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snydergp: Firstly u are not the best in africa even the Ethiopian infantry troops are rated higher then naija's AK-47 carrying bandits who left there APV and fled when Sudanese rebbels attacted u and that's a fact.

When it comes to dissipline ur army are way behind, even ur own Nigerian Citizens have commented about ur soldiers treatment of ur own citizens.

Please upgrade those AK-47's ur soldiers are using in Mali to more modern rifles like SANDF's homemade R4 assualt rifles those AK's are good, but lack accurracy and range in DM situations.

Your troops haven't started in direct engagement with rebbels so please let's talk after France has done all the hardwork for u and Ecowas.

Those AK's looks as if ur still a thirdworld rag tag army, and please don't tell ur not using them because the world saw ur army carrying those antique rebbel rowzers.

Buy some of these from SA ur army will look more modern "Mr Giants of Africa", also tell ur solldiers to stop molesting refugees where ever they are deployd including in Nigeria were they regulary beat up old people at check points.

R4's the standard issue rifle for SANDF.

Look at that soldier doesn't he look more equiped and professional then an average NA soldiers

agaugust: IT IS NOW VERY CLEAR THAT NIGERIA AS THE GIANT OF AFRICA IS HATED BY SOME OTHER AFRICANS WHO ENVY THE BIGGEST BLACK NATION ON EARTH....NIGERIA. IT IS A TRUE SAYING THAT GREATNESS WILL MAKE PEOPLE TO BECOME YOUR ENEMY. CAN EVERYBODY READ THE REACTION OF SOME OTHER AFRICANS TO THE POST I MACE ABOUT NIGERIAN INFANTRY HEROES OF AFRICA ? HATRED WITHOUT A REASON, HATRED AND ENVY AGAINST NIGERIA BY ITS OWN AFRICAN 'BROTHERS' WHOM SHE FOUGHT HARD TO FREE FROM WHITE MAN'S MODERN DAY SLAVERY AND BONDAGE OF OPPRESSION. BLACK MAN, BLACK HEART, WICKED HEART, EVIL HEART.

look here snydergp, i am sure you are not as educated and intelligent as past and present nigerian army chiefs of staff like general dambazau who has a PhD degree, or UN/ECOWAS/AU respected general agwayi who has a masters degree, or current army chief general ihejirika who is a chartered quantity surveyor, those generals have been trained in the best and most expensive military officers academy in USA, BRITAIN, GERMANY, INDIA, ISRAEL, ETC. they chose AK-47 because the general world consensus is that AK-47 is the most reliable comabt rifle for continuous firing in many hours of combat without jamming and for use in dusty and harsh terrain without requiring regular maintenance under battle field pressure.

nigeria today has $50 billion cash reserve in foreign banks, so if we want to but 1 million american M-16 rifles for our army we have the money.

we use what we want after many years of testing other assault rifles that we imported from europe into our armoury since year 1960 to 2012. no rife is perfect, all guns have advantages and disadvantages.

russia is the second most powerful military in the world and they still use AK-47 as standard military rifle. china is third ranked military power in the world and it still uses rifle developed from AK-47 and same does india which is the fourth most powerful military in the world.

nigerian made AK-47 is not the same as the original old type, it has been improved for more combat effectiveness. nigeria is not interested in south african made weapons because most of them have not been used by many countries in real war engagements and so their track record is not yet known, and the south africa that manufactures them does not engage in deadly combat since the bush war ended in 1988, the SANDF have been sitting down making hollywood movie style photos and videos to 'show' military 'capabilities' while they avoid the deadliest and bloodiest combat zones in africa.

hate nigeria or love nigeria, you cannot change it's greatness that God has blessed nigeria with.

snydergp: Firstly u are not the best in africa even the Ethiopian infantry troops are rated higher then naija's AK-47 carrying bandits who left there APV and fled when Sudanese rebbels attacted u and that's a fact.

When it comes to dissipline ur army are way behind, even ur own Nigerian Citizens have commented about ur soldiers treatment of ur own citizens.

Please upgrade those AK-47's ur soldiers are using in Mali to more modern rifles like SANDF's homemade R4 assualt rifles those AK's are good, but lack accurracy and range in DM situations.

Your troops haven't started in direct engagement with rebbels so please let's talk after France has done all the hardwork for u and Ecowas.

Those AK's looks as if ur still a thirdworld rag tag army, and please don't tell ur not using them because the world saw ur army carrying those antique rebbel rowzers.

Buy some of these from SA ur army will look more modern "Mr Giants of Africa", also tell ur solldiers to stop molesting refugees where ever they are deployd including in Nigeria were they regulary beat up old people at check points.

