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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by chris365(m): 12:23pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
Henry120: actually it started to grow after their men were killed like chicken in CAR. production had to stop cos they could't grow some balls to engage seleka in full scale war. 1 Like |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by agaugust: 12:36pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
patriot4: there is a guidance mechanism for nigerian missile tests at epe, maybe not yet precision guidance level, but the basic level is there because it is a city urban area test. there is always a guidance level for control purposes other wise the missile can come down on civilian areas or on fishing vessels in the sea. it is guided to a marked out/mapped out detonation/landing zone. nobody does that kind of test with no control over the huge missile, at least basic remote contol guidance, not necessarily precision guided level. nigerian Proforce company has a nigerian made APC/IFV with anti-tank missile version already announced...gives me suspicion nigeria is warming up development of a DICON up coming anti-tank missile for the proforce IFV, the vehicle is being heavily marketed to nigerian army. we already saw photos of nigerian made aircraft fire to ground attack multi-rocket pods shown at nigerian army day or air force/DICON show recently. the Proforce vehicle is called missile weapon carrier on the list of variants.... VARIANTS - Police–Pf1 - Armoured Personnel Carrier-Pf1 - Combat Surveillance–Pf1 - Missile Weapon Carrier-Pf1 - Command & Control Vehicle-Pf1 - Ambulance-Pf1 http://www.proforcedefence.com/index.php/armoured-products/armoured-personnel-carriers/56-modal-content/113-pf1 i will tell you why the south african are f.oolishly attacking you on the nigerian missile development project, even though they know it is for real, @andrewza admitted it many pages back. 3 days ago i proved with sources weblinks from inside south africa, proving that the south african cruise missile project was dead due to lack of funds, and @THIZA had to stop posting the photos of the dead project when i proved him wrong. so they want to rubbish nigeria's current well funded and daily improving 120km long range range missile project, they are dying with envy and hatred....if they dont have something in south africa, they go craaaaazy when nigeria has it. remember the spy satellite story....it totally d.estroyed the south african's national pride on this forum. if they can use sangoma herbalist magic to pull down nigeria's 3 satellites from space orbit...they will do it today ! leave them alone bro !!!!! let their blood pressure rise . 3 Likes |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 12:38pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
chris365:lol |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by chris365(m): 12:39pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
sweetcheecks: before you continue spitting from your rabies infected mouth, read this http://www.africanspotlight.com/2013/06/07/nigerian-graduates-with-4-0gpa-out-of-4-0-at-university-of-texas/ in case you also have reading disabilities A 24-year-old Nigerian, Uwa Osamede Imafidon, just graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington(UTA) in the US with Masters in Microbiology and made a 4.0 CGPA out of the maximum 4.0 CGPA. Before her sojourn abroad, she had earlier bagged a First Class Degree in Crop Science from University of Benin, Benin city Nigeria as the Best Graduating student in her Department. our universities may not have the most beautiful building, internet recognized, but our standard of education is so good that any graduate from a Nigerian University will compete anywhere in the world and come out tops. can that be said of south africa? 2 Likes |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 12:47pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
chris365:dude, there are countless Nigerians making 4.0 CGPA.. Just point the bit#h to google |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by agaugust: 12:55pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
andrewza: circus acts don't frighten me algerian army in that video is not trying to frighten you....they want to k.ill you. . |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 12:58pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
South Africa’s fledgling satellite and space programme is expected to go forward at a faster space with Denel Dynamics now aboard as the official “carer” of embattled SunSpace. This follows a Cabinet decision that the Stellenbosch-based satellite manufacturing company be absorbed into the SA National Space Agency (SANSA). The Department of Science and Technology (DST) indicated the space agency would fall under the “care” of the State-owned defence industry conglomerate Denel, specifically its missiles and UAV division, Denel Dynamics based in Irene, Centurion. Welcoming what will be a new business unit within Denel Dynamics, Denel chief executive Riaz Salojee said Denel had been involved in South African space programmes until 1996. “Denel has a latent space capability including key staff still working for Denel on a number of current programmes as well as the Houwteq satellite test facility near Grabouw. “This opportunity will allow Denel to optimise the synergy between SunSpace’s capabilities and the latent capability in Denel for the broader national technological benefit. “This will see Denel ensuring South Africa not only retains the critical home-grown capacity developed by Sunspace but also strengthens and grows this base utilising the Denel Dynamics engineering skills development programme,” he said. Salojee stressed Denel was not buying a new business. “We will be executing contracts from SANSA in a domain the Denel Group is familiar with. These will be undertaken using people who previously worked for Sunspace and who will soon be employed by Denel. “While the DST is buying the tangible and intangible assets of the defunct SunSpace on behalf of SANSA, SANSA will in turn contract Denel to execute future contracts, using the tangible and intangible assets now owned by SANSA. “In addition, Denel will take on most of the staff, who all happen to be high-end engineers and scientists. This is an exciting development not only for Denel but for the country,” Salojee added. The execution of contracts will be a collaborative effort between Denel Dynamics as main contractor to SANSA and the CSIR, universities, various high-technology industries in South Africa and the DST. “The collaboration represents a collective ‘RSA Incorporated’ approach under the leadership of Denel to develop and broaden a competitive satellite manufacturing industry in South Africa,” the Denel number one said. