agaugust: I thought you Southies said Nigeria is a shiit hole, so you now work as labourers under our hot sun?
Now you are becoming humble, the only thing missing is that your still not yet smart upstairs.
We have over 12 million registered vehicles all over Nigeria, we have very busy battery chargers and auto mechanics who are already self employed or working for Nigerian owned companies like Innoson Motors. We need extra hands for casual labour short term contracts, we have reserved some 'low brain level required' positions for people like you South Africans, to help your unemployment crisis that made many of your Koevoet SADF special forces elite soldiers turn into basic motor mechanic in Nigeria.
Dumb, we ? No ! We are the one's who are smarter, we are the Nigerians who pilot the helicopters and command the vehicles, we drive the armour, you Southies will clean and polish it for us and do repairs that does not require mathematics which gives you problems.
We are just being nice to you as brothers, we ask you to do basic car war duties, is that not better than asking you to shine our soldiers' boots?
Ingrate, better apply now and stop living on ANC free lunch daily allowance for the jobless in Johannesburg .
So yes, we will happily change your tires for that
And no, you are dumb and short of skills, you cannot fly or operate your own equipment, that is why we are there - teaching you how to fight, teaching you how to operate modern equipment and operating the equipment for you
Pathetic Nigerians, your people live in squalor and with 23% of your population unemployed ( 7 521 739) you still bring us in because you cannot find any skilled Nigerians to do the jobs themselves
Henry120: Thanks for describing your wh0re of a mother.
The stup1d cvnt never learns.
Why are you getting so emotional?
Is it the fact that picture showes two foreigners who were brought in, to do your militarys job for you, and in so doing will be paid about the same every month as what an entire platoon of nigerian soldiers make in a year?
Henry120: Everybody hires Private security contractors, we've never denied it.
No fuss.
No henry
NATO hires them to do task that their more valuable men in uniform would be wasted on, things like guarding low risk instillations or infrastructure, providing protection to humanitarian operations ect
No one hires private contractors to OPERATE THEIR EQUIPMENT FOR THEM
- storing of ammo in the open - the pig disgusting state of those 155mm rounds - transporting those 155mm rounds while they are "loose" in the back of the vehical and also transporting propellant in the same vehical
agaugust: We need South Africans to do menial jobs that their level can handle, we Nigerians are busy with the brain work for now. Vacant positions are temporary casual worker category only. You will be reporting to a Nigerian foreman and supervisor under whom you will work.
Please apply @fighter pilot
What brain level stuff?
You cant even maintain your own equipment and need to spend millions importing mercenaries to do it for you
You are too dense to see that you only humiliate yourself
agaugust: Fact is, NO PROOF that they are SOUTH AFRICAN MERCENARIES, but surely those men in the convoy are foreigners, could be Russian, Belorussian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Israeli, etc working as technical trainers for our new equipment and weapons.
Nigerian government has said NO MERCENARY is fighting for Nigeria and I will take that as final authority. Yes, president GEJ said we have technical training teams from PMCs, so how do they move from their hotel room to training locations, by riding Keke Marwa or riding on Donkeys?
They are our visitors on contract duty and the best way to protect them is by giving them MRAPs to drive themselves and GPMG to protect themselves, Boko suicide bombers may want to harm them in town. We don’t have surplus troops to waste escorting them, so let them be armed to protect themselves. Seems like common sense in my opinion.
We have to use PMC training at home in Nigeria, no time to send soldiers and pilots overseas by withdrawing them from battlefield for overseas training. We are already at war. Weapons suppliers are supposed to provide training to the buyer, so nothing wrong in these things we see, it happens in America and Europe.
What I wonder is whether every white-man in this world is a South African, so why do people think those MRAPs men are South Africans? REVA MRAP is all over the world, and Nigeria could buy them and give to Russian PMC staff to drive around town on duty to our training and skills transfer locations.
We have a confirmed South African mechanic killed here by accident, why not? We bought South African vehicles and so we need South African mechanics for now until maintenance skills are transferred to us Nigerians.
Mechanic is NOT = Mercenary.
