such as mortar teams and vehicle crews.

Yeah, I know that the M27 is an HK416, and the HK416 is basically an AR.

andrewza:


Took pics of the Wahoo and 4 hornets. I can take pics of there guns but really they have strange list of guns even a ww2 mg34, Lee Enfield to m16.

Still want to get a interior pic of the wahoo but I have only a few minutes free each day and wahoo is all full of kids from school groups.


You want pics of there survival stuff, like a condom filled with water to be a magnifying glass to make fire and all that fun stuff

Upload what you can bruh

The Chinese Task Force that's been patrolling the Gulf of Aden came on R&R to Cape Town.

Pics: courtesy of http://www.saairforce.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9599

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcyfIZgjxG0

Details of the Battle of Bangui, from Heitmans book

With no aerial reconnaissance capability and intelligence limited to what his troops could gather locally, the mission commander’s first warning of trouble to come, was a report by the Chad Army company deployed 10 km north of Damara that it had been ‘overrun’ – albeit without any casualties! There was no word from the remainder of the FOMAC force supposedly holding what its commander had termed ‘the red line’ that the rebels would not cross. A little while later, the FACA force deployed around Damara reported coming under fire. The force commander had previously deployed one of his senior officers with a small team t o move to the ‘black line’, to monitor the situation there. They found little to report other than that there was very little traffic by either FACA or FOMAC. On 22 March, they had just returned to the base to replenish, when those reports came in. Suspecting this was another of the many false alarms used by FACA in an effort to draw the South Africans forward to Damara, the force commander decided to treat this as a training opportunity. Telling his troops that this was ‘not a rehearsal’, he ordered the Special Forces group to move out to the ‘black line’, 27 km north of the base (35 km by road), as a screening force, accompanying it with his tactical headquarters – a single Land Cruiser accompanied by one of the force’s Casspir ambulances. The parachute company was ordered to deploy one of its platoons in the four ex-FACA Land Cruisers to the ‘green line’ as a delaying force, and to prepare to move the main force to the ‘blue line’ into defensive positions.

General area: black line, green line and blue line. SOURCE: Google Maps By 15:00 all was quiet at the ‘black line’ and no information was forthcoming from FACA or FOMAC in Bangui. He now ordered the Special Forces to reconnoitre towards Damara to establish contact with the FACA commander there and to establish the actual position. The patrol passed a FACA checkpoint 15 km from Damara, where they were told that all was quiet. About 5 km further on, it encountered some soldiers whom they believed to be FACA (FACA wore various uniforms, making it difficult to identify them positively), who declined a lift but also said that all was quiet. Just a little further on, the patrol suddenly found itself in the middle of a 300 m long L-ambush by an estimated 200 enemy, with the horizontal stroke of the L behind them, drawing fire from the bush just 10 m from the road and suffering two wounded in the first seconds of the contact, and one soldier suffering the indignity of falling off a vehicle as it swung around to carry out their counter-ambush drills. Lying on the ground with a dislocated shoulder, he saw several of the ambushers among the trees next to the road, shooting two of them before getting back onto the vehicle. The troops meanwhile had to unhitch the trailers of their vehicles under close fire before they could turn around completely on the narrow road, with the enemy so close that they could throw hand grenades to drive them off. After a 15 minute oint had warned the ambush force of his approach. He also reported that most of the ambushers seemed to have been well equipped and heavily armed. The patrol meanwhile returned to the base to bring the wounded to the medical aid post and replenish ammunition. The wounded were later evacuated by a contracted medical evacuation aircraft, and were admitted to 1 Military Hospital by 01:00 on Saturday morning.

Having ordered the Special Forces group back to the base to replenish ammunition, the force commander moved back to the ‘green line’, joining the paratroop platoon delaying force there, and ordered the main body of the parachute company to take up positions at the ‘blue line’. This they did, using the four available Land Cruisers and their Geckos to move up their heavy weapons and ammunition. The night was, in the words of the force commander, ‘too quiet’, with no vehicle movement at all along the road. With nothing to report by 08:00 the next morning, the commander drove to the French Embassy, to reassure himself that the French would secure the airport and allow him to take any casualties there. That assurance was provided, but the French commander reiterated his warning that he would not be able to provide any casualty evacuation transport. On the way, the commander had dropped off the platoon from the ‘green line’ and its ambulance at the ‘blue line’, where the full company was now deployed on high ground to either side of the road, with two 12.7 mm machineguns. One platoon covered the road from high ground that allowed them to shoot down its length, and the other two on the high ground to the west with the road in front of and below them.

So it has come to pass. The Defence budget has been cut in real terms, yet again.

All the documents here:
[url]http://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/2018/[/url]
[url]http://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/2018/ene/Vote%2019%20Defence%20and%20Military%20Veterans.pdf[/url]

Frumentum:
So it has come to pass. The Defence budget has been cut in real terms, yet again.

All the documents here:
[url]http://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/2018/[/url]
[url]http://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/2018/ene/Vote%2019%20Defence%20and%20Military%20Veterans.pdf[/url]

As a rough estimate, what proportion of DoD costs can be offset by a stronger Rand vs Dollar?

Frumentum:
So it has come to pass. The Defence budget has been cut in real terms, yet again.

All the documents here:
[url]http://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/2018/[/url]
[url]http://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/national%20budget/2018/ene/Vote%2019%20Defence%20and%20Military%20Veterans.pdf[/url]

SIGHHHHH! I feel for you-does this mean your armour will continue to consist of Oliphants and the excellent Rooikat 105? Is there at least serious talk of any acquisitions? Your land area is too large for a single squadron of anti armour assets-imo,you need armour.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50783:us-french-impasse-stalls-egyptian-acquisition-of-rafale-fighter-jets&catid=35:Aerospace&Itemid=107
Interesting read how the US has placed an embargo on a third party ( France) from selling to Egypt.

saengine:


As a rough estimate, what proportion of DoD costs can be offset by a stronger Rand vs Dollar?

Don't have the figures off-hand, but the major benefit of a stronger ZAR is cheaper jet fuel. Which is the only fuel we don't produce domestically.

I just think it's absurd that we're allocated R47.9 billion in a +ZAR trillion budget.
Zuma's parting shot of free university education doesn't help, but neither does our high personnel costs.

kikuyu1:


SIGHHHHH! I feel for you-does this mean your armour will continue to consist of Oliphants and the excellent Rooikat 105? Is there at least serious talk of any acquisitions? Your land area is too large for a single squadron of anti armour assets-imo,you need armour.

Armour is the least of our priorities.

1) More OPVs;
2) Some MPAs to replace the Turbo Daks;
3) Heavy air lift;
4) Medium air lift to replace our aged C-130s;
5) Restoring air2air refuelling;
6) Army Logistics trucks to replace SAMILs;
etc etc.

With the bad news from the budget, I'll take solace from these excellent pics from the Armed Forces Day 2018 Capability Demo.