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Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 10:37pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: So how come Seleka killed 13 south African soldiers when supersonic high speed rapid response Gripen Jets and the Rooivalk helicopters were stationed battle ready in Zambia for emergency operations in the region ? grin grin

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The Gripens were sent as reinforcements to the region,to give the C-in-C flexible options. Rooivalk,mobile clinics,C130 and a company of parabats were sent too.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 10:35pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: NNS ARADU has a brand new modern radar, and also a new modern anti-submarine detector hull sonar plus it's many anti-submarine torpedoes.

You don't know what I am writing in my new war simulation. I can see all you south africans on nairaland panic and tremble already...good for you grin


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So your NNS Arandu will launch 8 missiles "simultaneously" plus torpedoes. And launching missiles to destroy an incoming Exocet missiles. WHAT A JOKE!!!
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 10:28pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: All south African 1940 world war II soldiers are dead long time ago and its not yet ressurection day according to the Holy Bible I read.

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Please read sir. South African Veterans of world war 2 are still alive,even Nigerians whom were taken to fight in Burma are still alive in your neighbourhood.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 10:17pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: You talk before you think.

South African 3,000 km coastline is too long and U-shaped for your tiny army and air force to protect 100%...your borders are too porous...Zimbabweans smuggle in thousands of illegal guns annually....poachers de-horn your Rhinos and export the horns right under your long noses grin

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Nigeria doesn't have any amphibious assault ship to land an entire battalion off the coast of South Africa. Regarding Zimbabwe the only weapons smuggle there are pistols,which are used by illegal immigrants for protection against the guma guma tribe. And please know: On the highest peak of the Drankensburg mountain("Mariepskop" named after the military genius Sotho chief Maripi mashile) sits a radar station,keeping an "eye" on Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Near by is the air force base Hoedspruit,during the bushwar 2 cheeter interceptors were always stationed there(in stand by). This is the same station that detected a MIG 15 flown by a defecting Mozambique pilot,and he was intercepted successfully. I'm telling you this to keep in mind,since you wanna "strike from Zim".
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 10:01pm On Aug 10, 2013
NaijaPikinGidi: The catfights you had with tiny SELEKA got you running away like antelopes running from a starving lion. I wonder if you are very comfortable sitting tight on your own brain? Read your comment below and see how much your farting buttocks is suffocating your tiny brain!



Yet you failed to describe the mission ... airstrikes, dogfights, etc., your jets engaged in ... or any special operations they carried out which Nigeria's F7s or Alphas have not achieved. Hence, my comment below:



Your Grippens and Hawks have never been in any notable combat mission, talk less of a dogfight ... and you foolishly come here asking from me what you cannot boast of? Abeg commot make I pass jooo!! Wetin Nigeria don do for Mali, Liberia, Sierra Leone ... SA no fit do anytime soon! Finito!
South Africa has many combat kills than any other african country. South Africa is the only African country with the bragging rights,of sinking a submarine(U boat).
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:56pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: Don't be in a hurry wait for my final war simulation of the south african naval blockade. Nigeria has the support ship you don't know about....do good research...Lazy man !

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Here's the conclusion: While the NS Arandu was trying to sink SAS Amatola with "8 missiles",it is wide opened by a torpedo from SAS Manthantisi. Then all your Admirals scream "OMO CHINEKE OOOOO,GODO bringooo black scorpionoo back",the next day Nigeria goes to the UN to complain about "South Africa's aggression". To save your self from the shame awaiting you on this forum you hang your self.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:47pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: post source of Umbani bomb's 'fast' speed. grin

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The Umbani is a glide bomb with a range of 40km.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:40pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: I don't rush my things. I am doing new war simulation of combined air and sea attack to sink the whole south African navy in a naval blockade grand finale.

Pray hard I don't invade aoweto homeland after it. Pray hard.

