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agaugust: reason why i call you papa ajasco

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Facts PLEASE,stop crumbling like your malls "Early reports from sources in the area
indicate that the action was successful,
with the Rooivalks’ tactical approach
through the clouds taking the M23
defenders by surprise and their rocket
fire being accurate enough to disperse
them and destroy one of the 14.5 mm
anti-aircraft guns"

rka1: Oh my!. It must really be frustrating to you that Nigeria hasn't crumbled and BH taken over . Never mind. At least the situation is better than a SANDF that can't afford to train and is slowly falling apart .

It won't be long now before you guys come to us for help when it all kicks off down there .

Can't afford training? You're saying this while exercise Seboka is ongoing? FOO.L.... I don't think you've seen this. READ this quote out loud not forgetting to add OOOOO after every word "Early reports from sources in the area
indicate that the action was successful,
with the Rooivalks’ TACTICAL APPROACH
THROUGH THE CLOUDS taking the M23
defenders by surprise and their rocket
fire being accurate enough to disperse
them and destroy one of the 14.5 mm
anti-aircraft guns"

drag_on: A small side track,India sends Satellite to MARS for just $40 million,from a $75 million dollar Mars program,cheaper than Gareth Bale. No wonder the west are furious,they cant compete with that if india go commercial.

The USA has a rover in Mars. I think they're just putting it on China's face that we are the first around this continent to put a satellite in Mars.

agaugust: The Nigerian FH-77Bs and the original Indian FH-77Bs had a parallel pepperpot muzzle brake but, following trials with the more recent ammunition types, including HEER used with charge 9, a new and more efficient muzzle brake of the double-baffle type was developed. This was fitted to late production FH-77Bs and has now been retrofitted to earlier weapons.


nigerian army Bofors FH-77 B05 L52 artillery gun with 60km range


you are lost behind time man ! you are really lost and outdated

there is new information, call it archer or call it any name, the guns upgrade for sweden, nigeria, and india are all the same 60km range artillery.

a lot of things have changed. i have a new source international military weapons to prove my claim.

i just want to kick you south africans around and give you some high blood pressure before i post my second source.

those who called the nigerian gun archer are not totally wrong, the gun is the same, but the volvo vehicle self propelled version is the only one that should be called archer.

archer is NOT F-77 B05 L52 of nigeria, archer is F-77 BW L52.

you are the one who is confused. we nigerians have cleared all the cloud around that information, now we know our weapon, beegeagle confirmed it, and i have an international weapons source to prove that we nigerians are right about that claim we have been making since early this year 2013.


lots of upgrading has taken place....have you read this.....? find the source, i have the weblink, but i wont give you today


QUOTE :

"The Nigerian FH-77Bs and the original Indian FH-77Bs had a parallel pepperpot muzzle brake but, following trials with the more recent ammunition types, including HEER used with charge 9, a new and more efficient muzzle brake of the double-baffle type was developed. This was fitted to late production FH-77Bs and has now been retrofitted to earlier weapons.

The FH-77 B05 L52 enables a range of 40 plus km to be achieved with standard base bleed projectiles. It is fitted with an integrated navigation, positioning and aligning system and onboard ballistic computation.


Many of the components of the latest FH-77 B05 L52 are identical to the existing FH-77B, which allows existing customers to upgrade their weapons with a 155 mm/52 calibre barrel."



SOURCE :

to be posted this week, maybe friday, after the south africans have piss piss and pooh pooh inside their trousers, nigeria can invade south africa ... FACT !!!

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You might have the range but ask the SANDF what learnt in Angola. You need target fixation,you can fire shells at 60km but without hitting your intended targets. That's why the SANDF uses drones and Ratels to select targets. Nigeria artillery pieces can be useless cause South Africa's Oryx helo can jam your communication posts in the field. Leaving them to be destroyed by air strikes from Hawks and Griffins.

agaugust: nigerian army Bofors FH-77 B05 L52 artillery gun with 60km range



again that's a truth the effective range of the gun is 40 km and the longest range is 60 km thank you

The G6 can put a shell precisely 70km away. Your 60km is nothing new to us.

agaugust: south african army is fighting in Congo DRC under protection of Tanzanian army, and many other armies from about 15 countries of the world including Europe and Asia, that is why south african army agreed to fight in Congo DRC....they hide behind the courageous armies from other countries sent by the UN.

south african military in its modern history has NEVER fought and won any war alone

a bunch of soweto cowards afraid to die, yet collecting monthly salary only for wearing SANDF army uniforms and posing for public photographs !

