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A giant has fallen.
WO1 Trevor Ian Floyd was one of the Dirty Dozen - the originals chosen to be the very first SA Special Forces operators all those decades ago.

kabe1:
South-African Navy Frigate and Submarine

That's one of the decommissioned Daphne-class subs which now functions as a museum.
The boat aft of her is a restaurant.

...last pic is Rooikat.

Throwback: evaluation of the Cheetah prototype which eventually became the Rooikat...

Kabe2:
Even from Across Africa, the South-African special forces operationally deployed in Burundi are not carrying side arms.

The main thing is tactics and can your special forces rapidly deploy.

Nigerian special forces in the last picture with a side arm.

I don't know how anyone can spot side arms from the pics you posted.
Anyway, some pics from the same Burundi mission.

Kabe2:
I though the IPVs have been suspended for now?

Who is building it, Paramount?

3 IPVs under construction by Damen Shipyards Cape Town.

It's the 3 OPVs which have been postponed.

Pic: proposed OPV

Kabe2:
Side view of what this South-African built ship would look like when completed.

Whilst they're busy with this on the East Coast in Durban, on the west coast in Cape Town they're not sitting idle.

3 IPVs under construction.

Kabe2:
Construction of SA Navy's Hydrographic Research Survey Vessel.

Today saw the erection of the H2A bow of the vessel.

A first for South Africa and the continent, the vessel would not only provide detailed mapping of the ocean floor and better geographical data for vessels such as submarines but would also have massive civilian benefits.

The guys at Southern African Shipyards are making good progress.
More photos and videos here:

https://www.facebook.com/SouthernAfricanShipyards/

Pic: the current hydrographic vessel, SAS Protea.

Kabe2:
South-African made Paramount Group Marauder MRAP, produced under licence as the Arlan in Khazkstan.

More...

shadowprimezero:
IS captures a Chinese Tiger APC in Cabo Delago in Mozambique. The situation is rapidly spiralling out of control. What on earth is the SADC doing

Your question should be, what on earth is the Mozambican government doing?
SADC works this way: the affected country evokes the mutual assistance protocol.
Mozambique's government, for whatever reason, hasn't done so. They first denied the seriousness of the issue; then employed Russian PMC Wagner, who got their arses handed to them; and now have employed Zimbabwean/RSA PMC Dyck Advisory Group.

New Team Pitches South Africa's Bronco II Light Attack Plane To American Special Operators

U.S. Special Operations Command wants to buy up to 75 light attack aircraft, starting with five in the next fiscal year.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33277/new-team-pitches-south-africas-bronco-ii-light-attack-plane-to-american-special-operators

Seen via Twitter:

I found this in the internet. It's a VT4 turret without it's armor modules installed + armor module on the floor. Armor is not very thick it seems, also these mounting holes in turret shows backplate is also not thick

https://mobile.twitter.com/DRatka1/status/1257351442857431040

kabe1:
Are you Frumentius?

You post exactly like him.

And I'm also Henry too, according to someone else.

More food for thought from the always excellent Peccavi.
Some take-aways on the so-called Super Camp strategy:

The Super Camp concept appears to have improved the survivability of Nigerian bases by concentrating forces in better defended locations. There is clearly a difficult balance between leaving troops in poorly defended positions to be overrun or protecting troops in larger camps but conceding ground to the enemy. Losing troops unnecessarily is clearly unsustainable, but the British Army’s experience of Platoon Houses in Helmand Province, Afghanistan has shown that well trained, well led troops with good fire support and logistics can defend small, far flung bases. In Nigeria’s case the Super Camp concept can only be a short term stop gap (if the Government ever truly wishes to eliminate Boko Haram); until the hinterlands are reoccupied with better planned, defended and resourced bases and/or deploying, highly mobile, flexible and heavily armed troops to dominate the ground.

...the enemy’s ability to move major forces from the Lake Chad area into central southern and eastern Borno speaks to their greater freedom of movement, which is most likely a consequence of the withdrawal of friendly forces into Super Camps. Whilst these camps afford greater protection to friendly forces, it abandons the civilian population to the enemy and allows them the freedom to move, manoeuvre, attack and sustain themselves over a wide swath of land.

Read the whole thing here:

https://peccaviconsulting./2020/02/13/boko-haram-iswaps-christmas-2019-offensive/

Centrifude:
Denel UAV armed with Air to Ground Missiles

Recently sold to UAE. Seeker 400 UAV fitted with an enlarged nose for a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and hump above the wing for beyond line of sight satellite communications link.

jln115:
Technically PMC(or rather mercenaries) are banned in SA so it will be very difficult to find more information on the subject, also i couldn't tell you if the Gazelle is South African or not!