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Nigeria will be badly beaten back to Abuja,if you ever tried invading SA. With only 12 F7 mostly will be left in Nigeria to defend your homeland against any threat,that would mean South Africa will enjoy air superiority. Meaning to protect your ground forces,your commanders will send all your 19 Rolands to give an Umbrella of protection against aerial bombings from SAAF. But just like in the Bush war, South Africa will use the long range of its G5 and G6 to destroy all your anti craft systems. Then all mechanised units hardware,will be prayed upon by the Rooivalk.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:23pm On Aug 10, 2013
NaijaPikinGidi: Must I answer that? If I must do, kindly state your definition of combat?
Dogfight!!!!!!!
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:23pm On Aug 10, 2013
NaijaPikinGidi: Flew to Zambia and nothing more! No combat, no strikes ... Just the usual tourism by your SANDF. F7s meanwhile have tasted combat and strikes time and again for Nigeria! Empty rant!
Please don't tell me about ground bombings,If they're tested in combat show me the number of kills your pilots made in dogfights. The Griffens in South Africa are used for air superiority,and the Hawks take that(ground bombing) role most of the time.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:18pm On Aug 10, 2013
andrewza: Depends on the tank and size and type of bomb. There are even speciol cluster bombs made to destroy AFV.
Cluster bombs are made to destroy large convoys of AFV,tanks or any armoured vehicle. Like the ones(bomblets) dropped by the USA Tomahawk missile.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:13pm On Aug 10, 2013
andrewza: Once again you show you incopotiance. You are fool that knows nothing. The ocean is not the ground. You the biggest fool and liar I have ever ment that baby you posted knows more than you.
Tell him to read about the Fritz X of German(world war 2 era).
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:10pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: if 8 Otomat missiles from NNS ARADU flying 30 seconds apart h.it a south african valour warship, your navy will have no corpses available for burial. you dont know how simultaneous or near simultaneous 30 seconds interval explosion will be. fool grin

let me throw 8 heavy stones at close range directly on your head at 30 seconds interval and tell me if you feel any headache since my a.ttack is not as simultaneous as you wish grin
Any commander of the valour class warship in any combat situation will keep a Lynx helicopter in flight to find or detect threats. So If any missile is detected,the Umkhonto missiles can be launched SIMULTANEOUS(Launching to the sky precisely at the same time or second) to hit targets. If any missile get closer to 6km,it can be shredded to pieces by the Denel Dual 30mm naval gun.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 9:02pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: were you in hospital when i shot down all south african Umbani Guided Bombs 3 months ago in war simulation ? Umbani is NOT a missile, it is a 35km/h horse animal speed bomb, damn too slow for Roland SAM or TYPE 90 AAA of nigerian air defenses.

see why i want to exit this forum soon ? i am tired of repeating the same thing 7 times in 70 days to 7 different south africans.
It is a smart bomb. I showed you accounts where South Africa destroyed anti aircraft systems using the G5 and G6 systems in Angola. Until you can show me how you will destroy the G5 and G6 guns in the field,your entire army can be destroyed by 2 G5 batteries + 2 G6 batteries. Each battery consists of 8 artillery systems,complemented by a few MRLS.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 8:56pm On Aug 10, 2013
Msauza: South Africa has Umbani which can fire upto 25 KM range. There is no much of a difference between Umbani and missiles as it behaves like missiles. The Umbani is a guided bomb which can be locked on to the target just like a missile.
SAAF Griffins use the Paveway II LGBs,but the quantity is unknown. And other "free fall bombs".
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 8:49pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: DENEL does not have any range 25km as at today.

want to talk about future ? okay nigeria too next year can put 300km range C-803 anti-ship missiles on our two new Type 056 warships and sink all south african navy from 250km distance away and mandela's country has no navy anymore !

then we invade south africa by sea landing our giant size nigerian army and goodluck jonathan re-colonize your soweto nation like the Boer !
Don't lose touch with reality Mr. How will your troops be transported to South Africa,when will your country acquire a replishiment or support ship?. Nigeria's invasion of South Africa will be smashed and pushed back into the sea.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 2:48pm On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: it is still too short range. fact.
Fact is: Denel can upgrade it to a range of 25km,with an "area defence" capability.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 2:38pm On Aug 10, 2013
Msauza: Actually, we had one incident where Rooivalk nearly crashed. It was a minor accident that cannot amount to an actual crash caused by the pilot who was flying very low and accidentally collided with electric cables. The Rooivalk dropped to the ground and suffer minor damages with no one injured.
Just like the Apache,the Rooivalk operates exclusively on Nap-of-the-earth heights.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 11:44am On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: no nigerian F-7 jet has crashed since the 3 that happened 2009 to 2011. the F-7 jets have done combat action in mali and borno state and no crashes.

