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As the Federal Government intensifies its effort to curb the Boko Haram insurgency, the Nigerian Airforce says it has dveloped an unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for surveillance and intelligence gathering in crisis prone parts of the country.

Speaking at a news conference in preparation for the 42nd graduation ceremony of the Nigerian Airforce Institute of Technology (NAFIT), Kaduna, Commandant of the institution, John Oshoniyi said the new device would greatly enhance the success of security agents in the fight against insurgency.

Oshoniyi also disclosed that the institute has invented a robot capable of detecting and detonating bombs from a distance, adding that the equipment would reduce risks posed to bomb squads personnel as they try to carry out their duties.

The commandant stated that the UAV produced by the institution is the first in Africa, stressing that it was a product of the transformation agenda of the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in attaining higher pedestal in military aviation and defence-related technology.

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@2smooth2shout Read attached links as evidence atleast you wont sound like an ignorant fool. All the links indicates success of Special Task force not....these bumble bees you called Special Force.

Good thinking people with good analysis skills can see through reading on these thread that Nigeria has been blowing hot air and whenever losses swould resort to supporting Egypt or Algeria and when lossing there again would switch to favouring United States and when loosing there again resort to vulgar language.

HOWEVER I DO STATE THAT SOUTH AFRICA IS ATLEAST 50 YEARS AHEAD OF NIGERIA......PROVE ME WRONG BYB FACTS NOT INSULTS AND SOME MISLEADING NATIONALIST RHETORIC WITHOUT AN FACTUAL BASE.

ON UNVEALING NIGERIA FIRST UAV PLANE. A CERTAIN NIGERIAN GENERAL CLAIMED THAT IT IS THE FIRST IN AFRICA....HAHAAHAHHAHAHH AND IF HE HAD READ OR LOOK ON THIS THREAD HE COULD HAVE REALISED THAT SOUTH AFRICA PRODUCED ITS FIRST UAV IN 1983

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE AIRWING UNIT

SOUTH AFRICA HAS MULTIPLE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO FIGHT CRIME

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SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIAL TASK FORCE IN FIGHTING ORGANISE CRIME

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OVERVIEW OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE TASK FORCE

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READ BELOW THE SUCCESS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIAL TASK FORCE RESCUE MISSIONS:
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@2smooth2shout Lying about the success of Nigerian Special Forces rescue missions and most operations were led by British SAS (wHO HAPPEN TO BE TRAINING YOUR FORCES) read below:http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7n4T0PhRXWAAzJ5XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTBybnZlZnRlBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=13n1v4f9j/EXP=1375289491/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/recriminations-wake-failed-british-nigerian-rescue-mission-two-150728210.html.

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ON LIGHTER MOMENT HERE ARE THE PICTURES OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICES

SMALL THINGS AMUSES SMALL MINDS....LETS SHOW NAIRAS WHAT WE MEAN BY A CITY, A SHOPPING MALL, TRANSPORT ETC.....NIGERIA IS NOWHERE NEAR SOUTH AFRICA ON ALL CYLINDERS

Cape Town-based shipyard Nautic Africa has received orders for seven of its new 35 metre Fast Multi-Role Patrol Vessels from West African customers, and is already constructing two of them.

Nautic Africa said the contracts for the vessels – the first in their class to be designed and built in South Africa - are worth R600 million.

Two keels have already been laid, with the remaining three to follow later this month. Nautic expects to make its first deliveries next year and to complete the contract early in 2015.

The orders resulted from the company’s collaboration with West African navies, as well as oil and gas companies, to develop an effective way of counteracting illegal fishing, piracy and other illicit offshore activities, Nautic Africa said in a statement on Monday.

“The orders reflect our customers’ confidence in our ability to deliver solutions-based products, coupled with unparalleled on-the-ground service and support,” said James Fisher, Nautic Africa CEO.

He added that the company has also cemented plans for the expansion of its second West African base, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, which will focus exclusively on vessel life-cycle support and servicing. The company already has a base in Takoradi, Ghana.

The new 35 metre patrol vessels were designed in collaboration with a Cape Town-based naval architect in response to offshore security issues in the Gulf of Guinea. The company claims they will have the capability of much larger, more expensive vessels.

They will utilise the South African-developed Nautic ‘Super Shield’ Ballistic Protection system and will be sold with a multitude of role capabilities, key being the Nautic Fast Deployable Interceptors (FDI), vessels known as Guardians.

