41 Newly deployed Individual Police Officers (IPOs) to ATMIS have concluded an induction course to acquaint themselves with the Mission’s mandate and standard operating procedures. The team of officers with specialist skills arrived in the mission from the six police contributing countries - Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, and will work in support with Somali police on the Somali Transition Plan.

The police component of #ATMIS has been bolstered by the arrival of 160 officers of the #Nigerian Formed Police Unit (NFPU), who will provide support to the #Somali Police Force in line with the #Somalia Transition Plan.

The Força Aérea Nacional de Angola (FANA, Angola Air Force) has taken delivery of another Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft, most likely from ex-Belarussian stocks.

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Officers from Zambia Defence Forces (ZDF) currently studying at Zambia Defence Services, Command and Staff College on 27th September 2021 visited the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) and at Defence Staff College (DSC) in Karen.

President Lazarus Chakwera, who is also Commander in Chief of the Malawi Defence Force (MDF), is this morning visiting MDF’s field training exercise at Luwawa forest reserve in Mzimba.

The Ugandan military is fielding at least two dozen Elbit Systems Hermes 900 Kochav (Star) medium-altitude long-endurance surveillance drones.

The Hermes 900 drone was seen in a video shared on 24 February by Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the commander of Uganda’s land forces and the president’s son.

The Hermes 900 MALE drone was part of a two-dozen haul reported to have been supplied in 2019 from Israel.

Kampala is understood to have already received two dozen Hermes 900 StarLiner drones from an undisclosed Israeli firm.

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the Zambia Air Force (ZAF) has deployed an aircraft at Mozambique’s . “The C-27 ZAF aircraft is scheduled to airlift over 50,000 kilogrammes of cargo for the South African Defence Force from Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria to Mozambique, among other SAMIM assigned tasks,

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The Ghanaian media reported that the acquisition has now been reviewed by parliament's Defence and Interior Committee and on 17 December 2021, the Parliament of Ghana approved a €111,4 million performance sales and purchase agreement for the supply of six Aero L-39NG (Next Generation) training and light combat aircraft for the Ghana Air Force. The purchase had been awaiting approval since 2 August 2021.

The aircraft is a single turbofan-engine (Williams FJ44) powered two-seater jet trainer and light attack platform and has an advanced cockpit design that includes full glass cockpit display a sophisticated on board virtual training system and a Helmet Mounted Display.

The L-39NG is a key component of an innovative training concept developed by Aero Vodochody that includes state-of-the-art ground-based training devices, new learning methods and environment and extensive use of Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence technologies. It has been designed as a maintenance-friendly aircraft in anticipation of many decades of service. The new aircraft is based on the L-39 Albatros that is still widely used in both the trainer and light attack roles, but has a new lighter airframe, a more powerful and efficient engine, modern avionics, two additional hardpoints on the end of its wings where fuel tanks were located on its predecessor, and an undercarriage that can handle unpaved airstrips.

Ghana L 39NG cockpit 320The increased efficiency of the Williams FJ-44 4M engine, reduction in weight and drag, and new fuel system gives it a maximum range of 1,900 km without external fuel tanks, 800 km farther than the L-39, according to Aero Vodochody. The company says the aircraft will have similar operating costs as a turboprop and announced in March 2021 that life cycle testing showed it has a service life of up to 15,000 flight hours, three-times longer than the L-39.

The L-39NG has also been sold to Senegal, which ordered four aircraft due to be delivered during 2021 and to Vietnam, which ordered twelve aircraft in February 2021 due to be delivered to the Vietnam's People Air Force from 2023 through to 2024. The contracts include aircraft spare parts, equipment for ground-based training, logistics support and specialised airport systems.

Pakistan J 10C 640J-10 fighters for Pakistan?

The Pakistan Fiza'ya (Pakistan Air Force) seems ready to receive the Chinese made Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC) J-10CE fighter. Many speculations that this would occur have been around for months.

With the CAC/PAC (Pakistan Aeronautical Complex) JF-17 block III Thunder in production this seems odd. It is therefore likely an effort to speed up replacement of older fighter aircraft.

So far, one squadron strength number of these fighters will be delivered according to the minister of the Interior, Sheikh Rasheed. He also claimed they would already be in Pakistan to participate in the yearly defence day parade on 23 March 2022. If that pans out we would have to wait and see. It is rumoured that Pakistan will acquire 36 J-10s in total.

The speedy delivery is seen as a response to India's Rafale acquisition. Critics may even suggest that this is just a political statement, not even uttered by the chief of the air staff, minister of Defence or prime minister .

There are rumors that Egypt as well Indonesia have cancelled their Su-35 order. The Su-35s already manufactured for both countries will be delivered to Algeria instead!? Are these rumors true? Can anyone confirm this? Face with monocleFace with raised eyebrow

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