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agaugust:
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..........Nigerain Army Goes Wild With New Killer Missile And Cannon Type 97 Fighting Vehicle.......

This armoured infantry fighting vehicle carries 3UBK10 ATGM consists of a laser beam riding missile and a container case. The missile is used as a part of the
Bastion missile system (NATO reporting name: AT-10 Stabber). As well as engaging armoured vehicles and fortifications, the missile could also engage low-flying enemy aircraft. The missile has a range of 4,000m. Hit probability is 80% and the armour penetration capability is 600mm. The system carries eight missiles inside the turret.

Weapons include a 100mm cannon, and remote controlled 30mm coaxial automatic cannon, with 500 rounds. The cannon can fire both armour-piercing (AP) and HE-FRAG rounds. Rate of fire is 300 rounds/min and range is 1,500 to 2,000m. It also has a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun located on its side.

This modern year 2006 model IFV is nigerian army's new k.iller of enemy armoured tanks and low flying enemy aircraft.

The 133 units purchased gives nigeria the capacity to fire over 1,000 anti-tank missiles against enemy armoured vehicles or over 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles against enemy aircraft that tries to attack the army from the air. this all terrain vehicle also swims in deep water.

The current free spending jamboree by niegria is bringing large numbers of brand new and latest technology weapons into all our armed forces at a very rapid rate, and it seems to have no end yet, many more heavy weapons are still coming for delivery, already paid for in advance from china, israel, france, holland, sweden and USA.

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#DreamsFromThePast

agaugust:
Phalanx CIWS anti-missile defence radar guided weapon on nigerian navy ship NNS THUNDER. a second similiar ship has been ordered. ALL US NAVY ships carry same phalanx to shoot down any incoming missiles or bombs.

why do you lie like this aaugububgu?

denisfidha:
There is a new military documentary done by KDF. Although they don't show much of anything special, its a step in the right direction.
I took some snapshots of the video..
The first pic is The Nora B-52 - Never seen in Public
The 2nd,3rd,4th pic is an IFV fitted with a camera and some advanced gunner- Does anyone know what kind of gunner that is?

Looks like some RWS.

You don't have a link to the vid?

upko1:
Anti-piracy is as much of a very important task as other special ops.
The pirates you find in the gulf of guinea and in the Niger delta are hardened criminals with very deep pockets, something like a mafia.
Think of how much money these pirates make from stealing illegal crude oil and hijacking oil tankers you would understand that they are willing to do anything to make sure they stay in business.
I don't believe the SBS are playing mediocre roles.

protecting our crude and territorial waters is just as important as fighting boko haram.

His opinion is understandable though.

Utilising the SBS in such roles makes them look like some coast guard special operations force. Also looking at their limited numbers.

Henry120:
This is poor reporting, and in my opinion, the writer of this news piece and the editor who approved it should be fired. The report is too graphic, and un-ethical.

That's SA mate!

The consumer gets the 100% unsifted material in these hard competitive times.

Henry120:
We'll have to wait and see. At the launch of Queen Elizabeth II aircraft carrier, the brits had to use a "mock-up", instead of the original plan of having the Fighter do a fly over.

The programme is already fraught with multiple problems and corruption issues.

But that's the nature of weapon systems development programmes.

There's always gonna be those questioning whether the amount of money being invested in the programme is worth it or not.

Also the delays aren't something new nor unique. I'm one of those whom still believes, there's something sinister behind the criticism.

Henry120:
The F-35 is over-rated in my opinion. The Rafale is a more capable ground attack fighter than the F-35. It's only draw back is it's less powerful engine which pumps out 18,000IB of thrust, when compared with the 20,000IB for the eurofighter typhoon.

People say that cause of the corruption surrounding the F-35 programme.

That notion will change once it hits the battle space.

Seeking credit this early?

Well the folly of such decisions will be visible in the coming days and weeks.

Mike..ZA will tell you that,the end to the insurgency in NE Nigeria is far away from over. BH has been enjoying great successes recent times,raising their confidence and arrogance to challenge the Nigerian military.

As man said it somewhere: "It is a lie,it is a PR Lie".

Henry120:
Naija

Terrible pics.

Here are beautiful ones.

Henry120:
6-7 tents for an over 1000 SANDF personnel.

Wow, how impressive.

Pictorial evidence provided.


