agaugust: 30,000 did not die, actual figures not known, but realistic source estimates quote about 10,000 dead.
Hey fool ! About 20 million Russian civilians died in Russian homeland during German invasion.
About 150,000 Algerians died during Islamic terrorism war .
Cool story.
We arent talking about Russia or Algeria... we are talking about Nigeria.
And the lesson we learn from you is "how not to get kicked out of 46 towns and cities and let rag tag rebels establish a caliphate the size of belgium in your country"
Yes, for their generation of ships they are modern.
All major frigates from France built in the late 1990's and early 2000's use those systems. I find it ironic that a Nation whos youngest Frigate is 36 years old talks to use about "modern"
Henry240: First of, congrats on putting Grand-Pa Drak back to sea.
Errm.... According to defenceweb.co.za the SAAF only has one pilot who can land at sea. Citations provided last year. Funny how you let him go show of in India...... You want to go impress India with you obsolete Frigate, and your lone pilot. A country that builds world class world class Frigates like the INS Kochi and has more Frigates than the combined sum total of SAN vessels (including small boats).
Good-luck!
Thanks, now if only you had the skill to get Grand-Pa Aradu back to sea for more than 5 years in a row
No, defenceweb did not say that... go read the article yourself.
Yes, India and China are obviously very impressed with us... they invited us to take part in major exercises. Clearly they want to practice against advanced stealth platforms.
This post of yours reeks of jealousy... SAN goes off to train with India and China and this is your response?
. New South African navy chief of staff has ZERO combat or navy ops experience
"He points to the incoming SA Navy Chief, currently Rear Admiral Samuel Hlongwane, as one of the appointments that will not improve the maritime arm of service.
He is a counter-intelligence officer with no combat or operational experience and has no expertise in actual naval operations."
agaugust: $300 million Valour frigate with 1972 rusted old obsolete main gun 76mm, 20 year old obsolescent combat suite, ZERO torpedoes, and ZERO anti-submarine helicopter, plus $40 million Super Lynx helicopter with ZERO sonar ZERO torpedoes ZERO anti-submarine warfare capability .
- 76mm is a Super-Rapid
- Combat suite is the same as frontline French Frigates, their flagship and the Saudi Flagship
- Does anyone in Africa have subs? No? then we dont need torpedoes
- Nigeria has ZERO ASW helo as well
- $40 Lynx is more capable and advanced than anything in your arsenal.
You are a jealous little boy augubug... You dream of the day when Nigeria could have a vessel of such power and glory!
agaugust: Stop using Wikipedia as source, it is unreliable. Any fraudster like Patches can edit Wikipedia.
Btwn, South African corruption is both local and international, Nigerian corruption is local.
It is South Africa that bribed Sweden's SAAB to do Gripen jet deal, and bribed a whole FIFA top executive team of managers to get 2010 world cup hosting rights that South Africa did not technically qualify to host....your bribery is on world records page, you ruined Sepp Blatters career as FIFA president....South Africa's SPECTACULAR corruption enters Guinness book of records o ! .
1. Nigeria has a higher corruption index - no words will ever change this fact
2. No bribery was ever proven in the Gripen deal
3. No bribery was ever proben with FIFA
This post of yours is nothing but emotional ramblings
Henry240: Kindly desist from derailing this thread.
It has now emerged that as many as 5,000 Nigerian troops were deployed to Angola and that they saw action in various theatres across the then war-blighted country. Writing in an article entitled “MOSCOW’S NEXT TARGET IN AFRICA;Paying the Price for Angola“, Robert Moss clearly indicates that …. QUOTE: “The Nigerians are said to be heavily involved in Angola. Western intelligence sources report that Nigerian troops were present at battalion strength when the MPLA and the Cubans pushed south last year. According to UNITA sources in Paris, the Nigerian strength has since been reinforced. UNITA sources have tapes of radio intercepts showing that at least 5,000 Nigerian troops have been deployed in Angola. They are operating as far south as Mocamedes, and are also based in Lobito, Luanda and the eastern diamond mining town of Henrique de Carvalho.
Henry240: Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebrate with Niigeria, today is our Armed Forces Remembrance day.
Officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces have fought in various wars and taken part in many peace keeping operations, defensive duties and internal security duties. These include
Wars including: * The First World War * The Second World War * The Nigerian Civil War *Border War, Angola
Peace keeping/enforcement operations in * The Congo * Tanzania * Liberia * Sierra Leone * Lebanon * Darfur * The former Yugoslavia * Mali * Ivory-Coast *Guinea * Somalia
Defensive duties including * The Bamileke Rebellion * Chadian Rebels (1982/83) * The Bakassi Peninsula
Internal Security duties including * The Tiv Rebellion * The Western Region Crisis * The Niger-Delta Crisis (1966) * The Agbekoya Rebellion * The Niger Delta Crisis (2002) * The Boko Haram Insurgency.
