Henry120: There is no 20 billion missing in Nigeria.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday suspended the central bank governor blamed for leaking news that billions of petrodollars are missing from the coffers of Africa's biggest oil producer, accusing him of "financial recklessness and misconduct."
How could it be the best Army if it is constantly losing battles and needs to use civilian militia because its trained soldiers cannot get the job done?
agaugust: Cilivian militia invaded Mubi without uniform at night, so Boko did not know they are being attacked, then Nigerian army moved in as second wave to deal with everything Boko in Mubi.
Where does it say this?
All sources say that Boko Haram were expelled by civilians... not soldiers.
agaugust: The people have been freed from Boko Haram invasion....the Bokos are dead in hundreds from Naija army bullets.... You SA guys say Boko holds territory in Nigeria, so where is the Ismaic Caliphate of Mubi today ?
LOL.....Boko Haram is not in Mubi again, they ran like Usain Bolt into the bush and mountains.
BOKO HARAM = SANDF.....same level of losing battles .
You mean the bullets of ordinary Nigerian civilians?
Henry120: It uses a WS-13 which is still under-development. The WS- 13 is not the RD-33. The Russians built a new engine based on the RD-33, and the chinese improved upon it.
Nope, WS-13 is in the JF-17 Thunder - its not experimental
Henry120: Which is grossly under-stated, biased and in-complete.
You won't know what low-quality is, even if it's staring you in the face.
You, like everyone else, knows zilch about the J-31.
Just like the F-35 is still in development.
We know that its electronics will be inferior as all Chinese tech is inferior, so unless they have caught up a decade in the development of a single project it will be inferior.
Henry120: They aren't using engines designed for the MIG-29.
If I steal your course-work, i'm going to be graded same as you by the professor. This is the fact.
Instead of the patriot, the turks went for the HQ-9, so much for been cheap.
Turkey, a country with one of the best militaries in NATO.
They spend 100+ billion on their military, it has nothing to do with been the largest.
so their military spending has nothing to do with the 1 million men they have in uniform? And also, you do realize that America spends 600 Billion on half as many men?
And yes, they are using the Mig-29 engine, this is an indisputable fact
And the Turks havent bought the HQ-9 yet, and the HQ-9 is cheap
Henry120: Which clearly states, the plane still is under-development. Besides those are the journalist personal views, not based on any concrete assessment of the fighter.
They observed that it needed its afterburners to perform the most basic maneuvers
That is a legit observation.
And with regards to electronics. The Chinese are decades behind the americans as is, and the F-35 is another quantum leap that combines the technology and skills of around 12 of the worlds most advanced nations. Nothing the Chinese have will compare in any way.
If you missed what I typed, I was wondering how it performs against fighters in it's class. A fair assessment, not some jack sh1t mumbo jumbo.
It performs poorly
Physically, it has poor performance
Electronically, its not even in the same class.
Its only saving grace will be if it has the same stealth properties as the F-35... but stealth is irrelevant anyway, because of advances in low-frequency radar arrays.
This is a powerful fighter. I wonder how it stacks against the F-35 or the Rafale.
#excuse the derailment.
Its a sh1tty copy of the F-35
Bleeds to much airspeed, even in normal flight and needs to use after-burners to do even the most basic maneuvers.
Russians say that the engine they used for it is old and poorly refined.
The secret to the F-35 is not stealth. It is its performance, its AN/APG-81 AESA-radar and AN/ASQ-239 IR sensors while its EO DAS and EOTS is probably the most advanced targeting system man has ever conceived
agaugust: Vietnam war and Korean wars are all civil wars. Angolan civil war was tougher than SANDF Vs Cuba where inexperienced kids fought 4,000 SANDF that was mixed with UNITA men of Angola who formed the bulk of SANDF side. .
South Africa fought in the Angolan civil war dipshit
agaugust: Show us proof. I know SANDF has only 25 units of IRIS-T missiles for 26 Gripen jets and has NEVER fired one of them in 7 years, because they will finish, there is already a shortage, 26 jets share 25 missiles, each Gripen jet gets 0.96 missile each, less than one missile
agaugust: Biafran war had the jets of that time, MiG-17 jet fighters, L-29 Delfin jet fighters and Ilyushi-28 jet bombers.
That was one of the best air forces in Africa in 1967-1970.
It had the artillery, APC, tank busters, mortar, Bofors anti-aircraft guns of that time.
Biafra was africa's biggest war after WW II with about 500,000 men on both sides, 100,000 soldiers died .
And biafra had what?
No real tanks, no real artillery, no real air-defence
The war involved less than 150 000 men. Liar
And Biafra had no real airforce apart from civilian cessna's with rocket pods and one french prototype bomber - and yet they humiliated your "Best airforce in africa"
agaugust: Forget the smoke, we don't need to use it.
Fact is that we are launching the Swingfire before you launch the Ingwe, that is the big battlefield operational disadvantage SANDF will face driving armoured vehicles in the open streets or fields against Nigerian army Swingfire tank-killer missiles that are hand/tripod stand controlled and hidden from view behind bushes, shrubs, or houses/windows.....Ratels die without knowing how we killed t.hem all. PITY PITY PITY
PHOTO ONE : SANDF RATEL WITH INGWE MISSILE EXPOSED ON THE FIELD AND EASY TO KILL
PHOTO TWO : ANTI-TANK MISSILE LIKE NIGERIAN ARMY SWINGFIRE HIDDEN FROM VIEW TO KILL THE UNLUCKY RATEL AND INGWE
SANDF IS WIPED OUT. GO KISS YOUR CANVAS SHOES IN THE MUD. PITY
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ahhh, so after finally getting into your dense skull that smoke defeats the Swingfire as well, you have no created some absurd scenario that suits your argument?
Let me ask you:
What are skirmishers?
What is their job?
Yet again, you dont know what you are talking about.
Swingfire is inferior to the Ingwe. This has been established beyond a reasonable doubt.
EVarn: more falacies to be dismissed.the fact still remains,old man, that you chickened out of CAR,dont run to google for bail-outs when you are feeling the heat of common sense.french jealousy or not,if you were prepared for battle,you would have fought notwithstanding france's wrath.this is africa,this is your domain,but you failed in your domain.no one dictated terms with nigeria when we stormed liberia and seirra leonne.all the rest does not hold water in a basket.
agaugust: [size=16pt] Soweto fool, you don't need anti-tank missile to kill an APC, ordinary one man cheap RPG with HEAT warhead will destroy an APC....Soweto fool.
South African navy frigates old Exocet missiles cannot kill like Swingfire cannot kill, get it? Yes you get it.