You can also see more tents in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEwF_QyNIY

Henry120:
You don't have tents in the DRC, your defence minister revealed this information, only after a law suit was filed against her.

Your defence minister confirms your military is in a pathetic state of decline.

The article is written based on the facts that are already available to the general public, including quotes from your defence minister.

You're just too blind to see the facts.

Yes,written based on information from newspapers.

Henry120:
You should start from providing tents to your poorly equipped troops in the DRC.

You guys live in a fantasy land. How do you manage to live in a delusional state.

Impressive.

Pictorial evidence provided.

I doubt Nigeria even has tents.

And winter clothing such jackets for its soldiers,seeing that they're still struggling to get standard uniforms.

Henry120:
You believe this, and you're a bigger slowpoke than initially thought.

All that is written in that article were source from comments attributed to named government personnel.

1. SA soldiers have tents.

2. Gripens are flown.

4. That article is written by someone,who used outdated information from newspapers. NO investigation whatsoever.

patches689:
Dude, at this stage there is zero point in replying to you.

Our defence minister said there were no tents in the DRC

Because ARMSCOR messed up the supply contracts

Cause and effect, simple as that. We can go around in circles as much as you want, but this issue has been put to bed.

And armscor chairperson was fired!!!!

Henry120:
Your defence minister stated categorically you don't have Tents. Yes, i'll like to have this discussion.

Is she now lying on the pathetic state of the SANDF?

Ask for an explanation, instead of reaching silly conclusions.

Henry120:
South Africa’s Military Arms Troubles
October 16, 2014 - Uncategorized - African Military, South Africa

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is drowning in a sea of mismanagement, corruption, political manipulation and strategic myopia.

While this state of affairs will probably not result in an imminent ‘attack’ on the Union Buildings, as was the case in 2009 when justifiably angry rank-and-file soldiers protested over conditions of service, the ongoing fallout is much worse.

It’s hard to know where to begin but let’s start with the basics. Section 200(1) of the Constitution states that, “the defence force must be structured and managed as a disciplined military force”. If we take the standard dictionary definition of discipline to mean “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience”, then it is clear that those who are in charge of structuring and managing the SANDF are in serious breach of its core constitutional imperative.

There is a litany of such ‘indiscipline’. Despite a mountain of evidence stemming from the 1990’s arms deal detailing gross mismanagement and corruption involving SANDF and Department of Defence (DOD) officials as well as senior politicians, hardly any of those responsible have been held to even the most minimal of disciplinary standards.

The ongoing official investigation into the arms deal – the Seriti Commission – is turning out to be more of a whitewash than a clean-up. As has become the standard practice of SANDF and DOD officials as well as associated politicians, the main agenda of the Seriti Commission appears to be to ensure that the myriad ‘indisciplines’ are shielded from any meaningful democratic scrutiny and action.

When the SANDF deployed over 1000 soldiers to the DRC in June 2013 the generals and politicians spoke glowingly about the professionalism of South Africa’s defence forces and their contribution to ‘peace-keeping’ in Africa[b] but did not tell us that the soldiers lacked some of the most basic equipment. It was only through an associated court case later that the Minister of Defence was forced to admit that “our soldiers do not have tents … ”.[/b]

While the rank-and-file soldiers in conflict zones were being treated like 2nd class citizens, SANDF head honcho, Lt. General Solly Shoke spent over R100 000 of taxpayers money flying 1st class to a conference in Malaysia earlier this year.

The DOD has brazenly cast a veil of secrecy over its recent attempts to buy a new luxury VIP jet (no prize for guessing who the beneficiaries are) worth almost R2 billion. When parliamentary questions were asked, Defence Secretary Dr Sam Gulube noted that the matter was a “sensitive project” (read: classified) because it had been conveniently shifted to a ‘Strategic Capital Acquisition Master Plan’ project list, no doubt a secret itself. Public knowledge about a SANDF deal for purchasing over 200 armoured infantry vehicles worth close to R15 billion was zilch until the actions of some brave whistleblowers.


When opposition parliamentarians recently asked Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for further details of the SANDF acquisition projects she refused, stating that the information does not belong in the public domain. Not to be outdone in the secrecy stakes, Defence Secretary Gulube told parliament’s defence committee that any attempts to enforce greater scrutiny of the government’s arms procurement programmes would be a threat to national security.

All of this has to be set against the backdrop of the 2014 Defence Force Review which has been approved by the Cabinet and is now making its way through parliament’s labyrinthine corridors.