These interceptors incorporate a beyond-horizon, mother/daughter communication interface with the mother ship. They will be powered by a Swedish Marine Diesel 500HP inboard engine, coupled to either a surface-piercing MSA propeller drive, or a jet drive, that is capable of powering the 9-metre craft up to speeds of more than 50 knots.

“The majority of territorial water off-shore threats are from largely indistinguishable craft less than 12 metres in length,” said Fisher. “The FDIs, which are deployable in minutes, enhance the patrol effectiveness of offshore assets and enable personnel to communicate with small fishing boats and/or make arrests at sea level. This makes policing safer and more effective.”

A spin-off of the patrol vessel orders is that Nautic Africa expects to create 100 jobs over the next two years in the Cape Town area. “To ensure that its workforce has the requisite skills to meet the global standards expected by its clients, Nautic Africa will embark on an aggressive apprenticeship programme to train fabricators, welders and general artisans,” the company said.

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The special forces are a potentially useful asset that can be used by the SADC Standby Force as a force multiplier, according to South African Army Colonel Renier Coetzee.

Coetzee, speaking on behalf of Brigadier General Rudzani Maphwanya, head of the South African Special Forces, at the Land Forces Africa conference in Pretoria last week, said that special forces elements were not part of the pledges to the SADC Standby Force, as they are being “kept close to the chest” due to their high value.

However, special forces teams would be able to provide the SADC Standby Force with unique capabilities, as they utilise “unconventional actions to resolve strategic problems.” Special forces offer a wide variety of capabilities such as reconnaissance, intelligence, offensive action, the protection of vital and strategic interests, the combating of terrorism, combat search and rescue and military capacity development.

“SADC special forces have proven themselves combat ready for deployment during the past four years,” Coetzee said. “SADC special forces are ready to take part in the SADC Standby Brigade.”

Each SADC member country has a special forces field of expertise awarded to it. “We have lots of experience we can offer to the SADC,” Coetzee said, as the special forces have done maritime operations, counter-insurgency training and next year will conduct anti-piracy training. A desert warfare multinational special forces exercise will be held in Namibia later this year - 350-500 special forces operators take part in an annual exercise and have done so for the last four years. Such joint training is a major asset as a greater understanding of climates and cultures can be attained and interoperability issues can be resolved.

One of the greatest attributes the special forces are able to bring to the table is their ability to deploy at short notice, Coetzee said, and cut through red tape. South African Special Forces are on 25 hour standby and can react within eight hours. Coetzee said the Standby Brigade’s biggest issue is the 54 day long delay before it can deploy.

If France had not intervened in Mali, African forces would most likely still be procrastinating, defence analyst Helmoed Romer Heitman pointed out at the conference. He said it would be a good idea to establish a special forces capability at SADC headquarters.

Coetzee said that countries belonging to the African Union were slow in committing troops to the Standby Force, which came into being in 2007 when regional countries resolved to contribute troops in the form of a standby force to defence member states from revolts and aggression. It was originally supposed to be operational in 2010 but this has been postponed to 2014.

The Colonel suggested that in order to fast-track the deployment of forces, the right to decide whether to intervene should be held by a small group of people at the African Union, as this would expedite the process.

The head of Roskosmos, Russia’s civilian space agency, seems to have accidentally exposed a hitherto unknown South African military space project.

Responding to a question from a correspondent for Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency regarding Russia’s failure to launch South Africa’s civilian Sumbandila satellite, Anatoly Perminov stated that “unfortunately, the Russian Defence Ministry refused to launch this satellite, as the South African Defence Ministry for its turn refused to use our satellite.

The two countries’ defence ministries decided to go their own way, and we did not interfere in these affairs.

Today there is no opportunity for the launch.” – Sumbandila was meant to have been launched late last year from a Russian submarine; it would have been sent in a special capsule to an integration facility at the Russian Naval Base at Murmansk in northern Russia; the Russian Navy would then have fitted the capsule and the satellite to a Shtil 2.1 rocket, taken the submarine to sea, and launched the rocket.

The key phrase is “the South African Defence Ministry ... refused to use our satellite.” What could this mean?

Firstly, it must be pointed out that the South African civilian satellite programme is run by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), not the Department of Defence. So it must be a reference to a specifically military space or space-related programme on the part of South Africa, separate from that of the DST.