https://www.army.mil.za/news/news%202011/jun_11/DSC_7707e.jpg

Other armies within MONUSCO are not fighting only SANDF,TPDF,WDF are fighting. And this battalions fight in different fronts. I gave you the proof months ago.

agaugust: Half-French south african Rooivalk helicopter gunship, never tested in any battle, never killed one single cockroach since the day it was made

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The Rooivalk caused the M23 to disarm,after a single mission by the BEST ATTACK HELICOPTER www.africandefence.net/after-23-years-rooivalks-fire-first-shots-in-drc/

chris365: actually, the fight is over. Congolese army have taken M23 last stronghold. so once again their roviaak is useless. they were busy painting the scrap when the fighting was intense .

just watch as the fake attorney will cry "we are still in DRC" as if they led or sponsored the mission

M23 disarming after the Rooivalk,hits them HARD!!!!! Confirmed now. http:///XawMpSv9OD

agaugust: Chad and Cameroon were always supplied with France's weapons, go google their military equipment, almost all French weapons.

Nigerian amry used ordinary Scorpion light tanks to chase Chad's national army into their own country 50 km deep, Chad's army has anti-tank weapons that they used against Libya in war.

Nigeria never used Jets, artillery, or heavy tanks against our fellow black brothers, we only show our sharp teeth and they run.....we dont bite them too hard, or else they will die...same way south africa too will die

South Africa and its Tanzanian& Malawian allies crashed #M23http:///bprbHR5YrR. The Rooivalk is in action from yesterday.

agaugust: .
[size=16pt] i wasted south african army and i siezed power...Mr.Djotodia [/size]


the Seleka main man south african army was afraid to go back and challenge in CAR


https://dm62zza9c93u.cloudfront.net/styles/overlay_image_1280_or_1024/s3/Michel%20Djotodia.jpg?itok=8JOAqU9l

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/706x410q70d3f4c85a88e338160671200d7e9846bd.jpg

And I'm titled the world's worst diplomat. And I suffered or lost hundreds of my men at the hands of parabats. I failed to defeat them and begged for a ceasefire.

agaugust: answer us in one word only, did south africa defeat tiny cuba in that bush war ? yes or no ? answer us

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Yes.

agaugust: .....and one of the LEAST experienced in naval combat

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1. South Africa is only country in Africa that has sunk a submarine. 2. The South Africa navy submarines have been used to insert special forces. 3. South Africa No navy on the continent comes close in experience 4. South Africa's navy is the only navy in Africa to sink an entire NATO warships in an exercise. 5. Pirates don't come close to South Africa area of influence in the ocean 6. South African warships can be fitted with homemade offensive weapons......Any country in Africa to counter SAN's successes.

agaugust: your male Gripen jet pilots cannot fly with guarantee, you are now talking about female Gripen jet pilot, that must be the cook/chef that prepares food for the real pilots...i mean the half pilots that you have

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Your master Pakistan has a female fighter pilot too. The point here is SAAF has more pilots than you thought..... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BRm1BdCCcAAzzKF.jpg

chris365: simple yes or no would have sufficed instead of this your tiring blab. shall we also say nations that lost wars are to be feared cos they fought against tanks, fighter jets etc.. ? please grow some sense

you fought a war against an inexperienced army and couldn't make them surrender. how's that an achievement to cry about.

all i've heard you say all these while is "we blew up this and that" instead of we made the inexperienced cuba surrender and retreat to their tiny island. go sleep abeg

you understand the complexity of war failed to acknowledge that Nigeria defeated the chadian military that gaddafi couldn't defeat. we crushed cameroonian military and pushed them away from bakassi, enforced peace on two of the most deadliest civil wars in the world etc..

see as you don make me break my silence sha

It seems like you're suffering from some rare brain disorder. Countries that lost wars have experience,ask the British when they went back to Iraq. The Iraqis learnt from the 1991 war how to protect their tanks against air strikes. Answer this is Angola,Cuba,SWAPO under the advice of the USSR an easy foe?......Cuba didn't need experience all they needed was troops,cause the USSR supplied them with quality latest systems. Both Cameron and Chad don't or didn't have an weapons industry or an ally to supply them with Tanks,jets,APCs and artillery...Ask the Cubans maybe what happened when they meet South Africans during the Battle of cassinga......Soon you gonna have tp ask how many rebels have the Rooivalks killed,cause as of yesterdays atleast one helo was in Goma.

