upko1:

C'mon a lot of off topic post have been made on this thread, an ex NAF chopper which is still in NAF colours is worthy of making it to this thread for record purposes.

Sane people are posting fine photos, you are posting a scrap image. What a man posts reflects his 'Upper Faculty Content' as a person.

That chopper no longer exists in NAF inventory, they were all sold to New Zealand as export of unwanted helicopter. You have no clue about what you are saying or posting. You just wanted to ridicule NAF, but unluckily for you the helos have been exported, sold to New Zealand. Na papa God dey catch you 4 d bad belle.

jln115:

His discussion was photo related mate, just ask Agaugust to chill, besides his post wasn't even directed at him or Nigeria for that matter.

His discussion was quoting an unknown Mr.Rogers' words as facts about SAAF Gripen pilots, that is rumour and not official fact, or he has an SAAF official source weblink to back up his claim? When did strange Mr. Rogers become a reliable source? We should post facts related to our photos not conjure misleading rumours to brainwash readers. Make the thread reliable, don't make it a platform for misinformation. What if everybody else starts rumour merchandizing here and attach it to their photos?

ssaengine:


So then that f00l post a paragraph stating how "this place" is for pics only. The irony. He can kindly go jump.

Please don't call people fool on this thread. You can do so on the other. Nobody insulted you, yet you call the guy a fool. Please don't bring foul language here. Thanks.

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Andrew Spurrier, Europe correspondent. IHS Fairplay Daily Newswire | Feb 08, 2016 12:53PM GMT

Maersk Line confirmed today that one of its containerships and its 25-strong crew were saved by the Nigerian navy after pirates boarded and took control of the vessel Safmarine Kuramo that was attacked while it was en route from Pointe Noire in the Republic of the Congo.

Same day late in the afternoon, the Nigerian Navy boarded the vessel in a rescue mission. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted a Nigerian Navy spokesman as saying that none of the crew members – eight Filipinos, eight South Africans, five Indians, two Britons and two Thais - was hurt during the attack.

The spokesman said that, after getting a distress call from the vessel, the navy had sent a warship and gun boats to the scene. The pirates had fled the ship, he said, when they saw the navy vessel approaching.

An officer who took part in the rescue praised Safmarine Kuramo’s South African female master, Zetta Gous Conradie, for her bravery in keeping the navy informed of events on board the vessel while it was under the pirates’ control.

Henry24o:


Take a look at the new Proforce Police LAPV, what do you think about it?


I like it, same as @Ocelot2006.

Beautiful, love the design improvement. Good for para-military. Needs higher ground clearance, bigger tyres, and V-Hull shape for military ops in order to compete with Igirigi. Bank Of Industry has started financial partnership with Proforce.

patches689:


You are a stuttering, 40 year old who pathetically claims to be a military analyst and posts BB guns as proof.

No offense intended

Me and Henry disagreed on a topic, we discussed it briefly and posted pictures and now we have moved on with our lives. All in good spirit and all in good fun.

Judging by the aggressive and insulting nature of your post (which I returned with interest) you are incapable of doing so yourself, and perhaps this is not the place for you.

You CLEARLY THREATENED Henry with conflict that you were willing to start and mess up this thread as usual. I called you to behave, take my advice in good faith and curb your ego.

You can kick me out of this forum when Naira-land officially becomes Rand-land
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ssaengine:
SANDF ARMED FORCES DAY 2016 - PORT ELIZABETH

Quote from Roger, the owner of these pics. http://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=169948&start=30

"Some of us accepted the general invite to the airforce station function yesterday afternoon/evening. Got to chat to many of the crew, and were allowed a close (but not too close) look around. Only had my cell phone with me, but there were one of two guys like Bugs and Vernon who had better cameras and am sure will share their pics too.

Most interesting bit was dispelling the myth that the Gripen and Hawk guys only fly a few hours a year. Think one article somewhere suggested as low as 30 hour per annum. Well the crew we spoke to indicated that they fly almost one sortie per day, and probably do around 15-20 hours in an average month.