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has said the core capability of Sunspace’s manufacturing unit will be used to develop and broaden a competitive satellite manufacturing industry in SA. “The capability will be developed to serve the satellite development needs of the country and the rest of Africa, as well as other regions of the world,” the department said in a statement. Its announcement follows most shareholders accepting the department’s R55 million offer to take over the unit, being placed under Denel’s care. Sunspace is involved in low-earth orbit satellite development, design, building, integration, testing and commissioning. However, it is undercapitalised and was unable to pay creditors. Without government support, Sunspace could not grow. http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31197:denel-proud-to-be-back-in-south-africas-satellite-and-space-programme&catid=7:Industry&Itemid=116 |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Donian007: 12:59pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
agaugust:ALL THESE SOUTH AFRICANS ARE WORSE THAN COWARDS! CHOI! |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:01pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
South African, African and international military training practitioners will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the latest in training technologies come September at the Training and Simulation for Homeland Security Conference. Arranged by AMD (the South African Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Industries Association), the two day event at the SA National Defence Force’s (SANDF) Centre for Conflict Simulation in Thaba Tshwane will give an insight into just how far information and communication technologies have come when it comes to cost effective and realistic training. This has been made possible by technology improvements with cutting edge military simulations providing near realism and immersion at the fraction of the cost of live exercises. AMD is confident the conference will give an insight into new training and simulation technologies as well as live training from leaders in the defence, military and high-tech sectors. “The focus will be squarely on training – the challenges, developments and changing needs – with simulation as the key enabler,” said organiser James Erlank. Top of the speakers’ list is Major General Barney Hlatswayo, SANDF Joint Operations chief director, with simulation experts from the SANDF, Armscor, Saab Grintek and the Malaysian Army War Game Centre also due to present papers. Erlank said confirmation of other high level speakers would be forthcoming and he was anticipating in the region of 100 attending the September 25 to 27 event in the country’s military capital. http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30934:simulation-training-under-the-spotlight&catid=111:sa-defence&Itemid=242 |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:04pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
The missile story Israel and South Africa have a long record of military cooperation, though neither admits to working together on nuclear weapons or long-range missiles. But strong evidence of missile cooperation surfaced in 1989, when a powerful rocket took off from South Africa's Overberg Test Range and flew nearly 1,500 kilometers. It turned out to be a South African version of Israel's Jericho-II missile. U.S. officials confirmed later that the CIA had evidence of a full-scale partnership between the Israel and South Africa to develop, test and produce long-range missiles and rockets. A U.S. official who tracks missile proliferation tells the Risk Report that South Africa's space launcher, the RSA-4, was built around the same engines that power Israel's Jericho-II missile and its "Shavit" space launcher. In 1990, Washington penalized Armscor for its missile activities by banning trade for two years, but President Bush declined to punish Israel. With the end of South Africa's nuclear program, long-range missiles made little sense: there would be nothing nuclear to put on them. Pretoria ended its missile collaboration with Israel in 1992 and then halted all ballistic missile development in mid-1993. The next step was for Pretoria to join the Missile Technology Control Regime. As the price for membership, Pretoria had to vow that it would give up its long-range missiles and cancel its space launch effort. Then the South African companies that had actually built the rockets, such as Kentron, Houwteq and Somchem, were forced to eliminate key technologies. Houwteq, the main contractor for the space launcher, had to dismantle its largest rockets and even retrieve blueprints and technical files from its many subcontractors. "Today, Houwteq is basically defunct as a company," says an official from Denel, Houwteq's parent. "There's not much there now...it's just a potential satellite production house." Most of Houwteq's engineers have been hired away by other firms such as Siemens Plessey, a company that formerly made transponders for the space launcher. Siemens Plessey was forced to return "two or three cabinets full of technical files" to Houwteq as part of the rocket destruction plan, according to a Plessey engineer. Somchem, the second most important rocket company after Houwteq, was obliged to destroy the solid propellants and rocket casings it had made for the space launcher. Its filament-winding machines are now used to make large commercial piping, and its propellant batch-mixers can only be used for smaller missiles, says a South African diplomat. U.S. inspectors can visit Somchem to verify these arrangements. U.S. inspectors also required Denel to destroy its large engine casting pits at Somerset West. One pit was partially filled in, limiting it to small engine production. A second