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GreenandGold:
Don't you think you're a bit too harsh on an aircraft assembled by 15-year-olds

By the way, both mommy and daddy for the teen pilot are in full-time aviation, so I think they know what they're doing. So the aircraft flew.

Not about it not flying. About such a non sanitary environment. Its an aircraft, not a high school project. If it was a drone, then sure....have 50 kids in and around parts, manuals and drawings. The whole of Cessna's engineers are also in aviation....but Cessnas still crash, sometimes over the smallest component. Anyways.

GreenandGold:
This might not be military related but it's definitely inspirational. 20 teenagers put together a 4-seater plane to fly from South Africa to Egypt with hope to inspire other teens.

The pilot is 17 and her co-pilot is 15.

Judging from the 1st pic only, I wouldn't step into that aircraft. That is not a sanitary work environment for a complex piece of machinery carrying human lives. Even if they are just assembling it.

GreenandGold:
I just saw a female Parabat jump. Didn't know there were any.

1 or 2 others.

Edit: Infact a couple others.

gypsey:
That's how trouble starts, He hasn't been declared the winner officially yet, he is Already celebrating..

He was never celebrating. I don't know where euromillion got that incorrect information from. Only the IEC can declare a winner (which they did today at 6pm) and no single party has made any claims of winning. Electoral laws are followed very strictly.

Final official results after 3 days of counting, from 22 925 polling stations.

SANDF jungle warfare training.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD6zND4s1Dk

Henry240:
Rhodesian Army (Zimbabwe)

I never knew any black Zimbabweans served in the army during minority white rule.

To see they had 16,000 Black soldiers serving in a military of 20,000 is actually unbelievable.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAOQcIUBM4

Would have been impossible for Zimbabwe to even have an army to begin with if no black Zimbabweans served. White population is too small.

frumentius:
Oh! Mate, I wasn't there. I'm told that 12.7mm RCWS were deployed where saengine highlighted [pics below:the UGV was disassembled into a static 12.7mm post].
Hence I mentioned the scenario of which I know where "unamnned" suppressive fire, indirect/direct fire support and "unmanned" medics were deployed.

I'm not a Luddite, just think current unmanned ground systems don't belong in combat fields. Rear deployment and logs, yes. Better AI systems, yes yes!

So vids? The guys at African Defence Review and others probably shot a few and those shall surely surface.

Ah, now I fully understand your previous reply.

SANDF sending hand-launched UAVs to the DRC

The South African National Defence Force is deploying hand-launched unmanned aerial vehicles to its peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the first time. This appears to be the Indiza, locally developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has been testing the UAV since at least last year – this has included successful evaluations in the Kruger National Park. In October 2018 an SANDF official told defenceWeb that the evaluations were ahead of a potential deployment to the DRC.

The Indiza was developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and can be folded up into a small container for deployment. The CSIR revealed that the aircraft is in production for a client but was not allowed to reveal who it was.

A CSIR official told defenceWeb that the Indiza has been flying a lot, and recorded over 100 flights and 70 flight hours in the current financial year. This included successful testing in 50 km/h winds and on border safeguarding missions with the SANDF.

Indiza is a hand-launched two metre span, rugged mini-UAV that can fly for over an hour at distances of up to 10 km using a brushless electric motor powered by a lithium battery pack. The Indiza airframe can house a number of generic camera pods, including day and night cameras. Various payloads up to 500 grams can be accommodated in Indiza’s modular payload bay. The camera is retracted on landing, which is assisted by a laser ranging system that is able to determine the UAV’s height above the ground.

Indiza’s ground-based equipment consist of a laptop with data link modems and optional tracking antenna system to extend the range and improve the communication quality of the video and data links. An optional radio control transmitter can be used for man-in-the-loop control of both the airframe and camera system.

The CSIR said Indiza can be used for surveillance activities such as public order policing, border management and infrastructure monitoring as well as research and development projects.

“There are very few other unmanned aerial systems that can match Indiza in terms of low-cost, advanced functionality, ease of operation, adaptability and open architecture design. The culmination of all of these renders Indiza unique in its class and our engineers and test facilities are readily available to perform adaptations or to evaluate new concepts of use. The next variant of Indiza will be able to perform up to a four hour mission by maintain the existing design baseline, but switching to a different propulsion option,” the CSIR said.

Infantry...

frumentius:
Safety measure: gunners moved cos newly-qualified UGVs took to the field. Apparently, the scenario where 12.7 UGVs provided suppressing fire worked well with the Med/stretcher UGVs, though one still needs Medics to hoist bodies onto the UGVs.