Must compliment the guys for the most professional way they handled us civies and were happy to answer our questions for the 3 or 4 hours we were there."

[img]http://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=295986&t=1[/img]

This thread is not the place to post unofficial reports of private people's statements about technical issues of national armed forces of countries. If you want to post your hearsay stories from individuals that have no known reputation or official recognition SAAF, go post it on the other thread and stop spreading rumours about Gripen pilots flying hours of qualification or non-qualification that we cannot prove, on this photo thread. Please don't feed readers with wrong information here. Thanks.

Nice photo. You can always post your SAAF/SANDF pics plus any related factual and true explanation discuss for us to enjoy, but please do not add the rumour/speculative stories of one strange Mr. Rogers that you attach to pics.

frumentius:


Stop, just stop. Clue: rush over to Beegeagle's blog and scrub all the other photos of your vessels with fuel stored on the deck. All armies face challenges; being defensive doesn't help. It promotes mediocrity.

You opened any of those drums and found fuel inside? Can you see the content of a steel drum from the outside? Can you differentiate empty drum from full drum by looking at internet photos? Could be siezed and empty, could be owned and empty brought up deck for refill. Could be grease or viscous lubricants drums....you opened the drums and saw fuel inside?

Henry24o:
Shipmultivision Nigeria limited offers new build Patrol crafts and Interceptors to the Nigerian Navy, NLNG and NNPC.

We will soon see made in Nigeria 'Shaldag high speer ocean imterceptor IPV' for both NN and export market.

patches689:


Storing fuel on the deck of a warship seems problematic

But hey, thats just my observation

Observation? You entered inside the ship to observe?

What if tbey are empty drums, or you opened them and saw fuel inside?

patches689:


How many "poorly" equipped ones have you seen?

Dont make comparative statements, it leads to conflict

....Conflict only because you take offence in everything that is not a praise for South Africa. Be an adult, grow up, control your ego. Henry already said about that photo... "No offence intended", so what else do want? U be god ?

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Msauza:



Bwahahahaha… you are trying to run away from your lies and you now decide to delete everything.

Do I need to remind you that Nigeria is broke and cannot afford to buy 100 brand new ships. It is still receiving hand me down gifts from US military. Nigeria with their only $20 billion budget will go bankrupt if they can ever think of buying 100 brand new ships.


Well in that case do I have to remind you that SA Navy has bought 40 000 brand new frigates, submarines, cruisers and destroyers.

Bwahahaha…

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It's been proved with sources over a dozen times here with weblinks and photos. Nigerian navy has refitted about 15 medium to big ships back into full operations and bought 100 brand new IPVs in the last 8 weeks. We have a 2016 defence budget and money available, including purchase of JF-17 Thunder 4th Gen jet fighters. We still export oil and gas everyday and tax revenue flows as well.

jln115:

"Frigate " also why do our Valours need ASW capabilities when we are the only SSA country that has subs?

Same reason Nigerian navy needs no missile frigates or submarine when the only sea threat we face is piracy.

FN FAL NA

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Hitting target from the air with 100% accuracy....NAF...ATGM drone strike by Nigeria
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stillchris:


it shouldn't be news that algerian constitution does not allow it.

and you make it sound like the country will be the magic wand to end insurgency anywhere they are deployed.

don't forget that ambushes are still happening close to the capital and algerian government does not allow free flow of information out of the country.

Its news, none of us here knew Algerian consitutuion NO LONGER allows fighting abroad until the new man from Algeria said it today. Algerian army and air force deployed into Egypt Israeli border and fought during Arab Israeli war. Photos below...