was completely destroyed, according to a State Department official who was involved. Denel also destroyed large X-ray equipment, though two smaller machines remain for developing aircraft parts. South Africa's Hangklip test range at Rooi Els, which was equipped for large rocket tests, is reverting to a nature reserve. American inspectors have verified that its static motor test facility was destroyed. South Africa still has the large Overberg Test Range, an ideal spot for launching foreign satellites, but "its future is on hold while South Africa looks for foreign partners," says a U.S. official who has inspected the site. "With respect to the space launch vehicle (SLV) and its new MTCR membership, South Africa is as clean as a whistle," the inspector tells the Risk Report. South Africa was allowed to join the Missile Technology Control Regime in September 1995. But not everyone in Pretoria likes the outcome. A South African businessman, who asked to remain anonymous, predicted that "someday the Americans will have to explain why they screwed us over. We had to cancel a strong civil space program and a pending joint venture with Brazil...and a lot of companies lost business." |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 1:04pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
Thiza: South African, African and international military training practitioners will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the latest in training technologies come September at the Training and Simulation for Homeland Security Conference.so? |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:11pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
South African missile testing range 1 Like
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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:12pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
South Africa's missile control room
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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:18pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
South Africa’s aspirations for a top spot in the space science race is soaring as the country’s first home made nano space satellite is set to launch from Russia in the next three month. Recently the country basked in global limelight after it won the lion’s share of the co-hosted Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project, a global research hub it would share with Australia. The SKA is said to be one of the biggest scientific projects in human history. Last year, the country launched the SA Space Agency (SASA), a sign of South Africa’s commitment to pursuing space science and developing science engineering graduates. Now the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology, has designed and made the country’s first nano satellite which is to be launched into space from Russia in November. CPUT will be hosting a send-off ceremony for their satellite as it leaves by ship for Russia today. Dubbed ZACube-1, the satellite was made by postgraduate students of the French South African Institute of Technology (F`SATI) in Bellville at a cost of R30 million. The satellite is 10cm cubed and weighs 1.2 kilogrammes. Director of the F`SATI programme, Professor Robert van Zyl, said ZACUBE-1 was a “significant milestone for South Africa”. “The human capacity development, technology innovation and science borne from ZACUBE-1 far exceeds its size and will motivate and inspire future young generations to reach for the stars.” Once in space for an expected operational life span of between three and five years, ZACUBE-1 would be used for space science experiments and its activities would be monitored by the ground station at F`SATI’s Bellville premises. Government and industry relations manager in the Department of Science and Technology, Siyabonga Copisa, ZACUBE-1, together with SKA and SASA, was becoming a global leader in space science. He said the completion and launch of ZACUBE-1 should encourage and inspire youngsters to study sciences at school as the students who were involved in the making the satellite would be employed at either SASA or the SKA project. He said it was vital that the country develops its own science engineers to avoid importing foreign skills. http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=photos%20of%20south%20africa's%20made%20settalite&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEYQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwestcapenews.com%2F%3Fp%3D4846&ei=BovmUdqwBpSWhQeq9oCAAQ&usg=AFQjCNGepamZpgKneB_6vqrInDRwiEKb0Q |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:19pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
Cabinet has welcomed the preparations towards the launch of South Africa's R26-million SumbandilaSat, into space. The launch is expected to take place next week in Kazakhstan. Briefing the media on Cabinet's ordinary meeting on Thursday, Government Spokesperson Themba Maseko said: "The meeting welcomed the good news that preparations for the launch of SumbandilaSat, the South African made satellite into space, was proceeding smoothly." He said the low-orbit satellite was the product of a three-year satellite development programme, commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology in 2005, and implemented by Stellenbosch University's engineering faculty. The SumbandilaSat will orbit about 500km to 600km above the earth. "It will use high-resolution cameras which will produce images to be used for agriculture, mapping of infrastructure and land use, population measurement and the monitoring of dam levels. The images will be streamed to the Satellite Applications Centre (SAC) at Hartbeeshoek, near Pretoria," said Maseko. The SAC will receive image data from SumbandilaSat and monitor and control the satellite, maintain it and programme it to perform its various functions. The data will be used in the management of natural disasters such as floods, fires and oil spills in southern Africa. It will also be able to measure temperatures at sea and land, clouds and rainfall, winds, sea levels, ice cover, vegetation cover and gases. SumbandilaSat will be South Africa's second satellite, after the launch of SunSat 1, a modest satellite built by students and lecturers at Stellenbosch University in 1999. http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=photos%20of%20south%20africa's%20made%20settalite&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&ved=0CGMQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sanews.gov.za%2Fsouth-africa%2Fsumbandilasat-gets-set-go&ei=BovmUdqwBpSWhQeq9oCAAQ&usg=AFQjCNFn7YGsxMt2tCXmy5JNwDa-lJXYiA |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 1:24pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
