nemesis2u:


no sir

i was in jaffna at the end stages of war.
the war was fought by Israeli weapons except for some small arms sourced from east European countries and few from India , sometime in the war they ran out of ammo stocks when pak**tan supplied it pronto( others couldn't due to human rights issue).

large scale usage of barrel bombs perfected in Sri Lanka, the areas i visited showed entire buildings destroyed by carpet bombing with barrel bombs especially the incendiary ones.

LTGEN:

Mr Nemesis
You may have been in JAFFA however India did not supply a Few weapons , I believe they supplied quite a lot and withdrew crucial political support to the Tamil Tigers, it is also believed Crucial Satellite Intel was supplied by one of the Big 5 @ THE UN Security Council, Lastly towards the end of the war, better Military Leadership and a ruthless SriLankan policy that very Countries could adopt without repercussions, They were never ever in danger of running out of weapons at least in the last year of the War.

Henry240:


LMFAO..... Chinese, enough with the video games. You don't really believe the parts of your comment in bold.

tsdarkside:
i hope you people understand that,we dont have to buy new weapons for the next 5years..

we just have to upgrade the ones that we already have and practice,practice,practice after that practice more with them....

upgrade the alfa-jets....dont tell me a upgraded alfa-jet with a well-trained pilot can not take out a f35.......

Henry240:
Since we are in the topic of RDRVs, a little bit OFF-TOPIC, British SAS are in Syria, photos recently emerged of SAS in Syria and they are driving Jordanian made Al-thalab vehicles.


Looking all exposed in those vehicles, I just can't see the benefit of these vehicles.


Frumentius please don't share what you're not comfortable with.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEq4TC9Wu3s

Henry240:


Nigerian requirements still remain the same. FOB defence and offensive operations. To deal with these, the Nigerian army would require a system that provides adequate firepower, light & maneuverable, with a decent range. Basically a light Infantry support weapon. I don't see how a cumbersome 40mm mounted on a Samil truck solves this conundrum.


A ZSU-23-2 mounted on a military truck remains the most decent component in a layer of defences.

Henry240:


Quality is a loose term. Expensive doesn't mean quality. No matter how you look at it, fielding cost-effective systems in large numbers is a better option for those countries who cannot afford more expensive, sanctions prone equipment.


The Sri-Lankan insurgency which ended a couple years ago is a perfect example where cost-effective wins decisively.

Henry240:


We actually aren't on same page. I'm not doing a versus argument. All i'm saying is, cost-effective doesn't mean below-par unlike your argument. Now, because of a certain quantity, Niger and Tchad could pose a significant challenge, hypothetically speaking.

Sri Lanka WON it's war deploying primarily Chinese systems. Now the country can REBUILD regardless of the methods it used.

patches689:


By definition cost effective means below par

Sri Lanka won the war by levelling half their country against a poorly equipped D numerically inferior enemy. Maybe with better equipment they would have done better

MikeCZA:


Such equipment exists.

Ground penetrating radar: Used on specialist demining vehicles such as the Casspir variant and civilian mining purposes.

Wall penetrating radar: Used mainly by SWAT like units to observe movements behind walls on hostage and other situitions.

chinese8107:


No joking. some radar can detect.

Terahertz Radar "Maps" Targets In Long-Distance Pat-Down

http://m.mwrf.com/content/terahertz-radar-maps-targets-long-distance-pat-down

Henry240:





I'm not saying they don't exist, rather those RDRVs western special forces drive around in, in Syria and Afghanistan aren't equipped with any such equipment.

SANDF projects

Given the overall lack of budget, there is little money available for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) for capital acquisition. However, there are some big and small projects currently underway, to acquire things from infantry fighting vehicles to field kitchens...

MikeCZA:


The Hornet for an example can carry the: "Chinese rocket launcher, a heavy machine gun or 20mm cannon or a grenade launcher plus a General purpose machine gun.

ISIS is digging up landmines from mine fields left behind after second world war by allied and axis forces,to make I.E.D's , SVBIED's

Even at the height of summer, when the upper crust of Cairo descends on the nearby Mediterranean coast, the world’s largest open-air armory is a bleak place. With up to 17 million land mines buried in the sands of northwest Egypt, no one can set foot beyond the carefully demarcated boundaries for fear of losing a limb—or their life. Home to what’s likely the world’s largest unexploded minefield, the area is an eerie reminder of the ferocity of World War II. It saw serious action in the early 1940s as the British sought to stymie the advance of Nazi Army General Erwin Rommel’s vaunted Afrika Korps, and the German, British and Italian armies buried millions of tons of explosives as they battled one another across North Africa. But until recently, the minefields of the Sahara posed a problem mainly for local Bedouins, who are among the few who live in the area; since 2006, they’ve suffered more than 150 casualties.

Over the past few years, however, these munitions have become part of a new and worrisome trend. As the Islamic State and other jihadi groups have grown throughout the region, sometimes roaming unchecked across long, porous borders, a few have realized the potential power of this massive cache of explosives, much of it buried here by the Nazis. Military and civilian officials in Cairo say ISIS and other groups have already MacGyvered these decades-old mines, using their components for bombs, improvised explosive devices (IED) and other instruments of death. “We’ve had at least 10 reports from the military of terrorists using old mines, says Fathy el-Shazly, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia who until recently served as Egypt’s land mine clearance czar. “Even now, these things trouble us in different ways.”

lionel4power:
off topic...

stumbled upon this on sputnik website

China has flatly stated that the Hague court has
no jurisdiction in the case. Beijing also feels
increasingly cornered by the Obama
Administration’s "Asian pivot" and the
acceptance by the South Korean regime of the
deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system
which China fears will lead to weapons
proliferation in the region.
Beijing has told its people to prepare for war,
and the state-run People’s Daily urged the
regime to undertake a violent assault
on Australia, for their position on the South
China Sea dispute. The increased combat
capabilities of the Liaoning show that if China
chooses to fight, it has the technical capability
to dominate on a battlefield.

jakeporeshenko:
Senegalese artillery, who can identify the arty system ?

Kenya Warplanes Bomb Al Shabaab Base in Somalia

Kenya fighters jets raided al-shabaab bases at Jilib town in Somalia's southern middle Juba region on Tuesday night, Jubaland military official, Mr Mohamed Abdi Dhegey told Radio Dalsan on Wednesday.

Speaking to Radio Dalsan during an interview, Jubaland military official, Mr Dhegey said warplanes bombarded the al-shabaab base and destroyed two vehicles belonging to the militant group.

"The jets raided the desert area where the militants have their base, " he added.