south african jets are not crashing because you dont fly too often, and also your pilots have has supersonic flights since 1987. nigerian pilots switched from subsonic flights of alpha jets to supersonic F-7 jets and the initial change was cause of crashes with new aircraft.

it has stopped anyway several years ago.

south africa too has crashed about 4 Augusta helicopters, 2 Rooivalk helicopters, 1 CASA transport, 2 Dakota MPA, 1 Cessna transport, 1 C-130 Hercules transport. both countries do have air crashes. period grin

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No,Rooivalk was ever crashed. South Africa flew the Griffins from Air force base Makado to Zambia,something the Nigerians have never done with their F7s.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 8:32am On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: .

[size=16pt]........a renewed nigerian air force[/size]


in the last 12 months of massive upgrades/re-activations, nigeria now has about 50 newly upgraded/re-activated attack jets of different types that can fly and d.estroy all the four south african valour frigate warships in one day with unguided but well targeted bombs in a carpet bombing calculated attack repeated in successive waves.

fact.

i have been doing more and more research into the valour frigates, i have found many of its weaknesses.

nigeria can sink all those south african warships. if not sank, they will all run away from nigerian waters completely.

nigerian army can sink them 1km to 24km from nigerian coast.

nigerian navy can sink them 1km to 180km from nigerian coast.

nigerian air force can sink them from 1km to 370km away from nigerian coasts the whole EEZ territory.

fact of facts ! new emerging and shocking facts !

i am doing a new naval blockade simultaion of war between nigerian air force and south african navy in some many days ahead before this month ends.

.nigerian air force has upgraded all its 12 units Italian MBB 339 light attack jets below at cost of $84 million....
The Denel 35mm Dual Purpose Gun
(35DPG) is a close-in weapon system (CIWS) for
warships made in South Africa by Denel Land
Systems. It is currently in service on the Valour
class frigates of the South African Navy.
Role
Its primary role is to defend against attack by
helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and missiles. It
has a secondary role against surface vessels
and shore targets, both in symmetrical and
asymmetrical warfare and also in law
enforcement where accuracy is critical because
collateral damage is unacceptable
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 8:18am On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: you mean they fall down from the sky like this.... shocked
Nigeria crashed 3 of its F7 jets. And that's a A109 a light utility helicopter. In combat or Rescue mission SAAF uses the mighty Oryx helo.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 8:07am On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: .

[size=16pt]........a renewed nigerian air force[/size]


in the last 12 months of massive upgrades/re-activations, nigeria now has about 50 newly upgraded/re-activated attack jets of different types that can fly and d.estroy all the four south african valour frigate warships in one day with unguided but well targeted bombs in a carpet bombing calculated attack repeated in successive waves.

fact.

i have been doing more and more research into the valour frigates, i have found many of its weaknesses.

nigeria can sink all those south african warships. if not sank, they will all run away from nigerian waters completely.

nigerian army can sink them 1km to 24km from nigerian coast.

nigerian navy can sink them 1km to 180km from nigerian coast.

nigerian air force can sink them from 1km to 370km away from nigerian coasts the whole EEZ territory.

fact of facts ! new emerging and shocking facts !

i am doing a new naval blockade simultaion of war between nigerian air force and south african navy in some many days ahead before this month ends.

.nigerian air force has upgraded all its 12 unThe Denel 35mm Dual Purpose Gun
(35DPG) is a close-in weapon system (CIWS) for
warships made in South Africa by Denel Land
Systems. It is currently in service on the Valour
class frigates of the South African Navy.
Role
Its primary role is to defend against attack by
helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and missiles. It
has a secondary role against surface vessels
and shore targets, both in symmetrical and
asymmetrical warfare and also in law
enforcement where accuracy is critical because
collateral damage is unacceptableits Italian MBB 339 light attack jets below at cost of $84 million....
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA:
agaugust: so DENEL is now a soldier and Dicon a military man, both going to fight each other ? grin
Denel Engineers will be at the frontlines removing mines,and evaluating new weapon systems(prototypes) which will be "exampled".
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 7:41am On Aug 10, 2013
agaugust: you dont know the technology and operations of sea warfare apart from what you copy and paste from DENEL product websites.

