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South African companies Integcomm and Saab Grintek Technologies, along with giant European aerospace and defence group EADS, have won a nearly R1-billion contract from the South African Police Service (SAPS) to install EADS' digital Terrestrial Trunked Radio (Tetra) network in the Eastern Cape.

The network will integrate Tetra and WiMax technology and will allow mobile video transmission, as well as police command and control and 10111 (police-only emergency phone number) dispatching.

The programme will start in April and take five years to complete. It will involve the installation of more than 200 base stations and some 10 000 terminals.

This network will be fully compatible with the next generation Tetra enhanced data service, thus ensuring an easy migration to this new wide band data service.

@Augustus LYING THE PLANE IS FOR THE CHIEF NOT OPERATIONAL AS YOU CLAIM.....SOUTH AFRICANS ARE DECADES AHEAD...HENCE YOU DOWN LOAD NASA PLANE AND CLAIM NON EXISTING TECHNOLOGY...AGAIN I CHALLENGE YOU SHOW YOUR HIGHWAY PATROL, SPECIAL INTERVENTION TEAMS AS WELL YOUR REACTION TEAMS

@AUGUSTUS YOU ARE LOOSER AND A BITTER MAN BITTEN, SAVAGED AND SHAMED IN YOUR GAME

@AUGUSTUS IS IT AN ACT OF DESPERATION TO EVEN SHOW NASA AIRCRAFT AND IF REALLY IN A POSSESSION OF SUCH A SOPHISTICATED AIRCRAFT THEN WHY THE GIRLS ARE STILL MISSING

Phot 4 Police special task force

@ AUGUSTUS The South African Police Service operate a fleet of 45 aeroplanes and helicopters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Police_Service#Air_Wing

Nothing Nigeria can offer accept hot air ego...Pictures shown from Nigeria are just what South Africa calls basic policing standard....Highway Patrol, tactical intervention units, metro municipal police, special task force.....REally nothing to compare with third world sub-standard mediocricy of the Nigerian

South African Police Service planes are marked

Just sit back and enjoy what you asked for

South African Highway Patrol which Nigeria doesn't have or you call Fight Fire by Fire a responce Team

SAPS miles,years and decades away from MUMU's

South African Police Services

This is top class Police Service in Africa

@AUGUSTUS I repeat Nigeria is 200 years behind South Africa...ahhahahahhah show casing a riot police is non starter for South Africans....I ll be posting South African Police Services soon.....How many Helicopters and cars do your police force have and I will answer back with facts not opinion.

For just watch SANDF Navy marines in training....which your rag tag army do'nt have

SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIAL FORCES
Photo 2 Recce in pre insertion in Angola

South African Special Forces
Photo 4 training US Special forces in the art of tracking

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE TASK FORCE....NOTHING TO COMPARE WITH USELESS NIGERIAN POLICE

@AUGUSTUS I REPEAT NOTHING THAT NIGERIA DOES THAT WE HAVE NOT DONE 30 YEARS AGO......YOU CLAIM NEW UNIFORM THAT U HAVE NOT SEEN YET....HERE IS THE POST OF THE NEW SANDF UNIFORM...ADVANCE IN TECHNOLOGICAL DESIGNED AND APPLICABLE TO ANY TERRAIN......SEE MUMU

@Dragon2 THAT ITS NATURE OF INVESTIGATIVE NEWSPAPERS THE WORLD OVER....IS TO SEEK INCONSISTANCIES AND EXPOSED GRAFT WHERE IT EXIST....MANY NAIRAS QOUTE FROM MANY INVESTIGATIVE NEWSPAPERS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND USED THAT INFORMATION TO DRIVE A POINT....THEN WHY IS WRONG WHEN THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FEET.....AND ANYWAY I DONT NEED YOUR PERMISSION OR SHALLOW RIGHTNEOUS OPINION TO KNOW WHAT IS TRUE OR NOT....AND IF I AM A FOOL THEN PROOF IT?

