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First Tunisian air force turkish TAI Anka-S drone ready to be delivered ,Tunisia ordered 3 drones with 3 ground control stations with possibility of 3 more drones
The Tunisian variant as seen in the picture can be controlled with satellite which increase its controlling range to 5000km

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btm86yDhCTs&lc=UgxeDSacjj_HmR4Ec494AaABAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1QrCueV41o&lc=UgzTuQE3qB08kvpTVQt4AaABAg

another class with 50m length is in the last phase of development

This is the 4th patrol boat P213 Eljem after the prototype Istiklal p201 floated in 2015 and in 2018 two others followed p211 and p212 Utique and Kerkouane, the 5th P214 Doga will be floated also this year and construction will finish soon

The Tunisian MoD attended Last week the float out ceremony of the Patrol Boat "El Jem", the 4th out of 7 Istiklal class Patrol Boats manufactured locally.
The Istiklal class is built in collaboration between the MoD and the #Tunisian shipbuilding company SCIN.
Specs:
Length: 27.5 m
Beam: 5.8 m
Draft: 1.26 m
Speed: 26 knots
Range: 600 miles
Complement: 18 officers
Armament: 1x 20 mm gun and 2x 12.7 mm machine guns

Tunisian air force c130 unit in Mali minusma accompanied with air force special forces unit RCA

Tunisian air force uh-60 and oh-58 above ancient ruins of Sbeitla in Tunisia

Tunisian Navy

Tunisian army

Tunisian air force

Tunisian air force C130 H dispatched in Mali MINUSMA with air force special Operators RCA

Today Tunisia launched it's first locally made satellite Tahadi 1 (Challenge 1) by Russian Soyuz-2 rocket
the Tunisian communication satellite ChallengeOne was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on a Russian launch vehicle. This unit will be the first in a constellation of 30 Tunisian satellites equipped with advanced communications equipment.

Martian:
How does the term “sub Saharan” help the U.N. better direct and meet every regions challenges?
How does Madagascar’s challenges compare to Nigeria. Does Botswana need the U.N. as much as Somalia?

Aegions there are sub regions frica consists of 54 countries, so maybe they should identify which one they are talking about. If the current Arab residents of Africa want to separate themselves, then refer to North Africa when talking about the countries they occupy and refer to Africa when talking about countries in the West, East, and South, and when you are talking about the whole continent. If you one needs to refer to a particular country, then use the name of the country.

When you say the “U.N.” came up with the classification, keep it in mind that the actual person(s) responsible are likely from the cultures that came up with the term “sub human”.

Because North Africa is culturally very different from The rest of Africa and the Sahara desert is responsible for that it separates the continent almost into 2 main regions and in these regions there are sub regions like in North Africa the Maghreb region is different than Egypt but still they have a lot in common that's how things works take Asia, no one is saying Indians are not Asians because they're different from the rest of it or even middle east its an Asian region like east Asia and south east Asia yet they're rarely mentioned together because of the deep difference in term of everything and no one complaining and labeling it as racist and European supremacy, honestly discussing such things really weird... Again Africa is big but geography dictated that there's a big barrier separate the continent it's not wrong in using it as marker.

Martian:
https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-people-realize-that-sub-Saharan-is-a-racist-term
I don’t suspect you’ll ever get an honest answer from those who entire worldview is based on African/Black degradation as clearly demonstrated by the responses here. To answer your question, they cannot EVER accept that “sub-sahara” is a racist concoction because then it means they are not responsible for what they claim: building modern civilization. The western world is build on the delusion that nothing happened in the world until Europe rose up however, nothing could be further from the truth. The “sub-sahara” theory and its beginnings are WELL DOCUMENTED. Many Europeans scholars have written extensively on the supposed inferiority of the “negro” (a term making its 1st appearance in mid 1800’s) and it is during the worldwide development of racism/white supremacy that the bogus “sub-saharan” race theory was crafted. The racist theory surmises that Africans had never developed out of barbarism and therefore were too primitive to cross the desert to build Egypt…they didn’t have shoes to deal with the hot sand, one comment even claimed. There is a good 4-part documentary called Racism - A History for those on here claiming sub-sahara is just a geographical marker separate from the race theory that was developed at the same time.




https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/what-exactly-does-%E2%80%98sub-sahara-africa%E2%80%99-mean
The widespread use of ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ makes no sense and is undoubtedly a racist geopolitical signature.

It appears increasingly fashionable in the West for a number of broadcasters, websites, news agencies, newspapers and magazines, the United Nations/allied agencies and some governments, writers and academics to use the term ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ to refer to all of Africa except the five predominantly Arab states of north Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt) and the Sudan, a north-central African country. Even though its territory is mostly located south of the Sahara Desert, the Sudan is excluded from the ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ tagging by those who promote the use of the epithet because the regime in power in Khartoum describes the country as ‘Arab’ despite its majority African population.

