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SOUTH AFRICA SHALL FOR EVER CHERISH THE SACRIFICES MADE

South African paratroopers and this was the unit that was fighting in CAR

South Africa paratroopers

@ agaugust I repeat once more again show me Nigerian world class produced weapons and stop mentioning other countries. Since you do not have photos just mentioned them and countries of exports....NOT FOREIGN BROUGHT WEAPONS.....NIGERIAN PRODUCTS...DESIGN AND PRODUCED BY NIGERIA......PROUDLY NIGERIA

@AGAUGUST....Remember each country has its own priorities which are determined by a threat and defenece doctrine. South Africa does not need 50 Rooivalk helicopters due to the absence of convential threat. South Africa does not need 1 000 artillery pieces to protect its borders. Egypt does since it is facing direct and long term threat from Israel. Egypt has had two direct confrantation with Israel whith both wars lost by Egypt.

In absence of direct convential threat...South Africa faces a new long term and direct threat emmanating from unemployment, poverty, housing, health and other social ills. Therefore our defenec priorities cahnges and the best defence moves form expenditure on military hardware which may never be used into the mediate threats.

Hence South Africa has made extensive progress in building a better life for all than Egypt...Egypt spends nearly 10 Billion Dollars a year on defence and less than 150 Million Dollars on Health.....WHERE IS PROPER PLANNING AND UPLIFTMENT OF EGYPTIANS?

Many South African have posted pictures of economic upliftment and progress that South Africa has been able to achieved since 1994 than the entire Nigerians on this thread. I hope many would begin to ask a simple question...is pride on weapons and capacity better than fighting poverty and social diprivation All the countries mentioned on military prowerness have worst povert level than South Africa......SOME DO NOT HAVE ELECTRICITY FOR MORE THAN 6 HOURS A DAY AND YET ARE HAPPING ABOUT THEIR EXPENDITURE ON DEFENCE...WHY NOT USE THE MONEY FOR BUILDING MORE POWER PLANTS AND IMPROVE ROADS ETC.......SOUTH AFRICA IS UNVAILING A MASSIVE DRY COAL FIRED POWER PLANT IN MEDUPI AT THE END OF THE YEAR AND WOULD BE OPENING ANOTHER POWER PLANT NEXT YEAR JUNE CALLED KUSILE.....IN 2023 A SECOND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WOULD COME ONLINE AND AT THE END OF 2030 SIX MORE NUCLEAR POWER STATION WOULD BE ON LINE.

@AGAUGUST...I HAVE BEEN WAITING IN ANTICIPATION OF YOUR NIGERIAN MILITARY PRODUCED HARDWARE FOR THE LAST 3 DAYS AND REMEBER YOU MADE A PROMISE OF ATLEAST 72 HOURS AND THE LAST COUNT WAS ON FRIDAY.

REMEMBER ONLY NIGERIAN PRODUCE WEAPONS NOT RUSSIAN, INDIA, PAKISTAN OR CHINA.MY STAND POINT IS NOT WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE ARMOURY BUT WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING. RIFLES YES BUT I MEAN REAL STUFF LIKE WHAT I HAVE POSTED SO FAR....FROM ARTILLERY, ARMOURED CARS, ADVANCEMENT IN MILITARY RADARS ETC....PLEASE NOT AMMUNITION FOR AK 47, MORTARS AND GRENADES.

IF YOU DO SHOW THOSE MATERIAL....I WILL DECLARE THAT NIGERIA POSSESS A TRUE MILITARY MUSCLE. A FAILURE TO DISCLOSE WOULD MEAN YOU MUST CAPITULATE ON THIS THREAD AND DECLARE THAT SOUTH AFRICA IS NUMBER ONE IN TERMS OF MILITARY HARDWARE...AND STOP BEING JEOLOUSY.

