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mzilakazi:
whites radio stations communicating with mercenaries from Nigeria was enough to convince us SA
mercenary fighter pilots were flying sorties for you.

mzilakazi:
I ALSO USED TO LISTEN TO RADIO INTERVIEWING SA MERCENARIES IN NIGERIA SOME OF WHICH WERE PILOTS.


http://mg.co.za/article/2015-04-16-sa-mercenaries-turn-the-tide-in-nigeria


Cilliers recently took part in an Afrikaans radio
programme during which three or four mercenaries
phoned in. “They said things like: ‘I’m trying to help my
kids. My lifestyle is quite crappy. I’m trying to put the
grandkids through school.’”

mzilakazi:
Mandela funeral without his body being shown was enough to convince us that Mandela was dead. So, in SA is the same with people phoning on various whites radio stations communicating with mercenaries from Nigeria was enough to convince us SA mercenary fighter pilots were flying sorties for you.

Patchesagain:
1. Thats unknown insurgents posing with a HMV of unknown background (Could be ANA, ANP, INA, INP)

mzilakazi:
Mercenaries do not need hours to fly, they violate the law as they please.

Sorry!!! I am not Thomas. Nelson Mandela is dead yet I have never seen his corpse on the media.

Patchesagain:
1. G6 was still in development when it was used in Quito
2. Ceiling of 12km is better than the ceiling of the Roland
3. Gripen > F7 in WVR
4. No you dont
5. Angolan Su30K's can reach Nigeria

So easy to defeat

#UpYourGame

mzilakazi:
Former SAAF mercenary pilots giving combat qualified Nigerian pilots lessons.


http://africajournalismtheworld.com/tag/saaf-pilots-in-boko-war/


‘Most of the gunships [Mi 24 Hinds] are being piloted
by former SAAF members and they are flying a huge
number of sorties, including nocturnal operations,
with great success. There is also close involvement at
HQ level, assisting in the planning of operations and
the coordination/interpretation of the intelligence
effort.’

Jakkie Cilliers, Executive Director of the Institute for
Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria, agrees that the
best of the ex-SADF soldiers are indeed involved in
the anti-Boko Haram operation

DieVluit:
1. The Chibok girls no longer exist.
2. You have no proof that they live.
3. Consequently, they will never be found.

EVarn:
It appears that they couldnt sustain the occupation of such a big town,so they withdrew just like in Malam fatori and Damasak.

mzilakazi:
Nigerian troops are to be blamed in that regard.

mzilakazi:
BOKO HARAM MAIM 25 IN NIGERIA.


http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/25/africa/nigeria-violence/index.html

Patchesagain:
1. Roland is not operational - your missiles have expired
2. G6 artillery was not "operational" or in service with the SADF when it was used against the Cubans at Quito. If Denel has it, and the SANDF needs it, they get it.
3. 35mm Cannon with SKysheild upgrade are more than capable of hitting the Flanker if it comes in range
4. What munitions will the Su30K be able to deploy from above 1km? They only have "dumb bombs" which mean they have to fly low to deploy them!

And again, you insult SAAF but forget that Nigeria's airforce is in a much much worse state!

Patchesagain:
1. Please post pictures of Taliban driving around Afghanistan in american vehicales
2. The fact that you allowed them to capture that equipment in the first place shows how weak you are
3. The regional body responsible said that they would not support us if we went to war, so we didnt. You want us to waste lives and money to blow up some cheap ATV's? for what? pride? Are you a child?

Facts are facts, Boko captured T52 tanks, artillery, MRAP's, IFV's and over 42 of your military bases

Seleka captured 1 or 2 ATV"s... and we arent even sure if they were ours in the firstplace!!

Pathetic Nigerian military

Patchesagain:
We have the Uhmkonto which is soon going to be in service - with a ceiling of up to 15km

And again, if Angola is our master... despite our Gripen

What does it make you? With your obsolete F7's!!

You insult SAAF, but you forget that your airforce is worse

mzilakazi:
OH!! I NEVER KNEW BOKO HARAM WAS STILL IN CONTROL OF SOME OF YOUR LANDS AS TOLD BY AGAUGUST THAT NIGERIAN MILITARY RECAPTURED ALL.

Patchesagain:
1. I posted my Visa and ARC card
2. I posted various items you could only own and buy in Korea

Why are you asking for personal data? You want to scam me?

You have posted nothing that proves you are in america... anyone can get satelight TV anywhere in the world!

And you posted a toy gun not a pistol! I asked you to show me the bore of your gun and you ran away!