i heard someone talking about our schools. Why dont you read the below and come to see how smart our people are. A nigerian in russia bagging 5.0 in medicine! Has any SAn ever achieved that? Note that the guy in question was a student here in Naija before going to russia. https://www.nairaland.com/1346187/nigerian-graduates-5.0-cgpa-russian |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Thiza: 1:26pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
First African in space is South African
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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 1:33pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
Thiza: First African in space is South AfricanAfrican people are natives or inhabitants of Africa and people of African descent. |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by agaugust: 1:37pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
saengine: still i have to keep you in my classroom on compassionate grounds my boy. feel free to leave my english language class if the only language your brain can analyse is afrikaans. quote where i said in my post that egypt is still manufacturing swingfire missile today...show me that post and quote me. the weblink source NEVER says the date egypt produced and stopped producing the swingfire, any date you choose to assume is your private imagination at home also show us source where egypt said because they dont manufacture swingfire again today, all the 1,000 missiles they produced over the years has been thrown into red sea like "pharaohs army vs moses" you really need a brain scan sir so because Roland anti-aircraft missile is not being produced again today by manufacturer, then spain, argentina and nigeria have also thrown all their Roland missiles into the dustbin at the backyard of your house in soweto for gabbage disposal ? i think after your brain scan, do brain surgery....maybe even total new brain transplant . |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by agaugust: 1:43pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
Henry120: since after seleka rebels defeat of south african army, DENEL has started plans to upgrade current level of body bags...more will will be needed.... . 3 Likes
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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by chris365(m): 1:45pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
Thiza: South Africa’s fledgling satellite and space programme is expected to go forward at a faster space with Denel Dynamics now aboard as the official “carer” of embattled SunSpace. Ghana is ahead of you in space research. Continue planning and holding meetings while Nigerian engineers finish building another satelite to join the current ones. |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by agaugust: 1:46pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
Thiza: First African in space is South African what year was that ? try get a satellite first okay ? try to walk before you try to run |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by chris365(m): 1:54pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
scipher: African people are natives or inhabitants of Africa and people of African descent. am seriously beginning to doubt the standard of education in south afrca all there graduates i've seen here (including Msauza that graduated form 2 Universities) reason like Nigerian secondry school graduates. |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by chris365(m): 1:59pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
agaugust: |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 2:00pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
scipher: African people are natives or inhabitants of Africa and people of African descent. How about this, the first African to climb everest is South African, the first African to have a planet named after him is South African, the first African to go to Mars and the moon will be South African hehe. |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 2:07pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
chris365: My God, a population of 170million, yet people feel the need to brag about such little things. |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 2:08pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
zetdee:#faints |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by andrewza: 2:11pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
agaugust: We had satellites in orbit long before you, and in truth nigeria has no satellites in orbits since they were built in china and UK |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 2:11pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
Msauza:dont let me descend on you like i did the other time. We are not good at moulding good stuff? Why dont you read about the Benin arts now in the british museum in london. Also read comentaries about those arts. Also look up the terra cota of the Nok civilization of North-central Nigeria. (Jos to be precise) and the yoruba arts before you come here and display an embarrassing level of ignorance. Dont offend us by thinking we are spear wielding Bantu BUSHmen who knew nothing but dance around fire and hiting their feet on the ground with a big thud and singing Brenda's ubuntu ugumutu ga bantu |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 2:13pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
sheyie2007: dude, there are countless Nigerians making 4.0 CGPA.. Just point the bit#h to google I'm afraid Google has alot of the Emeagwali types, It's hard to believe how the guy managed to fool so many people. |
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 2:20pm On Jul 17, 2013 |
souldust: dont let me descend on you like i did the other time. Well, now that you mentioned it, that vehicles does look like something that belongs in a museum. |
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