Photo 1 Uganda visit SANDF Special Forces HQ
Photo 3 The sniper rifle that made history in DR Congo...A HIT AT 2 Km AWAY

The military has retracted its statements twice.
The Nigerian Military on Wednesday said the soldier earlier declared missing after an Air Force helicopter crashed in Borno State, has been found alive.
The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Mi-35 helicopter, said to have been on a training mission, crashed Monday afternoon at a location south of Bama, an area ravaged by Boko Haram insurgents.
Shortly after the incident, the military, through its spokesperson, Chris Olukolade, said all the occupants of the ill-fated helicopter died.
However, in a statement later on Wednesday, Mr. Olukolade, a Major General, said one of the pilots was recovered alive while the second, as well as the technician, on board the 3-member crew flight died.
In the second statement, Mr. Olukolade retracted, saying that only one body had been found.
“The body of the technician who is the third member of the crew is yet to be located. He is therefore declared Missing in Action until found,” Mr. Olukolade had said.
He also said the crash was as a result of some technical fault and not an attack by an enemy, adding that rescue mission was ongoing.
But while giving update on the rescue efforts, Mr. Olukolade made a u-turn to an earlier statement in which an engineer crew on the ill-fated flight was declared missing.
A recent statement signed by Mr. Olukolade stated, “The Engineer crew member of the crashed Nigerian Air Force Mi-35 Helicopter earlier declared missing has been found alive.
“The crew member who was declared missing when his body could not be located in the vicinity of the crash resurfaced at the military Headquarters in Maiduguri today, having trekked through the bushes after the crash.”
The statement further confirmed that the co-pilot, Flight Lieutenant NM Halilu, and the aircraft technician, Warrant Officer Augustine Nwanonenyi, survived the crash while Flight Lieutenant Onyeka Nwakile was lost in the crash.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/165458-crashed-air-force-helicopter-nigerian-military-says-missing-solider-found-alive.html#sthash.3rjw1CcH.dpuf

NIGERIAN MILITARY IS ALWAYS MAKE BUFFON STATEMENTS DUE TO THE LACK OF PROFESSIONAL MEDIA SECTION

A study of returning Nigerian soldiers, conducted by the Civil Military Alliance to combat HIV/AIDS (CMA), found that rates of infection were double than that of Nigeria’s civilian population. Statistics in Cameroon point similarly to a clear difference between infection rates between civilian and armed forces. Here it is claimed that the civilian HIV rate in 2004 was around 5.6%, while armed forces were close to 15%. However, police recruits were 16.4% and truckers were found to be 18%[9]. As these statistics demonstrate once more, an uncritical approach towards statistics could easily conclude, in this case, that joining the army means a high probability of contracting HIV.

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/52365

POT CALLING KETTLE BLACK

@Handsofchukwu

As of 2012 in Nigeria, the HIV prevalence rate among adults ages 15–49 was 3.1 percent.[1] Nigeria has the second-largest number of people living with HIV.[2] The HIV epidemic in Nigeria is complex and varies widely by region. In some states, the epidemic is more concentrated and driven by high-risk behaviors, while other states have more generalized epidemics that are sustained primarily by multiple sexual partnerships in the general population. Youth and young adults in Nigeria are particularly vulnerable to HIV, with young women at higher risk than young men. There are many risk factors that contribute to the spread of HIV, including prostitution, high-risk practices among itinerant workers, high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STI), clandestine high-risk heterosexual and homosexual practices, international trafficking of women, and irregular blood screening.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Nigeria

INSPITE OF HIV IN THE SANDF THEY ARE FIGHTING FIT

Professional Armies the world over have a media section to potray itself with journals, photos and coverage of its combat capability.....However such a trend its non existing in Rag Tag Armies, Hence an outcry by Nairas regarding professional photos posted.

