agaugust: [size=15pt] Brazil produced A-Darter missile for South Africa, confirmed 100% [/size]
"Several Brazilian companies are involved in the A-Darter programme, including Mectron, Avibrás and Opto Eletrônica. Mectron makes all Brazil’s missiles (MAA-1/B Piranha air-to-air missile, MAR-1 anti-radar missile and MSS-1.2 anti-armour missile). Avibras is assisting with development of the A-Darter’s rocket motor and Opto Eletrônica is participating in the development of the A-Darter’s seeker head."
The SA Army will ultimately have a fleet of 242 Badger infantry combat vehicles in nine variants as opposed to the original five combat variants according to the 2014/15 Armscor annual report.
According to the Armscor public document 21 vehicle platforms will be sourced from the Finnish company with the remaining 221 to be “completely manufactured in South Africa”.
“Development of the mortar and missile variants of the vehicle are planned to lag behind the section variant, and design and test and evaluation trials for these variants are planned to be completed during the 2015/16 financial year. Development of both these variants will be completed by the end of 2016. The concept designs of the signal and ambulance variants were completed in March 2015, while that of the artillery variant will be completed during the 2015/16 financial year,”
So its:
- Section Variant - Command Variant - Mortar Variant - Anti-Tank Missile Variant - Fire Support Variant - Signal Variant - Ambulance variant - Artillery variant
Been a good week for the SANDF - final confirmation of the A-darter
“It will deliver an air-to-air missile that is functionally comparable with the most advanced missiles of this nature available in the world. Despite delays incurred during the development phase, the programme time scale has still been shorter than that of comparable missiles developed internationally.
“Following the successful flight test campaigns conducted during the past year, and sufficient mitigation of most technical risks on the programme, a contract for the industrialisation and subsequent production of the operational missiles for the SAAF was placed with industry towards the latter part of the reporting period. First delivery of missiles is expected to be towards February 2017.”
During the year under review work was also done on integrating the A-Darter and a helmet mounted display capability (HMC) onto the SAAF’s Hawk Mk120 lead-in fighter trainers.
[size=20pt]A-Darter for SAAF 100% confirmed!![/size]
“Following the successful flight test campaigns conducted during the past year, and sufficient mitigation of most technical risks on the programme, a contract for the industrialisation and subsequent production of the operational missiles for the SAAF was placed with industry towards the latter part of the reporting period. First delivery of missiles is expected to be towards February 2017.”
During the year under review work was also done on integrating the A-Darter and a helmet mounted display capability (HMC) onto the SAAF’s Hawk Mk120 lead-in fighter trainers.
Armscor foresees a contract for the integration of the A-Darter missile onto the Hawk aircraft based at 85 Combat Flying School in Limpopo being concluded during the 2015/16 financial year.
EVarn: You are a fool,patches of guasteng. You cannot expel a Nigerian from his own compatriot's online forum,rather,it is you,yes you,that should go into exile from this forum.His words hurt you so deeply,all you could do was to lash out and call for his expulsion. You south africans are so reckless and negatively verbose,you strutt in here pompously and attempt to ridicule the achievements of other nations,as if your country isnt a cesspit of wreakage and debauchery. Be very careful.
Yes, racism and bigotry offend me. And so I responded accordingly.
South Africa is, factually speaking, 55X better to live in.
South Africa is the dream nigerians labor towards. Ridicule your achievements? YOU HAVE NO ACHIEVEMENTS TO RIDICULE
Carefull? Carefull for what? Calling out racism where i see it? Carefull for speaking the truth and substantiating it with citations?
agaugust: If 5 million Europeans build Kenya as citizens for 300 years, what do you think Kenya will look like today?
You say you blacks tried because you built new roads in Soweto blah blah blah, does it take a genius to do that?
the sand and tar carrying unskilled labourers are a few Zulus/Bantus and plenty of African immigrant workers from neighbouring countries....then you say you tried, what did you do?
The blacks that will live in those free houses are lazy men who refused to go to school, refused to work and earn a decent living, believing that ANC government will reward them for doing nothing just because they are black people now having the presidency in South Africa. They are parasites sucking your economy.
