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jl115:
Don't know if it has been posted here or. Not but anyway :

Proforce Viper

Raeblack:
zambia army

Lurker4Long:
Zambian Air Force...

the disguising of military personnel, equipment, and installations by painting or covering them to make them blend in with their surroundings.

LTGEN:
I “ unfriend you “ �

The 'Defence of the Fatherland Act', a bill first announced in October which parliament was debating on Thursday, had initially planned for an increase in spending to 2.5% from 2024.

Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said the bill would raise the number of soldiers in the Polish army to 300,000 as part of a five-year plan. Poland currently has around 143,500 soldiers.

The grievances extend across the ages, from Polish invasions of Russia in the 1600s to Russia’s repeated conquests of Polish lands later. The 20th century left particularly throbbing wounds. Russian prisoners of war, taken when Poles fought for their independence after World War I, died en masse in Polish camps in the 1920s. The Soviets conspired with the Nazis to divide up Poland before World War II.

And then Moscow made Poland a vassal state under Communism, even naming the alliance of Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe after the Polish capital. In recent years, it was Russia that felt alienated, as Poland embraced NATO and approved plans to host an American antimissile system that the Kremlin calls a threat.

In the background since 1940 was one of the most traumatic events for Poles, the massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers and others by the Soviet secret police in World War II, compounded by a cover-up by Moscow, which for decades blamed the Nazis.

jteku:
THIS IS NOT A LAUGHING MATTER...
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Exnavyboy62:

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

So Africa has become the girl that everybody doesn't want to hang out with but when China shows interest in her then the whole world wants to shoot their shot. They never remembered Africa in the 70s or 80s or 90s or even the the first decade of the 2000s, it is just now they know we exist, ARRANT NONSENSE.

jteku:
THIS IS NOT A LAUGHING MATTER...

atsina Govt Donates 9 APCs To Aid Fight Against Banditry

by Godwin Enna 12 hours ago

The Katsina State government has donated nine Amoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) to be deployed in the frontline Local Government Areas (LGAs) mostly affected by banditry in the State.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari, who inspected the vehicles alongside some top government officials and security chiefs on Tuesday in Katsina, said with the addition of nine APCs, the State now has over 30 APC vehicles to fight the bandits.

Affirming that government will win the fight, even though it was a tough and challenging time, he said the government and security operatives are equal to the task of dealing with the situation.

“We are now working with the Commissioner of Police and also a local producer in Kaduna to produce more APCs. We have gotten the quotations and the IG has given us an additional two, we have paid for their repairs in Kaduna.

“With these nine, we have over 30 APC vehicles in Katsina State. Though I don’t know what the military have but from the Police and our efforts, I’m sure we have over 30 APC vehicles in Katsina, and more are still needed to confront this issue of bandits who are becoming more sophisticated and daring.

“Also working to provide relief to those who are seriously affected by the activities of bandits across the State. We have national and state programmes to provide succour to the victims.

“I’m happy to say that of recent, the response time of security operatives has improved. Whenever there is SoS, the response is always better than before, and I think we will continue with the cooperation of the people,” Masari said.

He then lamented the activities of informants, which he described as the biggest problem, urging members of the public to always report suspicious movements around them to security operatives for quick response.

CrateofBeer:
Which kind of APC is this?

Odunayaw:
Just like the ruling party

Odunayaw:
Just like the ruling party

Stargate254:
Africa once again is left behind in another frontier... One day we might find ourselves or rather we may find our politicians and their families begging for the few slots reserved for the poor Africans in the red planet after superpowers eventually mess this one up.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-01/nasa-moxie-instrument-makes-oxygen-on-mars/101394288


EAC/IGAD, ECOWAS, SADC should each have a well funded R& D facility and owning a few satellites by now for Agriculture, Defence and space exploration. Then one day we combine our efforts through AU for one big mission... The rest of the continents already have a head start.

Lurker4Long:
Perhaps we should start by catching up here on Earth, before thinking about Mars?

jl115:
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/denel-unable-to-deliver-on-hoefyster-contract-armscor-recommends-cancellation/

Possibly a blessing in disguise imo.....this will allow the SA army to go for the iklwa upgrade on the ratel which is much cheaper..

