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jl115:
My bru these crimes specifically are being committed by illegal immigrants since the border fence borders these farms and its very easy to see where wires are cut and out of which camps livestock is stolen....please use a little logic next time you muppet

Also these photos and the description of the operation was posted by the SANDF... Not me

It makes sense that Saffer thieves would go to the farms on Lesotho border, cut the border fence and herd livestock to Lesotho!
Higher grade logic that's beyond us mere mortals' comprehension!
And of course, when they are apprehended, charges of illegal entry into SA are added to stock theft, just for shits and giggles!

SANDF help recover crashed UN UAV in the DRC

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has helped recover a crashed Falco Evo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated by the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monusco).

The aircraft (UN897) came down in Virunga National Park on 4 November but thanks to the deployment of a ballistic parachute, landed with minimal damage.

South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers deployed with Monusco helped recover the aircraft, which was subsequently loaded into a net and transported by a South African Air Force (SAAF) Oryx helicopter back to Beni.

Lieutenant General Marcos de Sá Affonso da Costa, Monusco Force Commander, said on his official Twitter account that he was grateful to the military unit that facilitated the recovery of the aircraft.

“The drone was on a reconnaissance air mission when it developed a mechanical problem,” he stated.

This is not the first time Monusco has lost a Falco – on 20 October 2014, one of the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Goma airport. Another was damaged in mid-January 2014 after it ‘slipped off the runway’.

The United Nations deployed five Falcos to Goma in December 2013 in the organisation’s first UAV deployment. After their first year of operations, they were described as proving themselves useful, giving Monusco a responsive, controlled, and timely source of information, particularly in terms of supplementing the force’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance efforts against the illegal activities of armed groups.

Thick forests, rugged terrain and the scarcity of roads on Congo’s eastern border with Rwanda and Uganda have complicated efforts by Monusco to control the area, and the addition of the UAVs means the UN can better monitor remote areas of the DRC and target rebel groups like the M23.

The UAVs have also saved lives – in May 2014, a Falco picked up images of people in danger after a boat capsized in Lake Kivu near Goma. Thanks to the alert, UN peacekeepers were able to intervene and 14 people were rescued, although at least one died.

The Falco is an unarmed, medium-altitude, medium-endurance UAV able to operate from semi-prepared airstrips. The aircraft has a range of 250 km which can be extended via optional upgrades.

The UAV has a 490 kg maximum take-off weight, including a 70 kg payload, and an operating endurance of up to 14 hours.

The larger Falco Evo, which first flew in 2018, has a payload capacity of up to 100 kg and an extended endurance of up to 18 hours. The Falco Evo replaced the smaller Falco in the DRC in 2019. Since 2018, the Evo has also been flying in Europe, supporting maritime surveillance, beginning with the European Frontex mission. Over 60 Falco UAVs are in operation around the world, according to manufacturer Leonardo (previously Selex).
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/aerospace/aerospace-aerospace/sandf-help-recover-crashed-un-uav-in-the-drc/

kikuyu1:
Ruto is a go getter. The ex prez was always lazy and liked whisky too much to be a true performer despite being exposed,educated and smart. WTF is he attending ANC conferences? Btw,any rumours of his sobriety at these conferences?

Finally, visa-free travel to SA for Kenyans! Took us long enough to reciprocate.
Stats prove that of all Commonwealth African countries, Kenyans are least likely to overstay on their business, tourist and student visas in SA.

kabe1:
This Thread is not Skyscrapercity.com!!!!

Kikuyu1, I see Ruto invited Ramaphosa for the first state visit he's hosting. With Uhuru even attending ANC conferences I was worried that kind of closeness might backfire.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QXFw36CCgE

GreenandGold:
You people of the Cape like showing off... Meanwhile the inland people

kikuyu1:
Dude...

There are kids here!

kikuyu1:
I see the last three pix are SOF!?

44 Pathfinder Platoon.

Nemesis4you:
Alone ?