NIGERIA CANNOT BE COMPARE TO SOUTH AFRICA IN ALL ROUND SPHERES OF DEVELOPMENT

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SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE.....WITH OR WITHOUT AIDS THE BEST

SOUTH AFRICAN MARINE

SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY

The RSR 942 Spider is a mobile, land-based, rapid deployment, 360 degree continuous scanning surveillance radar (based on the RSR 940 Spider), which is also capable of performing high-resolution sector scanning surveillance, target recognition and identification. This system is capable of being transported on a standard 1-ton pickup truck.

SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY

The RTS 6400 is a 60 km instrumented-range monopulse X-band combined radar and optronics tracking system using a wide-band, high stability Travelling Wave Tube AmplIfier (TWTA) and advanced Doppler signal processing.
The system currently forms a key element of the South African Navy Valour-Class Frigates Combat Suite, for which 9 systems have been delivered into service.
The system has been produced using expertise gained in the development of the ETS 2400 short range Ka-band optronics radar tracker.
The modular nature of the design allows adaptation for alternative configurations of optronic sensor. This capability makes the system eminently suited for most naval fire control applications. Typical sensor configurations include dual field of view 3-5 µm or 8-12 µm Thermal Imaging Sensors, high repetition rate Laser Range-Finders and dual field of view daylight cameras. The system may also be supplied with or without a dedicated console.
The system is able to perform in hostile ECM environments due to a comprehensive ECCM suite.

SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY

The RSR 210N is a lightweight X-Band 2D naval air/sea surveillance radar designed for application on smaller naval and coastguard vessels. This radar, which provides coverage to beyond 50 km, may be supplied with a dedicated console or may be interfaced to a Combat Management System. Whilst it is particularly suited to helicopter support operations aboard ship, it is also applied in a general surveillance and gunfire support role. The technology applied in this system is derived from the RTS 6400 tracking radar currently in service with the SA Navy.

SOUTH AFRICAN NAVY

SOUTH AFRICAN AIRFORCE

Reutech Radar Systems has developed a 3-dimensional ground-based dual-band radar technology demonstrator which, once industrialised, will deliver world-leading performance in missile fire control applications. This demonstrator has been produced in partnership with the Department of Defence, Armscor, CSIR, Denel and the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cape Town.


The system is based on the ESR 220 Thutlwa local warning radar already in service with the SA Army Air Defence Artillery, with the addition of high-accuracy 3D target detection and tracking capabilities. The suitability of the product for the support of ground-based Surface-To-Air Missiles (SAMs) was asserted in the superior tracking accuracy of aircraft under surveillance.

SOUTH AFRICAN AIRFORCE

sOUTH AFRICAN AIRFORCE...REMEMBER IT ONLY HAS 6 PILOTS

Nigerian defence and security firm Mekahog is in the process of setting up a factory to manufacture Springbuck and other armoured vehicles in Nigeria, as part of its effort to provide local content and create employment.

Franklyn Ohakim, Group Executive Director of Mekahog, told defenceWeb that Mekahog would be the first in West Africa to have the ability to fabricate and maintain armoured vehicles.

Earlier this year, Nigeria’s Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade commended Mekahog’s management for offering to establish an armoured personnel carrier (APC) production facility in Nigeria. He promised to facilitate the steps necessary to set up the plant.

Construction of the new assembly and fabrication plant will commence next year and vehicle production in 2014. The company has just completed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its joint venture partners in South Africa.

Meanwhile Mekahog has entered into an MoU with the Police Ministry in Nigeria to undertake the total engineering evaluation of all unserviceable/abandoned Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles in the country. He said returning the vehicles to service would save Nigeria between US$200 and US$300 million.

Mekahog is in partnership with Drakensberg Truck Manufacturers (DTM), and has supplied its products to the Nigerian Police Force and Army. At the moment it is fulfilling an order for Springbuck vehicles for the Nigerian government via DTM’s factory in South Africa. Ohakim said that between now and the end of the year the company hopes to receive a firm order for 200 vehicles for Nigeria government and other West African countries.