R4's the standard issue rifle for SANDF.

Look at that soldier doesn't he look more equiped and professional then an average NA soldiers

ayobase: https://www.nairaland.com/1168225/does-s..ex-position-matters-getting

agaugust: andrewza talks good sence and i think he is the most serious, fair and honest among the 3 south africans here on this topic. msauza and syndergp dont talk with honesty and good intentions, all they want is to run down nigerian military which they dont know about in detail. any nigerian weapon they say is bad, even if it is the latest technology in the waorl for that equipment. i wont follow what anybody else ranks, i will do my own baseed on what i know. even in USA where i work, i had to list newly acquired nigerian weapons for some white officers to assess, they dont feed their brain with african data because we are not a continent of military importance at world level.

dont just use your mouth msauza, use your thinking too, okay ? i dont want to sound rude but i can only respect you if you show good thinking. all this ranking we are doing will not earn us one dollar, naira or rands. we are just showing our interest in military affairs of africa, so if you rank south africa as number 1 and even overrate your military, it will not win you a war. when real war comes, your military will face reality and mouth talk and web posting propaganda will not defeat nigeria on battle field. remember the bush war south africa versus cuba, at the time the whole world highly rated south african military they did not win a war close to their homeland against a tiny country cuba that had to travel and fight 12,000 kilometers away from home. i have posted the proof of that war results here already last year december, you want me to repeat it again ?

[b]experienced military analysts will not rate you too high because you manufacture and stockpile weapons but you dont engage in far away major combat and real bloody battlefield engagement with forces inside another country's territory the way nigerian military does almost every year for the past 20 years. yesterday we flew almost 1,000 infantry to mali to face rebels armed with ghaddafi's stolen heavy weapons and missiles, even france had to use latest rafale jets to stop the mali rebels last week. nigeria does not have grippen but we use what we have to test our true combat ability in war, not on paper list of equipment you store in your own the armoury. we are deploying our F-7 jets to mali for real live combat today world news confirmed it, and then msauza you ask me when last nigeria played war games? we dont just play hollywood movie type of games that south africa plays at home, nigeria moves into the most dangerious battles in african countries thousands of kilometers away form our home and we go there to die like true soldiers not military on paper that never fights real war and overrates itself as number 1 in africa. [/b]

msauza do you know how to think and be honest? if you do, then good indeed, but if not, thats your problem not mine. people who read your post and my posts will rate our brainwork and conclusions according to the way we argue our points.

use your military in real war and let your soldiers die the way american soldier dies in thousands in iraq, then the intelligent analyst can rank you if you truly deserve number one position. remember your bush war results, you had french mirage jets in south african airforce and tiny cuba broke broke through your highly rated air defences with russian mig jets to blow up the great caleuque hydryo dam right under the noses of south africa's highly rated military forces occupying the area....then your government called for ceasefire negotiations after that...and the cubans almost pincer formation your army to cut off south african flank guard and rear guard....then your government called for peace negotiations.....and you began to avoid major volatile war zones of death since that time over 20 years ago.

my friend people read your post and they read mine, the people have brains that work and they will judge intelligently. your personal opinion does not change the truth and facts publicly disclosed.

read this quote i extracted from public sources below :

"The area was of considerable strategic importance, providing the pretext for the initial 1975 South African military intervention in the Angolan Civil War when staff at the facility were threatened by guerrillas.[3] Full intervention through Operation Savannah followed shortly afterwards.

Throughout the Angolan Civil war Calueque remained continuously occupied by South African forces. In 1988, during the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, the Cubans opened a second front against the South Africans and launched a massive ground offensive in the direction of Calueque. The area to the north of the dam became the scene of bloody fighting which proved to be a turning point in the war. On 27 June 1988, the South Africans retreated across the dam to Southwest Africa and the same day Cuban MiG-23 fighters attacked the facilities. The first wave of aircraft bombed the bridge and sluice gates, killing a soldier in the process. Another wave bombed the pump and generator, while a third destroyed the pipeline to Ovamboland. Significantly, one of the last bombs hit the position of eleven South African soldiers nearby who had exited their Buffel troop carrier to watch the events unfold. The dam and pipelines were considerably damaged, rendering the scheme inoperable"

The Calueque Dam and bridge has not been repaired since it was damaged in 1988"

the above information is available on web links with photos of south african dead soldiers coffins draped with national flags

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calueque

http://web.archive.org/web/20080120211559/http://uk.geocities.com/sasolboy/calueque.html