By giving free food and free houses to lazy black men who refuse to work and drink Koeldrank in all day alcohol fiesta?
you guys have achieved NOTHING other than inherit what the white man built and handed over to you, then you dip your corrupt ANC fingers into the treasury and splash the money on millions of lazy black people who are born parasites feeding on government cash handouts.
agaugust: [s]I am not racist, I don't hate whites, yet I don't kiss white azz either , I am a strong blooded Pan-Africanist like Zik Of Africa Nnamdi Azikiwe.
I live among whites in America, and if Jim Crow was alive today, I will get NGOs to drag him to the world court in the Hague for racism.
Do you know how this argument started? I showed Nigerian made weapons and a South African called them shiiit, he began to post shiny weapons made by white men in white established defence companies in South Africa, that is how you Southies like to rubbish other African countries stuff and showcase what the white man built for you as superior to the rest of Africa.
If 5 million Europeans build Kenya as citizens for 300 years, what do you think Kenya will look like today? Will your South African infrastructure be better than that of kenya today? You guys are boasting of another man's labour and insulting others who are actually doing their own labour, the kind of labour that you cannot do for yourselves in South Africa as blacks/coloreds.
You say you blacks tried because you built new roads in Soweto blah blah blah, does it take a genius to do that? Mandela makes phone call to contractor...."We pay you R500 million to build infrastructure in Soweto black townships"......that's all he does, me too I can make that simple phone call and sign contract papers.....the money is inherited from the well managed white-man era economy who handed over they keys of the treasury and gold to Mandela, the contractor company is a long established white construction company of apartheid era, the managing engineers are all white, the sand and tar carrying unskilled labourers are a few Zulus/Bantus and plenty of African immigrant workers from neighbouring countries....then you say you tried, what did you do?
The blacks that will live in those free houses are lazy men who refused to go to school, refused to work and earn a decent living, believing that ANC government will reward them for doing nothing just because they are black people now having the presidency in South Africa. They are parasites sucking your economy.
During apartheid days electricity was constant in SA, now you blacks take over and 1 million candles a day are burnt in Johannesburg and major cities due to the mess you made of the white man's work. You say you tried and did well as blacks? How? By giving free food and free houses to lazy black men who refuse to work and drink Koeldrank all day alcohol fiesta?
I said you should show me a black South African created, managed, and technologically controlled construction company like Nigeria's Dantata and Sawoe, yet you cannot find one, you say you have but you cannot show it.....because you do not have.
Now some blacks/coloreds from such a country as yours came here yesterday to say Nigerians cannot build a tarred road, that is why I am firing back with facts and truths ! It's gonna hurt the Southies, because your history should have made you humble and not come here and insult the achievements of any other African country because you guys have achieved NOTHING other than inherit what the white man built and handed over to you, then you dip your corrupt ANC fingers into the treasury and splash the money on millions of lazy black people who are born parasites feeding on government cash handouts. That is your only achievement, redistribution of wealth, BEE black empowerment for unqualified blacks sitting in big management positions......what technology have you created in South Africa with your black/colored brains ?
DENEL, AMSCOR, PARAMOUNT, etc are all South African white established and technologically controlled defence companies in South Africa, BAE is British, Rheinmetall is German, they just opened branches in South Africa and ANC law forced them to have black directors and sell shares to South African investors by force.
Reutech defence company that you claim is wholly South African was built by whites in 1963 and is white brains running it till today 2015..... Frik Kruger Chief Executive Officer, Peter van der Bijl Chief Operating Officer, Carl Kies CEO Radar Solutions, Mike Tucker CEO Electronics solutions, Martin de Beer CEO Communication solutions....are those Zulu or Bantu men ?
Badeh Aerospace in Nigeria is a 100% Black defence company, black creation black technology team, black management, black engineers.
Gulma drone is the work of Nigerian brains, show me what you South African Blacks/Cape Coloreds have built in the hi-tech world and stop hiding behind your white masters achievements when you talk to other Africans ![/s] .
"its ok that our products are inferior, because a black man made them"
Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic
Your products are inferior beacuse YOU are inferior.