if valour frigate cannot fire Exocet missiles simultaneously, how does it defend itself against 4 missile armed patrol boats speeding up to attack it all at the same time ? they will sink the valour warship, right ?
No,the radar on board the ship or the Lynx helicopter will recognise threats and they will be dealt with. Umkhonto missile!!!!!!!!
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 7:32am On Aug 10, 2013
saengine: No source/proof of 30 seconds = not a fact
No source/proof that missiles can tail each other = not a fact
you making up stuff to sound clever = fact
30 second apart. Won't be a "simultaneous attack" like he says.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 7:26am On Aug 10, 2013
saengine: So it's 16 jets all heading to one single target? And 40 jets all heading to one single target? Or 40 jets that will split up and attack their own targets individually or in groups? e.g 5 jets attack radar stations, 5 jets attack air base, 5 jets attack army base etc etc. All 40 jets dropped their bombs on the same target?

I really dont know why I keep replying.
In South Africa?
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 3:48pm On Aug 09, 2013
agaugust: ordinary AK-47 rifle gives a recoil. anything that shoots forward with force produces an equal amount of backward force.

who rated south african education above nigeria's ? that ranking source is either a fool or a white racist.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's Third Law of Motion.

i have to take you into my science classroom again as i always do, 95% of all south africans have a 33% grade brain grin

http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/newtlaws/u2l4a.cfm

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. Stop lying. The USA has prototype of weapon systems,that doesn't any "force backwards". This shows you don't read about modern weapon systems. Ever since the creation of Mike..ZA's account,he has been schooling you Nigerian village boys.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 3:41pm On Aug 09, 2013
agaugust: fool, 8 Otomat missiles tailing each other just 30 seconds apart is a d.eadly simultaneous attack.

your 33% b.rain cannot figure out how short 30 seconds is ?

show us how your south african valour frigate can launch all its own 8 Exocet anti-ship missiles 'simultaneously' without any few seconds interval. you dont know the backward 'recoil' force the ship will receive from firing 8 heavy weight anti-ship missiles in exactly one same second.

fool, you dont know basic science of physics in south africa grin

nice schools buildings. poor brain students.

