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kabe1:
I couldn't disagree with this.

kabe1:
Nigerian Presidential Helicopter AW-139 takes off from Aso Rock Villa Helipad enroute Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with the President on board.

oyinpr:
bro this is an AW189 and not the 139

kabe1:
I have a question, I hope anyone who's knowledgeable on this subject can provide me with an answer.

I understand the need for Patrol boats, but I don't really get the concept of an Offshore Patrol Vessel, popularly referred to as an OPV.

What is an OPV, why are countries more and more investing in OPVs? I know that OPVs are Corvette sized ships in most cases and in other cases they are Frigate sized ship like NNS Thunder.

Corvettes and Frigates conduct patrols, so why do I need an OPV to do the same thing a Corvette and a Frigate already does?

OPVs are known to be armed with 76mm guns at most, but the OPVs Nigeria has ordered would have Surface to Air Missile Capabilities, they are many OPVs that are armed with Surface to Surface missile and Surface to Air Missiles.


What's really the point of buying an OPV and also owning a Corvette and a Frigate? It really doesn't make sense to me.

The floor is open for all to have this discussion.

RiceProducers:
The original reason for large OPVs might be having a long coastline that needs to be patrolled by larger ships that can take enough fuel and larger crews.
The alternative to this would have been smaller Patrol boats and many small naval bases which would be uneconomical.

The more strategic reason is to [b]pretend you have no expansionist ambitions and that your massive but under-armed warship (that can be refitted with more offensive weapons in just 2 weeks) is just to patrol your EEZ.
So you're playing the 'good boy' country.[/b]

Sometimes geography and defence doctrines dictate..like for Israel and Russia who field a large number of smaller than OPV vessels that are armed to the teeth and can suppress and destroy medium power countries' navies.
There is no need to pretend. The vessels are platforms for destroying enemies along their small coastlines.
When they build larger vessels, it is because those large vessels are part of their countries air defence or nuclear deterrent systems.

The brutal killings of 3,000,000 unarmed and innocent civilians during the 1971 liberation war by the Pakistani army and their local collaborators in Bangladesh with the intention of exterminating the Bengalis as well as the religious minorities, specifically the Hindus, falls within the ambit of crimes of genocide under the Genocide Convention of 1949, according to noted Bangladesh Supreme Court advocate and activist Farzana Mahmood

General Manekshaw then reminded the Pakistanis of a greater threat to their lives than the Indian troops — the deep hatred they had created among Bengalis with their repression in Bangladesh
“The people fighting for liberation are all prepared to take revenge for the atrocities and cruelties you have committed,” the statement said.

Lurker4Long:
Finally, some confirmation that the Paramount Mwari we all thought had been loaned to Mozambique, was actually purchased.
Hidden amongst the many opaque documents that make up the Moz Budget recently passed by their Parliament, a table that pulls together what the various entities have been paying.

As for Mwari, not clear if $10m is the fly-away price or includes other incrementals.

Postscript1: the table is from a Portuguese to English translation of the various documents by EU funded institutions whose job is to monitor Moz spending, seeing over 60% of Moz budget is funded by donors, mainly external.

Postscript2: Wagner figures not cited as the company doesn't "officially" report to any jurisdiction.

Postscript3: Dyck and Paramount report to the SA NCACC and Moz had no choice but to report and disperse those figures.

kabe1:
Nigerian made PF Viper Infantry Support Vehicle.

Faithti:
that's a risky move putting a gun hole in the front windscreen when the turret got that location covered...a RPG shot through there when they are firing from it will be catastrophic.

Faithti:
that's a risky move putting a gun hole in the front windscreen when the turret got that location covered...a RPG shot through there when they are firing from it will be catastrophic.

kikuyu1:
Marauders are only 220k$? Srsly!?

Edit: my bad,caught the answer!.

kikuyu1:
I agree with you but increasingly Arabs are now sponsoring jihadism. In Kenya Gulf royalty fund Al Shabab,Saudis and Qataris though mainly the latter. Years of observation over the have modified my opinion on religion and politics. I rmbr last month an Ismaili pal bleating about Kashmiris like they were Palestinians! Fyi,this guy likes Macallan like I do though he does much white powder which I don;t touch. Several seemingly worldly Muslim expressing similar sentiments has made me take a fresh look at Islam. I don't see this ishyt ending anytime soon: people don't get conquest and violence is Islam's raison d'etre since the beginning in the Saudi sands . All the arguments to the contrary are but noise from the ignorant or believers practicing taqqiya which basically means lying.

Lurker4Long:
Meanwhile, in Mozambique.
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/south-african-soldier-killed-during-combat-in-mozambique/

Our 1st casualty. RIP soldier, you've done your duty, and more strength to your team.

Lurker4Long:
Meanwhile, in Mozambique.
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/south-african-soldier-killed-during-combat-in-mozambique/

Our 1st casualty. RIP soldier, you've done your duty, and more strength to your team.

kabe1:
PF Viper launching video.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLabSsBMNzM

kabe1:
Senegalese marines and French Marines conduct joint beach landing exercise.

Nemesis4you:
IMO optional RCWS would be good

Also the optics would double up for providing surveillance

Increases the appeal for any end user