Take a look and tell me you'd spend a weekend alone at this place!

...last.

X marks the spot!

Cargo drop

...last

kikuyu1:
...

BTW, something you've often lamented: our current exercise is a division-sized one.
Proper division of 12000-15000 pax.

Vuk’uhlome is flagship annual exercise for landward force
What the landward force is calling the “battle of the brigades” is expected to be a highlight of Exercise Vuk’uhlome currently underway at the Combat Training Centre (CTC), Lohathla, Northern Cape.

The exercise – the first at division level in the SA Army since formation in 1994 – is termed the “flagship annual exercise”. Apart from the brigade level component, Vuk’uhlome will see army Regular and Reserve Force elements exercise with support from the SA Air Force (SAAF). According to the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Directorate Corporate Communication (DCC) the exercise has an intervention phase, followed by peace support operations, the prestigious week (sic) with the brigade battle as centrepiece followed by a career exhibition (at a nearby school) with a community outreach project wrapping up proceeding on 22 November.

“Scenarios depicting typical war scenes will form part of the exercise which will enable the SA Army to measure its state of readiness in terms of discharging its mandate of preparing, providing and sustaining combat ready landward forces for employment by the Chief of the SANDF,” according to an official statement.

“The exercise will be carried out in collaboration with other services and divisions including Special Forces, SAAF, the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS), as well as the Defence Legal Service and Chaplain Service divisions.”
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence/sa-defence-sa-defence/vukuhlome-is-flagship-annual-exercise-for-landward-force/

PICS: Pathfinders and paratroops getting ready...

kikuyu1:
To reduce stress and concentrate on meaningful things I decided late last yr to save my mental energy for other things.

That's why this weekend I'll be hiking in the mountains and vineyards of Paarl, away from all electronic devices!

Tinfoil:
Given the endemic institutional corruption of KDF it will not take long before we start hearing of the DRC locals being extorted, women raped,....

The big bellied generals could not even equip them with things like thermal sights which would give them a tactical advantage over the rebels

Your obsession with Kenya and the KDF is unhealthy. On par with the other idiots here with SA in their small brains.

GreenandGold:
It was a bad weekend bro... We got smashed in all sports

It's a good thing 80% of my office now works remotely on a permanent basis.
Can you imagine the long faces on a Monday morning!?

Odunayaw:
Fifa World Cup is in 2weeks time and my country is just a spectator

Vawulence is the only option

We're also spectators, though I don't much care for football.
The Rugby World Cup starts in September and as defending champions, losses from now on are especially unacceptable.

Faithti:
Is that some kind of an armored rickshaw.

It's one of the ancestors of all V-shaped MRAPS!
Photo was taken at School of Armour Museum public fun day exhibition.

kabe1:
South African Army APC

That Buffel is a museum item. Buffels were replaced by the Mamba back in 1995. Only military still using them is Sri Lanka, using a variant known as the Unibuffel. Uganda's military also transferred theirs to the police.

Odunayaw:
I wish I knew much about your sport. I'd have trolled you

Instigating vawulence, comrade!

OFF-TOPIC:
Jl115, Greenandgold, kikuyu1, what an abysmal sporting weekend for us!
Cricket, Hong Kong 7s and full team rugger against Ireland
Glad I didn't watch any of it and instead went to listen to the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra at the Silo district!

jl115:
This guy

SA lives rent-free in the minds of some!

Lurker4Long:
After 10 days of talks at an undisclosed venue in Pretoria, looks like Ethiopia and the Tigrayans have reached agreement on a permanent truce.

AU Chief mediator Obasanjo expected to reveal details at a press conference sometime this evening.

Warring Ethiopian parties silence the guns by signing historic peace agreement in Pretoria

The Ethiopian government and its Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) enemies signed a historic peace agreement in Pretoria on Wednesday, committing to end two years of bitter and bloody warfare.