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Simultaneous--» Happening or done at the same time with something else. Your "30 second apart" shows you don't know what simultaneous means.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 3:33pm On Aug 09, 2013
agaugust: south africa has no aircraft carrier to fly the Hawk jets and Gripen jets that have ranges of about 850km, for all the distance to support a naval blockade of nigerian territorial waters 5,000km away you fool, 33% south african brain grin
The
South African Navy (SAN) has ordered what
appears to be a R42 million resupply of Umkhonto
surface-to-air missiles (SAM) for its Valour-class
frigates. The order, for R41 986 000, was placed
last week Thursday.
South Africa in November 2005
joined a handful of nations to
have fielded a functional
operational anti-missile air
defence systems with the
successful firing of the
Umkhonto-IR from aboard the
Valour-class frigate SAS
Amatola. Since then the SA
Navy has regularly fired the
125kg, 12km-range weapon
that carries a 23kg warhead, most recently this
year during Exercise Good Hope IV, a joint
multinational undertaking with German, where
the missile was also successfully fired against a
surface target. "We heard it went very well,"
Denel Dynamics CE Jan Wessels told defenceWeb
in April last year. "The system has now been in
service with the Navy for three years and all the
feedback we get is very positive, it is really
performing as advertised and more."
Each of the four German-built stealth warships is
fitted with a Denel Dynamics-designed 16-cell
vertical launch system (VLS) for the Umkhonto
(Zulu: Spear) that can be increased to 32. The
first naval firing of the weapon took place on
November 23, 2005 when the SAS Amatola fired
an Umkhonto at a high-speed Skua target drone
off Cape Agulhas. It fired a second a week later.
Both were fired with telemetry warheads to tell
developers at Denel's nearby Overberg Test
Range how the missiles were performing. Had real
warheads been fitted, both targets would have
been destroyed according to the data read-outs.
"Both hits were within the specifications. The
ranges achieved were even better than those
specified," then-Sitron project director Rear
Admiral (JG) Johnny Kamerman said in a media
conference in 2006. The admiral added the
development of the system had begun in 1993.
South Africa decided to develop its own system
even after sanctions was lifted because high-end
systems such as the US Aegis were unaffordable
-- "we can't afford the launchers, let alone the
missiles," Kamerman explained -- and low-end
systems like shoulder-launched missiles were "a
waste of time".
Land-based testing of the original Mark I ended in
July 2005 when the system was adjudged shore-
qualified. The testing involved telemetry
intercepts of a Skua target drone in various
profiles, including low-level, head on and in
evasive manoeuvres. The tests culminated in a
Skua being destroyed with a "standard warhead",
Kamerman said.
Machiel Oberholzer, Executive Manager Air
Defence at Denel Dynamics, says the 125kg,
12km range missile is now proven as a surface-to-
air and surface-to-surface missile in high clutter
naval environments including littoral water and
land warfare scenarios. "Umkhonto can now
comfortably be applied to Ground Based Air
Defence Systems (GBADS)," he said just before
last September's African Aerospace & Defence
(AAD) exhibition in Cape Town, a reference to the
SA Army's Project Protector, a land-based version
of the missile.
Wessels said the land variant will twin the Mk II
with a containerised launcher is developed in
close consultation with with the SA Army Air
Defence Artillery. This will integrate with a
command centre and a new three dimensional
Reutech Radar Systems RSR 320 also currently
under development. Wessels noted that several
potential "export customers are already looking
impatiently at the system." He says the naval
system "is getting a very good name" in the
mlitary community, further exciting interest in
the system's landwards application.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 3:11pm On Aug 09, 2013
agaugust: english language is your problem not mine. the source on Otomat missile i posted says Otomat is configured to have all missiles fired againat a single target. so, NNS ARADU can fire all 8 Otomat missiles against a single target like south african valour frigate. the missiles can be fired one by one and that means a vaour frigate 50km away will be attacked by 8 missiles fired one by one at intervals, but they will tail each other and all 8 missiles will be travelling simultaneously at the same time in a long chain/trail/queue but will arrive on target at intervals of some seconds because they were fired at ships command discretion like 30 seconds apart.

what makes you believe valour frigate simultaneous firing of 8 Umkhonto missiles means one button is pushed and all 8 missiles take off at excatly the same second and not at intervals even if its a few seconds ? that is a rare thing because of the effect of backward force in principles of physics and more pronounced for a heavy anti-ship missile.

then what is the point about 8 Otomat missiles fired at once ? south africa has only 4 valour frigates.

then the frigates are not sitting together side by side in a naval blockade, or else its not a blockade anymore because niegrian coast is 800km long.

there is only one anti-ship missile defence on the valour frigate and it is the CIWS gun which cannot engage 8 Otomat missiles coming from front, back, left and right positions in a d.eadly multiple NNS ARADU attack.

Nigeria has 40 Otomat anti-ship missiles. South africa has only 17 Exocet anti-ship missiles shared among 4 valour warships minus the missiles wasted according to you in some regular foolish testing and practice, how many Exocets do you have left since almost 10 years ago ?

one day that secret too will leak out like your 12 Gripen jets that are frozen in cold storage, about half of south african air force best jets are not functioning grin


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South Africa has 24 hawks which can stop all your 12 F7 jets. Don't forget the 14 Griffins,and the other 12 can be taken out of storage if SA was threatened.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 2:43pm On Aug 09, 2013
agaugust: i posted few days ago, evidence of arms sales log showing ethiopia and eritrea buying SU-27 Flanker fighter jets and Mig 29 Jets almost every year of the Badme war 1998-2000, the jets arrived complete with russian and ukranian pilots to fly them. where was UN at that time ? sleeping ? no sanctions !

south africa cannot win any war with DENEL weapons because its main heavy weapons are all imported and need spare parts from Europe, i am tired of posting this comment the 7th time for these south african dummies grin