Despite receiving R42 billion in the 2014/15 budget and untold billions more continuing to be spent on the 1990s arms deal and on other acquisition projects that we know little to nothing about, the Review unequivocally acknowledges that the SANDF is in a “critical state of decline”. It lists a host of serious problems and crises:

The escalating costs associated with the purchase, use and maintenance of the 1990s arms deal programme has resulted in a majority of the fighter planes, helicopters, training jets and naval vessels purchased being mothballed. Those that are in use suffer from chronic under-use and a lack of technical/ maintenance personnel and trained pilots.

Spares, general equipment, ammunition stocks and fuel reserves are “generally depleted”. One instructive example of the resultant impact is that South Africa now has “little airspace or maritime domain awareness” (read: the SANDF can hardly track who and what is in South African airspace and waters).

Nearly 55% of the overall budget is spent on personnel costs, even though SANDF rank-and-file earn relatively little. Despite increased personnel spending, there is a massive shortage of competent personnel at all levels and those with scarce and professional skills are leaving at “concerning rates”.

Practical training and exercises have been cut to the bone such that the SANDF is unable to “execute [its] widening spectrum of tasks” while medical care to SANDF personnel is in a generalised state of crisis .

The SANDF suffers from “fragmented management and information systems [that] inhibit integrated and systemic decision making”.

Predictably though, the Review’s solution to these systemic crises of decision-making, strategic planning and human and financial management is to throw more money into the SANDF pit in order for it to carry out its “constitutional requirements”.

Those “requirements” are interpreted as revolving largely around a military “strategic posture” defined by the “the role that it wishes to play both regionally and continentally”. In other words not, as the actual Constitution states, “to defend and protect the Republic its territorial integrity and its people… ” but to satisfy a politically constructed and elite centred ‘need’ to play big brother in Africa.


We should all take the words of Andrew Feinstein, that fearless exposer and critic of the South African and global arms trade, to heart. He warns us that this ‘shadow world’ “often makes us poorer, not richer, less not more safe and governed not in our own interests but for the benefit of a small, self-serving elite, seemingly above the law, protected by the secrecy of national security and accountable to no one.”

Before it is too late, South Africans need to not only actively demand accountability for past ‘indisciplines’ and abuse of public funds and trust but ensure that our military forces and projects focus on what they are supposed to do – to serve and answer to, the people.

My brother @Patches689 has already dealt with this joke.

Henry120:
You do not only lack aviation fuel, you also lack common tents.

In your dreams.

Just tell me if you wanna engage in an factual discussion.

You want me to serve you another humble pie?

Henry120:
The Uselessness of the SANDF


South Africa’s Military Arms Troubles
October 16, 2014 - Uncategorized - African Military, South Africa

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is drowning in a sea of mismanagement, corruption, political manipulation and strategic myopia.

While this state of affairs will probably not result in an imminent ‘attack’ on the Union Buildings, as was the case in 2009 when justifiably angry rank-and-file soldiers protested over conditions of service, the ongoing fallout is much worse.

It’s hard to know where to begin but let’s start with the basics. Section 200(1) of the Constitution states that, “the defence force must be structured and managed as a disciplined military force”. If we take the standard dictionary definition of discipline to mean “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience”, then it is clear that those who are in charge of structuring and managing the SANDF are in serious breach of its core constitutional imperative.

There is a litany of such ‘indiscipline’. Despite a mountain of evidence stemming from the 1990’s arms deal detailing gross mismanagement and corruption involving SANDF and Department of Defence (DOD) officials as well as senior politicians, hardly any of those responsible have been held to even the most minimal of disciplinary standards.

The ongoing official investigation into the arms deal – the Seriti Commission – is turning out to be more of a whitewash than a clean-up. As has become the standard practice of SANDF and DOD officials as well as associated politicians, the main agenda of the Seriti Commission appears to be to ensure that the myriad ‘indisciplines’ are shielded from any meaningful democratic scrutiny and action.

When the SANDF deployed over 1000 soldiers to the DRC in June 2013 the generals and politicians spoke glowingly about the professionalism of South Africa’s defence forces and their contribution to ‘peace-keeping’ in Africa[b] but did not tell us that the soldiers lacked some of the most basic equipment. It was only through an associated court case later that the Minister of Defence was forced to admit that “our soldiers do not have tents … ”.[/b]

While the rank-and-file soldiers in conflict zones were being treated like 2nd class citizens, SANDF head honcho, Lt. General Solly Shoke spent over R100 000 of taxpayers money flying 1st class to a conference in Malaysia earlier this year.