Mekahog will later build other designs, such as the DTM Fox light armoured commercial pickup and the DCD Mountain Lion armoured battle vehicle.

According to the Nigerian Police Affairs Ministry, the Nigerian government will soon stop doing businesses with foreign firms that have no production facilities in Nigeria with the aim of stopping the country from being a dumping ground for low quality foreign products.

Nigeria needs all the armoured vehicles it can get as it faces the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency. Ohakim pointed out a wide variety of security threats in the region, such as terrorism, kidnapping, pipeline vandalism, arms smuggling and armed robbery. “Technically, the terrorists are becoming smarter. That is the truth,” Ohakim said, noting that bomb makers were becoming increasingly skilled. “We need to protect the territorial integrity of each nation,” he added.

Ohakim said Mekahog has other expansion plans, including the training of rapid response elite mechanics complete with mobile facilities. Mekahog has designed a financing strategy so that countries in the region are able to make large purchases, which have been hampered by limited annual funding.

Mekahog has also partnered with South African company Mechem for bomb detection and disposal and drug detection.

@Agaugust FRIGATES where brought for main purpose of protecting South AFRICA's vast ocean front which is abut 3 000km and combined both Indian and Atlantica ocean. Today such an investment is bearing fruit in a fight against piracy around Mozambique and Tanzania.

Hence in some case we have put 24 Gripen in a storage due to the absence of any tangible threat. Why use and waste money South Africa has other important priorities such as housing which the government has been able to deliver 2,8 million houses, deliver water to over 10 million peolple, electrificated over 12 million houses.

Spend over 280 Billion on education...Balance on what is crucial and strategic is very essential for South Africa. Just to let you know weapon exports contribute about 2 Billion last year. Main destination of these weapons were amongst USA, BRITAIN, SWEDEN, FINLAND.

DEBATES SHOULD BE ABOUT THE TRUTH NOT THUMP SUCKING AND ANGER!!!!!!

True about the capabilities of the military satellite but how useful what is with Americans in Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq. Advantage in a convential war but a flop against low intensity insurgency war....Hence Americans are using Drones. Currently South Africa is not faced with an imminent convential threat emanating from neighbouring countries....Meaning for now satellite capacity is useless.

South Africaan defence industry is orintated towards market exports...Hence the weapons are for both domestic and international sectors. Militaries do not just buy arsenals without addressing a certain purpose. SELEKE rebels were trashed by South Africa, hence their Transitional Prime Minister visited South Africa to ask Zuma to send back the troops and the plea was made by neighbouring countries such as Sudan and Chad.

Americans lost 18 rangers in Somalia and retreated after demolishing AIDEED's forces. SELEKE Generals are now asking South Africa to assist in amalgamation and training. DOES SUCH ACT HAPPEN TO THE DEFEATED FORCES.
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On displayment of weapons its no secret....ALL BEST ARMIES OF THE WORLD DISPLAYED THEM IE:RUSSIA DURING PARADES, USA WEAPONS CAN BE ACCESSED ON THE WEB AND MAGAZINES, GERMANY ETC.

WHY THEREFORE SHOULD SOUTH AFRICA BE AN EXCEPTION....UNLESS YOU HID WHATS NOT THERE AND CREAT A PHANTOM ARMY.

Me thinking UAV performs the very same capabilities that can be done by a satellite....AND ANY WAY @AGAUGUST WHO TOLD YOU THAT SOUTH AFRICA DOES NOT POSSESS SATELLITE. INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THIS FORUM IS OPEN AND AVAILABLE, HOWEVER THERE ARE A CLASSIFIED MILITARY AND CIVILLIAN INFORMATION THAT CANNOT BE MADE ACCESSEBLE TO EVERYONE.

SECRETS ARE BOTH FOR TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC PURPOSES TO OBTAIN ADVANTAGE ON YOUR RIVALS...HOWEVER CLASSIFIYING EVERY LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING IS BEING SILLY. IN AFRICA EVEN TAKING PHOTOS OF AIRPORTS IS PROHIBITED...AN OPEN SOCIETY PROVIDE ITS CITIZEN WITH INFORMATION SO THAT PEOPLE CAN KNOW HOW THEIR TAX IS SPEND.