Henry120: No. He should bail out your broke and grounded SAAF, and retrain your 6 gripen pilots.


Nigeria also operates up-graded T-72's, not only vickers.

Saab trained 6 Gripen pilots for SAAF. Most graduated in SA with,SAAF even has the first female Gripen pilot. South Africa was ready to fight a force equipped with those T-72s,Cuba had them in Angola.

zaandrew: Since when did money equal power? Is he more power full than obama?
Maybe he can bail out your broke defence force.

Speaking of Obama. There's actually a school in Nigeria named Barrack Obama.

agaugust: nigeria has four ATR-42 Surveyor aircraft and south africa has NOTHING equal to such a modern maritime military aircraft, go d.i.e of envy

also nigerian airforce has about five G-222 maritime patrol aircraft supporting the ATR-42.

see electronics inside the Nigerian ATR-42 Surveyor below....and go d.i.e of envy....jump in front of a moving Train on the nearest Railway line

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The South African navy is most advanced in AFRICA. That maritime surveillance air craft is not helping with curbing piracy. Those electronics are not used for Electronic warfare,stuff like listening and jamming radars and communication.

agaugust:
cut short these long stories.....tell us, did south africa win that war against tiny cuba island ?

answer simple yes or no


https://www.riubambu.com/RIU_WEB_PAGES/MENU/CUBA/CUBA_MAPS/cuba_map3.gif

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South Africa knows the capabilities of almost half of your arsenal,we destroyed/captured large quantities them.......Asking that shows you're stu'pid,you don't understand the complexity of that war. Cuba was supplied with the best or newest soviet of weapons. All they ever needed was troops.

agaugust: you are now crowned as the Papa Ajasco of nairaland

https://dreamcastanimations.com/images/papa%20ajasco%20copy320x440.jpg

Let's talk facts. If tell you something you better counter it with real facts/information not this bad jokes.

agaugust: south african military has never fought against 99% of nigerian military weapons.

show me source as proof where south african army fought war against these nigerian weapons :

Vickers Main Battle Tank
Cobra APC
APR-40 Rockets launchers
Bofors Haubit Artillery
Plamaria Mobile Artillery
Swingfire Anti-tank Missile
Otomat Anti-ship missile
ATR-42 Surveyor aircraft
F-7 jet with PL-9C Missile range 22km equal to Gripen Jet Iris or A-Darta Missile
Type 056 Stealth Warship
Mi-35 Hind helicopter gunship
Roland Anti-aircraft Missile
High Altitude Spy Balloons
Spy satellites in space, which nigeria has but south africa has NONE !

you think nigeria is like burundi or mozambique ?

you are a big time buffoon...a complete Papa Ajasco

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FACTS ONLY!!!!!..
"The First Ambush
On the afternoon of 27 September 1985, around
1600hrs, a signal from a SAAF or UNITA
reconnaissance team posted near the Cuito
Cuanavale airfield was received at Rundu,
informing the South Africans about two Mi-24s
getting airborne and turning towards the combat
zone. Immediately, the Impalas were scrambled
to intercept.
Almost half an hour later, the wingman of the
second pair, Maj. Pine Pienaar, sighted the
helicopters above him, underway at
approximately 700m. Being in the more
favourable position for an attack, Pienaar -
imitated a climb towards the rear Mi-24, reached
a position above it and attacked. A burst of fire
from cannons hit the rear fuselage of the Mi-24,
causing fire. The helicopter started to dive and
the pilot initiated a controlled descent, firing all
his unguided rockets off before jettisoning all
containers for these in order to make his machine
lighter.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Impala-pair, Capt.
Leone Mare, attacked the second helicopter that
initiated a steep descent. Mare began a quarter
attack approaching from bellow and the side. The
Soviet pilot turned through 180° and was in nose-
down attitude, continuing to descent. Capt. Mare
opened fire from a range of 500m, pulling 4-5 gs
and firing 19 rounds that hit the starboard
fuselage of the target, bellow the main rotor gear
box. A panel separated from the Mi-24, the nose
of the helicopter suddenly dropped directly
towards the ground and rotor blades separated
under the stress.. The Hind then turned, going
into a tail slide, hit the ground and exploded.
Meanwhile, Maj. Pienaar repositioned for a second
attack on his target and opened fire. Rotor blades
separated and the helicopter crashed into the
ground nose-high, exploding on impact. Both
Impalas immediately dropped on a low altitude in
order to evade any potential MiGs, and escaped
back to Rundu without any further incidents."

forumcitizens: The Nigerian Army.

