Stormtrooper11:
NAF super puma chopper during NAF_SOF drills

horlams:


Maybe because most of the exported Israeli drones are the unarmed types

shadowprimezero:
Breaking!!!!!

https://humanglemedia.com/zamfara-state-to-receive-fighter-drones-from-turkish-company/

Toju200:
not a drill they were dropping off Borno state governor

kabe1:


So, you had the last laugh on this argument?

shadowprimezero:


We're all winners on this one!!!!

shadowprimezero:
Breaking!!!!!

https://humanglemedia.com/zamfara-state-to-receive-fighter-drones-from-turkish-company/

kabe1:
New order for an OCEA survey vessel for Nigeria


12th october 2021



After the delivery in 8 years of 18 ships to the Nigerian Navy, including the NNS LANA, a 60-meter hydrographic research vessel type OSV 190 SC-WB, two 35-meter patrol boats type FPB 110 MKII and two interceptors of 17 m type C-FALCON in 2020, OCEA won an international tender for the supply of a 35-meter hydrographic research vessel type OCEA OSV 115 SC-WB.



Vessel’s missions



OCEA’s OSV 115 SC-WB type vessel is a hydrographic and oceanographic research vessel from the auxiliary vessels range. Intervening in support of the OSV 190 NNS LANA, it will allow the Nigerian Navy to complete the knowledge of its maritime territory.

Though the attack cost him both legs and interrupted what would have been an illustrious career in the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), Major Alex Hinga says nothing can stop him from serving his country.

He was leading a platoon of 39 soldiers during a routine patrol on the supply route between Kolbio and Badaade, 40 kilometres from the two countries’ border when his armoured personnel carrier (APC) hit by an explosive.

On January 22, 2012, Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers were sent to liberate Hoosingo, a town in south Somalia. The force was expected to link up with Somalia’s Transitional Federation Forces (TFG) for the task.
At 2200 hours, the officer commanding the team radioed that his men had run into an Al-Shabaab ambush. A two-hour battle ensued.

After the first two hours, Major Father Makau told Lt Col Nyaga that the ammunition was running out.

“I called my second in command and told him to deploy anyone, including the cooks, for reinforcement and to move supplies from Dobley (sector headquarters) to Hoosingo,” Lt Col Nyaga recalled during KDF day celebrations last week. Lt Col Nyaga also turned to his friend and former training colleague at the Kenya Military Academy, Lt Col Omenda for aerial support.

Lt Col Omenda, the pilot of a helicopter gunship, made a brave decision that would have cost him his job if anything had gone wrong.

Although the gunship was required to have at least one fighter helicopter for support and protection, Lt Col Omenda decided to fly in alone. With about 100 men staring death in the face, there was no time to think about job security.

and shot until we got tired. The more we wounded, the more reinforcements they brought in,” remembers Major Father Makau.

The battle lasted six hours and 20 minutes and almost 400 Al-Shabaab fighters were buried in the next days.

“The stench of death was overwhelming,” said a private.

kikuyu2:

Anyway his story involves typical SOPs (Standard OPerating Procedure) of warfighting,iow the universal TTPs, Tactics,Techniques and Protocols of armies worldwide.


https://nation.africa/kenya/news/alex-hinga-soldier-who-lost-legs-in-somalia-raid-ready-to-serve-kenya-again-3578562

A short read involving the important combat elements of first contact,fire support,quick gunship CAS from the MD 530s to timely casevac.

kikuyu2:
Another battle where a pal lost his bro Lt Webi.


https://hiiraan.com/news4/2012/Oct/26474/the_battle_for_hoosingo.aspx

Ishyt nearly went wayyyyyy South!



Again,leadership and quick CAS, in this case a lone Z 9W,the Z 9 gunship version saved the day.

In what is now known as the battle for Hoosingo, about 100 KDF men fought an estimated 500 to 800 Al-Shabaab fighters. “We shot, shot,

Stormtrooper11:
Shots fired

Lurker4Long:




Imagine that! A military that learns from its mistakes and thereafter applies the lessons learned.

jl115:
Man to think 200 of our boys had to take on 4000 Seleka with no air cover........all thanks to our fantastic leadership but hey, at least they sent a couple of Gripen AFTER the fighting was done

Lurker4Long:


And not all of the lessons learned have been applied.
For example, one of the recommendations was never deploy when you can't easily extract or reinforce your forces.
Dont see that happening in either DRC or Moz.

jl115:
Well in the DRC at least our Rooivalk are being deployed under our own costs since MONUSCO ain't footing the bill anymore.....I'm not sure what assets we have deployed in Moz though

Lurker4Long:


I've only seen the 3 Oryx in Moz footage. There are rumours 2 Rooivalke are there, but nothing confirmed.
On the Moz military side, Paramount has loaned them a Mwari, and delivered more Hinds, armed MI-8 and some ex-UK Army Gazelles.