But is it is certainly not outside the realms of possibility that these dudes might be South African

The Gazelle is registered in South Africa and belongs to the private security company Dyck Advisory Group, (DAG) based in South Africa and owned by former Zimbabwean military colonel Lionel Dyck.
Col Dyck has a long history in Mozambique, having previously helped the government fight RENAMO back in the 80s.

DAG has drployed the following air assets to Moz:
-2 Gazelle gunships;
-1 Bell UH I “Huey”;
-1 Bell 406 Long Ranger;
-1 Diamond DA42; and
-1 Cessna Caravan.

Apparently the Russian PMC Wagner has withdrawn after getting their arses kicked.

East African country receiving armed Cessna Caravans

H3 Solutions is delivering three armed Cessna 208 aircraft to a customer in Africa, which will fit them with laser-guided rocket launchers.

The modified ‘Icarus-X’ aircraft can be fitted with four hardpoints for seven-tube rocket launchers carrying guided or unguided rockets. The launch customer in Africa has chosen to use Thales FZ275 laser-guided rockets, Air Forces Monthly quotes H3 Solutions CEO Ralph de Gier as saying. The weapons will be tested in the customer country. Weapons cueing can be through a Thales Scorpion helmet-mounted display.

Sensors include a retractable Hensoldt Argos II HD electro-optical/infrared gimbal, which the launch customer has acquired, but the L3 Wescam MX-15 or MX-20 could also be carried along with Seaspray 7300 or 7500 radars but a variety of signals intelligence, communications intelligence, electronic warfare and other systems can be integrated.

source: defenceweb

Kenya

kikuyu1:
O/T,I know but I just had to! Everyone come see your firearms personality type. Just so you know I didn't make up this ishyt.


https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/question-day-whats-firearm-personality/

And the current mods to the R1, which came after short shorts and the bush wars?

On point about the Tavors���!

There are cycles in military deployment. Whether army, navy or air force etc, every asset is deployed in cycles.
1 in the field; 1 in training; 1 in maintenance (r&r in the case of people) and 1 in reserve.
One can provision for 3 and forgo the reserve at a pinch, but it's not optimal.
No decent military will disregard this axiom and hope to survive.
So, if a commander has 3 or 6 Mi35 and commits all to the field, inevitably he will have none in the field.

...and last, the great Eeben Barlow trying out their rifles.

...more...

Africa Defence Group in Johannesburg is busy on rifles in preparation for the impending day the SANDF and SAPS have to replace the R-series family of rifles.
Rumour has it Denel has been sniffing around.

kikuyu1:
I told you what would happen. The first rule if war fighting :pick your battles wisely! Tbh the Turks are either dumber or more delusional than I thought.




[url][/url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/dozens-of-turkish-soldiers-killed-in-strike-in-idlib-in-syria-reports-say

You purge your officer corps because of political paranoia and then embark on military misadventures.
Play stupid games and win...

Throwback Thursday (1996): SA Navy and Air Force vessels visiting New York after joint exercises with 25 vessels from 17 nations in the Caribbean.

lionel4power:
Salute to the last of the Old Guards keeping this thread alive.

Jln115
nemesis8u
odunayaw
sizzokay

especially jln15 coping with some of this new id1ots.


The old days were better.

Hear! Hear!
I've lurked here for a very, very long time. I despair for the depths to which this thread has sunk. Hell, the high esteem nincompoops had their occasional intelligent contribution.

Honestly don't understand why teh afore-mentioned old guard persist.

nemesis8u:
That is complete paramount developed and owned product which kalyani is offering via local manufacture after ToT if sales materialize .

Thanks for conveying the same sentiment differently?

...last.

...more...

Streamlined logistics is still something a lot of militaries on our continent can't or won't get right,
for various reasons.
The elegant simplicity of standardising on 1 truck to perform multiple functions has so many innumerable benefits, it's a no brainer.

If you absolutely must make do with a technical, do ensure it's a Super Technical!

Seeing as Paramount has entered into a JV with the Kalyani Group, I presume the Mbombe 4 will be manufactured in Ind..under this Kalyani M4 designation?

GeneralFarouq:
i think he made the best decision

I'm not Nigerian so can't disagree nor concur.