Life being breathed back into Hoefyster – with conditions

As Denel readies itself to become a properly functioning entity, the State-owned defence and technology conglomerate appears to have an ally in the form of the also State-owned defence and security acquisition agency Armscor for Project Hoefyster.

In part, the presentation has it “completion of phase one of Project Hoefyster is deemed by both Armscor and Denel to be feasible” with conditions. These include end-user agreement on “waiving non-compliance to identified specifications”; suppliers willing to supply required sub-systems and components; availability of sufficient working capital to continue the project and Denel insourcing necessary personnel.

Denel is working on “a request for contract variation” that, once approved by Armscor, will see more regular payments as progress is achieved, facilitating release of funds to provide for labour and supply chain requirements. Armscor will also be asked to waive penalties on outstanding penalty milestones.

Hoefyster is, as far as can be ascertained, presently paused with six parts of the development phase at various stages of completion. They are 72% of hull and turret items common to all variants; 84% of the lead – Section – variant; 83% of the Fire Support variant; 73% of the Command variant; 44% of the Mortar variant and 53% of the Missile variant.

Completed as per phase two (industrialisation and production) started over nine years ago are 33 locally developed main weapon CamGuns and ammunition; 60 mm long range mortar bombs; 15 Patria vehicle platforms; 64 training simulators and four pre-production models of the Section variant.
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/life-being-breathed-back-into-hoefyster-with-conditions/

Stargate254:
Africa once again is left behind in another frontier... One day we might find ourselves or rather we may find our politicians and their families begging for the few slots reserved for the poor Africans in the red planet after superpowers eventually mess this one up.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-01/nasa-moxie-instrument-makes-oxygen-on-mars/101394288


EAC/IGAD, ECOWAS, SADC should each have a well funded R& D facility and owning a few satellites by now for Agriculture, Defence and space exploration. Then one day we combine our efforts through AU for one big mission... The rest of the continents already have a head start.

jteku:
ARMY FIGHTING PATROL NEUTRALIZE BANDIT IN KADUNA

A fighting patrol led by the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja accompanied by a team of Operational commanders and operatives have cleared bandits in Buruku, Udawa, Manini, Birnin Gwari, Doka, Maganda, Kuyello and Dogon Dawa communities in Kaduna state, while on a fighting patrol on Monday 29 August 2022. In the fire fight that ensued during the engagements, the patrol team overpowered the bandits with superior fire power neutralizing, one of them, while three others were captured alive, as some of the criminal elements escaped with gunshot wounds. The Patrol team also recovered one AK 47 rifle, 27 rounds of 7.62 mm Special ammunition and 18 Motorcycles.

Members of the public, particularly health facilities and paramedics are please urged to watch out for persons who may be seeking medical attention for gunshot wounds and please report to relevant security agencies.

ONYEMA NWACHUKWU
Brigadier General
Director Army Public Relations
30 August 2022

Tinfoil:
Mars and space exploration is just a big waste of money.

That kind of money would be best spent on education, healthcare and maybe nuclear power plants and digging bore holes(national water reserves).

Africa is due for a mega drought. Countries like Uganda that depend on hydro power would have their economies destroyed

The Zimbabwean gunner with the worst shooting at the whole event, missing every shot. (He was supposed to be hitting the red targets) pic.twitter.com/ZVyz31zjSt

— CNW (@ConflictsW) August 23, 2022

Stormtrooper11:
Waste of money? The Healthcare in most developed countries are actually really advanced even though affordability varies across the first world nations.

Last time I checked, most of the African nations are the people battling with drought, Healthcare, poverty and poor education. Also, Africa is not in any way a major contributing continent to the Mars space exploration.

No one owes Africa their money. Africa should fix itself and let others grow instead of stressing them with babysitting requests.

Fynline:

The Zimbabwean gunner with the worst shooting at the whole event, missing every shot. (He was supposed to be hitting the red targets) pic.twitter.com/ZVyz31zjSt

— CNW (@ConflictsW) August 23, 2022

Zimbabwe and Sudan at the recent Army games in Russia. The performance was terrible according to this handle