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EMW01:
KDF training their future enemies.

Reminiscent of the 2009 -2010 period when kenya trained 000s of Somali troops who would later alshabaab

KDF marksmanship training Members of the Somalia National Army in Southern Somalia.

The promotional video also includes a sequence where an actor opens an ammunition box only to find it empty, and shows a tablet displaying an error which reads “Please renew your subscription”. The segment can be interpreted as poking fun at the F-35, as the aircraft is often criticized as being over reliant on the monitoring of its manufacturer.

kikuyu2:
IRL,who has that altruism? That's the job of a Saint deputised by not one or two but several Angels!

kikuyu2:
I SMFH every time DRC news comes up!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo

Imo, another country should be allowed to take over the ENTIRE landmass in exchange for security and development for min 30 or even 50 yrs. Said nation is free to dexploit ALL AND ANY NATURAL RESOURCES. That wuld be better than what they're suffering now.

kabe1:
This is fantastic news.

Any renders for what the ship would look like?

SuperSixSeven:
1. The biggest challenge is to manage the production process, everyone in the industry knows that Look at Tesla, their products are highly innovative and there is demand but still they struggle in terms of quantity and quality. The success of VW and Toyota is based on their unmatched perfected supply, logistics and production management. This is why those mentioned countries followed this route.

2. People ignore the fact that the Ezwugu MRAP and the ARA 1 have nothing in common, beside the they are based on a Ukrainian truck chassis. The ARA 1 design has some foreign influence - by SA engineers.

SuperSixSeven:
China, South Korea and Turkey did not start with clumsy inventions. No nation would spend 100s millions on second class arms just to support the local defence industry.
These countries followed a better plan: First they layed the foundation of their defense industry by license building foreign equipment and platforms. And then with a functioning industry at the base, manned with a well trained workforce, they acquired successively more and more technology-transfer deals to catch up. Today their academically educated workforce can innovate into new fields and produce state of the at equipment. This takes decades and not just will but also a huge amount of financial resources that we dont have at the moment.

kikuyu1:
Excellent analysis! We urgently need to think of coproduction and ToT of not just sexy FSBs but all platforms from UAVs, transports, light attack planes and choppers.
Not as IMPOSSIBLE as say just a mere decade ago: China, India, SoKor, SA,Turkey, Pakistan and even Indonesia are now busy in aerospace ventures looking for developing country partners. They know the first in the door will benefit for decades.
I heard India was shopping for an African partner for their Rudra.
By mid table 2030s the West stranglehold on aerospace tac tech will have died.

kikuyu1:
I first heard a decade ago some used F 15 EEs were inbound,a massive 35 birds with low frame/powerplant. Since then nothing and I really think the story was BS. Those heavy twin engines start at 80 mn USD FAC,5 mn USD annual operating cost. It makes sense to go for the single engine F 16 Block 60 at 70 mn USD, 4 MN USD annual cost.
http://nationsdawnofanera.weebly.com/-fighter-aircraft.html

A KAF flyguy told me around 2012 a team was checking out prospective Russian airframes, can't rmbr which exactly and nearly cried when Vlad said,"you guys have probox money and want a VX! That can't go."

Tinfoil:
Very sloppy, or a PR job, the media was all over the place, the don't even have the common sense to secure the area

A source said the police were acting on information they got after arresting a recently apprehended terrorism suspect in Mombasa, who then revealed the details of the planned attack.

NTSA:
Kenya National Intelligence Service (NIS) External Ops Operator (ex-KDF Ranger) during an operation in the Coastal region of Kenya. Alongside (in black gear) are Anti Terrorism Specialists from the Kenya Police.

NTSA:
https://www.jjokwaro.co.ke check out this one.

kikuyu1:
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Kenyan soldiers poised to serve in the UN peacekeeping force in DR Congo have arrived in Beni but found a lukewarm reception in the flashpoint eastern city.

Local resident Adriel Tsongo, 30, said the troops from the East African country, making their first mission to strife-torn North Kivu province, "inspire a little confidence".

But, he said, "We do not trust the UN, and we wonder if these Kenyans will make a difference."

He took a swipe at the "very passive" UN force's FIB brigade, which was authorised in 2013 to take on a more offensive posture but is accused by locals of doing little to protect them from armed groups.

Why, after 20 years of... failures, are they adding more troops, saying that they will fight harder than the others?" asked student Benjamin Sivanzire.

He said the UN soldiers were "lazy" and predicted the Kenyans would not be able to do better than other units.

Such scepticism is deep-seated in Beni, a town of about 200,000 people that has suffered grievously at the hands of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

- Notorious group -

Linked by the United States to the Islamic State group, the ADF is considered to be the deadliest of more than 120 armed groups that roam eastern DRC.

The Catholic Church in the country says the ADF has killed around 6,000 civilians since 2013, while a respected US-based monitor, the Kivu Security Tracker (KST), blames it for more than 1,200 deaths in the Beni area alone since 2017.

The toll has risen sharply since 2019, when the militia appears to have become more radicalised, carrying out massacres in remote villages and taking survivors hostage.

Anger: In November 2019, a crowd stormed a UN compound on the outskirts of Beni over perceived inaction over ADF attacks
Angry protests, some of which have turned violent, have erupted in Beni over perceived inaction by the UN's peacekeeping mission, now more than two decades old, and the DRC armed forces.

As of May, the UN force, MONUSCO, listed its forces at 12,181 troops and 1,612 police, with a civilian contingent of 2,970 employees. The annual budget is around $1 billion.

The FIB, deployed notably in Beni, consists of battalions from Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania, now joined by the Kenyan troops.

The force is being strengthened with four "organic rapid intervention units" in order "to increase the presence on the ground for the protection of the populations", military spokesman Major Ari Foukory told AFP.

The Tanzanians arrived a few months ago, the Kenyans moved into their quarters on Monday and Nepalese and South African contingents are expected shortly, he added, without specifying the number of men concerned.

- Need quick results -

Kambale Musavuli, a taxi driver, said the situation in Beni was getting worse.

The presence of MONUSCO "didn't stop the ADF from cutting people's throats", he said, adding he hoped MONUSCO would "clear off".

"If the Kenyan troops want to earn the trust of local people, they have to start straight away with operations that give tangible results," Tsongo said
Otherwise, he warned, "we will again protest against this force, which isn't helping us at all, and demand its departure".

"What counts is the result on the ground," agreed Calvin Maliro, a youth leader in Beni's Bungulu district.

"We have heard that the Kenyans are used to fighting jihadists," said another youth representative, Jimmy Kighoma, for whom the new peacekeepers were "welcome" so long as they "aren't coming as tourists".

"We understand the public's exasperation, given the killings, the barbarism and violations of human rights," the FIB spokesperson said.
MONUSCO, he stressed, was not there to replace the Congolese army. Its main mission is "to ensure the protection of civilians", he said.

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Tinfoil:
That's a Chinese helmet. Are they reequiping with gear from China? The QGF03