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Faithful007:
With the way things are in America, the administration that will send US military to fight a war in Africa, will lose the presidency and that party will not get it back for at least 20 years.

Despite placing our order, we still haven’t received the Vipers. Our leadership is left pleading, which is truly disheartening. This kind of treatment explains why smaller countries often turn to Russian or Chinese technology. South Africa is fortunate to have developed its own helicopters and aircraft indigenously which is the route we should go.

kabe1:
The war between Israel and Iran is another reminder, nobody goes to war alone.

If you're going to go to war, build a coalition, when the US eventually, inevitably enters this war, it would be done and dusted for all of Iran's conventional capabilities.

They'll have to switch to guerrilla tactics in the event of a ground invasion. Also apart from the war in Korea and Vietnam, it's always better to be a US ally than a Russian or Chinese ally.

Good, our politicians in Nigeria understand this.

It's almost impossible for Russia and China to provide you enough military support to stay in a fight. Both countries are able to defend themselves, but they lack the capability to project power beyond their respective regions unlike the US.

I just hope our military planners are taking important lessons from the various conventional conflicts going on across the globe.

Also there's been no evidence showing aircraft losses by the IDF.

Especially when you take into account Iran has what's considered to be a good Ground Based Air Defence System.

lol, they will project power for an African country and they haven’t given us viper heli since we ordered it. Our leaders had to organize a meeting reminder

kabe1:
No, that's not the case here, Rueters and Indian media are confirming Jets downed.

Alright

kabe1:
In less than 12 hours, India have lost at least 5 fighter aircraft, possibly more, to Pakistan.

3 x Rafale, SU-30 and MIG-29

This is the most aircraft that have been lost by India in a conflict since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

No confirmation, just propaganda.

What's happening in Kenya btw? Kenyans in the house @ntsa

Exnavyboy62:
He’s not Nigerian, he’s South African 😂💔
Sha take it easy with your cooking and roasting…
You are passionate about your opinion, there’s no denying that, but you don’t have to add insults too

Btw what greengold said with regards about Russia use of infantry is true. Just dump them on bmps like sardines and drones finishes them off

NTSA:
Russia's performance so far has certainly challenged its reputation as a major military power.

Lol, Supposed Ukraine inwhich they are fighting is armed by the richest 32 nations with their experts on seat managing the war for them. With not just conventional weapons but top-notch cruise missiles and ballistics with more that hasn't been disclosed. Also has the isr of NATO at its beck and call. Honestly they are doing quite well and adapting with the state of their military that was riddled with corruption and mistakes from the beginning of the conflict.

Drones have drastically changed modern warfare, particularly impacting infantry movement and transportation, which has led to a significant increase in casualty rates in the ukr-rus conflict. If insurgents in Africa begin utilizing drones for activities such as grenade drops, how do we solve such situations? As much as we have to delve into making those drones, we need to also look into countermeasures for them

Lurker4Long:
Exactly. 2 descriptors of Russia that I've found to contain some truth, after multiple visits over a decade:

1) "Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) with nuclear weapons";

2) "A gas station with a government".

They are improving at a rapid pace from what I'm seeing. Also air defences are trained, you don't use s400 for a drone threat. It's a long range defense system. Patriot early days in Saudi Arabia during the Iranian drone attacks also failed. It's the pac3 type patriot missile that was perfected
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-refineries-drone-attack.html

neyobills:
Its cost only 20K USD per flight hour so u can do the math on how cheap the operational costs can get

Dey play

Shaytun:
The Russians are definitely messing with the french, they have effectively limit the french influence in the Sahel.

I think that’s what their aim is here.

How did south Africa deal with angola with their Soviet air defence system, so a battle striken Russia can afford to send enough spetssnaz able to counteract our army. There's strength in numbers

Rather than addressing the imminent departure of Mali and Burkina Faso from ECOWAS. Our focus is on the distant Israeli-Palestinian situation. Geopolitically what does it signify for Nigeria and Africa as a whole

bidexiii:
Al-Shabaab (sub-group of Al-Qaeda) militants ambushed Ethiopian Forces in Rabdhure/Bakool Region.
Allegedly more than 200 Ethiopian soldiers were killed or captured.

Militants also seized vehicles including Chinese Norinco WZ534 (Type 89 / ZSD-89) AFV, technical with ZU-23-2 autocannon and a Ural-375 truck.