Also, you are basically saying whites are better than blacks - disgusting
Your country is inferior, BECAUSE YOU ARE INFERIOR. This is nothing but an attempt to excuse Nigerian failure in all things (Other than civil war, genocide, dictatorships and breeding)
iblawi: Nigeria will never be inferior to you not even to your white.
You fool claim to have the most developed economy after Nigeria became largest economy on the continent. Your most developed economy is taking you no where as our economy is still growing better than yours.
You guy are too dump to see the paste at which Nigeria is moving. Your so call GDP is $350 billion while our is $574 billion, can you see that Gap. your economy is growing about 3% and ours is growing about 6% so who are you deceiving with your most developed economy. Most companies in South Africa are now opening branches in Nigeria in other to be a big boy like MTN and multichoice. Any time it comes to economy you guy shouldn't even talk cos we are not even in the same category.
You boast of new power plant and refinery when we have far more going on here. Mambilla dam power project, nuclear power plant, itobe coal power plant and many other gas powered power project owned by individuals, the dangote refinery, many other rice processing plant etc. Agriculture, infrastructure, energy power and industrialization are the major things this government is working on and Nigeria still has over 33 mineral resources in commercial quantity.
You guy have nothing new for the world or even for yourself while we have a lot for the world and for ourselves dummy.
You have to grow your gdp by 60% to be comparible to South Africa
You are simply not as developed as us - fact
We are Africas most developed economy - fact
You will never catch us, we are so far ahead and we are spending more on infastructure than you.
You think a few tiny projects impress us? Think again peasant
agaugust: [s]Only a secondary school drop out will compare 2004 statistics for one country with 2014 statistics for another country, a wide 10 year gap mismatch, do you know what academics call BASE YEAR ?
If you present such MISMATCHED report at a world seminar, you will booed off the podium for being half-illiterate.
South African education did not teach you about BASE YEAR, well Nigeria taught me o ! [/s]
#INFERIOR SOUTHIE BRAIN....does not know base year principle .
you present data on available facts.
Now, stop running away - answer the question - WHY ARE YOU INFERIOR?
agaugust: South Africa's good infrastructure was not built after 1994, many of those buildings and roads are over 50 years old, parks, malls, airports, railway lines, road networks, bridges, tourist resorts, hospitals, defence establishlemnts, electric power stations, nuclear power station, sea ports, schools, universities.....endless list of what the white men built for you until my father forced them to hand over everything to your father, you now have the audacity to say Nigerians are inferior? If you are superior you won't need international help from Nigeria and O.A.U. to get freedom that you could not fight for and win on your own. .
in two years alone: - The 675 kms of electricity transmission lines that were laid in 2013 is the largest level in more than 20 years. - In Mpumalanga government was ready for site-clearing and construction of the first new large rail lines by the state since 1986, with construction of the 63 km Majuba Rail coal line. This will form part of the 140 km of new rail in Mpumalanga - The De Hoop Dam, taken together with the Mooi Mgeni Dam, creates a new water yield of 126 million cubic meters – significantly more than the water consumption of the cities of Mangaung and Msunduzi (Pietermaritzburg) combined. - a project to provide water from the Vaal River with low-lift pumps, a pump station and 120 km pipeline to deliver additional water to Eskom and Sasol has been completed. - maintenance of some 21 000 km of roads in the past year, which is almost equal to the size of the African continent’s coastline. - the building of a R2,3 billion container terminal at City Deep - R3,9 billion project to upgrade Pier 2 at the Port of Durban - R14,9 billion procurement of rolling stock for the rail line which will service the corridor. http://www.gov.za/issues/national-infrastructure-plan
The Coega IDZ has to date signed investments worth approximately R30 billion (US$4.1 billion) and currently has a portfolio of investments undergoing feasibility which are worth some R140 billion (US$19.2 billion), to come on stream at various stages over the next five years. These include an oil refinery, a combined-cycle gas turbine power station, a Business Process Outsourcing Park, automotive plants, and various other investments in the logistics, chemicals, and food-processing sector. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coega
agaugust: [s]Nigerians were not enslaved, we had a mix of civilian and military rule and some leaders were bad, happens all over the world, Hitler was a bad German leader, Milosevic was a bad leader in Europe, Romania in Europe today does not have a government as good as Buhari.