As to magic wand and ongoing attacks, there are random terrorist attacks even in Paris and California, not only Algerian cities. Yes Algeria has the magic wand military capacity to degrade Al Shabbab to low level of Boko Haram in 6 months, current AMISOM force is struggling to cope due to lack of adequate resources.
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Msauza:


Do I need to tell you that your Navy has zero ftigate and 50% of its fleet is written off?


Bwahahahahaha

Do I need to tell you YOUR 50% DATA IS NOW OUTDATED as at today February 2016 ?

NNS Aradu is about now in refit? Also about 15 NN vessels including NNS Ambe landing ship tank and 3 fast attack crafts 58m size NNS Anyam, NNS Siri, NNS Ekun among others just completed refit few months ago. NN also purchased about 100 brand new inshore patrol vesssels in the last 8 weeks.

Sorry you played your ball over the bar, Bwahahaha

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ssaengine:
Rooivalk...20 mm gun at moving target.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH5_m2PUWyQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Moving target keeps moving despite many shots fired at it by the Rooivalk, target escapes alive !

At what range is SANDF Rooivalk shooting gun ?

Maximum effective range of that F2 gun is only 2 km, reason why Hinds had to help Rooivalk clear out M23 heavy machine guns in Congo DRC with far superior Mi-35 cannon firepower and range, after safety was created by the Mi-35, then the rebel worthy Rooivalk flew in to use it's weaker TOY GUN !

Lol...see the South Africans now boasting about GUN ARMED ROOIVALK HELICOPTER, they no longer talk about Denel Mokopa missiles armed Rooivalk.

# South Africans Now Eating The Hmble Pie In Their Defence Industry Advertisements


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@Patches has run away from this forum since two days now, he is waiting for the Roovalk + Mokopa + Gripen + SANDF + Denel PUBLIC DISGRACE to be forgotten....LOL.

ssaengine:
Rooivalk...20 mm gun at moving target.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH5_m2PUWyQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Moving target keeps moving despite many shots fired at it by the Rooivalk, target escapes alive !

At what range is SANDF Rooivalk shooting gun ?

Maximum effective range of that F2 gun is only 2 km, reason why Hinds had to help Rooivalk clear out M23 heavy machine guns in Congo DRC with far superior Mi-35 cannon firepower and range, after safety was created by the Mi-35, then the rebel worthy Rooivalk flew in to use it's weaker TOY GUN !

Lol...see the South Africans now boasting about GUN ARMED ROOIVALK HELICOPTER, they no longer talk about Denel Mokopa missiles armed Rooivalk.

# South Africans Now Eating The Hmble Pie In Their Defence Industry Advertisements


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jln115:

Seems I know more about the NN than you.

The fact is, your navy only has 1 frigate, which isn't operational.

Fact is your navy has only 1 Valour corvette fully armed with right number of anti-ship missiles, and it has ZERO torpedoes, your Valour ship has NO anti-submarine warfare capability. After you arm one fully with anti-ship missiles and keep half load as reserve, all your remaining 3 Valour ships are reduced to anti-piracy OPVs with only main gun to fight at sea
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Msauza:


Your mind really need a serious overhaul. Tell me are you OK?


NNS Okpabana is a former US coast guards cutter. It was never a frigates and is a Hamilton class. Its a navy cutter dummy.

NNS thunder is as well a donation from US Coast guard. A Hamilton-Class Cutter. Never a frigate.


Nigeria currently has zero frigate. ZERO.

Msauza:
Our topic here is based on whether NNS Thunder and Okpabana are indeed Frigates or not. Let us stop beating about the bush going from pillar to post jumping from one point to another. Let us leave everything else and concentrate on establishing whether is Hamilton-Class a frigate or not.

They are frigates by design and heavily armed with Harpoon anti-ship missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, Phalanx CIWS, anti-submarine sonar and torpedoes, anti-missile decoys, heavy 127 mm main guns, etc. These weapons were removed by US government because they were too powerful for maritime security duties they were assigned to do.