Secondly, refusing to launch the South African satellite is a major decision that could only be made at high-level in the ministry; it breaks a Russian obligation to South Africa, and deeply embarrasses Roskosmos. It could even damage Russia’s reputation in the increasingly competitive international space launch market.

So the Russian Ministry of Defence must have been very annoyed with its South African counterpart. That, in turn, signals that the proposed programme, whatever it was, was a major one. This, further, suggests that it was not a mere matter of South Africa using an existing Russian military satellite, leasing capacity or buying imagery.

Rather, these scanty clues point to something on the scale of actually acquiring a military satellite from Russia – or, more precisely, seriously considering such an acquisition, including negotiations with the Russians (how else would Moscow know about project?), only to terminate the talks or cancel any agreement or deal, and doing so in a manner, or for a reason, which angered the Russian Defence Ministry.

Perminov’s phrase “the two countries’ defence ministries decided to go their own way,” signals that the South African programme was not cancelled, but rather that this country has chosen to order the space vehicle from a third country, rejecting, for whatever reason, the Russian technology.

Assuming these deductions are correct, what kind of satellite could the South African Department of Defence be seeking? Military forces employ two types of satellite – communications, and reconaissance (popularly called spy satellites), with the latter subdivided into a number of categories, notably imagery, radar, and electronics.

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) can certainly justify either a communciations satellite or an imagery satellite. This is because of its increasingly extensive peacekeeping deployments in decidedly dangerous and remote areas of Africa.

The communications systems for UN forces can be very rudimentary and inadequate, and a national military communications satellite would give South Africa an independent and very secure communications link with troops deployed in places like Darfur. Similarly, possession of an imagery reconaissance satellite would give this country an independent source of very high resolution pictures of crisis areas and situations.

This would allow Pretoria to make critically important decisions (such as whether to join or withdraw from a UN force, or reinforce troops already deployed, or what way to vote in an UN debate) on the basis of some knowledge of what was really happening, instead of being dependent on the assertions and arguments of other countries.

It should be noted that reconaissance satellite technology is jealously guarded. It would have been a great concession to South Africa if Russia had been willing to grant this country access to even part of the latter’s capabilities in this sphere. To turn down such an offer would be a rebuff indeed.

The strength of the Russian Defence Ministry’s reaction to South Africa’s decision not to use a Russian satellite thus suggests that Pretoria is seeking to acquire a reconaissance satellite. And there are less than a handful of countries with the capability to build such a craft. Apart from Russia and the US – which would not sell a reconaissance satellite to anyone – it is basically just France and Israel.

All this, by the way, does not mean that Russia, the country, will not launch Sumbandila. Roskosmos has its own rockets and launch facilities, and is a civilian agency. Scheduling and planned orbit permitting, it could still put the South African satellite in space.

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now the out of service CHEETAH

7 Medical Battalion Group is the specialist Airborne Medical Battalion of the South African Military Health Service. The Battalion's main task is to render medical support to the South African Special and Airborne Forces.

Other specialties of the Battalion include High-angle rescue, CBRNE detection, verification and decontamination, Diving and Aviation medicine and other skills associated in supporting Special Forces.

Little is publicly known of this elite medical unit because of its involvement with the infamous Chemical and Biological Warfare program of the then South African Defense Force (SADF) during the 1980s and early 1990s as well as its involvement in South African Special Forces operations during the Angolan-Bush War. The battalion group's founder Commandant Wouter Basson led the research for the Chemical and Biological Warfare program.

Other tasks of the battalion include but are not limited to medical support to the South African Police Service Special Task Force and other elite units, the South African Air Force's Search and Rescue units and the Presidential Protection Unit.

The unit is on a general six-hour standby and is ready to deploy nationally and internationally, most recently in advisory and support roles during natural disasters.

The unit retains a limited Defensive Chemical Biological warfare (CBRNE) capability.

SOUTH AFRICAN MADE WEAPONS

@AGAUGUST SHOW WHAT YOU HAVE...U HAVE FAILED SO MANY TIMES

@AGAUGUST.....SOUTH AFRICANS DO NOT HAVE TO DECEIVE THEMSELVES THEY ONLY HAVE TO PROVE IT THAT SOUTH AFRICA POSSESS INDEGENEOUS WEAPONS NOT AMERICAN OR CHINA.....PROVE ME OTHERWISE WHAT DOES MOROCCO, EGYPT, NIGERIA, LIBYA ETC PRODUCES AS THEIR HOME MADE TECHNOLOGY RIVALLING THE BEST IN THE WORLD.....COME ON WE ARE WAITING??