I should have been more clear. Was asking what type of weapons system that is. Don't know if my eyes are deceiving me.

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SA Special Forces

Special Forces on the right. Can't ID his weapon.

Maritime Reaction Squadron

Nice view

PatriotRSA:
I sometimes watch online content mostly youtube of NATO and Russia SOF hand to hand combat skills and wonder how good are the recces in this department..sometimes guns jam ey

I speak under correction, but I believe South African special forces lean more towards weapons handling (on numerous different local & international platforms), tracking, reconnaissance and long range endurance... as opposed to snapping people's necks. But hand-hand combat is no doubt a part of their training, but perhaps not their speciality. Who knows.

Odunayaw:
It was saengine last time

Nope. Wasn't me. Only real thing I asked was why panels are welded to the frame (which still seems to be the case). Never gave any long detailed analysis.

Xbee007:
Breaking News from Algeria: A military plane has just crashed. There are report of casualties.

Looks like one of the highest death tolls in aviation in a while, military or otherwise.

SA...

Fidha254:
Unrelated: Kenya is splitting

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5588595/New-rift-Rift-Valley-Farmers-flee-homes-huge-tear-continues-cut-Kenya-apart.html

The cracks keep growing, some are over 50m deep!

Problem solved

Silver Falcons - SAAF display team.

Instructors as a day job, with aerobatics as a side gig.

SA...more stolen pics

SAAF

Random...

mikaelangelov:
Right now, the government of South Africa has passed a motion to expropriate land without compensation from colonizers.
Right now, there is no water in Cape Town, the so-called “best-run municipality in SA” has no water. People are lining up to collect water at distribution points.


Right now, robbery, murder and rape is taking place in South Africa - 400 farm attacks in a year, 50 murder and rape cases a day.
Right now, car hijacking is taking place in the streets of Jo'burg and Cape Town - 70 car hijackings in a day.
Right now, 60% of South African students are dropping out of school before the matriculation stage.
Right now, somebody is busy painting a false picture of the “rainbow nation” to attract tourists.
Right now, 400,000 South African Boers are staying in slums, and stripped of their racist apartheid priviledges, thanks to BEE

Right now, white farmers are leaving South Africa in droves.
Right now, Johannesburg is in an advanced stage of deterioration.

- if you had read the updates on land, you would have seen the ANC government has said expropriation without compensation most probably won't be in the initial proposed form.There isn't a need to amend the constitution.

- You say Johannesburg is in an advanced stage of decay. Why is there water in Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, East London etc etc...but not Cape Town? Tell us why? Surely "the advanced stage of decay" Johannesburg would have run out of water long long ago.

- How many farmers are there in SA, and how many of them are leaving for it to be considered "droves"? Tell us the numbers please. Has any South African gone to the shop in the last 20 years and found a basic food item missing from the shelf because " farmers are leaving in droves"? Yes or no?

- The 400 000 whites living in slums has been disproved ages ago.

- The vast majority of murders that happen in SA are between people that know each other. Usually getting drunk, and someone getting stabbed during an argument. Which speaks of social ills.

- The SA justice system needs a major overall. It has been found that many people who commit hijacking and robbery are out on bail for the very same crime.

ViceAdmirlAgain:
Good luck mate

Mr Angel Rampele, General Manager of SA Army Foundation, with the Beni reconnaissance team.

Perhaps Frumentum can tell us who comprises this recon team. Some look like they mean business.

Are these still operational? I don't think I've personally ever seen one in the air.

You'd be forgiven for thinking this pic was taken somewhere in the Eastern Block.

QuietMynd:
Like u dnt see ur kinsman throwing shade earlier.
U guys always finding it difficult to condemn each others but when it comes to mocking u re always united.

I was laughing at the fact that accused "number 2" is even around to see that shade (i hate that word. Feel like it should solely be used by gossiping housewives )thrown, after his retirement. There are others who could have replied to accused "number 1". But anyway, not a big deal.

Frumentum:
Me, I'm just waiting to again be called a racist Afrikaner (never mind everyone here knows I'm of Scots and Portugues ancestry). I suppose you'll be called a self-hating black by the guy who delights in receiving aid.

I just find it funny. Especially after how dramatic the exit was. Before I disappear for the night, you once posted (I think it was you) a pic of a 2 seat Gripen, with one of the passengers being of "non SAAF origin". Are you still allowed to post that pic, and a bit of info with it?

Lol. The guy who stormed out in a tantrum full of tears a few weeks ago "don't reply to me, I'm logging out of this stupid forum, never coming back " is bringing back the same type of negativity that he claims to have left over. Interesting.