The DOD has brazenly cast a veil of secrecy over its recent attempts to buy a new luxury VIP jet (no prize for guessing who the beneficiaries are) worth almost R2 billion. When parliamentary questions were asked, Defence Secretary Dr Sam Gulube noted that the matter was a “sensitive project” (read: classified) because it had been conveniently shifted to a ‘Strategic Capital Acquisition Master Plan’ project list, no doubt a secret itself. Public knowledge about a SANDF deal for purchasing over 200 armoured infantry vehicles worth close to R15 billion was zilch until the actions of some brave whistleblowers.


When opposition parliamentarians recently asked Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for further details of the SANDF acquisition projects she refused, stating that the information does not belong in the public domain. Not to be outdone in the secrecy stakes, Defence Secretary Gulube told parliament’s defence committee that any attempts to enforce greater scrutiny of the government’s arms procurement programmes would be a threat to national security.

All of this has to be set against the backdrop of the 2014 Defence Force Review which has been approved by the Cabinet and is now making its way through parliament’s labyrinthine corridors.

Despite receiving R42 billion in the 2014/15 budget and untold billions more continuing to be spent on the 1990s arms deal and on other acquisition projects that we know little to nothing about, the Review unequivocally acknowledges that the SANDF is in a “critical state of decline”. It lists a host of serious problems and crises:

The escalating costs associated with the purchase, use and maintenance of the 1990s arms deal programme has resulted in a majority of the fighter planes, helicopters, training jets and naval vessels purchased being mothballed. Those that are in use suffer from chronic under-use and a lack of technical/ maintenance personnel and trained pilots.

Spares, general equipment, ammunition stocks and fuel reserves are “generally depleted”. One instructive example of the resultant impact is that South Africa now has “little airspace or maritime domain awareness” (read: the SANDF can hardly track who and what is in South African airspace and waters).

Nearly 55% of the overall budget is spent on personnel costs, even though SANDF rank-and-file earn relatively little. Despite increased personnel spending, there is a massive shortage of competent personnel at all levels and those with scarce and professional skills are leaving at “concerning rates”.

Practical training and exercises have been cut to the bone such that the SANDF is unable to “execute [its] widening spectrum of tasks” while medical care to SANDF personnel is in a generalised state of crisis .

The SANDF suffers from “fragmented management and information systems [that] inhibit integrated and systemic decision making”.

Predictably though, the Review’s solution to these systemic crises of decision-making, strategic planning and human and financial management is to throw more money into the SANDF pit in order for it to carry out its “constitutional requirements”.

Those “requirements” are interpreted as revolving largely around a military “strategic posture” defined by the “the role that it wishes to play both regionally and continentally”. In other words not, as the actual Constitution states, “to defend and protect the Republic its territorial integrity and its people… ” but to satisfy a politically constructed and elite centred ‘need’ to play big brother in Africa.


We should all take the words of Andrew Feinstein, that fearless exposer and critic of the South African and global arms trade, to heart. He warns us that this ‘shadow world’ “often makes us poorer, not richer, less not more safe and governed not in our own interests but for the benefit of a small, self-serving elite, seemingly above the law, protected by the secrecy of national security and accountable to no one.”

Before it is too late, South Africans need to not only actively demand accountability for past ‘indisciplines’ and abuse of public funds and trust but ensure that our military forces and projects focus on what they are supposed to do – to serve and answer to, the people.

Lmao what a baloney.

agaugust:
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Nigerian military martial arts
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I am sorry but I think you meant playing "karate" or grown man "rubbing" softly against each other.

Unarmed combat: Real men below . Bring your ill trained soldiers to SADC.

agaugust:
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Nigerian military martial arts
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That fails to deal with BH.

Now you went to bed with terrorists.

What happened to: we don't negotiate with terrorists?

sirjerry:
more like from lab to training field.

Yes,for operational tests.

Unlike some, whom can't get standard uniforms.

The Nigerian military is still to this day struggling to get standard uniforms.

Arg shame mane!!!

Soon will see new SA patterns. From lab to the field.

PrinxArthur1:
don't mess with these guyz

They'll pray for us when we mess with them?