₦airaland Forum

Henry240:
Petty silliness, Off-course to be expected from you, so i am not surprised.

While you are at it, that helicopter continues to enjoy world wide acclaim including very good export sales.

"How man French origin South-African helicopters have been sold?"........................... I thought as much, Zero!

South-African French origin helicopters are the "world's best helicopters" nobody wants.

Your view has been noted, so you feel better now?

giles14:
u southie are pretty annoying with this my own better pass your own

OK, noted.

jln115:
Bro Nigeria has no operational frigates, neither do you have any corvettes, your landing ships are like 50 years old,and u also doubt if they are operational.

Nigeria's blue water capability consists out of nns unity, centenary,thunder and okpabana all of which are OPVs.

You should have ignored.

gottfried21:
On a side note
One of the decepticons in the new Transformers film can transform into a Gripen and I think he has an SAAF rounded

Can you please share

patches689:
Mutineers surrender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCvoZQMwM0



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Look at all those R4 rifles, they look very new... They could have been sold to Lesotho after 94 then used to shoot at the very guys who supplied them, talk about the dog biting the owner... Hehe

GreenandGold:
The SAPS STF
I wish there was more

I read there's plenty of police deployed in Durban because of some gangster funeral tomorrow. We know how chaotic it gets. The STF could be on the list.

GreenandGold:
To those who wondered what happened to the 170+ SAAF Impalas. Here's one of them, privately owned.

Rich people

OK guys, let's cut it out..

MikeCZA:
There were used in the 90s.

Action is unlikely. Though I'd support a move to magically make that former military chief "disappear".

I was young in the 90s when it happened, the only television footage I remember was a Ratel in Maseru.. Let's do it again but this time we bang bang and make it the shortest war of the 21st century.

ssaengine:
Welding panels/compartments to the frame......"interesting". As much as I try ignore, can't help seeing.

And the spare wheel overlapping the rear wheel. During blasts the spare wheel is damaged.

The South Africans are green with envy over our best pen in the world.. OMG, we will make them cheap and corner the African market.

OMG it's green with white text like our federal government flag.

Look at this pen... It's the best pen I've ever seen

gottfried21:
Today's front page

Not that I'm calling for blood but I wanna see some action Ratels and Rooikats should roll in.

jakeporeshenko:
Just 2 days ago I found out the army had its own special forces independent of BIR

It makes sense, the BIR is relatively new. The Army should have had a specialised unit AKA Special Forces.

BlackBaron:
Cameroonian BIR...

Looking at that scratched Ratel, I wonder if other countries take armour maintainance very serious.

frumentius:
Interesting...the Renault VAB MK3 with Denel Mechatronics RWS turret.

That turret looks like it belongs to Terminator 3, it's creepy.

That applies to Swaziland as well, the military is nothing more than King Mswati's personal security guard.

Snyder1ZA:
SANDF being put on high alert over Lesotho military chief assassination.

Seems trouble in SA's 10th province never ends.

Honestly, Lesotho doesn't need the military.. If you're completely surrounded by SA you're 100% safe unless you think SA is gonna attack you of which your military won't help.

The solution is to dissolve the military, form a border/rural patrol security force then redirect all the personnel to that force.

jln115:
Well we have pretty good relations with Botswana on the other hand Botswana and Zimbabwe have a near terrible relationship......I highly doubt that they purchased there SAMs for a SAn threat..........In all honesty we wouldn't even need an Air force to invade Botswana, Gaborone is less than an hour away from our border, will literally just drive there!!

Just the thought of attacking a neighboring state is disgusting..... However we need to annex south Mozambique, we in Mpumalanga need a beachfront

frumentius:
Botswana plays very well with others within the SADC military ambit. There is absolutely no reason they should do so politically. I'm a huge fan of their independent ways particularly when the others want to shield anti-democratic behaviours and tendencies.
They also have unresolved land issues with Namibia, and a belligerent Zimbabwe which has threatened them when they called out Mugabe.
Or are now to ascribe "fear of SA" whenever any of our neighbours acquires self-defence material?