Henry240: Evidence exists. Conclusive does not exist in Nigeria's defence procurement, we do not issue RFIs or Tenders. We run a secret defence procurement scheme. This is basic knowledge.
For example, tell me the number of MI-17s the Air Force got last year?
How many did we order in 2015?
1. If by "secret" you mean "corrupt" then yes it is,
2. So you admit then that you are simply inventing numbers?
The agency said at least nine SA soldiers were killed. "I saw the bodies of six South African soldiers. They had all been shot," a Reuters witness said. Later, he saw three more bodies in burned-out South African military vehicles. Amy Martin of the UN's humanitarian agency, OCHA, told the BBC World Service that the SA troops had retreated to their barracks and were seeking safe passage to the airport. Seleka spokesperson Eric Massi said the rebels had broken through a line of South African soldiers during their push into the city."
Henry240: - the battles are not important, we delivered on the war. We delivered in 6 weeks, an area the size of Scotland. That's an amazing military feat unmatched in Africa. We have the best Infantry soldiers in Africa.
- Chad secured their side of the border, operating in border towns of Dikwa and Gambaru-Ngala. Operations amounting to only 7% of the AO. We funded the chadian operations, we also provided air-support to them. You should go back to school to learn what facts are.
- the SANDF is an incompetent force, the CAR proves this. While the Nigeria Army was conducting operations in the North-East, our troops were carrying out operations in Liberia, Sudan, Guinea.
- Bozize fled, mission failed.
- You had 20 000 men, tanks, artillery, jets, attack helicopters... and yet you got kicked out of 41 cities and towns by 4000 rag-tag boko haram
- Been done many times, SADF in Op Savannah, or by Mike Hoars merc's in DRC during the Simba uprising. Lets not even talk about WW2
- You had to beg chad to operate INSIDE OF NIGERIA. And you were only able to turn the tide of the war once you let chad into your country.
- How does the CAR prove that? 200 men stopping 3000+ men is incompetant? A casualty to kill ratio of 1:30 is incompetant?
Our mission was never to keep Bozize in power... it was to protect him... and since he is still alive, I would say that is a success
Henry240: Actually they are. "Seleka's Massi said the rebels had broken through a line of South African soldiers during their push into the city."
A source with the United Nations in Bangui said South African troops were preparing to leave the country. "They took substantial losses and have asked for French support to load their troops and take off," said the source.
Henry240: Zuma says South Africa "rejects any attempt to seize power by force," and that the soldiers' deaths will not keep the country from working to prevent the overthrow of elected government.
Here is your illiterate President telling us the objective of SANDF troops is to prevent an overthrow of elected government. The objective of SANDF troops in the CAR was to keep Bozize in power, which of course you failed miserably at.
"Seleka spokesperson Eric Massi said the rebels had broken through a line of South African soldiers during their push into the city."
SANDF objectives in the CAR
- Keep Bozize in power - Failed
- Protect Bozize - Failed
- Train CAR troops - Failed
- SANDF troops suffered a crushing defeat, left their equipments in the CAR and fled.
South Africa’s involvement in the security of the Central African Republic followed President Bozoze’s request to South Africa to assist the Central African Republic’s Defence Force (FACA) to upgrade their military capabilities.
SANDF deployment in the CAR is divided into two mainly OP MORERO – a unit of the SANDF Special Forces that was deployed in CAR to provide VIP protection to President Bozize and Operation Vimbesela – the SANDF’s mission involved in the refurbishment of the military bases and the training of the military personnel on that country.
africaken: how many times have i seen posting even the overan on burundia camp in this forum,without anyone raising an issue.if you want to post grotesque pictures of dead soldiers,its your own prerogative.gentlemen post weapons and equipment capture by a foe. SANDF isn't holy than thou if it messes up we will comment about it and no matter the fairy tale you tell us we will critique
The problem here is that you are "critical" of an action by the SANDF - despite us providing you a plethora of information on the topic that states otherwise.
You lack any real material with which to critique the SANDF so you have gone about "critiquing" in a pathetically passive-aggressive manner by posting captured equipment.
Notice that the salient facts of #2 and #3 are the same - the Rebels suffered heavy casualties, their attack on the captial was halted etc.