Yes,the Nigerian army lacks experience,quality equipment,weapons industry to back them plus an air force to protect their heads.

agaugust: south african military has never fought against 99% of nigerian military weapons.

show me source as proof where south african army fought war against these nigerian weapons :

Vickers Main Battle Tank
Cobra APC
APR-40 Rockets launchers
Bofors Haubit Artillery
Plamaria Mobile Artillery
Swingfire Anti-tank Missile
Otomat Anti-ship missile
ATR-42 Surveyor aircraft
F-7 jet with PL-9C Missile range 22km equal to Gripen Jet Iris or A-Darta Missile
Type 056 Stealth Warship
Mi-35 Hind helicopter gunship
Roland Anti-aircraft Missile
High Altitude Spy Balloons
Spy satellites in space, which nigeria has but south africa has NONE !

you think nigeria is like burundi or mozambique ?

you are a big time buffoon...a complete Papa Ajasco

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I'll hit your blue balls so hard. South Africa faced the APR-40 rocket launchers,during the 1970s period of the war,some were captured inspiring SA designs. Your ATR-42 is a maritime surveillance craft and Nigeria only has one. The F7 I proved it to you that it is a chinese copy of the MIG-21,which SAAF downed in Angola. The Soviet Union had spy satellites focused on South Africa,they even detected an area meant for a nuclear test. I won't talk about artillery cause the G5,G6 and G7 are the best in world,Nigeria has nothing to counter them. SANDF can take anything Nigeria can throw at !!! Check this quote about the MI-24/35. "Angolan Air Force in 1985
In preparation for this offensive the Angolan Air
Force – FAPA-DAA – was reinforced by supplies of
soome 20 MiG-21bis, ten Su-20s, as well as
approximately 30 Mi-25s and Mi-8s. The Angolan
Air Force was – especially for African
circumstances – a modern, battle-proven and
actually a self-sufficient force, with 7.000
personnel and some 180 aircraft and helicopters,
organized in six regiments, of which three were to
participate in the operation, including two
equipped with fighter-bombers and one with
combat helicopters. At the time these three units
have nominally controlled five squadrons, but for
their participation in the Second Congress each
has got at least one additional unit. The helicopter
regiment operated a Soviet-manned squadron of
Mi-24s, a Cuban-manned squadron of Mi-35s, and
a “mixed”, Soviet/Cuban/Angolan-manned
squadron of Mi-8s and Mi-17s; one fighter
regiment has had two Cuban-manned squadrons
of MiG-21s, and an Angolan MiG-21 unit, while the
other had a Soviet-manned “special” MiG-21
squadron, an Angolan MiG-17-unit, and a Soviet-
Angolan Su-20-unit."

agaugust: nigerian technicians have been trained fully in pakistan so we now fully maintain all our F-7 jets 100% at home in nigeria, we even started locally manufacturing some of its electrical spare parts.

south african air force is already half paralyzed and sitting down on a wheel chair like a one legged cripple

most of your jets and helicopters are grounded in a cold room freezer storage

soweto air force wings are broken

GRIPEN JETS HAVE BEEN TORN INTO PIECES, PICKING SPARE PARTS FROM ONE JET TO SAVE ANOTHER JET, DRY BONES OF ZUMA'S SAAF

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2013/07/25/vips-flying-high-while-air-force-choppers-gather-dust


[img]http://1.bp..com/-gjbvTBm8jJg/Ujod6WX-etI/AAAAAAAAC6k/a0XcY_h1AOU/s1600/Gripen-%2528001%2529.jpg[/img]

NO Griffin,NO A109 is grounded. Anyone can manufacture parts of that old jet. Even is SAAF was paralysed,your Nigerian air force won't be any close..........SAAF or the SA army dealt with almost all the weapons in Nigeria's arsenal during the bush war systems like the T-55,MIG-21,AA guns and many of Nigeria's soviet era artillery and rocket launchers. Even the AK47!!!!!! Now check this link www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/hawks-gripens-thrill-polokwane-crowds-1.1598341

agaugust: Gripen jet too is a copy of year 1955 swedish Draken jet.

most great jet fighters of today are developed from older jet fighters of yesterday

[size=16pt]you this Papa Ajasco ! [/size]

quote :