Surely Nairas lack the grasp of understanding the power of the photos

@AUGUSTUS PROVE THAT YOU ARE 60 YEARS AHEAD OF SANDF....NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU INTEND TO PROCURE ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR ARSENAL

Photo three Arsenal of the South African Police Services Special Task Force...which cannot be compare with Nigerian Special Boat unit

proudly South African....nairas moving to South Africa in droves

BETTER THAN MUMU's

BETTER EVERYTIME SANDF

@MikeZA excellent posting regarding ISTAR, trully you've humillated the MUMU aka @AUGUSTUS the clown. Your narrative and understanding of the functionality of the ISTAR exposed him to be militarilly illiterate....@AUGUSTUS is wannabe expert with very limited knowledge. Hence his and arguments are based on emotional opinion than well thought and researched facts.....WELL DONE

Looking for a smoking gun to discredit SANDF.... remember Nigeria is worse and nothing more than a rudimentary rag tag army

Gen. Ray Odierno, U.S. army chief-of-staff announced plans on Monday that are the broadest organizational change for the U.S. Army since WWII. The five-year plan will eliminate combat forces from 10 military bases across the country as well as reduce the number of personnel by 80,000 soldiers.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has outlined his 2015 budget, and the downsizing of the military to 440,000 from a post-9/11 attacks peak will shrink the country's army to its smallest size since WWII. Part of the budget will eliminate an entire class of Air Force attack jets.

Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby told the Associated Press That in facing the realities of the times, "We must be pragmatic, we can't escape tough choices. He and the [military service] chiefs are willing to make those choices." According to the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Hagel also plans to recommend reductions in housing allowances and other benefits, as well as limiting pay raises and raising healthcare premiums.

While the plan has the endorsement of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, it is expected that Congress will show some opposition. But in reality, the plan is part of the 2011 Budget Control Act, requiring the military to cut $487 billion in spending over a decade. The plan also has the backing of President Barack Obama, who pledged to end the land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"You have to always keep your institution prepared, but you can't carry a large land-war defence department when there is no large land war," one senior Pentagon official told the New York Times.

While the United States is reducing military forces and defense spending, China and Japan have increased their defense spending, in part, because of continuing antagonism over territorial disputes. Russia has told the world they too have plans to increase their military to protect their rights to the Arctic.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/politics/usa-to-downsize-army-as-cost-cutting-measure/article/372765#ixzz39ABmBzFn

@AUGUSTUS THE CLOWN AND CRY BABY SANDF IS FAR AHEAD IN COMPARISON WITH NAIJA RAG TAG FORCE

Noting extra ordinary about cost cutting measures in modern militaries and financial constrain...Speaking at a ceremony at the IDF staff and command college in Glilot honoring outstanding reservist soldiers, Gantz said that “the national priorities have changed. And with it, sadly, so have the national decisions that have to do with security.”

A senior military official was quoted saying last week that “the IDF has run out of funds” and that the military needs “billions of shekels within days in order to continue to operate.”

The official was speaking anonymously last Monday to Channel 10 about deep cuts to the defense budget that had hurt the army’s training programs and general readiness.

He noted that the military had cut armored units and fighter jet squadrons and fired a thousand people in under three months, but said that was still not enough to counter the lack of cash.

“In the next few days IDF chief Benny Gantz will decide which exercises and trainings to cancel,” the official said at the time.

The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/all-israeli-army-reserve-training-canceled-for-2014/#ixzz39A8tx07b

NIGERIA
In a clear term, the Nigerian Army on Wednesday declared that its soldiers could not match force with force with Boko Haram.

Chief of Accounts and Budget of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Abdullah Muraina disclosed this in Jos, yesterday, even as the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Kenneth Minimah who spoke in a similar tone said that ethno-religious crisis and terrorism has left serious financial demand on the Nigeria Army.

The two generals made their remarks during the opening ceremony of the Nigeria Army Finance Corps Warrant Officers/Senior Non-Commissioned Officers Training Week, 2014 holding at the Headquarters of the Infantry Course Centre, Jaji, Kaduna State.

Muraina said: “Apart from the limitations of the envelope system, the Nigeria Army is enmeshed in the bureaucratic bottleneck for funding approvals for military operations.

“Currently, budgetary allocation for the military is inadequate to meet the contemporary security challenges and also cater for the welfare of the Nigerian Army. This calls for a review as the increasing speed at which the effects of conflict appear in the operational environment will continue to challenge military commanders”.

http://newsrescue.com/nigerian-army-says-enough-money-match-defeat-boko-haram/#ixzz39AA6RQw4