Henry240:


Not required, Dean Wingrin, Doug, Darren Oliver, Mistral, Airfire photography all got the SANDF covered. Even Frumentius of Nairaland........ Speaking of Frumentius, I wonder where that "skinny" white boy went?





#NO Racist

Henry240:


Not required, Dean Wingrin, Doug, Darren Oliver, Mistral, Airfire photography all got the SANDF covered. Even Frumentius of Nairaland........ Speaking of Frumentius, I wonder where that "skinny" white boy went?





#NO Racist

Patchesagain:


So the military should not bother doing its own promotional stuff and just hope the private sector will?

Come now

MikeCZA:
Not necessarily.

The SANDF seriously needs better PR.

MikeCZA:
Not necessarily.

The SANDF seriously needs better PR.

Henry240:


The SANDF requires better PR in other areas, not in taking photos or shooting videos.

Henry240:


Generally across the Continent of Africa, including North-Africa, not just SSA, military photography is so poor and below hopeless. Poorly taken photographs across the place, only the private sector in SA is exempted, they at-least get a front row seat.


In Nigeria, the situation is near hopeless. In extreme instances the military PR themselves depend on amateur( most likely mobile phone taken images) photos of servicemen.


I find it funny.............. if you guys in South-Africa are complaining about bad P.R, what would Africans from Kenya be doing?

iblawi:
Why is Uganda not using the SU30 in Somalia?

Henry240:
Nigerian Army Aviation

africaken254:
i posted those uganda air force photos on another forum and i was pissed to read some of the comments including someone who said a poor country buying a sophisticated jets .like african countries shouldn't even buy a bullet.we really need to change this demeaning attitude people have about africa.i am please that our ministry of defence has started tweeting again after its account being dormant for about 2 years

lionel4power:
oga Henry what platform did the army aviation guys finally settle for? any info? or are they sharing the airforce own air fleet

Henry240:


The usual hubris, gibberish. Nothing new.


You can only change how people view your military when you make at the very least, a good percentage of the land systems your army fields.

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Henry240:


It wasn't exactly a happy outing for the SA navy, when that navy commander blundered on live T.V.


Proper P.R should be left in the hands of the private sector, the military might have a different view of what good military photography is from what the private sector sees as proper photography.


Take for example, the Private sector knows there are 20 different angles to take a cool photograph, while the military would take same object once and live.


If we had those guys here in Nigeria, I'll always say fvck the military. SANDF photos taken by the SANDF are usually poorly taken.

africaken254:
kenya soldiers and navy personnel maintain security in somalia, kismayu beach

overhypedsteve:
Nominating pics one in advance for photo of the year. Kenyan officer standing guard over fun seeking Somalians that's epic.

MikeCZA:
SANDF exercises are still on the way!!!

overhypedsteve:
yea. We look forward to them. Your Military photographers if deployed to cover the Nigerian exploit in the North East would have immortalised our Men. Despite the amateur photos we are getting from the battle front we still see pictures of scenes of victory that have soldiers leaving the battle with a cloud of smoke and flames behind them. Those are the stuff of legend men and I wish we had better battlefield reporters to immortalise this young heroes.