Henry240:
What do you think about the TITUS, I think it's something we can do.

The TITUS looks too big. I even fear for its centre of gravity.

A good example of what I think Proforce can do is the Paramount Mbombe 6×6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaG9guz8PbU

NNS Dorina commissioned in Portsmouth, December 1972

$400k helmet

http://www.newfoxy.com/2018/12/10/400000-f-35-helmet-pilot-can-see-through-plane/

Moroccan Navy Floreal-class frigates

Algerian1:
Moroccan Navy Floreal-class frigates

Man, how large is the Moroccan navy?

They seem to have a lot of sexy ships.

Chadian Air Force C-27j

Nigerian Air Force chief was a guest speaker at IDEAS2018

A cross-section of different types of equipment from the Nigerian army engineering Corp.

Henry240:

Man, how large is the Moroccan navy?

They seem to have a lot of sexy ships.

- 1 FREMM class frigate "Mohammed VI ( 701 )"
- 2 floreal class frigate " Mohammed V ( 611 ) , Hassan II ( 612 )"
- 3 Sigma class heavy corvet "Tarik Ben Ziyad ( 613 ), Sultan Moulay Ismaïl ( 614 ), Allal Ben Abdellah ( 615 ) "
- 1 Descubierta class corvet "Lieutenant Colonel Errahmani ( 501 )"

- 1BHO2M Hydro-Oceanographic survey and Multi- Missions vessel .


Patrollers :
- 4 Lazaga class patrol vessel (304, 305, 306, 307 )
- 1 OPV70 Bir Anzarane ( 341 ). (800 tons , 70 m)
- 5 OPV64 (650 tons , 64 m)
- 4 Osprey MK II class (550 tons , 55m)
- 6 B-200D LV (425 tons , 58 m)
- 2 PR-72 (440 tons , 57 m)



And many other small patrol boats ( 10 Type P-32 , 10 RPB-20 , 9 type Rodman-101 , 17 type Arcor-46 , )

And some utility boats : 3 amphibious type BATRAL class , tugs ect...

Henry240:
A cross-section of different types of equipment from the Nigerian army engineering Corp.

Lol. I like this.
Let's see them more involved in the frontline building reliable fortifications for FOBs. These earth movers and engineers were ever present in kicking out shitty state in Syria and Iraq keeping frontlines stable and terrorists at bay. Many raids with help from recoilless rifles or similar stopped many raids from terrorists who couldn't simply get over imposing berms built.

Ibrahimanis:

Rwanda is a success story. Good hospitals is not the same as good health care. There are countries mentioned here whose healthcare is not THAT better than Nigeria's.

A country mentioned here 75% of its doctors are employed in the PRIVATE SECTOR .

2000 Nigerian trained doctors leave Nigeria YEARLY because of lack of employment but on the flip side Nigeria produces 2000 doctors yearly while a country mentioned here has about 50% VACANCY rate for doctors and 40% for nurses.

Though there is room for expansion at local level (primary health care) state and federal run hospitals are not THAT bad.

Nigerians going abroad for treatment has more to do with MENTALITY than lack of proper health care.

what sort of trash is this

Odunayaw:
The TITUS looks too big. I even fear for its centre of gravity.

A good example of what I think Proforce can do is the Paramount Mbombe 6×6

For me, the TITUS is just perfect. You need to see the ease of mobility and obstacle climbing of that vehicle. The Mbombe 6x6 doesn't come close.

I like the Mbombe 6x6, however i think the TITUS offers better.

Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet.

Attrition replacement.

Nigerian army BTR-4

African Soldiers

MONUSCO FIB

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Soldiers from Tanzania and South-Africa conduct joint exercises with Ukrainian Air Units.

Danooz87:
Director General of the recently created Kenyan Coast Guard Brig. Vincent Loonena

Danooz87, kikuyu1 and other Kenyans, please explain something to me:

The Kenya coast guard's MV Doria was designed and developed by a South African company in Cape Town, ordered by a Danish company, and built in a Bangladeshi shipyard.
Source:

The MV Doria was handed over to Kenya in August 2017 by Bangladeshi shipbuilder Western Marine Shipyard (WMS) after being ordered on 23 January 2014 by Denmark’s JGH Marine on Kenya’s behalf. MV Doria’s keel was laid in August 2014, and the hull completed in December 2015. The vessel was wholly designed and developed by Icarus Marine in Cape Town.
http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53822:kenya-launches-coast-guard&catid=108:maritime-security&Itemid=233

Why this convoluted procurement?