Now simply tell us who you work for, or post a local newspaper.

Why do you refuse to do so?

jln115:
Dude you dont have to show your ID, just proof of your claim to be a military researcher in the US.

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EVarn:
Could the reports about US-Nigeria Apache advanced attack helicopter deal be true?
According to some US and Nigerian sources,the US Defence Department had earlier this week struck a $500m defence deal with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari for the purchase of 8 Apache advanced helicopters.
But a day later,President Buhari was quoted to have sent a strong warning to the US; urging the US leadership to make an urgent decision about selling lethal arms to Nigeria "with little strings attached",as failure to sell arms was "unwittingly" aiding and abetting BH.
So,I ask{agaugust,henry,lezz,ddami},what is your opinion about US weapon procurement:

(i)Should we tow the US path
(ii)Should we face east: acquire lethal hardware en masse from Russia,China,and Pakistan?
(iii)Should we look inwards,for urgent development of a military industrial complex{like Israel did} and manufacture our military needs locally?,a process that could take 5-15 years to even begin bearing fruits.

DictatorZAR:
Stop talking shiiit.

Ok how old are your Rolands again and how many of those missiles are still operational.

My answer to you is simple Umkhonto GBAD, Oerloken Skyshield and Starstreak.

Show me anything like this in your air defense systems.

Patchesagain:
What is this nonsense you are talking?

Is 20 000 Nigerian troops suffering humiliation after humiliation INSIDE of Nigeria the same as South Africans conducting a successfull defence 1000's of kilometers outside of Nigeria the same?

You want me to start posting all the vehicals Boko Haram captured from you?

Nigerian cowardice is well recorded.... over 400 men in dresses running into chad will never be forgotten!!

DieVluit:
Look at Augaugust celebrating the destruction of his own military equipment, which had been seized from him by militants. It's not as if the NA could afford losing weapons. What with Buhari begging Obama for same and Jonadaf.t running to SA for same. Yeah, Auguby...let it burn.

Patchesagain:
why must i meet these ridiculous criteria?

I have posted my credentials to substaniate my claims

Now post yours

phrezzz:
Missed the other thread dunno what happened to it. .

Snydergp1:
If you are who you claim to be I dare you to take me personally on when it comes to all technical aspects of aircraft and ground based defense systems in both Nigeria, SA or Angola Su-30.

I will proof to you even without a Gripen in the air SANDF will still shoot down any Su-30 in our airspace.

vandalZA:
so I should get the award too by saying until today Nigeria can't go one on one with the great BOKO HARAM......thinking when are they going to visit your village! @AMAKWEREKWERE

Patchesagain:
Any fraudster can claim with mouth [wtf english is this??] that he is a Military researcher, with ZERO proof!

You can start the I.D show by posting the data page with photo of your face, full name, house address etc.

Then post for us, your state drivers licence card showing your full data and photo as proof

jln115:
Is that your proof? Your hand in front of a TV?

lezz:
WORLD / AFRICA

Once a major continental force, South Africa's military at a crossroads
South Africa wants to re-establish itself militarily as an important player in Africa's peacekeeping initiatives. But it has to overcome a small budget, and its own needs to police its borders, to move it from a 'critical state of decline.'


By Ryan Lenora Brown, Correspondent / June 29, 2015


Soldiers stand guard as police conduct a raid in Cape Town, South Africa, May 7, 2015. The raid, during which a search was conducted for counterfeit goods, weapons, and illegal immigrants, was one of a series of joint operations carried out with members of the South African National Defence Force.

Mike Hutchings/Reuters/File

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

The scenes could have been plucked from another era: South African soldiers with machine guns, stopping pedestrians on Johannesburg street corners to ask for their ID documents. Troop carriers lumbering past rows of shacks in the city’s townships late at night, preparing to raid hubs of supposed illegal activity.

But this was March. And more than 300 of these troops were deployed by President Jacob Zuma to help “maintain law and order” in the wake of xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals from around Africa.

Now at the end of June, the Army troops are still here, scouring “crime hotspots” from Cape Town to Bloemfontein as part of “Operation Fiela,” which translates literally “operation clean up the dirt.”

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As Defense Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula puts it, the Army had been internally deployed even though it is a time of peace “because there is a crisis” in the country.

This deployment, with its echoes of apartheid-era public policing tactics, shocked many, especially military analysts. They point out that soldiers are on the street just as the military is facing a looming crisis of its own: it stretched thin between its commitment to protect South Africa and it borders, and its desire to establish itself as a leading military force in Africa.