South African snipers rifle regarded amongst the top 10 best sniper rifles in the world

FOR THE FIRST TIME SHOWING PHOTO OF THE NUCLEAR CASTING BOMB THAT SOUTH AFRICA POSSESSED

SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCED WEAPONS

What do you mean by tactical and strategical reasons?

No way you can compare Nigeria with South Africa. Nigeria has only two so called cities to boast about LAGOS AND ABUJA, otherwise there is nothing more to write about. South AFRICA has so many cities Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Cape Town,THEY ARE SO MANY.....THESE CITIES HAVE BEEN A MAGNET ON NIGERIANS @KWME NKRIA LETS SHOW THEM

JOHANNESBURG

This is the poor country, according to some experts: JOHANNESBURG AND MANY PHOTOS OF OTHER CITIES WOULD FOLLOW

There was pandemonium at Mokola area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday as men of the Nigerian army engaged the police in a shootout.

It was gathered that the army were reacting to the attack on one of their men at Mokola by some unknown policemen on Wednesday.

The army and police fired several shots into the air scaring members of the public.

Attempts are being made to get reactions from the police and the army.

NIGERIAN POLICE SERVING THE PUBLIC

NIGERIAN POLICE DOING WHAT THEY KNOW BEST:

Two Nigeria Police officers, shameless, publicly exchanged fisticuffs in Lagos. They are not the first but add to a growing statistics

Two Officers of the Nigeria Police Force on Monday were engaged in a public fight at Bode Thomas Street, Lagos. Both officers wew later arrested by the District Police Officer (DPO) of Bode Thomas Police station.

The fight ensued after a police officer impounded the motorbike of another in mufti. The police officer in mufti parked his motorcycle in front of MTN office on the street and entered the telecommunication office for some business transactions, on coming out he realized his motorcycle have been impounded for not having a registration plate number and wrong parking.

The officer in mufti feeling disrespected, challenged the uniformed officer and sparked the fight.

Residents in the area called in the DPO in charge of Bode Thomas Police station who requested for an explanation from both officers. While the uniformed officer explained the brawl to his boss, the officer on mufti lost his temper and slapped the uniformed officer. The DPO subsequently ordered his arrest.

Police officers’ fights

Officers of the Nigeria Police Force, the supposed symbol of law and order in do not hesitate to fight themselves in public.

Public fights between officers of the Nigeria Police Force especially while in uniforms is a frequent phenomenon. Many of these fights result from sharing proceeds of bribe and extorted sums. Others, drunkenness use of hard drugs have been blamed for these public brawls.

Many public police officers’ fights have been recorded since 2010.

In March 2010 some Police officers were caught on camera engaged in a fight also in Lagos over N20 (Twenty Naira) bribe.

In November 2010, three Police officers were engaged in a fight in Ajegunle, along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, endangering the lives of motorists and passersby with their AK 47 rifles held carelessly as they exchanged blows.

In June 2011, there was a recorded pandemonium at Obanikoro area of Lagos State when soldiers clashed with Police officers who were trying to stop the soldiers from using the BRT lane. That happened after a bloody clash in the previous month when in Badagry a soldier was killed and his colleagues retaliated by killing the Badagry DPO, DCO and other Police officers.

In December 2011, three police officers in uniform, publicly molested their uniformed mobile-police colleague and gave him the beating of his life in front of the Lagos State University (LASU). They pinned him to the ground in a gutter for allegedly escorting a vehicle without the necessary papers which is illegal in the Police Force.

Although the manhandled police officer repeatedly explained that he was only given a lift by a van driver from Mile 2 as he was on his way to Ajangbadi area of Lagos where he lives.

Many of these cases end up with the officers involved never reprimanded officially. Rather, they ‘settle man-to-man’ and move on.

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