Msauza:




You need a psychiatric clinic urgently. Covettes are small and are lightly armed. Mordern Frigates can do whatever destroyers can do dummy. They can shoot down fighters, launch torpedoes, destroy submarines, destroy other ships with ASM, etc. Can do everything that destroyers do

South African Navy Valour warships have NO torpedoes, your navy has ZERO anti-submarine warfare capabilities. Valour has been downgraded to corvettes by SAN official website due to poor armaments. Exocet 70km, Umkhonto 15 km, Torpedoes NONE !!!

Henry24o:


Limit the discussions boss. No politics or infrastructure.

Copy that sir.

stillchris:

LOL... be realistic man

Nigeria did that much for Liberia without getting paid one dollar.

chkil:


yes i'm algerian

for the AMISOM in somalia it's impossible that algerian army conduct military operations outside our borders. It is a principle enshrined in the Algerian constitution .

algerian army never conduct operation outside algerian borders , for exemple the terrorist who attack sometime algeria
they're hiding in libya, mali near algerian borders it will be easy for army to destroy this terrorist camp but algeria never do it because the constitution and algerian politics favors diplomatic solution and negotiations for signing of peace agreements in these countries . i hope it will change one day for this politic

I hope so too.

So where does Algeria get money to buy all these fantastic weapons, don't you spend money to build your country and provide good life and welfare for the 60 million people of Algeria ?

Welcome to this Nairaland forum, greet Algerian people, Africa loves them.

chkil:
The Fox-2 [6x6 Armoured Personnel Carrier] build in algeria ( under german Rheinmetall licence)














https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVTSBA9vhv4

1,000 units of Fuchs or Fox APCs have beem ordered by Algerian army, they willl be built in Algerian factory. Too much powerful modern weapons for one country that will not fight in Somalia. LOL
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What are Nigerian soldiers reporting from the battlefield about performance of Beryl rifle Vs AK-47, any info ? Not sure if NA should adopt Beryl or advanced AK-74. Too many rifle types in Nigeria. Can Beryl replace Galil and Travor too?

denisfidha:
Kenyan president admiring Ethiopian military industrial complex and range of military hardware that are made(under license), manufactured or overhauled at the complex

Silent African country with good local defence industry not making a noise about it, Ethiopia silent. I forsee Ethiopian weapons export to Uganda.

chkil:
a good video of algerian army


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWxv6jItj7E?t=30s

Thank you man ! Are you Algerian ? Can you please tell Algeria to send a mixture of 6,000 special forces, elite paratroops, plus experienced COIN regular infantry, backed up with T-90 tanks, Fuchs APCs with 12.7mm X 3 HMG, Mi-35 Super Hind and Mi-28 Havock helicopter gunships to join African Union AMISOM force and quickly defeat Al Shabbab this year 2106 in Somalia ? Defeat the terrorists or degrade them down to Boko Harsm's current level where they will be riding mostly motorcyles, donkeys, bicycles and walking on foot, armed only with AK-47 and RPG, a few light machine guns, and IEDs. Africa needs Algerian money, men, and equipment to join our East African brothers of the AU force in Somalia TODAY.....unite Africa, unite !

ssaengine:
Iraqi Air Force fires Denel Ingwe ATGM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwey3rDQrqc

Ingwe missile fired at what range in that video? 1 km ?

Did the Ingwe hit designated specific target? No answer.

Okay, you have now abandoned your boasting about South African air force, you now praise Iraqi air force....Arabs better than Zulus-Bantus, alright I agree with you on that, the Iraqis succeed while South Africans fail at home with their own home made equipment

South Africans abandon SAAF and Denel, now praise Iraqi air force and Eurocopter helicopters.... So the Rooivalk helicopter now becomes an orphan child that nobody wants to be his father because he failed his final exams after shïttïng liquid diarrhea pooh-pooh inside it's pänts in a marketing demonstration show in front of the so called 'interested customers' !!!

SANDF is now humbled after international demo disgrace performance
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