But the concept ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ is absurd and misleading, if not a meaningless classificatory schema. Its use defies the science of the fundamentals of geography but prioritises hackneyed and stereotypical racist labelling. It is not obvious, on the face of it, which of the four possible meanings of the prefix ‘sub’ its users attach to the ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ labelling. Is it ‘under’ the Sahara Desert or ‘part of’/‘partly’ the Sahara Desert? Or, presumably, ‘partially’/‘nearly’ the Sahara Desert or even the very unlikely (hopefully!) application of ‘in the style of, but inferior to’ the Sahara Desert, especially considering that there is an Arab people sandwiched between Morocco and Mauritania (northwest Africa) called Saharan?

PRE-LIBERATION SOUTH AFRICA

The example of South Africa is appropriate here. Prior to the formal restoration of African majority government in 1994, South Africa was never designated ‘sub-Sahara Africa’, unlike the rest of the 13 African-led states in southern Africa, which were also often referred to at the time as the ‘frontline states’. South Africa then was either termed ‘white South Africa’ or the ‘South Africa sub-continent’ (as in the ‘India sub-continent’ usage, for instance), meaning ‘almost’/‘partially’ a continent - quite clearly a usage of ‘admiration’ or ‘compliment’ employed by its subscribers to essentially project and valorise the perceived geostrategic potentials or capabilities of the erstwhile regime.

But soon after the triumph of the African freedom movement there, South Africa became ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ in the quickly adjusted schema of this representation. What happened suddenly to South Africa’s geography for it to be so differently classified? Is it African liberation/rule that renders an African state ‘sub-Sahara’? Does this post-1994 West-inflected South Africa-changed classification make ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ any more intelligible? Interestingly, just as in the South Africa ‘sub-continent’ example, the application of the ‘almost’/‘partially’ or indeed ‘part of’/‘partly’ meaning of prefix ‘sub-’ to ‘Sahara Africa’ focuses unambiguously on the following countries of Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, each of which has 25-75 per cent of its territory (especially to the south) covered by the Sahara Desert. It also focuses on Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and the Sudan, which variously have 25-75 per cent of their territories (to the north) covered by the same desert. In effect, these 10 states would make up sub-Sahara Africa.

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, the five Arab north Africa countries, do not, correctly, describe themselves as Africans even though they unquestionably habituate African geography, the African continent, since the Arab conquest and occupation of this north one-third of African territory in the 7th century CE. The Western governments, press and the transnational bodies (which are led predominantly by Western personnel and interests) have consistently ‘conceded’ to this Arab cultural insistence on racial identity. Presumably, this accounts for the West’s non-designation of its ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ dogma to these countries as well as the Sudan, whose successive Arab-minority regimes since January 1956 have claimed, but incorrectly, that the Sudan ‘belongs’ to the Arab world. On this subject, the West does no doubt know that what it has been engaged in, all along, is blatant sophistry and not science. This, however, conveniently suits its current propaganda packaging on Africa, which we shall be elaborating on shortly.

It would appear that we still don’t seem to be any closer to establishing, conclusively, what its users mean by ‘sub-Sahara Africa’. Could it, perhaps, just be a benign reference to all the countries ‘under’ the Sahara, whatever their distances from this desert, to interrogate our final, fourth probability? Presently, there are 53 so-called sovereign states in Africa. If the five north Africa Arab states are said to be located ‘above’ the Sahara, then 48 are positioned ‘under’. The latter would therefore include all the five countries mentioned above whose north frontiers incorporate the southern stretches of the desert (namely, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and the Sudan), countries in central Africa (the Congos, Rwanda, Burundi, etc., etc), for instance, despite being 2000-2500 miles away, and even the southern African states situated 3000-3500 miles away. In fact, all these 48 countries, except the Sudan (alas, not included for the plausible reason already cited), which is clearly ‘under’ the Sahara and situated within the same latitudes as Mali, Niger and Chad (i.e., between 10 and 20 degrees north of the equator), are all categorised by the ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ users as ‘sub-Sahara Africa’.

2012 WORLDWIDE CLASSIFICATORY SCHEMA?

To replicate this obvious farce of a classification elsewhere in the world, the following random exercise is not such an indistinct scenario for universal, everyday, referencing:


1. Australia hence becomes ‘sub-Great Sandy Australia’ after the hot deserts that cover much of west and central Australia.

2. East Russia, east of the Urals, becomes ‘sub-Siberia Asia’.

3. China, Japan and Indonesia are reclassified ‘sub-Gobi Asia’.

4. Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam become ‘sub-Himalaya Asia’.