More people die per day in South Africa than Nigeria per head of population, robbery, r.ape, murder, all over your country....a white woman in her farm house is being gang r.aped by your black Zulu brothers as we speak [/s] .
Citations recently posed show that you have a higher murder rate
stop wasting our time with opinions and excuses, lets see citations!
agaugust: [s]Look here dude, nobody is racist here. Do you know how this argument started? One stupiiid South Africa wrote here that Nigerian's cannot build roads unless the white man builds it for them, he forgot that it is exactly his own country South Africa that is in that condition where South African blacks owe all their technology to the white man. He misfired, I retaliated.
We Nigerian's don't take shiit from white people, we demanded independence 1960 and ready to fight, British colonial masters had to walk out of our country by handing over to us, we ended colonial rule without foreign help.
Nigeria refused to bow to pressure from USA and EU to legalize gay marriage, we refused and instead we passed a new law stipulating 14 year jail sentence for gay activity in Nigeria. We challenge and dare the whites.....you South Africans worship the glory of the white man that is permanently glued and irremovable from your lives, the works of your Boer masters is what you come and boast of on internet.
By 1994 most of South Africa was already paved with good roads by the white masters who ruled you. ANC did very little, and the construction companies are white controlled, you blacks and coloureds cannot create a 100% black construction company like Nigerian Dantata & Sawoe, your brains cannot achieve that in 500 years, you are born with less endowed genes of intellect, live with it.
South Africa's good infrastructure was not built after 1994, many of those buildings and roads are over 50 years old, parks, malls, airports, railway lines, road networks, bridges, tourist resorts, hospitals, defence establishlemnts, electric power stations, nuclear power station, sea ports, schools, universities.....endless list of what the white men built for you until my father forced them to hand over everything to your father, you now have the audacity to say Nigerians are inferior? If you are superior you won't need international help from Nigeria and O.A.U. to get freedom that you could not fight for and win on your own.
Next time you Southies watch your tongues when you talk to Nigerians....you CANNOT rewrite your history, your records live for ever[/s] .
Moving the goalposts
"its ok that we are inferior, because we are proudly 100% black inerior!"
Get a load of this jackass
anway, i would LOOOVE to see some citations!
Reminder: In one year South Africa upgraded/refurbished as much tared road as Nigeria has in total!
agaugust: [s]No road statistics made public since 2004, so nobody known 2014 figures. Only fools keep asking for statistics that are not available.
Our infrastructure is NOT inferior, we have some catching up areas to cross, but quality, we match the best in the world. Quantity, yes some little catching up to do.
Quality, we have world class infrastructure that has been posted here many times in photos and videos, no need to repeat.....and there are many slums in South Africa, and people ride on the roof top of coal engine trains in your country. Every nation has some shiiit, stop pretending that your country has 100% infrastructure like Dubai[/s] .
So, on last known statistics, South Africa has 120 000 km more tared roads than you?
LeSudAfricaine: Uuncle Tom not everyone suffers from an acute inferiority complex like you
Before you yapp that by now tired rhetoric "you would be burundi blah blah"
You need to answer the question i posed earlier , who built the road network of non white areas? Youy think whites gave a damn? The black surburb of Protea, Diepkloof ext is built by white people? Who is building new roads right now and who's maintaing old ones?
I'm sure you need the help of white people to help you wipe your asss, reason with facts not with envy
o sh1t!
I can feel the heat from that burn coming off my screen!!
agaugust: [s]An isolated rare case is not common practice.
That's some people's personal opinion, Nigerian government does not tolerate employers maltreating employees, there is labour union enforcing those rules, such company will be sealed off and police will move in, court case will start, that investor will lose his business if found guilty.
The cases you quoted were prosecuted by Nigerian police and matters went to court, we have a civilized country with functioning judiciary.
Bantus and Cape coloureds were humiliated all over South Africa, 40 million of you were humiliated in the eyes of the whole world, how does that compare to 10 workers complaining about Chinese employers in Nigeria? Your own 40 million Soweto family was getting whipped and beaten up on the streets and your videos went around the world.....did you sue your Boer masters to court for kicking you all around like Rugby ball every day for 100 years until 1994 when we finally rescued you?[/s] .