Saab is anticipating orders for its LEDS 150 active protection system at the end of 2015, as it attempts to get a return on its investment in the system. The company is also improving its LEDS 50 laser warning system.

Poland and India are two countries that may possibly buy the LEDS 150 hard-kill protection system. Magnus Lewis-Olsson, President of Saab South Africa, told defenceWeb that Saab had invested a significant amount of company money developing the system and was now looking for a partner/customer for the project. “We need a customer,” he said, adding that Saab was presently speaking to a couple of European countries.

Saab believes that active protection systems will be very popular in the future, especially as rebel forces are becoming increasingly well equipped. Technology is needed to stay one step ahead of the threat, and is making systems like LEDS smaller, lighter and cheaper.

Lewis-Olsson said that LEDS was invented and produced in South Africa, with major investment by Saab Sweden. Now Saab is seeking a partner to complete development, which began in 2006.

The Land Electronic Defence System (LEDS) comes in several different versions, including the LEDS 50 laser warning system, the LEDS 100 with jammer and decoys and the LEDS 150 with the Mongoose-1 counter-munition.

LEDS 100 confuses enemy weapons operators and incoming rounds by deploying smoke, or jamming them with infra-red energy. The system automatically activates in less than 700 milliseconds. The smoke launcher can turn to any hemisphere in less than 100 milliseconds and launch smoke that cannot be penetrated by lasers or thermal imagers.

LEDS 150 claims to destroy incoming anti-tank guided munitions with the Mongoose missile at ranges as close as within 20 metres of the launch vehicle. The munition has in tests deflected 105 mm tank rounds as well as fin-stabilised rods.

Saab recently launched an improved version of the LEDS 50, the Mk II, which features a new LWS-310 MK II sensor that provides an increase in detection sensitivity, enabling the system to detect the guidance energy of the latest generation of laser beam rider missiles at ranges exceeding several kilometres. The LWS-310 Mk II sensor can also tell how far away the range finder is, compromising the position and direction of the threat.

LEDS 50 is currently operationally deployed on the CV 90/35 combat vehicles of the Royal Netherlands Army and has also been evaluated by several Western countries, including the United States. In the latter trial, the laser warning system was used to cue a vehicle’s main gun for counter-fire or to dispense countermeasures.

According to Cobus van Der Merwe, Executive Manager Business Development at South African division Grintek Defence, the improvements to LEDS 50 allow it to defeat all laser-based anti-armour threats, including threats endemic to Africa like the 152 mm Krasnopol guided artillery system as well as fourth-generation anti-tank missiles like the AT-14E Kornet.

Saab told defenceWeb that there was a chance that two LEDS 50 contracts may be awarded by September, including one from Canada.

At present there is little demand for any LEDS type of system from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), but Saab is ready to meet other SANDF requirements. Lewis-Olsson told defenceWeb that Saab was offering its Carl Gustav to the South African Army to meet a future support weapon requirement.

He said that Saab was hoping to get some of its components into the Army’s Project Hoefyster for the Badger infantry fighting vehicle, a production contract for which has been approved. This would involve integrating Saab components like communications and command and control systems.

The SANDF has a requirement to update its radar systems, which is a project Saab can help with, Lewis-Olsson said, especially after Saab bough a UK-based radar house. In addition, Saab has “great hopes” in sub-Saharan Africa for air traffic management systems – a country like Angola has close to 20 airports that could do with better air traffic management equipment.

Ockert van der Schyf, Head of Marketing at Saab Sub-Saharan Africa, told defenceWeb that Saab was hoping for a request for information before the end of this year for Project Chutney, to upgrade SANDF radars.

Saab would like to be involved in many SANDF projects, such as Saucepan, for maritime surveillance aircraft (it would offer the Saab 340 MSA), Projects Sepula and Vistula (armoured vehicles and trucks), Biro (patrol vessels) and the upgrade of the Valour class frigates.

Saab also hopes to sell its Skeldar unmanned aerial vehicle in Africa, especially for things like anti-poaching, anti-piracy and peacekeeping operations – the United Nations is looking to operate UAVs in the Democratic Republic of Congo.