5. All of Europe is ‘sub-Arctic Europe’.

6. Most of England, central and southern counties, is renamed ‘sub-Pennines Europe’.


7. East/southeast France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia are ‘sub-Alps Europe’.

8. The Americas become ‘sub-Arctic Americas’.

9. All of South America, south of the Amazon, is proclaimed ‘sub-Amazon South America’; Chile could be ‘sub-Atacama South America’.

10. Most of New Zealand’s South Island is renamed ‘sub-Southern Alps New
Zealand’.


11. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama become ‘sub-Rocky North America’.

12. The entire Caribbean becomes ‘sub-Appalachian Americas’.

RACIST CODING

So, rather than some benign construct, ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ is, in the end, an outlandish nomenclatural code that its users employ to depict an African-led ‘sovereign’ state - anywhere in Africa, as distinct from an Arab-led one. More seriously to the point, ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ is employed to create the stunning effect of a supposedly shrinking African geographical landmass in the popular imagination, coupled with the continent’s supposedly attendant geostrategic global ‘irrelevance’.

‘Sub-Sahara Africa’ is undoubtedly a racist geopolitical signature in which its users aim repeatedly to present the imagery of the desolation, aridity, and hopelessness of a desert environment. This is despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of one billion Africans do not live anywhere close to the Sahara, nor are their lives so affected by the implied impact of the very loaded meaning that this dogma intends to convey. Except this steadily pervasive use of ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ is robustly challenged by rigorous African-centred scholarship and publicity work, its proponents will succeed, eventually, in substituting the name of the continent ‘Africa’ with ‘sub-Sahara Africa’ and the name of its peoples, ‘Africans’, with ‘sub-Sahara Africans’ or, worse still, ‘sub-Saharans’ in the realm of public memory and reckoning.

In north Africa we identify as Africans in fact we are Africa literally... And for the love of god stop treating Africa as a country with one people and same culture it's a continent with various regions and sooo many countries and people and cultures and languages and sometimes they're so different from each other so that's why UN use this terms to better dissect and meet every region's challenges which do differ a lot from area to another and even country to another.

Tunisian Uh-1 equipped with thermal cam and a rocket launcher

Tunisian army ejder and humvee

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Tunisian infantry

Tunisian navy

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

Tunisia will host with Morocco, Senegal and Spain the multinational exercise "African Lion", scheduled for next June, General Christopher G. Cavoli, U.S. Army Commander for Europe and Africa said Tuesday.

Speaking at a media teleconference, organized to present these exercises, General Cavoli said the African Lion will be a good opportunity to enhance the interoperability of the military forces of the countries taking part.

"This exercise aims, essentially, to strengthen military cooperation between participating countries to respond to crises (conflicts) that may arise as well as terrorist threats to countries in the region," he added.

He further indicated that these maneuvers will include air-land, naval and air exercises, in addition to medical actions for the inhabitants of the regions concerned.

Major General and Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army for Europe and Africa, Andrew M. Rohling said Tunisia will host the majority of maneuvers that will take place during the exercise "African Lion".

Rohlin said Tunisia is "a strategic military ally for the United States".

Cancelled in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the new edition of the African Lion will see the participation of nearly 10 thousand soldiers of several countries, including the United States, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, said the Commander.

General Christopher G. Cavoli, U.S. Army Commander for Europe and Africa and his deputy Andrew M. Rohling, will visit Tunis on Wednesday to discuss preparations for the "African Lion", a source at the Ministry of National Defence told TAP.

The U.S. Army decided in November 2020 to merge the military commands in Europe and Africa into the new U.S. Army Command for Europe and Africa.

The move aimed to increase command and control effectiveness, flexibility and the ability to conduct large-scale multinational and joint exercises.

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Tunisian army on Libya's border

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Tunisian SF and Turkish SF conducted exercise in Ankara between 17-25 January in order to enhance the friendship & collaboration, share knowledge and experience, and improve cooperation and coordination

It's not another revolution... every year these kind of protests erupts in Tunisia... but these ones are bit stronger because of the economic crisis due to covid-19... honestly I don't recommend a revolution in Nigeria its a real headache I can't see Nigeria getting out of it other than like Libya

rka1:
Apart from that video being an old one, would this video below of the Egyptian Army be enough to call for restructuring?

More examples of longstanding tactical frailties in North Sinai:

No security, zero situational awareness, unarmed, abstaining from protective equipment, and poor reaction to enemy fire. pic.twitter.com/5F9UHUfx1X

— Egypt Defence Review (@EgyptDefReview) January 9, 2021

yes ofc it does they Egyptian army is having a big issues in Sanai and they have to change their tactics and training to adapt to that... compared to their capabilities the Egyptians are failing big time there but that's due to the fact that because of camp David agreement the Egyptians had no right to deploy there army in Sinai until recently so their armed groups got out hands even before the revolution... the problem with the Egyptians they rely a lot on conscripts more so than regular soldiers and well trained ones and as I said they have all the means to succeed but still they fail because they're very slow at adapting.

mekussa:
So you mean that in these armies you mentioned no unit EVER fought like was shown in the video?
You also mean the video is a GENERAL reflecion of how the Nigerian army fights(such that they need to be restructured)?
You mean ALL soldiers act 100% the way they are trained to act under fire?