One works with spanner/screws, the other works with weapons/ammunition.
How do South African mercenary pilots qualify to fly modern NAF combat helicopters? How much flight hours do those mercenary ‘pilots’ clock in a year? Is it cheap to graduate and maintain combat qualified pilots?
Some people don’t even use their heads, do they know that South African bush war in Angola ended over 20 years ago? Those SADF special forces are old now ! Many of them are now aged about 45 to 65 years. Is that the age for field combat and running around in deserts, on hills, rocks, and forests? Human heart and lungs does not grow weak with age? Some people forgot their Biology.
Anybody who thinks 100 SADF old men mercenaries are fighting 10,000 Boko Haram terrorists on a land mass the size of Great Britain, should go and ask Seleka rebels why about 300 well armed South African army elite paratroopers and special forces combined ran at Usain Bolt Olympic speed from Bangui city to Bangui airport in record time, they left their Mortar carrier Gecko vehicles behind and forgot their uniforms in the base, French army at the Central African Republic airport was their saviour from the hands of just about 1,500 Seleka rebels.
Over 30,000 Nigerian troops are fighting Boko Haram and winning the war. Until there is 100% infallible proof of a fighting mercenary in Nigeria today, I take the president’s word and that of the Nigerian military officers as final and mercenaries remain mere phantoms….ghosts.
Mercenaries? NO! Just mere technical advisers on new weapons purchased
Senior military commanders have described stories in major international media and culled by local newspapers reporting that Nigeria is deploying hundreds of mercenaries against Boko Haram terrorists as a joke taken too far. The officers insisted that the foreigners are technical advisers that are providing trainings and instructions on the use of new armaments recently procured by the Nigerian military in the war on terror. Some top commanders who spoke with PRNigeria without wanting their identities disclosed insist that it is part of propaganda to paint Nigerian military as incompetent to deal with the insurgency by desperately ascribing recent spate of successes to ‘others’ rather than the gallant troops’ efforts. The source recalled that only recently, some news agencies ascribed such successes to Cameroonian, Nigerien and “battle hardened” Chadian forces but when it became obvious that the forces of those countries were mainly fighting along their own border areas blocking free movement of terrorists, “it became necessary to look for others” who are helping Nigerians to fight. PRNigeria gathered that the foreigners spotted in Maiduguri and other areas close to the theatre of wars are technical partners who are helping to train Nigerian forces on how to operate and maintain the recently acquired equipment which came from different sources.
The source further cited the particular example of the maintenance technician, who died recently insisting that he was not even a combatant but a professional in fixing armour vehicles. President Goodluck Jonathan was recently quoted in an interview with Voice of America (VOA) confirming that Nigeria has some trainers helping to get troops well acquainted with the recently acquired weaponry.
According to Jonathan, “we now have this technical people who are trainers and technicians, who are to train our people on how to use them, and technicians that help the maintenance, at the same time training our people how to maintain this equipment,” adding that two companies were involved in the training. The source recalled with regrets, the several years that Nigeria wasted while negotiating and appealing for equipment supply from the Western allies which were not only rebuffed but prevented other countries under their direct influence from selling to Nigeria.
“The fact that we have foreign experts outside the United States helping to train our troops is not a secret but it is not fair for them to embark on this blackmail simply because we got assistance from other places when they turned us down at a critical period”, the source stated. When contacted on the story that mercenaries are fighting the battle for Nigeria, the Director Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade said “Sorry, I don’t have anything about that claim. I just know that Nigerian military and security forces are putting in all their resources, training and experience acquired over the years to address the security challenges.
“Our neighbours operating under the auspices of the Multinational Joint Task Force are also backing our efforts from all our borders with them. We also have some offer of training and intelligence assistance from foreign countries. Some of these arrangements even predate the present operations.”
A whole 300 SANDF elit paratroopers plus special forces could not survive 24 hours defending one singe base/compound in Bangui before Seleka turned them into Olympic champions of speed .