All of a sudden terrorist had superpowers

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Bacteria8:
Looks like I'm a prophet 😅😅😅

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Nemesis4you:
LCA Mk1/Mk1A
General Electric F404-IN20 afterburning turbofan with FADEC

LCA Mk2
General Electric F414-INS6 afterburning turbofan with FADEC

Alright, my sincere congrats to India; great strides recently especially your space missions

Nemesis4you:
Astra mk1 bvraam test fire from lca mk1

Wow what engine is the LCA using?

Before we go into full whatever special operations in Niger, it's better we understand what really caused the problems. Honestly, you will find out it has a huge similarity with what Nigeria is currently facing. Basically unsatisfied tribes. The french guy basically predicted the Niger coup.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hmXnUKxiC0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVPww3GUT-A

AskiaHarem:
Wealthy Jihadist

I feel an action leads to another, especially with regards to the destabilization of middle-east and northern Africa. Which leads to influx of weapons to the black-market that wealthy jihadists uses to cause chaos.

fserpent:
Why is it his job or anybodies job for that matter, to sponsor your education and enlightenment on this issue? If you don't know who are the sponsors of Jihadist feel free to go back to the cave from whence you crawled out from with your ridiculous illiterate question.

Lol, why do you guys delve to insults to feel you can amplify your point, I asked a simple question; who are the sponsors? It's his decision to answer or snub the question. Someone else said wealthy jihadists, did he insult? Or he has 2 heads. Behave yourself, no qualms with you.

Lurker4Long:
Another excellent article from Van Niekerk!


The rest here:
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-08-04-a-dangerous-moment-for-west-africa-as-niger-coup-fuels-escalation-of-regional-jihadist-wars/

And who are the sponsors of jihadist?

Lurker4Long:
Vlad the Thug has completely lost the plot. On the eve of the Russia-Africa summit he kiboshes the only thing -apart from weapons- his shithole country can trade with about 12 countries on the continent. And then wonders why only 29 show up, compared to the 40+ at the last summit. Then he rants about colonialism and proceeds to offer trinkets, like any other colonialist.

RSA (fertiliser is the only thing of worth we buy from Vlad's decrepit "gas station with a govt/nukes" -and since March 2022 we've found other suppliers, thereby relegating that backwater further down from the 58th largest trading partner with which it competed with that leviathan Malawi), Egypt (major buyer of Ukrainian grain and Russian weapons, and not worth pissing off because of such minor geo-strategic concerns as Camp David, Libya, Sudan etc) and Kenya (pres Ruto deliberately down-rated his participation by sending his Foreign Minister - who told Vlad that pulling out of the deal was "a stab in the back" represent far more of African economic power than Russia will ever do.

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Faithful007:
African leaders are just wierd people. Russia broke out of this deal promising to give free grains to only six countries in Africa, five of which are his allies.

Yet only two countries, Egypt and South Africa voiced opposition to it. Two countries with the highest Global Food Security Index and Economic Complexity Index scores in Africa, who these things should bother less.

The debts that they supposedly forgave, it is obvious that Africa can't afford to pay them now

Lurker4Long:

Grain deal that doesn't benefit them. Them giving d grains means they are not going allow it anytime soon

SealTeam6:
You have been enlightened over and over again here only if you are not so overconfident in your own ignorance. Watch some of the links they posted above and learn a thing or two.

Bro is an American, nothing you will explain that will enter his head

Shaytun:
Russia’s quest to secure a buyer for its fifth-generation Su-75 Checkmate fighter jet appears to yield results, with Nigeria reportedly showing keen interest in acquiring this single-engine stealth aircraft.


https://www.eurasiantimes.com/su-75-checkmate-russia-finds-a-potential-customer-for-its/?amp

Lol, we have not finished buying j-17, it is checkmate that hasn't been developed yet

Odunayaw:
Very frustrating stuff

I can't but be disgusted at the neighbourhood and Nigeria's foreign policy

Foreign policy is very baddd

Isn't the coups in Africa too much. Right at Nigerias' doorstep, we have Niger. Is it Russia enabled?

Off-topic, alligators seems to be reclaiming back it's title as the best attack helis due to its long rang strike ability in contested air space

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraines-armor-appears-to-have-a-russian-attack-helicopter-problem

https://www.ft.com/content/d8fe8941-3703-433d-ac7a-dab9ba500481

Nemesis4you:
Su75 ?

I thought the program failed, I feel sukhoi is underperforming and Mig will be far more effective if the Rus stop playing politics

Nemesis4you:
After a long time eh

Welcome back bruh

Faithful007:
I don't have any pity for African countries who house Wagner. Their resources will be heavily exploited to help fund this new war.

I said it, There's something sketchy about that Prizoghine guy. He is just hungry for power