Henry240:
African Special Forces Soldiers

MONUSCO FIB

Is that a MONUSCO caption for this pic or yours?
I ask because the current FIB deployment has zero SA SF. The South African soldier in the pic is from Alpha Company, 1 Parachute Battalion. The Tanzo with the Micro Galil is SF.
The Malawian with the gumboots is not - the Malawians have no SF unit, though they have half a company of Fort Bragg-qualified troops who were last deployed in 2013 and 2016.

frumentius:


Is that a MONUSCO caption for this pic or yours?
I ask because the current FIB deployment has zero SA SF. The South African soldier in the pic is from Alpha Company, 1 Parachute Battalion.

It's my caption.

I usually caption general operations in the DRC as MONUSCO.

That image was taken the period when 15 UN peacekeepers were killed.

Again, that's a general caption as the Tanzanians in the pic are SF.

Henry240:

It's my caption.

I usually caption general operations in the DRC as MONUSCO.

That image was taken the period when 15 UN peacekeepers were killed.

Again, that's a general caption as the Tanzanians in the pic are SF.

Current deployment then. See my edited comment above.

Henry240:
Nigerian army BTR-4

Is that a rail gun??

joshingjosh:




Is that a rail gun??

Nope

That's a 30mm cannon.

joshingjosh:




Is that a rail gun??

No bro!! Rail gun technology is still in the research phase......No country in the world operates rail gun weapons at this stage.

P.S by operate I mean in production and deployed!

Proforce ARA MK 4

The MK4 variant of the ARA MRAP features a number of improvements.

In this image, we can see it's roof, the central turret and 4 additional roof firing points.

We can also see the vehicle's monocoque haul.

Rwanda is now operating Chinese PCL-09 122 mm wheeled self-propelled howitzers

61mech:
Yet another SA Mrap company.
This is getting ridiculous now.

It's been ridiculous for quite some time. These guys seem to be following the Paramount example: the parent company is in SA, but the Cairo-based subsidiary gets to market it as an "Egyptian product". More grease to their elbow!

But, at some point, South Africa as a whole and the defence industry in particular will have to choose between Saudi Arabia/UAE and their clients in the GCC like Egypt/Bahrain etc; or Iran/Iraq/Qatar and/or Turkey etc. Trump's nonsensical sanctions on Iran have merely postponed the moment of reckoning.
Latest example: Egypt used SA EW tech to shut down comms in Sinai, which affected Israeli settlements along the common border. Tel Aviv protested directly to us, whereupon we gave them codes to override, which Cairo overlooked.

The Saudis/Emiratis will definitely NOT be similarly charitable should we repeat such when -not if- we land a lucrative deal with Iran/Qatar.

Glad I'm just a lowly planner and not in the East Wing of the Union Buildings!

Henry240:
Nigerian army BTR-4

I love that anti aircraft revolver mounted at the top

joshingjosh:




Is that a rail gun??

gottfried21:

Finally get to take this little guy to the range like a kid,I stayed up all night a little too excited.

Show us your grouping or it doesn't count!

krattoss:
I love that anti aircraft revolver mounted at the top

It's a 30mm gun.

frumentius:

Danooz87, kikuyu1 and other Kenyans, please explain something to me:

The Kenya coast guard's MV Doria was designed and developed by a South African company in Cape Town, ordered by a Danish company, and built in a Bangladeshi shipyard.
Source:

Why this convoluted procurement?

Wow! You can say that again! It seems the Bangladeshis are subbing for Icarus. Where the Danes come in I've no idea.

kikuyu1:


Wow! You can say that again! It seems the Bangladeshis are subbing for Icarus. Where the Danes come in I've no idea.

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Prior to this, the Banglas had never handled a contract this size. In fact, this was the very first OPV out of that shipyard. Icarus does some work out of Singapore, but Bangladesh?
More important, why did Nairobi contract with a Danish company, who got a SA company to design the product, which the Banglas manufactured?

Looks to me like a laundering scheme, with Kenyan citizens -i.e. taxpayers - being the losers.