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GreenandGold:
China, UAE, South Africa, Nigeria.... this is too many countries supplying a vehicle that you are already making.

GreenandGold:
China, UAE, South Africa, Nigeria.... this is too many countries supplying a vehicle that you are already making.

GreenandGold:
I actually lost count on the number of MPRAPs you actually post over the years, its almost a dozen.

According to what I understand, for each vehicle that is deployed in battle, a dedicated support team has to be deployed as well.. Countries like the US who have a $700bn military budget can field half a dozen vehicles because they are swimming in cash, Russia tried the same thing and ended up ditching the vehicles on battle fields because they don't have the technical support for each and every vehicle they deployed.

Coming back to Africa, SA deployed only 2 MRAPs in Angola (the Baffel and Casspir), and you know we were the HQ of that tech in the 80s but logistic support instructs something else.

GreenandGold:
Nigeria is making MRAPs already, there's no need to buy them from a foreign supplier who could one day not give you spare parts should they get pressured by the West, unless your military bosses and politicians are currently getting kickbacks from overseas companies.

GreenandGold:
Nigeria is making MRAPs already, there's no need to buy them from a foreign supplier who could one day not give you spare parts should they get pressured by the West, unless your military bosses and politicians are currently getting kickbacks from overseas companies.

GreenandGold:
Buying is easy, maintenance is hard. I also noticed that you buy any MPRAP from anywhere and field it like that. I don't think you consider logistics support for these multiple vehicles during deployment, long term maintenance (spares, computer boxes, chips, sensors, etc) of these different types of vehicles.

QuietMynd:
I don't think that is the FLIR working,
Rather the live event was transmitted via a secured network link. Just like how drone broadcast live footage to the ground station, something like that

NTSA:
Queens jubilee

NTSA:
The 33 were the last batch to be delivered totaling around 110.

Stargate254:
They were meant for S.Sudan, Then the ship got hijacked by Somali Pirates back then, then the ships manifest was revealed to everyone by the pirates and it became an international incident...
With Kenya risking being exposed for breaking an amrs embargo that had been put in place by the US on Sudan for supporting Bin Laden and Alqaeda , Kenya had to save face by pretending publicly that the tanks were meant for Kenya and not S.Sudan...
So long story short, The tanks got stuck with us or is it we got stuck with the tanks ?

The funny thing though is that the CIA knew that we were secretely facilitating the arming of SPLM (the CIA even participated in the training of SPLM on how to use these weapons) to enebale them defend themselves against khatoum govt in the fight for self rule but when it was exposed by pirates, the US threw Kenya under the bus, their state department was even considering sanctions against Kenya and Ukraine... But the US Congress investigation is what revealed the truth about US involvement, and in the end they had no choice but to develop selective amnesia and forget the whole thing.

kabe1:
ACTIVITIES MARKING THE CONDUCT OF REGIONAL MARITIME EXERCISE AT SEA ON 31 MAY 22

Buschlaid:
These? They are definitely not owned by South Sudan.

Buschlaid:
Weird they didn't show KDF's T-72B1 tanks

Odunayaw:
My wallpaper for the month

Balogunodua:
What are their length sir?

kabe1:
NIGERIAN NAVY 66TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS, FLAG OFF REGIONAL MARITIME EXERCISE (EX EDI - DIANA) BY THE CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF GEN LUCKY IRABOR, ONBOARD NIGERIAN NAVY SHIP OKPABANA 30 MAY 2022.