Are you aware that Botswana now fields a more sophisticated SAM system than South Africa? We never bothered funding the Umkhonto ground based SAM because none of our neighbors posed as an eminent threat. So Botswana wouldn't bother unless it somehow feels threatened by a neighbor that has air striking capabilities ie, South Africa.

As for the unresolved land issues, Swaziland has one with South Africa, apparently Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng belong to them.

jln115:
Zimbabwe.

No country attached to our borders will wage a war with another without Pretoria's blessings.... and besides, Zim has a crumbling military there won't be attacking anyone not even in the next 2 decades as long as Zano PF is in power (because the economy will keep struggling).

So, theoretically only SA is a risk especially after that Julius Malema threat to invade Botswana when he was with the ANCYL.

frumentius:
From the previous SADC exercise in the land of the cousins, Exercise Golfinho.
FACTOID: apart from SA, Namibia has hosted more SADC exercises than all the other SADC countries.
I keep banging on about this, but some day SADC will have to go the NATO/EU route and start pooling military resources. More integration and dwindling budgets will simply demand it. This is the structure I see:
1) a SADC Naval Atlantic Command comprising SA, Namibia and Angola with Walvis Bay as the HQ;
2) a SADC Naval Indian Command comprising SA, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Tanzania with Dar es Salaam as the HQ;
3) a SADC Jungle Warfare School in the DRC; a Desert Warfare School in Namibia;
4) permanent SADC forward bases in Cabinda, DRC, Tanzania and Madagascar;
5) some form of pooled sealift run jointly by the 2 Naval Commands; and some form of pooled heavy airlift basing out of Botswana (oh the tussle whether this should be A400M or IL-76! ).
Zimbabwe is hosting the SADC regional peacekeeping training centre, while Botswana has offered 19 hectares of land at Rasesa for a SADC logistics depot. Some at our JOps are unhappy about the choice, preferring Ndola/Kasama in Zambia, mainly for 2 reasons:
- proximity to the DRC, which is the main source of instability within the SADC region; and
- existing rail links for most SADC countries and the current extension of the runway to 4000m+.

Don't count Botswana in, they don't like that game of playing well with others. Their purchase of SAM systems suggest their fear of being attacked by who else other than South Africa.

lionel4power:
well Nigeria has been warned



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Mr Covert1 and Supremecourt whats your take on this??
This silly North Koreans has dared us openly, do we show them the superiority of our weapons??

what do we use to counter them?

cc tdayof, nemesis4u, giles4

If this was real and they had somehow threatened SA's "impudents". I'd be the first to troll them... In fact, I'll derive much fun as possible from this and see how Kim blah blah reacts.... But since I'm not important in world affairs, I'll keep dreaming

patches689:
How in the fvck are we spending more than Morrocco and allmost as much as Egypt?

Maybe maintaining and operating 50 jets, 70+ helicopters, subs and frigates doesn't come cheap.

tdayof:
And then, you're not capable of invading NIGERIA when your vessels ain't enough to patrol your own waters.

Knock yourself out, it's a free world.

giles14:
have never seen ur army in\with a tactical vest

Well, Patches answered while I was still searching all the relevant pictures.

Also, modern tactical kits are used by specialised units and Reserves

Pic 1: Special Forces operators
Pic 2: Reserves

tdayof:
Let me tell you something, you might have some toys, those frigates etc but that Shiit doesn't mean you're going to invade us successfully.

.

and then?

Whyem15:
Off topic
North Korean soldiers. Someone should please identify the gun

Finally, Kim ordered some helmets and NV googles at Alibaba.com

jakeporeshenko:
first picture is Madagascar

Yes it is... It's by a South African expedition team. The last pic is Madagascar as well. The rest are in Angola...... It's down South

newafricaken254:
the beauty of a Toyota land cruiser pickup (technical ),is it multi-role utility

This how we use a Land Cruiser in the South

Covert1 = Augustine
SupremeCourt = Augustine

Same language, same illusions, one narrates a statement made by the other.