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Chakib:
Algerian Navy Super Lynx Mk140 ASuW/ASW - with L-3 Wescam Mx-15D EO/IR targeting and designating system - Seaspray 7000E Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) - Compact FLASH dipping sonar system - armed with MU90 lightweight anti-submarine torpedo and ZT-6 Mokopa AGM missiles.

Application. U.S. Navy's principal anti-submarine
warfare (ASW) helicopter-borne dipping sonar.
Price Range. Estimated cost is $4.226 million per
unit, based on a review of contract cost averaging from
a June 2008 contract award.

lionel4power:
Personally, I feel this is a welcome change to the usual Ak-47 and Hilux special forces pictures always posted here. (No offence intended)

Many of us have been so engrossed in our various small wars and COIN operations that we've forgotten how conventional armies are equipped.

lionel4power:
Personally, I feel this is a welcome change to the usual Ak-47 and Hilux special forces pictures always posted here. (No offence intended)

Many of us have been so engrossed in our various small wars and COIN operations that we've forgotten how conventional armies are equipped.

fabselad:
lol make we change name for thread i beg

lionel4power:
Personally, I feel this is a welcome change to the usual Ak-47 and Hilux special forces pictures always posted here. (No offence intended)

Many of us have been so engrossed in our various small wars and COIN operations that we've forgotten how conventional armies are equipped.

kikuyu1:
Over a decade ago! They afford such platforms and systems thanks to their def budget/GDP ratio which increased rapidly in the early 90s during the civil war and hasn't decreased.

Lurker4Long:
Yep. Re the bolded, some people here were so getting a boner on small team tactics, they well calling battalion+ exercises outdated.
Algeria regularly holds division-sized exercises and the wankers are rightly shtum.

Meanwhile here in SA, we rightly complain that we haven't had exercises bigger than a brigade for years.

To be fair though, what in Nigeria and elsewhere constitutes a battalion (500-600 pax) isn't the same in SA and elsewhere (1000-1200 pax). So before even talking about how they're equipped, the conceptual effect of exercises for battalion, brigade, division is malleable and not the same.

So looking at numbers alone, a Lt Col commanding 500+ men in a typical NA battalion, is doing the same job as a major in a SA battalion. This is not a diss, but a simple comparison by numbers, of the structures chosen by the 2 countries.
To illustrate, a French major is the most senior NCO rank, and commands the same number of pax as the officer Lt Col in the NA battalion; and officer major in the SA battalion.

That non-commissioned French major has more equipment and assets at his disposal than both NA & SA Army officers at the equivalent personnel numbers.

Am I making sense?