Gripen Jet Fighter, Sweden

Hawk Jet, Britain

Valour Frigate Warship, Germany

Type 209 Sumbarine, Germany

Half French Rooivalk Helicopter Gunship, France (Engine)

Half Finland's product Bagder IFV (Not yet in service) Finland (Engine and Chassis/Body/Electronics/Armaments)

UN sanctions will weaken south africa too, remove all the above weapons due to lack of support from manufacturers in Europe and see Angola, Eritrea, or Uganda defeat south africa in one week grin

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A
production contract for the Badger infantry
fighting vehicle for the South African National
Defence Force has been approved and is
currently with Armscor, which will send it out to
industry.
According to Dr Sam Gulube,
Secretary for Defence, the
Badger production contract
under Project Hoefyster was
approved in February this year.
He said he hoped to see the
first production Badger vehicle
roll off the assembly line by the
end of 2013 and the last in
2023.
Up until recently the programme was in the
development phase. Gulube said the approval of
the production phase, worth R8 billion over the
next ten years, had been taken to Armscor.
"Right now Armscor is contracting production
and ensuring local production etc. I don't know
where they are today," he told journalists last
week.
The production order is believed to be for 264
vehicles, to be placed with prime contractor
Denel Land Systems (DLS), which sees it as a
make or break contract for the company, as two
thirds of its energy is directed towards this
programme.
DLS is concurrently developing five different
variants of the Badger infantry fighting vehicle
(IFV). Project Hoefyster is utilising five modular
combat turret variants, armed with the home-
grown GI-30 (30 mm CamGun) and 60 mm
breech-loading long-range mortar system. The
Ingwe anti-tank missile system is integrated into
the anti-tank variant of the 8x8 armoured
modular vehicle platforms.
The industrialisation and production of the Badger
will be done in South Africa, creating an
estimated 2 000 jobs and benefiting more than
100 subcontractors in the supply chain. It will
also see the South African Army gain a
replacement for its rapidly ageing Ratel infantry
combat vehicles.
Hoefyster has led to spinoffs, the most important
of which is a contract from Malaysia for turrets. In
July last year it was announced that Malaysia had
signed a 343 million euro (R3.5 billion) contract
for turrets and weapons to be integrated onto
their 8x8 armoured vehicles. This includes 69 x
two man turrets fitted with the South African
GI30 30mm main gun and 54 x missile turrets
equipped with the GI30 30mm gun and Denel
Dynamics Ingwe anti-tank missile system. The
order also includes the supply of 216 laser-guided
Ingwe missiles and 54 x remote control weapons
systems. This contract would not have been
possible without Hoefyster.
The Malaysian turret deal means six years of work
on this project for DLS. Malaysia ordered 257
FNSS/Deftech AV-8 8x8 armoured vehicles, to be
manufactured by Deftech of Malaysia, which will
be fitted with the Denel turrets.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MikeZA: 2:30pm On Aug 09, 2013
agaugust: i posted few days ago, evidence of arms sales log showing ethiopia and eritrea buying SU-27 Flanker fighter jets and Mig 29 Jets almost every year of the Badme war 1998-2000, the jets arrived complete with russian and ukranian pilots to fly them. where was UN at that time ? sleeping ? no sanctions !

south africa cannot win any war with DENEL weapons because its main heavy weapons are all imported and need spare parts from Europe, i am tired of posting this comment the 7th time for these south african dummies grin

Gripen Jet Fighter, Sweden

Hawk Jet, Britain

Valour Frigate Warship, Germany

Type 209 Sumbarine, Germany

Half French Rooivalk Helicopter Gunship, France (Engine)

Half Finland's product Bagder IFV (Not yet in service) Finland (Engine and Chassis/Body/Electronics/Armaments)

UN sanctions will weaken south africa too, remove all the above weapons due to lack of support from manufacturers in Europe and see Angola, Eritrea, or Uganda defeat south africa in one week grin

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The Badger IFV will be made in South Africa. Only the first 16 will be made in Finland. They will use South African made armaments and electronics. Like Denel's 30mm gum gun and a range 60mm mortar. And oh the SANDF has a fleet of 1000 Ratels,which can be upgraded to the Iklwa standard.

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