Meanwhile, a review of the country’s military operations is winding its way through parliament, warning that the South African National Defense Force (SANDF[b]) IS in a “critical state of decline” -- owing to a significant mismatch between its current funding levels and its larger ambitions to be a military leader on the African continent. [/b]

“The biggest problem here is that the military simply doesn’t have enough warm bodies to both patrol our borders and participate in large-scale deployments it is committed to on the continent,” says defense analyst Helmoed Heitman, one of the authors of the defense review.

“Government desperately needs to make a decision about what role we want our military to play — either we’re going to be a regional force and then we have to really put the money and troops behind that, or we’re going to completely withdraw from the continent and lose our say in what happens there.”

An evolving military

The roots of the military crisis stretch deep into history, back to the first time that troops marched through Johannesburg streets patrolling for criminal activity.

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Then, “criminals” were largely anti-apartheid activists, and between the 1960s and the 1980s, the white government pumped funding into the military to suppress both rebellions within South Africa’s borders and to fight untrustworthy governments and rebels in surrounding nations. At its peak, the apartheid military had more than 100,000 active conscripts, and consumed 4.4 percent of national GDP, making it one of Africa’s largest and best trained fighting forces.

When South Africa became a democracy in the mid-1990s, however, the new African National Congress government faced down a tremendous task. It sought to merge the white military with guerilla soldiers who had once fought against it, and then to entirely re-script the role of the new force in a region where it had long fome

****modified ******force in a region where it had long fomented conflict, as in Angola and Namibia.

“Because up until then we had been so involved in African countries in such a negative way, Nelson Mandela’s role during his presidency was to say, we’re no longer going to intervene at all, unless specifically asked,” says John Stupart, editor of the African Defense Review. “Besides that, the Mandela presidency also had to be very focused on reuniting South Africa internally and promoting reconciliation, which had very little to do with establishing a foreign policy.”

In fact, he says, both Mr. Mandela and his successor, Thabo Mbeki, displayed little interest in South Africa’s involvement in foreign conflicts. Meanwhile, Mandela was working to undo South Africa’s violent history of exclusion by demilitarizing the borders, and shifting responsibility from the army to the police.

A budget shrinks

As the military rolled back in and outside of South Africa, its budget shrunk rapidly. Equipment began to age and go unreplaced — as did soldiers. From its height of 4.4 percent of GDP in the ‘80s, South African military spending today stands at just 1.2 percent of its GDP.

But as South African democracy sped through its second decade, the problems in the rest of the continent could not be ignored. Its leadership, too, grew more and more concerned with the legacy of isolationism they were building, Mr. Stupart says.

Under the presidency of Mr. Mbeki and later his successor, Jacob Zuma, South Africa began committing troops to peacekeeping missions and interventions in Burundi, the Comoros, Sudan, and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

“There’s been a rising call for Africa to provide solutions to its own military conflicts, of which there are many,” says Jaco Theunissen, spokesman for the South African Navy. “That has increasingly become our focus because we recognize that we are a part of this continent and its stability.”

Spreading SANDF thin

As the military deployed across the continent, police control of the borders had proven an abysmal failure. “The borders were basically porous,” says Mr. Heitman. And so, in 2009, a year after the country faced the worst bout of xenophobic attacks in its history, SANDF was once again handed responsibility for patrolling the frontiers.

“Government seems to have absorbed the message from the masses that the reason foreigners in this country are attacked is because border control has been too lax,” says Loren Landau, founding director of the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand. “By that logic, the best way to assist foreigners is to arrest them.”

The return to military border control, however, coincided with multiple foreign deployments that experts say have stretched SANDF nearly to a breaking point.

In addition to the 2500 border control troops, another 1400 are currently serving in the “Force Intervention Brigade” in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, while 850 more are deployed to Sudan. South Africa has also pledged to be among the first contributing nations to the African Union’s temporary standby force — the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crises — requiring additional soldiers to be available for rapid deployment on a rotating basis.

The number of soldiers required for these projects may seem small for an Army of more than 40,000 troops. But factor in the support personnel, the training between deployments, and VARIOUS health issues — including a high incidence of HIV among soldiers -- and the number of available troops quickly shrinks, says Andre Roux, a consultant to the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria.

“For every combat soldier you need three people behind them in service,” Mr. Roux says. “And then for every soldier on the ground you need three total — one there, one preparing from deployment, and one recovering from their previous deployment. So when you put these parameters down suddenly you find you don’t have t

mzilakazi:
DEBT IS DEBT, WHETHER EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL.

YOU HAVE $63 BILLION BILL TO ATTEND TO.