"The Saab JAS 39 Gripen (griffin) is a lightweight single-engine multirole fighter manufactured by the Swedish aerospace company Saab. It was designed to replace the Saab 35 Draken"

sources :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_35_Draken


PHOTO OF GRIPEN JET YEAR 1988


https://cdn.gizmocrazed.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Saab-JAS-39-Gripen.jpg


PHOTO OF DRAKEN JET YEAR 1955


[img]http://www.aircraftinformation.info/Images/Draken_14.jpg[/img]

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Stop avoiding the fact that SAAF shoot down the MIG-21s with cannon fire. South Africa can take anything Nigeria can throw at it. While your forces would perish under real fire,which you have never seen. YOU CAN READ RIGHT? Then read this quote "In 1979, the Swedish government began
development studies for an aircraft capable of
fighter, attack and reconnaissance missions to
replace the Saab 35 Draken and 37 Viggen. A NEW DESIGN from Saab was selected and
developed as the JAS 39, first flying in 1988.
Following two crashes during flight
development and subsequent alterations to the
aircraft's flight control software, the Gripen
entered service with the Swedish Air Force in
1997." A NEW DESIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NaijaPikinGidi: You really need deliverance!

You really need a brain.

agaugust: nigeria has more money in dollar cash reserves than south africa, we can buy enough weapons to level south africa to the ground with our $60 billion cash resrves in the event of war. so shut up dude

From China?.......South Africa would modern missiles from Sweden,France,German,USA and Britain..........You can't buy weapons without operators(pilots and other stuff).....We can even manufacture real offensive weapons like cruise missiles and long range missiles.

agaugust: not in a hurry to buy a super jet....remember the expensive Jaguar jet experience, $300 million wasted in 1983.

f..u..c..k those british mofos and their margaret thatcher 419 b..i..t..c..h

i dey swear too much sef did morning, wetin do me ?

https://www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/5/6/4/0513465.jpg


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South Africa flown its Mirages with sanctions on. Even developing the Cheeter from the Mirage air frame...."wetin" your pants?

agaugust: you eyes dont see beyond your nose.

Nigerian F-7 jet with PL-9C missile of 22km range will shoot down ALL OF Angola's SU-27 Flanker jets with their R-60 missile of 8km range, unless they go buy a modern missile like nigeria.

"PL-9C single-shot hit probability for a single missile launch at an approaching target is 90%"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL-9

fear the missile more than the aircraft that carries it, so that your wife will not become a widow suddenly.

The SU-27 carries a lot of missiles. It doesn't fire one missiles at a jet but a salvo of two missiles. Nigeria has 12 F7s each with five hard points,well the SU-27 has like 10 hard points to carry missiles like ----» en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vympel_R-73. ......The SU-27 is even capable of pulling that cobra manoeuvre,six SU-27 each with 10 hard points for air to missiles(60 missiles) can wipe out your entire air force.

agaugust: "Ground attack missions

The J-7 has been designed to perform ground attack missions in all weather conditions. It can climb to higher altitudes with its delta wings at transonic and supersonic speeds. The aircraft also features a small-sized airframe fitted with a powerful engine.It is suitable only for point air defence due to its short-range attacking capability"

http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/j7f7fighteraircraft/

you are very wrong. any jet aircraft can switch from interceptor role to ground attack role if it has more than two pylons/hardpoints.

F-7 jet is primary role interceptor, and secondary role ground attack, i just proved that with the above quoted source.

with 5 pylons, F-7 jet can carry 2 air to air missiles as interceptor, then for composite ground attack....two laser guided or unguided bombs, and one rocket pod, plus its two cannons/guns.

the most advanced air forces in sub-saharan africa are :

JET FIGHTERS : Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea and Angola with their SU-27, SU-30, and MiG 29.

HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS : Sudan, Nigeria and South Africa with their Rooivalk, Mi-24, M-35, M-171, armed versions AW 109 LUH.

Sudan's air force has almost 100 helicopter gunships !!!

TRANSPORT/MARITIME PATROL : Nigeria with its Stretched versions C-130, G-222, ATR-42 Surveyor

PILOTS : Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, South Africa, Eritrea.


