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Whether Patria is finnish or not, the fact is that it would carry a South African turret as it is with Gripen and Hawks. The MUMU army does not even possess the capacity to modify its weapon system. Tthe only time it happens it would be Israelis, Russians, Pakistan, China....you dont have the technology, know how, capacity, capabilities including training.....who is now training Nigerian army on Counter Insurgency A WHITE MAN

TRUE MILITARY NOT HOT AIR PROPAGANDA

SANDF DO NOT OPERATE UNDER CRISIS MANAGEMENT COMMAND

The new procument process of the Nigerian army indicates what has been lacking within the military for decades....acting under pressure is sure a sign of panic and desperation.....professional armies are always under combat readiness for any eventuality.

The arms are all to be procured form foreign powers...why not your military industrial complexies that @AUGUSTUS has been shouting from mount everest to be better than South Africa

Here below are South African produce hardware....MUMUS

South Africans are not a nation of wishful thinkers but a nation of doers....we make things happen and do not rely on a certain power to be rescued. SANDF is always preparing for the worst and do not wait until humiliated to take action.

SOUTH AFRICAN AIRFORCE

Nothing to compare to the SANDF

Nigeria is a leader of mediocricy, backwardness, unsophistication and misplaced boastfullness based on fictitious reality

Nigerians have been lied too for so long about their military and intellectual capacity to an extent that they believe they are better blacks and a better country in africa....However South Africa HAS PROVEN THE FALLACY TO BE NOTHING ELSE THAN HOT AIR BASED ON INDOCTRINATION AND LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE

SANDF

@AUGUSTUS sour grapes....Nigeria would not surpass South Africa on any thing except economy which its due to the population numbers not on sophistication, intergration and advancement......AGAIN IT WOULD TAKE NIGERIA 200 Years to be where South Africa is now.

Starting on Saturday the SA Air Force (SAAF) will stand up and be counted for operational and combat readiness when Exercise Winter Solstice 1V starts.

The two week long exercise will see portions of airspace over Eastern and Northern Cape utilised by jets, helicopters and transport aircraft in partially simulated field training exercise. Areas where heightened military activity can be expected are Bulembu and Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape with Upington, De Aar and Kimberley also in line for more military movements than usual.

“The field training exercise will exercise and evaluate military personnel, military systems and procedures in the operational command and control environment at all different levels responsible for command and control of SAAF air operations. What the exercise will do is ensure SAAF command and control competence in terms of the force’s responsibility to provide combat ready SAAF elements to the Chief: Joint Operations,” Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Maseko said.

Armscor has issued a Request for Proposals (RfP) on behalf of the South African Navy for a new hydrographic survey ship and related equipment.

A notice on the Armscor website defines the requirement as “supply of a hydrographic capability product system for the SA Navy”.

The new vessel will replace the 43-year-old SAS Protea (pennant number A324) and the RfP is in line with statements made to defenceWeb earlier this year by Navy chief, Vice Admiral Mosuwa Hlongwane, shortly after he took over command of the SA National Defence Force’s (SANDF) maritime arm of service.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35601&catid=74&Itemid=30

After recording a turnover of R1 billion last year, Denel Land Systems (DLS) has a vision to grow this to R5 billion a year within the next five years, according to CEO Stephan Burger.

Burger told DefenceWeb that he expects the company to sell around R1.5 billion this year and achieve a minimum turnover of R3 billion a year, in three to five years’ time. He said that the targets amounted to “a very ambitious vision, but at least R3 billion is achievable.” Additional vehicles and artillery business are expected to play a big role in getting to this target.

DLS has in excess of R10 billion worth of orders at the moment, with the majority of this going towards the Badger infantry fighting vehicle (IFV). 238 are being built for the South African Army, with production proper set to start next year and deliveries continuing through 2022. The Badger IFV will replace some of the SANDF’s ageing Ratels.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35604&catid=74&Itemid=30

South Africa is not a nation of loosers and cowards....read below

Despite losing 15 soldiers in the Central African Republic (CAR), South Africa has not ruled out a return to the war-torn country.

Speaking to journalist before the debate on the Budget Vote of the Department of Defence and Military Veterans in Parliament on 23 July, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula noted that a number of countries had already deployed into the area.

SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCT

FURTHERMORE NIGERIA CAN BE COMPARE WITH SIERRA LEONE AND LIBERIA

AS I SAID IT BEFORE @AUGUSTUS AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE CLOWNS...HOW CAN YOU COMPARE SUCH A PIG LOOKING VEHICLE TO A WORLD BEATER PRODUCTS OF SOUTH AFRICA WHICH ARE BEING SOLD THE WORLD OVER.....HHAHAHAHAHAHA KEEP DREAMING NIGERIA IS A THIRD WORLD UNDERDEVELOPED BACKWARD COUNTRY AND LEAVE WITH IT.

SEE SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCTS

SANDF

It would take Nigeria 50 Years to be in par with current standard of the SANDF

Not a mickey mouse army

South African designed, built, Tested and Manufactured

These attached photos are really not 3D drawings and Ratels are operated by no less than 10 countries world over unlike your pig looking ugly and sub standard which is not yet operationally....Hence @AUGUSTUS was proudly displaying Chinese vehicles.....Until now most of your photos shown indicates an army using soft skin Hi lux pick ups. A sure sign of lacking proper and secure transport for troops.

The Nigerian military is at the forefront of the war on terror but it is doubtful if it can win this war.

In Nigeria, both our government and the military forces have proved incapable of defeating a small army of insurgents whose activities are limited to the North-East zone. This is in spite of billions of naira in defence spending since 2010. In recent years, Boko Haram has become more daring in its attacks. Apart from conducting suicide bombings, it has continued to carry out coordinated raids on villages and military formations. In these attacks, hundreds of people including soldiers are being killed. The army has often told Nigerians it is winning the war. But Nigerians have dismissed the claims as propaganda because the attacks have become more frequent and deadlier. Why has the war on terror become so intractable? Why have the military forces become so impotent?