Now, was the way that we handled the aftermath of the battle right? No it was not, but that was a political issue, South Africa has to be very careful about our behavior on the inter-state level due to the bad reputation we built during Apartheid and again with Lesotho in the 1990's so we cant just go a smash the sh1t out of whoever we want whenever we want... we have to ask permission now :-(
AugustineAgain: The above weblink says NOTHING about South African Gripen radar, it only talks about 2015 uogrades which SAAF DOES NOT HAVE on your obsolescent Gripen jets with obsolete 25 year old radar. JF-17 Thunder flies with superior and modern year 2005 KLJ-7 radar with an even superior 135 km range.
AugustineAgain: It failed, 2011 technical resesrch report FROM INSIDE SOUTH AFRICA BY SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERTS says Link ZA failed to perfom across different equipment, it was a huge disappointment. Sorry your Reutech manufacturer is too ashamed to admit failure publicly.
The SAAF will be using various sensors throughout the country to compile the radar picture. As the SAAF will be deploying mobile radar units to only the inland soccer venues, the SA Navy will deploy their frigates to the coastal venues, being Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. [b]Gagiano says that the SAAF will “utilise the radar pictures from the navy ships – via Link ZA – for the total air picture around the stadiums close to the coast.”
"So all those sensors contribute to a recognised air picture and Gripen is one part of it, the ship radar is one part of it, our mobile radars, static radar, all these sensors are part and parcel of the input into one recognised air picture.” http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6534
Title: Case study of the development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability [Journal article] Authors: Smith, CJ Venter, JP Keywords: Network enabling capabilities Link-ZA Interoperability South African National Defence Force SANDF Tactical Data Links Battlefield technology Issue Date: Nov-2011 Publisher: Argos Press Citation: Smith, CJ and Venter, JP. Year 2011 Case study of the development of a SANDF tactical data link network enabling capability. Journal of Battlefield Technology, Vol 14.
As of 2011 date, SANDF tactical datalink is a failure 80% failed, show us a 2012-2016 technical report to cancel that. .
1. The Rear Admiral confirms it.
1a. airforce General confirms it:
The SAAF will be using various sensors throughout the country to compile the radar picture. As the SAAF will be deploying mobile radar units to only the inland soccer venues, the SA Navy will deploy their frigates to the coastal venues, being Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. Gagiano says that the SAAF will “utilise the radar pictures from the navy ships – via Link ZA – for the total air picture around the stadiums close to the coast.”
"So all those sensors contribute to a recognised air picture and Gripen is one part of it, the ship radar is one part of it, our mobile radars, static radar, all these sensors are part and parcel of the input into one recognised air picture.” http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6534
2. No, the paper says that upon delivery it failed to integrate, it then goes on to outline how it was integrated - abstract confirms it
You can go on repeating yourself, and I can go on quoting YOUR OWN SOURCE to prove you are wrong
"ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's former defence minister has been charged with money laundering and criminal breach of trust over 300 million naira ($1 million pounds) intended for defence spending, the financial crimes agency said on Tuesday."
Even you link said $2 billion dollars
"He was arrested on Dec. 1 in relation to an investigation into a $2 billion arms deal."
Yes, the deal was 2 billion, so Henry is wrong when he says 5 billion was spent
AugustineAgain: You should read before you post, stop sulking, I have wrecked SANDF tactical data link false claims. Go eat the humble pie.
1. The Navy officer did NOT say their ship is data linked to Gripen jet, that statement was made by the magazine journalist who has no knowledge of the technical failure report. The words of the navy are in quotation marks, the words of the journalist had no quotation, he was speaking his own mind loaded with error and ignorance of the technical failure report on Link ZA.
2. Paper outlines how it was integrated and failed to work from aircraft to artillery or ship to submarine, report says DISAPPOINTMENT !
SANDF has intra-net and not tactical data link, let that sink into y.our sk.ull.....never mind that I spoiled your weekend .
1. The Rear Admiral confirms it.
1a. airforce General confirms it:
The SAAF will be using various sensors throughout the country to compile the radar picture. As the SAAF will be deploying mobile radar units to only the inland soccer venues, the SA Navy will deploy their frigates to the coastal venues, being Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. Gagiano says that the SAAF will “utilise the radar pictures from the navy ships – via Link ZA – for the total air picture around the stadiums close to the coast.”
"So all those sensors contribute to a recognised air picture and Gripen is one part of it, the ship radar is one part of it, our mobile radars, static radar, all these sensors are part and parcel of the input into one recognised air picture.” http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6534
2. No, the paper says that upon delivery it failed to integrate, it then goes on to outline how it was integrated - abstract confirms it
You can go on repeating yourself, and I can go on quoting YOUR OWN SOURCE to prove you are wrong