You actually compared 2004 figures for Nigeria with 2014 figures for South Africa, 10 years difference ! You are a fraud !
There is no up to date 2015 official data of Nigeria's total road network available on internet, only the federal ministry of works and transportation can give you that data in their Abuja HQ.
New roads are being built in Nigeria every day all over the country from city to village where no foreign data collector is present to measure how many kilometers of new road we add per day.
Even the rural State of Osun commissions over 20 new roads in one day.
agaugust: Why is your black/coloured brain inferior?
These are the white leaders that guilt the roads in South Africa and the entire national infrastructure :
South Africa Prime ministers 1910 to 1994
Louis Botha J.B.M. Hertzog Jan Smuts Daniel Malan Johannes Strijdom Hendrick Verwoerd B.J. Voster P.W. Bother F.W. De Klerk
If these white men did not build your roads, South Africa will be worse than Burundi.
Now bow down to your white masters who gave you a mouth to boast today and talk about good roads that your Zulu/Xhosa/Cape Colored people will never have the brains to build.
See black Nigerians building Nigerian roads, bridges, airstrips, etc. we have companies 100% Nigerian like Dantata & Sawoe construction companies.......http://www.dantata-sawoe.com/
Show us 100% Black South African company doing this same brain work !
You arent answering my question.
Why is your infrastructure inferior?
You are saying that the whites built it all for us, and that we cant build any because we are dum.b... but Nigeria has barely any infrastructure of its own... thus you are saying whites are smarter than blacks?
are you a race traitor?
Ok, so despite exposing yourself as some kind of "uncle tom", you are also an 1diot because:
- Our road maintenance programme saw basic maintenance of some 21 000 km of roads in the past year, which is almost equal to the size of the African continent’s coastline. It also created many thousands of job opportunities in the nine provinces. http://www.gov.za/issues/national-infrastructure-plan
We just refurbished as much road as exists in the whole of Nigeria! In ONE YEAR!
asorockweb: It's a ZSU-23-4, horizontally cut in half. So you may call it a "ZSU-23-2" (Note, nobody manufactures "ZSU-23-2". What was manufactured is the ZU-23-2. The ZSU-23-2 is "manufactured" by taking the gunnery system from a Shilka, and horizontally slicing the system in two).
Patches, you are getting confused because the ZU-23-2 has "wings" as you call it, but the "ZSU-23-2" does not.
But the best way to tell the difference between the "ZSU-23-2" and the ZU-23-2 is that the ZSU has cooling pipes for the barrels, while the ZU does not.
Yes, i realize now that the error of my ways was in not paying attention to the coolant pipes.
I just did not even for a second consider the possibility that they could remove the A7 autocannons from a Shilka and cut the system in half
Henry120: This is the fool who claims to have reliable crime statistics.
"A note about SA’s crime statistics: On the day of their release, these statistics were already at least six months out of date.
There is, however, reason to doubt that these figures reflect a real reduction in assault levels. Police statistics for assault are notoriously unreliable because most victims don’t report these crimes to the police.
This may signal a loss of trust in the police or that the police are not recording as many in an attempt to show a decrease in violent crime so they can achieve the targets set for them."
Insurgency, civil war... its all symantics... you call us savages yet you cannot manage to have a decade of peace? The only illiterate re.tards are the ones who cannot manage to hold their country together!
Reminder: Factually speaking South Africa is 55X better to live in
agaugust: Question is, why are your brains inferior and unable to study medicine and surgery? You depend on other African immigrant doctors to save you .
Provide a citation and I shall deal with your queryy
No citation = trolling
Now, answer the question I asked you: Why is your infrastructure inferior?
agaugust: [s]We did not allow white men to rule and humiliate us till 1994 when Togo was long independent, unlike you South African blacks and coloureds, we refused modern day slavery, but you accepted it until we rescued you. Till today, you people cannot produce medical doctors, Nigerian and other African immigrant doctors run your health care system for you. Shame ! That's what long term slavery does to your brains.[/s]
Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Patchesagain: 2:29pm On Oct 28, 2015
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