1. 200 men 2. CAR is 1000's of kilometers from South Africa - they had no support 3. They lasted from Friday to Sunday and forced the enemy to offer a cease-fire
If your men could do the same maybe you would not need to be South African mercenaries to come liberate you
agaugust: My pleasure.....there are many of them in NATO navies and also other countries of the world, anti-torpedo equipment is plentiful all over the world and for a long time since many years ago.
Submarines have lost their 'legendary superiority' .....it really was never there anyway.
HMS Duncan warship :
Electronic warfare and decoys: UAT16 Surface ship torpedo defence (SSTD)
Your white NATO masters were fooling you South Africans in that sea war game, allowing you to 'sink' NATO warships, they NEVER showed you their real warships, the day your navy meets a real NATO warship in battle, is the day you will understand why the white man successfully colonized South Africa up till 1994. Soweto Mumus .
Auguugubgugugug - did you even bother reading about what SSTD is?
Its not countermeasures - its torpedo detection
Again, (its now day 4) show us a NATO vessel armed with anti-torpedo countermeasures
As Heitman said, its all dependent on our foreign policy
KC-130 for a domestically based defence policy A400M for a continental based policy
never has a single acquisition provided such insight to governmental long term defence planning
Personally, I would say the C-130J is a better option than the A400M as it has a bigger base-payload (despite a smaller vehicular based payload) and more options interms of a tanker and and maritime patrol as well as AWACS - not to mention we have the only certified C-130 maintenance and re-fit plant on the continent
A400M is just a tactical lift pretending to be a strategic lift
FYI, heitmans suggestion of the Alenia C-27J Spartan and CASA C-295M operating as a light-lift combo gave me the biggest military hard-on I have had in a while
The proof is already in the pictures of Bama road, Maiguduri, that have been posted.
I personally love this one below because it has a nice collection of Maiguduriesque stuff. The electric lights. The Oando service station. The Okadas. The car registration plates. Hell, there's even a Lagos plate on the merc.
Henry120: The life of a terrorist is worth nothing.
The convention is relevant because Nigeria is a signatory to it. If you can't point out were lives of terrorists are covered by the convention, you cannot accuse the military of any wrong doing.
If we need to explain why the summery execution of human beings is wrong, we cannot accuse Nigerians of being human beings.
agaugust: Terrorists don't obey United Nations laws of war.
Different countries make different local laws against terrorism, some have death sentence, so when a terrorist is captured he is treated as a murderer and sentenced to death after capture. New British and Canadian laws enacted in 2014 and 2015 say suspected terrorists will have their fully legitimate citizenship cancelled and will no longer be British or Canadian citizens even if they are born and bred in those countries .
Regardless, most civilized countries have a courts system and dont execute people on sight
Henry120: You must be extremely stup1d for this comment.
"Who the fvck is new-york times, when the President of my country is speaking?". Are you high on drugs?
You think Nigerians wake up in the morning with a defeatist mentality like you South-Africans.
This is the same slave mentality that has plagued you black/coloured south-africans in your own country, and have made you second class citizens in a country you are the majority.
Lol, Nigerians, Nigerians, Nigerians. So simple, so naive.
You believe politicians? You believe politicians during elections? Presidents dont lie?
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha
You have gone from denying the existance of South African mercenaries, to now having to deny that we (along with Chad, Niger and Cameroon) are liberating your country.
agaugust: The man you call joker walks around the battlefield, the reporters publishing fake stories about ghost mercenaries are 7,000 kilometers away from battlefield Northern Nigeria, they sit down safely in their newspapers' New York and London offices copying stories from facebook comments of unknown people, then add their own salt and ajino-moto to sweeten the lies.
Here is the man you call joker inside war zone, Napoleon Field Marshal Goodluck Jonathan, commander-in -chief and in-deed !
PHOTO : NAPOLEON FIELD MARSHAL GOODLUCK JONATHAN THE LION OF AFRICA IN BATTLE !
Nope
Their reporters are on the ground in Nigeria - collecting info and speaking to sources, thats how journalism works
I was suspicious when they said that Bama was taken with little resistance
Now it is clear what happened, South African and Eastern European Mercenaries moved in the night before and secured it, then the Army moved in the next day for the propaganda victory
Henry120: Here is your link. However, this time in bold, since you are blind.
the president said.
