jln115:

We should do well in the sniper frontier and depth competitions!!

Unless each country sends 1 candidate for shooting otherwise the Chinese will wipe the slate clean.

ActivateKruger:
According to this report, Cape Town is likely one of the best places to run to if Donald Trump decides to start a nuclear WWIII with North Korea.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1981979/here-are-nine-of-the-safest-places-in-the-world-to-survive-a-third-world-war/

As for me, I'm less likely to live in the waterless Cape.

This is an opportunity to recruit guys. Give citizenship to 200k Germans, 100k Brits, 500k South Koreans. This will be the leading country after WWIII, we would literally be the super power when everything else is a nuclear wasteland. We better save a few smarties while we can.

So how do they earn it? Give it to anyone who'll pass a CSIR prepared IQ test on first come first serve basis.

NB: Chinese are strictly forbidden, too much rhino horn loving.... No Indians as well, too much Gupta drama

Nigerian navy SBS training

Is it only me who often thinks Nigerian soldiers often have longer lower body in relation to the upper half?

Fun Fact. Not a new fact, but still fun fact. South Africa is developing an active off board decoy for its frigates to protect against in-coming missiles. As with how most of these systems work, the decoy is launched off the vessel as a missile approaches and draws it away using electronic magic. Thats the plan anyway. Various institutions have been working on this for a few years now.

Egypt army Caiman MRAP vehicles for Egyptian army forces units in Central sinai

ActivateKruger:
Is it only me who often thinks Nigerian soldiers often have longer lower body in relation to the upper half?

Darn you

Henry240:
Captured SADF Olifant Tank

Border war

Wonder what became of this tank. It's not at the FAPLA/FAA museum in Luanda, unlike most of the SADF vehicles they captured.

Kubinka Museum in Russia has some Angolan "spoils of war", maybe it ended up there.

ActivateKruger:
Is it only me who often thinks Nigerian soldiers often have longer lower body in relation to the upper half?

Maybe they always put their belt above the belly

https://m.youtube.com/?reload=7&rdm=2q2r816dz#/watch?v=Fwa5HzwqPHo

A Nigerian Col. On the A29 Super Tucano

ActivateKruger:
Talk about simulators, I'm currently replaying Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising. I'm playing US Spec Ops in variety of missions from disabling SAMs, radio towers behind enemy lines to clearing flanks for mechanized (surprising the Chinese flanks on foot). Forget about Call of Duty and Battlefield rubbish, this is the approved simulator deal. 1 bullet takes you out at 400m. Bullet simulation is real, tactics are real. I feel like Frumentius for a second

Pah! Experience Battletek IV and you'll never go anywhere near stripped-down civvie sims again. And they've just developed Battletek V with VR goggles and everything. Higher was given a demo/briefing and when I prodded my boss, he replied, "NATO HQ is flying them to Brussels and that tells you all you need to know."
Suffice to say, I doubt we'll be getting Battletek V anytime soon. It's serious 1st world stuff with concomitant 1st world prices. And then the practicalities: our version of Battletek IV mirrors Chaka, so that we train as we fight and fight as we train (since replicated completely by the Malaysians and Brazilians and partially by the Angolans –for various reasons they’re only using it for their special forces). Battletek V would entail major upgrades to Chaka so as to retain the current symbiosis - upgrades currently we neither need nor can afford.
In other sim-related news, we’ve completed jointness integration across all 4 services which means JOps can now fuse all sim platforms into a coherent single military view. Ditto the operational environment through a fused C2 structure.
And then there are people who think simulation is nothing more than video game-playing!

I'm hearing reports that Botswana ordered 8 Gripens for $1.7bn

frumentius:


Pah! Experience Battletek IV and you'll never go anywhere near stripped-down civvie sims again. And they've just developed Battletek V with VR goggles and everything. Higher was given a demo/briefing and when I prodded my boss, he replied, "NATO HQ is flying them to Brussels and that tells you all you need to know."
Suffice to say, I doubt we'll be getting Battletek V anytime soon. It's serious 1st world stuff with concomitant 1st world prices. And then the practicalities: our version of Battletek IV mirrors Chaka, so that we train as we fight and fight as we train (since replicated completely by the Malaysians and Brazilians and partially by the Angolans –for various reasons they’re only using it for their special forces). Battletek V would entail major upgrades to Chaka so as to retain the current symbiosis - upgrades currently we neither need nor can afford.
In other sim-related news, we’ve completed jointness integration across all 4 services which means JOps can now fuse all sim platforms into a coherent single military view. Ditto the operational environment through a fused C2 structure.
And then there are people who think simulation is nothing more than video game-playing!

No offence Frumie I'll probably nail your guys in a simulator... But honestly, you need bigger monitors, laptops are for toddlers

Hrmnn:


Wonder what became of this tank. It's not at the FAPLA/FAA museum in Luanda, unlike most of the SADF vehicles they captured.

Kubinka Museum in Russia has some Angolan "spoils of war", maybe it ended up there.

Now that you mention it.. This tank was used as propaganda extensively. You had different Cuban soldiers posing next to it, in it and on top just to have those series of pictures published to make it look like more than one tank was "captured" when it actually abounded on a mine field.

Captured Angolan T-55, one of hundreds of captured high profile gear.

SAN

ssaengine:
SAN

Everytime I see the Algerian navy Mekos I become like a jealous kid who was spoiled for years only to have a sibling later to share the candy with... Once upon a time, that was the an exclusive SAN signature frigate. The naval world new who these frigates belonged to without any caption on it.


The Algerian navy Mekos A200AN

Can someone call the South African Consulate in Thailand, Patches is missing

Nigerian navy SBS

Off Topic:
Like play like play, these people are getting serious with their rhetoric
Guam is preparing her citizens for a possible nuclear war with North Korea. It's circulating DOs and DON'Ts in case of a fallout on its social media pages.

Japan is also considering deployment of its PAC-3 (patriot) ADS. Seems Russia is also toying with that idea as well especially in the far east of the country.
India has halt the movement of commercial trains in its entire NE as well so as to give way for military train convoys.
I hope it's just war of word. "Fire and Fury", "Envelope of Fire", "Locked and Loaded".

Denel...

Can't beat SA for surviving a full Thermo nuclear war. Fall-out will be concentrated in the northern hemisphere carried by the jetstream.

ActivateKruger:
According to this report, Cape Town is likely one of the best places to run to if Donald Trump decides to start a nuclear WWIII with North Korea.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1981979/here-are-nine-of-the-safest-places-in-the-world-to-survive-a-third-world-war/

As for me, I'm less likely to live in the waterless Cape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSpfh3T6AI

As I've gathered SAn divers bagged a bronze medal during the depth competition at the international army games!!

@frumentius can you confirm?

Fynline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSpfh3T6AI

When smart people talking about The Nigerian Military ... Im more and more confident the A-29 are coming

Super Lynx Mk-130 [Rescue] demonstration Algerian Navy


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkrrKhX1MH8

I've been reading this tread for a while now and it's very resourceful. I'd like to ask if there's any acquisition in place for Nigeria. I saw this picture on a blog how true is this and will it get approved?

Research the CSIR is doing to better protect SANDF soldiers to blasts and IED's.

I'll leave this here

slimthugchimee:
Just a little something I did for the NAF
Will draw more thou

ID the little bird?

The Mi-35M. Nice one. I did something similar ('was bored)

ssaengine:
Research the CSIR is doing to better protect SANDF soldiers to blasts and IED's.

If the SANDF had a bigger budget, one wonders all the things the CSIR would be researching.

Anyways, who still remembers the "stealth tracking" CSIR passive radar?