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Milestone!!! Sat-Com Radio Performs exceptional under during the harshest of conditions. After 50 drops in our environmental Laboratory the Leopard1 still worked including TX, RX, Tuning, Data Modem, ALE. It is quite an achievement since MIL-STD drop test allow for 26 x drop test spread over 3 products, we passed all 26 with ONE Radio still working after 50 drops!

lionel4power:
Head of South Africa's 7 Medical Battalion. They provide SF and paratrooper medical support as well as counter NBC work etc.

Medical doctor, para and SF qualified.

gottfried21:
It was interesting how the marines came out ready for war on clean up day Guys had on Kevlar vests and pulled up in MRAPS

Sat-Com launches the AFRACAL-VRI.

"Another product in our range of multiband, multi role tactical communication devices."

It is a high powered VHF RF amplifier for vehicular, base station and repeater deployment to provide extra range. The AFRACAL VRI is fully compatible with the Leopard1 and Cheetah3 radios manufactured by Sat-Com.

The AFRACAL VRI is capable of delivering from 50 and up to a 150W from 30 Mhz to 88 Mhz and 50 up to 100W from 100-170Mhz. To extend the range all the way up to 512 Mhz is an option*

The built in antenna switch will select the correct antenna per frequency 30-88 Mhz or 89-170 Mhz automatically to provide seamless operation across the entire frequency range.

This Amplifier will provide long, medium and short range tactical Command & Control which includes Maritime Land to Sea and Ground-To-Air Band frequencies. The optional extended frequency range will provide communications coverage in high density urban areas.

The AFRACAL VRI is part of the AFRACAL family which also features the AFRACAL-2 triple band dual PA which covers;
HF 1.6-30 MhZ
VHF 30-88 Mhz / 89-170 Mhz
UHF* 512 Mhz (optional)

AFRACAL VRI and AFRACAL-2 Amplifiers are compliant to MIL-STD-810G and rated IP66.

**Sat-Com is scheduled to launch another product in the AFRACAL family later this year. The AFRACAL-500 (500W) and AFRACAL-1000 (1kW) are in final design stages and should be ready for the first field trials by July 2018.

STATE-OWNED military communications equipment company Sat-Com says it is retrenching 33 of its 70 employees, amid a revelation that the ministry of defence owes the company N$100 million.

According to the company's website, Sat-Com is part of the August 26 group of companies that focuses on a wide range of communications solutions from design, implementation to the delivery of turnkey solutions for both large enterprises and government departments

Namibian Navy Brass Band participated at the official opening of the 11th Lüderitz annual crayfish Festival that was held on 28 April 2018. The Navy Brass Band led the float procession, which marched through the streets of Lüderitz.......

The Namibian Navy send three vessels to witness the festival with NS Elephant and NS Brendan Simbwaye making their 3rd and 2nd times respectively while NS Brukkaros making her first call at the Lüderitz port. The journey started on the 20th of April 2018 with various fleet exercises which include fleet formations, live firing exercises, boarding and searching and finally patrolling, clearance and securing of the port by the Marine troops.

ViceAdmirlAgain:
Botswana Defence Force

Pics by Botswana Aviation art

Frumentum:
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence is currently visiting RSABatt in the DRC. I don't know where that caption originated, but those guys are from SAAF 500 and 504 Squadron, based in Goma and Beni Airports. 504 Squadron provides air base security, whilst 500 Squadron is the SAAF's ground SOF capability in charge of rapid reaction, VIP protection, and other specialised tasks.

I've previously posted pics of them in Goma air base.

Frumentum:
Confirmed: in a month's time I'll be in a place with intermittent internet connection, for 3 months. From tomorrow I cycle to work to prepare for refresher training.

gottfried21:
Namibian Paratroopers

gottfried21:
New Namibian Parade Vehicles to be unveiled tomorrow for the first time at our Independence Day celebration

frumentius:

No I don't. It's just that those piddly PKs just look wrong and I haven't heard of you mounting anything beyond that. What's the point of buying the SDROW - which can handle anything from 5.56 to 20mm - just to put PKs on it?

Your RG-32s look impressive. Do you know your guys got Denel to so tailor it that it's now a variant on its own, the RG-32MN?
By the way, now that ICP incorporated your feed-back and made changes to the REVA FAV, are you buying more?

frumentius:
Cousins, are you also mounting something more substantial on your RG-32's remote weapons stations?

Frumentum:
Whilst we wait for Andrewza to post more pics, I'm hearing good things about your Marines deployed in Lesotho as part of the SADC mission (you cousins are funny -deploying Marines to a land locked mountainous country ).
BTW, what's going on at Windhoeker MaschineFabriek? Latest I heard the Wolf MKIII has been postponed and R & D budget is virtually decimated?

andrewza:
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andrewza:
Took pics of the Wahoo and 4 hornets. I can take pics of there guns but really they have strange list of guns even a ww2 mg34, Lee Enfield to m16.

Still want to get a interior pic of the wahoo but I have only a few minutes free each day and wahoo is all full of kids from school groups.


You want pics of there survival stuff, like a condom filled with water to be a magnifying glass to make fire and all that fun stuff

andrewza:
Sorry no pics from armed forces day yet. I took pics of static display stuff for the most part. If there is any thing some one wants a pic of say now. I will upload them when I get back home. Just wanted to add. The Army engineers assembled there 10 meter Bridge in 11 minutes.

gottfried21:
Meh,I can see why they would want it.It looks like an old Koevoet base...I don’t know what luxury they are talking about.

gottfried21:
I don’t know anymore...

But according to Major-General Ben Kadhila, the chief of staff for joint operations, more than one unit will be housed there.

“Multiple specialists will be trained at the base,” he said. Kadhila said for security reasons he could not divulge how many units or soldiers would be based at Oropoko.

Namibia has seven military bases, each housing between 700 and 1 000 soldiers. Kadhila further confirmed that the “multiple specialists” would be trained for anti-poaching interventions.

“This will, however, only be one area of training for the troops,” he said.

He said soldiers would be billeted in the former lodge's rooms, and the restaurant would be used as a kitchen and staff canteen.

“These are all added advantages, while the wild animals on the farm will help in the anti-poaching training.”

According to Shilumbu the farm is strategically located as it is near the capital. It has a helipad and an airfield, which the army intends to transform into a military airport.

Furthermore, the farm has an Olympic-standard shooting range that will be used as a training area.

Shilumbu said Oropoko has a well-developed laundry, conference centre, kitchens, accommodation as well as mechanical workshop where the troops can maintain NDF vehicles without travelling to town for repairs.