You were the one that shared a link to a 22 second video and inferred by your comments that that was how the NIGERIAN ARMY as a whole was fighting ISWAP which has made them not win the war yet. FOR F--,KS SAKE ..... A 22 SECOND VIDEO !!!!!

If the ONLY point you got from my post was that there was nothing wrong,I just have to salute you and leave it at that.

for god sake look at how they hold their rifles ! how a soldier with the bare minimum of training would hold his rifle like that ? lets say a single one did not attend training but look at them all of them how they are... maybe Nigeria have some good special forces unit but a bunch of soldiers act like that in the front line is very alarming and do reflect on the entire army whether you like it or not it does raises a lot of question what kind of training did they get ?! why they don't wear protective gear ? why some of the is wearing a red Tshirt ?!

Fynline:
Are the countless real life documentaries from the second world war to date Hollywood movies too? Fachfouch raised SOME valid points

I mean I hope you guys don't find this offensive but this is the truth, I m not Nigerian I m Tunisian and we had similar problems in the 2013 until 2015
it was chaotic in Tunisia after the revolution thousands of Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and even Somalia AQMI veterans (terrorists) were all set free in an amnesty after years of prison thinking that they did not have fair trials during the dictatorship of Ben Ali but soon they proved to be a huge danger and formed armed groups using weapons smuggled from a civil war torn Libya... they attacked army bases in the mountains and slaughtered a good number of bad equipped/trained and very marginalized Tunisian army soldiers (because Ben Ali feared a coup d'état he neglected and defunded the army) and they literally took the mountains to themselves a lot of unnecessary casualties among the Tunisian armed forces mainly due to land mines and ambushes deep in the mountains... so an ambitious plan to modernize the army occurred first they got new Mraps which I don't think the NAF lacks
improved drastically the training (with all the NATO nations and neighboring countries who have exp with these type of wars such as Algeria) increased the number of exercises formed new special forces groups and even new army Battalions improved recons (new helis and drones and recon units )and medevac ofc also improved personal equipment until TAF soldiers became one of the best equipped army in North Africa and in just 2 years the Tunisian army turned from defense to offense and AQMI/ISIS from hundreds of terrorists to less than twenty now still struggle and getting constantly ambushed and never been able to manage a single attack... the situation in the mountains was a shit show but TAF learned quickly from their mistakes and adapted by addressing the issues and solving them... unlike Nigeria Tunisia was surrounded by 2 terrorist groups AQMI/ISIS in the western mountains and ISIS in the eastern front in Libya.

mekussa:
This clip shows how the NIGERIAN ARMY in its entirety fights?

This Twenty- something second clip helped you conclude that the WHOLE army needs rebuilding and restructuring?

Even in the movies you don't see teams where everyone is calm and calculated under fire not to talk of real life.

Show me an army that doesn't have this kind of reaction from its men under fire and I'll show you an army that's not fighting a war.

BTW, since they were judged on a less than 30 second clip, can you tell us who won? The fact that the clip made it out shows they survived and if they survived. It means the boko boiz didn't.

I'LL TAKE THIS KIND OF FIGHTING AND THE ASSOCIATED VICTORY 10 TIMES A DAY over Hollywood standard fighting with losses.

No one is talking about Hollywood fighting and yes a single brigade... a single soldier should represent the entire army we're talking here equipment, uniforms and even how they behave in this video... if you don't see a problem here than you really should reconsider... this clip do prove how inefficient the war has been and prove the losses even when you win a battle it does cost you a lot of unnecessary lives and generally the situation in Nigeria does not prove to be well handled at all... they are still struggling with ISIS a lot.
you're talking like there are 2 ways of fighting the what you call "Hollywood" style and this -_- so how the US army is fighting like this ? how the French are fighting ? how the Russians are fighting ? how did the Iraqis win over ISIS ? I don't think they used the Hollywood style or the Nigerian style they acted as an organized well trained militaries not like this in fact in order to win over ISIS the Iraqis changed their plans and fired a lot of their useless generals and formed and trained with the US new units and bought new equipment in order to reclaim their lands because this style of fighting expectedly proved stupid and useless and made the army collapse in front of a militias.

The Nigerian army fighting ISIS ... pic.twitter.com/B1posdzmTM

— Pieter Van Ostaeyen (@p_vanostaeyen) January 14, 2021

honestly Nigeria have to rebuild and restructure its army this is very bad... this is not how you fight in a war...

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Tunisian army in Snow