Having failed so far, it has become critical to question the ability of our military to win this war. Really, it is becoming apparent that the war on terror may never be won by the military. Recently, President Goodluck Jonathan sought a whopping addition of $1bn foreign loan to tackle Boko Haram. Nigerians are understandably righteously outraged that the war on terror has become a conduit given that between 2012 and 2013 over N3trn, which is about 25 per cent of the national budget, was expended on defence alone. Where did all the money go? By requesting more money without demanding accountability and addressing alleged corruption in the military, the Jonathan administration is indirectly undermining its own effort to combat our security challenges. If money alone had been the issue, the war on terror would have been won a long time ago.

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/why-the-military-cannot-defeat-boko-haram/

@AUGUSTUS .....Please this is not the second world war and stop posting such horrific pictures of Nigerian IGIRIGI

Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. KTJ Minimah has confirmed the long held secret that desertion, acts of cowardice and indiscipline within the army in the ongoing fight against terrorism was one of the greatest setbacks in checkmating Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

In a communiqué issued at the end of the third quarterly conference of the COAS, via the Defence Headquarters twitter handle @DefenceInfoNG, being a highlight of the COAS admonition, Minimah said “the rising acts of indiscipline and unprofessional conduct by troops was unbecoming and charged Commanders at all levels to put a stop to it as the Nigerian Army was a professional organization.”

He recalled the attempted mutiny by troops in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, against the then GOC 7 Division, Maj.Gen Ahmadu Mohammed saying, “A few issues needs to be urgently addressed that have caught my attention in recent weeks.

Principal among these is the rising acts of indiscipline and unprofessional conduct by troops. In this regard, the recent mutinous act in Maiduguri and reported destruction of public property in Lagos readily comes to mind. As a professional army, the conduct of our troops must be above board at all times”

Blaming it on the fact that most people, who joined the military in recent times, do so out of the need for employment and not passion for military service, Minimah said, “Desertion is part of warfare. We must accept that since the era of the Cartagena wars, soldiers had deserted from battle field. In our own case, we are doing recruitment now and we are also receiving presentations from across the country, from people who want their wards to be enlisted in the army”.

“But we need to have a thorough recruitment because mind you, there is high level of unemployment on ground; most people want jobs and if that job means joining the army fine. It is a source of employment.

However, when the reality of the military service comes, he drops his riffles. So desertion will continue to be there. We had desertion in ECOMOG; in the Nigerian Civil war and now it will continue to be there”.

“Also, acts of indiscipline will continue to be there but when they are caught, they are investigated and when they are found questionable they will face the Court-Martial”.

“Like I said, in a few months time, the war will be over. But I cannot give you a clear calendar date because this is war on terrorism. It cannot be determined in terms of concrete date”.
On allegations that the army was underperforming in the war on terror, he said, “The Nigerian Army is performing. I know the expectations of the Nigerian citizens but the expectation is rather too much in haste.
We need some time; we need patience and you must know we are fighting terrorism. We are not fighting a conventional war. Nigerian Army is a conventional and regular army”.

“The terrorist is someone you don’t know. It may be someone who sold food or fruit to you in the morning and by the afternoon he is the terrorist. We are having all that inter-play in the battle front in the North-East. We have to be conscious to separate the terrorist from the law abiding citizens and we also have human rights to protect”.

“We are fighting Nigerian citizens we are not fighting foreigners; so caution must be exercised. I appeal and assure that we will certainly surmount it but we also need support from the nation, from all segments of society and from the people including the media. And we need patience and time for us to do it.
We also have the equipment and the FG is introducing fresh and newer equipment to us which in a short while hopefully be there for use”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/boko-haram-soldiers-chicken-battle-gen-minimah/

@AUGUSTUS REPEATING A LIE MANY TIMES UNTIL PEOPLE START TO BELIEVE IT......SANDF TRASHED SELEKA AND G6 WAS DESIGNED BY CANADIAN IN SOUTH AFRICA AND MANUFACTURED IN SOUTH AFRICA....CRY YOU BITTER BABY......NIGERIA IS USELESS AND DEPENDED ON UK, USA, CHINA AND FOREIGN POWERS FOR ITS EXISTENCE.

MANY WESTERN COUNTRIES HAVE COME TO YOUR ASSISTANCE IN FIGHTING BH....A WAR YOU FAILED TO PROSECUTE ON YOUR OWN, MANY INSTANCES YOUR MILITARY HAVE RUN AWAY THAN FACE SHAKUR'S BOYS.

For nearly 3 years Nairas have posted all the weapons they produces but nothing match what South Africa has and sell to the world. Stop being dilussional or memory lapses....this topic was exhausted and Naira were exposed to be a small ammunition producing, small arms producing and servicing of broken springs.....NO STORY TO WRITE ABOUT.

Here is the real and true story to write about : DESIGNED, PRODUCED, MANUFACTURED BY SOUTH AFRICA

Big mouth and endless ego wont make Nigeria the best military against South Africa....most of the weapons shown on these photos besides fighters are designed, planned, produced and marketed by South Africa.....can that be said about Nigeria

Only pride remains for Nigeria as of reality South Africa has proven through facts to be atleast 50 Years ahead of the Nigerian rag tag army....which has only 1 year combat experiance and now wants to tell the world that they have arrived.....before making more noise please find the missing girls and then you can seek respect......REMEMBER AN EMPTY VESSELS MAKES THE LOUDEST NOISE

If Wishes were horses many would have prefered SANDF to be their Military of choice

SANDF is not a Rag Tag Army