Lurker4Long:


I've only seen the 3 Oryx in Moz footage. There are rumours 2 Rooivalke are there, but nothing confirmed.
On the Moz military side, Paramount has loaned them a Mwari, and delivered more Hinds, armed MI-8 and some ex-UK Army Gazelles.

Lurker4Long:


I've only seen the 3 Oryx in Moz footage. There are rumours 2 Rooivalke are there, but nothing confirmed.
On the Moz military side, Paramount has loaned them a Mwari, and delivered more Hinds, armed MI-8 and some ex-UK Army Gazelles.

jl115:
Ever thought he might actually not be talking about Nigeria?

Lurker4Long:




Imagine that! A military that learns from its mistakes and thereafter applies the lessons learned.

kikuyu33:


Btw, the Somali op is actually the KDF's second dance. The first was with the same Anorexics just after Uhuru. They decided to join Somalia as their N E province wherein they were at least 90% bordered Som. Kenyatta said,"feel free to leave!"
In their typically schizo way they somehow assumed they'd automatically join their cross border kin who sent arms and regular Somali army formations to fight the secessionist battle that was known as the Shifta war.
The KAF was tiny was only 6 Strikemasters some Beverly transports , no arty but for a couple of Brit WW2 4.5s a battery of 120 mms and no army aviation while 90% + of the inhabitants supported secession. It was a brutal small unit war of no prisoners (notice how Maj Hinga kept a round to avoid capture) and FINALLY after 3 or so years of failure PM Shermake signed a peace deal in N Tz.
That's why I laughed when "experts " predicted bloody failure when the KDF invaded Somalia in 2011 and doubted Kismayu would even fall. Apart from the criminally careless coy commander at El Adde in Jan 2016 who got himself and 130 guys KIA the Somali operation went swimmingly.
I tell you the West was shocked! Particularly given their own operational history in the area and Uganda's and Ethiopia's torturous experiences. The latter invaded Mog with sound and fury in early 06 and just as quickly retraced their steps AFTER provoking a combined backlash of the nascent Al Shabaab and joint newly formed anti Ethiopian militias.
Uganda landed same time and was BASICALLY pinned down in a 2 or 3 block area for 4 yrs. They only managed to recce in force out of their AO in mid 2011 with a whole battalion ! Imo, they're now taking a closer look at us. The ocean boundary dispute 50% awarded to Som by the ICJ is a warning by the TPTB . Lamu, where 60 died one June night 2014 is the lynchpin of the Africa leg of China's Global Belt and Road. It's a stone's throw from the border and must be protected- IN DEPTH! This, not tourist safety or a brass bored by peace is the real reason the KDF is in Som.
It'll be a transcontinental road/rail link with Douala in Cameroon. As you can imagine the geopolitical stakes are ENORMOUS for Kenya, countries along the route like the CAR who can escape Jean-Fraude's usury and neglect, Chadians or N Sudanese who may want a spur, reduced shipping times and traffic for the Suez....let me stop.
That's another post of itself!

Lurker4Long:


Saw the ICJ decision and the reaction from Mr Bucks (that's what they called Kenyatta fils at boarding school, according to a Kenyan friend and colleague who was at the same school).
This and Ethiopia hooking up with the UAE, and other happenings and suddenly East Africa and the Horn hasn't been this interesting since Bismarck and Garibaldi decided they wanted in on the colonies game.

The Lilliputians will scramble of course to google those 2 characters; their claims to Brobdingnagian status notwithstanding, ignorance betrays them.

Dubbed Northlands City, the development that is estimated to cost Sh500 billion, will occupy an 11,576-parcel of land in Ruiru – about 15km from the Nairobi city centre.

The land, which is traversed by the Eastern Bypass, is owned by the Kenyatta Family and is currently occupied by its dairy processor Brookside, and Gicheha Farm – the family’s livestock rearing business.