Sudan is very powerful (...but shut the f..u..c..k up, wherever you are, afroarab b..i..t..c..h )

only nigerian army was bold enough to enter inside Sudan and save the black sudanese in dafur being k.illed and r.aped in thousands everyday by the arab sudanese military and militia, every other african country including south africa, were afraid to enter sudan and dare the powerful sudan military face to face.

sudan too was afraid of nigeria, they remember how we fought and won every war in africa. nigeria took a big risk, ex-president obasanjo risked dragging nigeria into full war with powerful sudan in dafur. people may hate obasanjo everywhere, but he did more for africa than nelson mandela that everybody loves and praises all over the world. obasanjo is a very unlucky man, he does not have the aura of being liked anywhere, people just fear his courage and boldness, after that, they hate him.

Power of Sudan...Mig 29 K.iller Jets

https://hdwallpaperszon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Mig-29-Wallpapers-5.jpg
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I quoted this from your link "The J-7 fighter aircraft is
a copy of the Russian
MiG-21."........months ago you said "the MIG-21 obsolete against SAAF's Mirage F.1CZ during the war..".......Here's SAAF's encounter with this dinosaur,we even know its capabilities. "However, both
Angolan and Cuban MiG-21s often had
encounters with South African Air Force
Mirages. On 6 November 1981, Major Johann
Rankin, flying a Mirage F.1CZ, scored the
SAAF's first kill since the Korean War, downing
the MiG-21MF of Lt. Danacio Valdez. On 5
October 1982, a SAAF Mirage IIICZ damaged a
MiG-21MF with cannon fire, but the MiG
managed to return to base safely.[1] The SAAF
acquired a MiG-21bis from the Angolan Air
Force No. 340 through defection and the
aircraft currently resides on display at the
South African Air Force Museum, Swartkops Air
Force Base in Pretoria."

NaijaPikinGidi: Mike..ZA ... nice way to recoil into your confused skin! It's convenient to hide in the shadow of Military talk yet could open your mouth to vomit careless and ignorant assertions? Henry120 ... your maturity too much ... I mean the calm and intelligent way you have poked this kid back into his tiny ignorant corner.

Mike..ZA actually should be the one visiting Nigeria for some real enlightenment and basic education in common sense!

I don't wanna eat yum Igbo boy. I just like talking about facts not some rubbi'sh,If you're going to talk "trash" I'll reply with trash. But if you bring in facts,we'll have a "matured debate"...........Not some "Rooivalk is crap" when I ask you to prove it,you reply by saying "It is using french engines",forgetting you're flying the super puma...Even the Abrams MBT uses a German Rheimental 120mm gun.

chris365: Dreamer boy. I thought grippen was a light attack jet. So what makes it better than Egypt and morroco's F-16 jets. Uganda, Sudan and Algeria have more better fighter jets and attack hellicopters than SAAF so stop dreaming.

The day a foreign military starts using your low grade US Apache helicopter copycat, them you can start making noise.

I might be a dreamer boy. But I'm not stup'I'd. Egypt and Morocco are in sub-saharan Africa?....The Griffn carry precision weapons to make up for its small weapons load,it is a multi-role war plane it can do recce missions and can swing between roles without having to head back to base. This jet gives commanders a serious flexibility,it can overtake many missions in a single sortie giving commander "REAL TIME" situation awareness. On the issue all countries in sub-saharan Africa fly Soviet era attack helicopters,the MI-24/35 to be exact,South Africa even upgraded Algeria's Hinds remember Aerosud was formed by people from the Rooivalk project.....Foreign purchases are not a prove of how good a weapon system is. How many countries operate the F-22 jets,the spirit bomber,Merkeva MBT,The Virginia class submarine,Iron dome air defence system,Gotland class submarine,Leclerc MBT,G6 howitzer and Mokopa missile?......What you don't know is that weapon purchases include politics,don't you wonder why Nigeria is looking to the east when in need of new systems...................Lastly here's quote for you,Sweden studied the F-16 "One ambition was for the aircraft to be smaller than the Viggen while either improving or equalling its payload-range characteristics.[6] Early proposals included the Saab 38, also called B3LA, intended as an attack aircraft and trainer,[7] and the Saab A 20, a development of the Viggen that would have capabilities as a fighter, attack aircraft and sea reconnaissance aircraft.[8] Several foreign designs were also studied, including General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet,[9] the Northrop F-20 Tigershark and the Dassault Mirage 2000.[10] Ultimately, the Swedish government opted for a new fighter to be developed by Saab"

chris365: True. But how Israel flew past sudan'sradar and bombed their territory, flew back without being intercepted makes me wonder the air worthiness of their advanced air crafts or efficiency of sudan's air force. Just my opinion sha

And Israel doesn't have radar evading stealth jets. They bombed a weapons factory.