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"Mom, Uhuru's playing dress-up again!"

An aerial view of parade rehearsal at Administration Police Training College Embakasi

ScanEagle facilitates Kenyan attack in Somalia

Erwan de Cherisey, Paris - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

10 March 2017


Kenya Army units serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) used a Boeing Insitu ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to facilitate a successful intelligence-driven attack on the Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen group in southern Somalia, according to a Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) source.

This is the first confirmation that the ScanEagle system that was ordered for Kenya under a USD9.8 million contract announced by the US Department of Defense in September 2015 is operating in Somalia.

The ScanEagle detected a large Al-Shabaab force as it appeared to be preparing for an attack against Afmadow in Lower Juba province on 1 March, the source told Jane's.

Based on this information, the Kenyans in Afmadow assembled a combat group that was supplemented by a company-sized force from the Somali National Army (SNA) and proceeded to move on the evening of 1 March towards a concentration point 6 km from the militants' location, arriving there at midnight, the KDF source said.

The KDF set up artillery positions with 120 mm mortars and 105 mm L118 light guns in preparation for the battle, while infantry supported by Panhard AML-60 and -90 armoured cars and Norinco WZ551 armoured personnel carriers conducted final planning.

At 0600 h local time (0300 h GMT) the following day, Kenya Army Aviation Hughes 500 and Harbin Z9WE attack helicopters attacked the Al-Shabaab camp, targeting armed pickup vehicles, while the artillery fired a barrage. Infantry and armoured vehicles then moved in to mop up the area and suppress the remaining enemy forces.

The attack was concluded at 0845 h local time with no KDF or SNA casualties, while 57 dead Al-Shabaab militants were counted, according to the KDF source.

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Patchesagain:
There are only 20, those are the 20 tracked by Sipri

Patchesagain:
T72's are 20 total

You got the D-30's in 1966

If you want to make assertions, post citations.

africaken254:
Kenya administration police during Silent Drill

frumentius:
And who doesn't love things that go "boom"!

slimthugchimee:

Henry240:
All these plenty, plenty comments are not required.

The only area in Nigeria were there is active, large scale military operation ongoing is the N.E.

Nothing of such exists anywhere else in the country apart from soldiers supporting regular police in flash point areas.

Patrols in the South-South are routine naval or military patrols out at sea or in the creeks. In the South-East, nothing of such exists.

DaV8King:
Wrong Sir. Your own cited SIPRI states 43 total, with none coming post-2015

23 modernized T-72 B came from Ukraine between 2014 and 2015
20 T-72 M1 from the Czech Republic in 2015. Check the logs again.

And fellow Naija ppl, edakun, why are all our T-72 used and so few,new thing no dey sweet us?!!

If I am correct we once bought 100+ Vickers MBT without any pressing need, so why all this piecemeal purchases at times of war?

DaV8King:
Wrong Sir. Your own cited SIPRI states 43 total, with none coming post-2015

23 modernized T-72 B came from Ukraine between 2014 and 2015
20 T-72 M1 from the Czech Republic in 2015. Check the logs again.

And fellow Naija ppl, edakun, why are all our T-72 used and so few,new thing no dey sweet us?!!

If I am correct we once bought 100+ Vickers MBT without any pressing need, so why all this piecemeal purchases at times of war?

Nok234:
The budget

Patchesagain:
O sh1t, you are correct. I checked 2015-16 and forgot to cross-check with 2014 included.

Apologies.

jakeporeshenko:
No apology for me as well ?? Or was that general.

Henry240:
Why do you guys always feel a pathological need to look at and compare with this or that at every point?

jakeporeshenko:
NAF regiment

Patchesagain:
O sh1t, you are correct. I checked 2015-16 and forgot to cross-check with 2014 included.

Apologies.

Nok234:
The budget

jakeporeshenko:
I really feel like it's not about having the money, it's about the will to spend that money, Nigerian leaders have this state of mind were they prioritize the wrong things.

Those multi billion dollar arms deals are out of our reach for now as long as this state of mind (were defense is not a priority) is not eliminated.

To me the key to turning things around is a west African arms race, we need one radical leader in our neighborhood, one who understand the real threat terrorism is.

frumentius:
http://www.janes.com/article/68634/scaneagle-facilitates-kenyan-attack-in-somalia

patches689:
You want it in writing? To put on your wall?

Hrmnn:
I wonder why the AML-60s are missing their mortars in photos #3 and #4 if they're being deployed for operational purposes.

This is not the first time I've observed KDF AML-60s without their mortars while seemingly on ops.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJReTy1rUxM