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Henry240:
Please post as much as you can, all photos with Zim and Angola in them, post.

lionel4power:
A secretive Russian arms deal could be set to save the struggling MiG aircraft company – but the buyer remains unknown.
Jul. 20 2016 — 11:18 — Update: 11:18
By Matthew Bodner
m.bodner@imedia.ru
@mattb0401
After years languishing behind competitors at home and abroad, Russia’s iconic MiG aircraft manufacturer has been thrown a lifeline. The company is now building 46 brand-new MiG-29M fighter jets in a contract reported to be worth at least $2 billion dollars.
Yet despite the hints which have appeared in the Russian press over the past year, official confirmation remains elusive. The jets are being built for an unspecified buyer. Only a shareholder’s report released by a MiG component supplier has confirmed that the order is real. The document outlines a deal for 92 engines used in the MiG-29. With two engines in each fighter, the contract corresponds with reports of a 46-fighter contract in the works.
Yet the key question remains – who are these fighters for?
Forty-six combat jets represents a large arms deal, and one that the MiG company desperately needs. The company has lost several major contracts to both foreign and domestic competitors over the past two decades, and is struggling to keep up with the competition. It has also failed to deliver on signed contracts to major Russian customers such as India.
“Russia has not formally announced the deal because of previous delays on contracts. When you announce a deal and something goes wrong, the damage to your image as a reliable procurer is enormous,” says Yury Barmin, an expert on Russian foreign affairs.
Who’s Buying?
The leading candidate for the 46 MiGs is Egypt. Speculation is largely fueled by enigmatic statements from Russian defense industry officials at trade shows and press conferences over the past year. The official line is that the MiGs are going to North Africa, and that the exact customer cannot yet be named. Russia’s Vedomosti newspaper in May last year reported that the jets were going to Egypt as part of a $3.5 billion arms deal signed by President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian President Abdel el-Sisi in April 2015.
Any potential deal with Egypt would make good, geopolitical sense. Moscow is working to solidify its role as partner and arms dealer to Sisi’s government: taking advantage of a void left by the United States, which began distancing itself from Egypt after Sisi came to power in 2014. Given that Russia’s export catalogue amounts to some $14 to $15 billion annually, a $2 billion MiG contract – which appears to be scheduled to be fulfilled over the course of 2016 to 2018 – is a big win for Russia.

gottfried21:
Krypteia Strategies training African Commandos(Not sure from which country)

Henry240:
Where is your evidence, link or proof?


I do hope it's Nigerian though, we've had a requirement for a modern 4 Gen aircraft seen like yesterday.

jteku:
Are this landing gears .

nemesis2u:
It can be hypersonic ONLY if climbs to a high altitude & undertakes a high-speed dive on the target

nemesis2u:
1.Firstly, CM-400AKG has [s]not yet been qualified on the JF-17 Thunder[/s]. there are no reports till now, CM-400AKG has been shown next to JF17 in airshows only.

Henry240:
Can you post a couple clear photos of the J-10s cockpit showing it's MFDs?

ViceAdmiral:
Is Zimbabwe ready to intervene in Mozambique if things keep going south there

Namibian Air Force

ViceAdmiral:
EX Amani Africa II

Zimbabwean Army APC's
Angolan Wolf's MKII's
Namibian Army Land cuisers
SA Army Casspirs

ViceAdmiral:
Ouk,Any pics from the joint AFZ/NAF exercises i.e. Savannah thunderbolt 1?

Namibian police training with French police

africaken254:
The Tejas Mark IA will equipped with an improved version of the EL/M-2052 AESA radar being developed jointly by Elta and HAL.if nigeria air force wants its could order the customization of its JF-17 with EL/M-2052 AESA radar .AESA radar technology is maturing and the cost reducing with increasing number of companies offering AESA radars in the defence market

Chinese Firm Claims To Offer Israeli AESA Radar


By Wendell Minnick and Barbara Opall-Rome 2:48 p.m. EDT August 17, 2015

TAIPEI and TEL AVIV — A People's Liberation Army (PLA)-accredited, publicly traded firm is marketing an advanced airborne fire-control radar believed to be from Elta Systems, the same Israeli state-owned subsidiary at the heart of an incendiary chapter in US-Israel relations that continues to reverberate 15 years after Washington forced Israel to cancel a controversial contract with Beijing.

According to a product catalogue by NAV Technology Company, the Beijing-based firm claims its active electronic scanned array (AESA) radar "incorporates Elta's decades of field-proven experience with real operational feedback from Israel Air Force combat pilots."

While the catalogue — distributed at Airshow China in Zhuhai last November — does not directly identify Elta's ELM-2052 radar by name, its two-page description is nearly identical to publicly available marketing data by Elta, a subsidiary of state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), whose Phalcon aerial warning and control radar deal with Beijing was terminated in mid-2000 due to fierce opposition from executive and legislative branches of the US government.

The NAV-purported product boasts advanced multimode capabilities for precision, long-range attack of multiple air, sea and moving ground targets.

If indeed the radar is part of NAV's product portfolio, it could provide Chinese-made fighters — including those planned for export to Iran and other nations hostile to both Israel and the United States — with the ability to track and attack dozens of targets simultaneously.

Israel's Ministry of Defence on Monday said it has no knowledge of NAV and its claimed association with Elta. Yet when asked if the MoD had ever granted IAI a license to market the Elta airborne AESA radar in China or to a Chinese subsidiary, spokeswoman Orna Simhoni-Ofer declined to answer and referred Defense News to IAI.

In a written reply, IAI spokeswoman Eliana Fishler denied any association between Elta and NAV "or any other Chinese firm."

According to Fishler, "We don't have a clue as to why they wrote this in their brochure, but it is completely not true."

Fishler declined, however, to state what, if any, steps the firm intended to take against NAV for what it insists is a blatant forgery of IAI/Elta marketing information.

Yang Yunchun, NAV Technology chairman and president, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The Chinese-language website for the company does not list an AESA radar as a product. According to public information, Yang is the founder and principal stockholder (55 percent) of the company traded on the Chinese stock exchange.

But in an apparent boost to IAI claims of forgery, NAV's 55-page product catalogue indicates the firm is willing to "reverse engineer" a US-made inertial navigation system that the Pakistani Air Force is having problems with. NAV would provide "a detailed solution," according to company marketing material.

The NAV catalogue also lists a "NAV-SDB Small Diameter Bomb" that appears identical to the Boeing GBU-39 precision-guided glide bomb, including photograph and specs.

In 2010, the company received Chinese government approval to manufacture equipment for the PLA, similar to ISO 9000 certification. The NAV website includes a copy of the quality control accreditation certificate issued by the China New Time Quality System Accreditation Center on behalf of the China Military Industry Product Quality Accreditation Committee.

ViceAdmiral:
I gather your Zimbabwean,do you know what kind of training the AFZ offers to Namibian AF pilots?