The warring parties agreed after 10 days of intense negotiations, “to permanently silence the guns”, to disarm and demobilise the combatants of the TPLF and to reintegrate them into the Ethiopian government army.

“The conflict has brought a tragic degree of loss of lives and livelihoods and it is in the interest of the entire people of Ethiopia to leave this chapter of conflict behind and live in peace and harmony,” the two sides said in a joint statement.

The chief mediator of the African Union-led peace talks, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, hailed the agreement as “the beginning of a new dawn for Ethiopia, for the Horn of Africa and indeed the whole of Africa”.

He also cautioned that the agreement was not the end of the peace process but just the beginning.

“Implementation of the peace agreement signed today is critical to the success of the process,” said Obasanjo.

The two-page, 12-paragraph “Agreement for the Lasting Peace and Permanent Cessation of Hostilities” also included a commitment by the federal government of Ethiopia to restore the services and humanitarian supplies it had cut off from the northern Tigray province during the war.

Both sides signed up for the restoration of law and order and the protection of civilians, especially women, children, and other vulnerable groups, Obasanjo explained at the signing ceremony in the venue of the peace talks, South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation.

In a joint statement read out by the head of the Ethiopian government negotiating team, Redwan Hussein, and the head of the TPLF negotiating team, Getachew Reda, the two sides said they had also agreed to implement transitional measures, including the restoration of constitutional order in Tigray, a framework for the settlement of political differences and a transitional justice policy framework to ensure accountability, truth, reconciliation and healing.

“To start implementing these undertakings without delay, we have agreed to stop all forms of conflicts and hostile propaganda,” the joint statement reads. The two sides urged all Ethiopians at home and abroad to support the agreement, to “stop voices of division and hate and mobilise their resources for economic recovery and rehabilitation of social bonds”.

The statement also significantly noted that “it is fundamental that we reaffirmed our commitment to safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ethiopia and to upholding the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

“Thus, Ethiopia has only one national defence force,” the agreement added, before describing how TPLF forces would be integrated into the national army. Reaffirming “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ethiopia” also underscored the TPLF’s commitment to a single Ethiopian state, relinquishing the secessionist tendencies which some had harboured.

South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Naledi Pandor, said the agreement “gives hope that as Africa we can silence the guns throughout the continent”. She said the cessation of hostilities must lead to enduring peace and South Africa was ready to continue supporting that process.

Pandor admitted she had been reluctant to host the talks but President Cyril Ramaphosa had insisted, saying South Africa had no choice. Obasanjo was supported in his mediation by former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and former South African deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.

The UN special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Hanna Tetteh, speaking for herself and the other observers to the talks — the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Mike Hammer, and the executive secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Workneh Gebeyehu — also stressed that the agreement was just the beginning of the peace process.

“Implementation will require greater collaboration and actions to build confidence, to return your beautiful and great country to peace. This is an opportunity to chart a new course. The young men and women who have been mobilised to fight will now have a chance to return to their homes and their families.

“They will not have to live with the fear that this day could be their last. And their families will bless you for creating the conditions for them to be with their children.”
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-11-02-warring-ethiopian-parties-silence-the-guns-by-signing-historic-peace-agreement-in-pretoria/

After 10 days of talks at an undisclosed venue in Pretoria, looks like Ethiopia and the Tigrayans have reached agreement on a permanent truce.

AU Chief mediator Obasanjo expected to reveal details at a press conference sometime this evening.

Nemesis4you:
If it works I will buy myself a beer and drink it in honour of their ingenuity

Nemesis4you:


Protection against loitering munitions atgms etc?

The heat source at the end of pole decoy against heat seeking systems?

Exnavyboy62:
If South Africa can export it's Casper MRAPs, Seeker UAVs, Umkhonto SAMs and other defence equipments with a young defence industry...

An industry that goes back to WW2 is young?

BTW, the Kalyani M4 is the Ind. version of the Paramount Mbombe 4.

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