He also said that foreign technicians are present in the northeast to teach Nigerian troops on how to use their new weapons, since there wasn’t time to train the troops before they deployed.
“So we now have this technical people who are trainers and technicians, who are to train our people on how to use them, and technicians that help the maintenance, at the same time training our people how to maintain this equipment,” Jonathan said.He said two unnamed companies were involved in the training but declined to offer nationalities or numbers of the trainers.
I just hope you can now see.
Your president is desperatly trying to cover his ass
Facts are facts, NYT has blown your presidents story out the water.
(This joker listens to politicians before the media?)
Henry120: "A senior Western diplomat confirmed that the South Africans were playing “a major operational role,” particularly at night. Equipped with night vision goggles, the mercenaries “are whacking them in the evening hours. The next morning the Nigerian Army rolls in and claims success,” the diplomat said"
Reading this, I choked on my drink while laughing.
Westerners always afraid of a Nigerian success, have this time invented a story to peddle.
A source = dud, Claims = dud
No evidence, no proof, no nothing..... and you mentally backward slaves expect us (Nigerians) to take that report seriously as a fact just because he's an oyinbo. you south-Africans are mentally imprisoned.
Here's what the President said,
"He also said that foreign technicians are present in the northeast to teach Nigerian troops on how to use their new weapons, since there wasn’t time to train the troops before they deployed.
“So we now have this technical people who are trainers and technicians, who are to train our people on how to use them, and technicians that help the maintenance, at the same time training our people how to maintain this equipment,” Jonathan said.He said two unnamed companies were involved in the training".
This 6 weeks insurgency offensive is a total Nigerian victory, we routed insurgents in Baga in only "3 hours".
The Foreign media dismissed the Nigerian military too soon, now that our soldiers are on fire, the western media are too egoistic to recant. You know, i'm shocked the so called diplomat didn't find a way to put chad in the mix.
Watch this COIN video, at the end of the video, the Nigerian military showed footage of night operations. We can all see Nigerian troops coming off a Nigerian MI-8 hip Helicopter.
Henry120: Your koevet operative worked for a Nigerian Private security firm. Pilgrims security contracted the man as a mechanic, maintenance, servicing and repairs.
Pilgrims security is one of many private security firms working across the globe.Airscan, Academi, black water et al, are firms that U.S DoD, UK MoD have contracted and still contract.
Nigeria is also no stranger to the use of private security contractors, we've always hired them.
"He also said that foreign technicians are present in the northeast to teach Nigerian troops on how to use their new weapons, since there wasn’t time to train the troops before they deployed."....... President GEJ
This is the job your koevet operator was doing.
The truth has come out henry120
We are winning your war for you
~100 South African mercenaries > 20 000 Nigerian Soldiers
agaugust: Yes, so I will serve you one hot fresh baked •
The most modern wire guided torpedoes getting defeated easily :
Anti-torpedo countermeasure system for surface ships The C310 is an anti-torpedo countermeasure system for surface ships, designed to cope with current and future generations of active and/or passive torpedoes, wire or non wire-guided, launched alone or in salvo mode . Surface vessels deploy such devices during the course of predetermined evasive counter-manoeuvres, to maximise the ship survivability against modern torpedo attacks. The C310 system includes two types of effectors – stationary jammers and mobile target emulators - and a launching system. This latter is composed of a control computer, junction boxes and two trainable launchers, carrying a number of compressed air barrels. The number of barrels per launcher is 12 or 8, according to the customer's operational requirement and the ship type. Each barrel is loaded with the relevant effector (jammers or l\/ITE) and consists of a launch tube, an air bottle and an electro-valve. The launcher is capable of launching the effectors at several hundreds metres from the ship.
Msauza: Nigerian Army is claiming victories which were achieved by SA mercenaries. The truth comes out bit by bit.
A senior Western diplomat confirmed that the South Africans were playing “a major operational role,” particularly at night. Equipped with night vision goggles, the mercenaries “are whacking them in the evening hours. The next morning the Nigerian Army rolls in and claims success,” the diplomat said
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