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ViceAdmirlAgain:
Exercise Blue Kunene

ViceAdmirlAgain:
@gotfried looks like the SF just took off from ondangwa...huge delay

ViceAdmirlAgain:
todays arrivals at Ondangwa Airport

A number of SADC Member States Air Forces, Arms and Wings contingents for the Humanitarian Aid Relief Exercise code named "Exercise Blue Kunene" jetted in the country today.

Exercise Blue Kunene will commence tomorrow morning, 24 August 2017 at 09h40 with the official opening at Oshakati Independence Stadium.

The Honourable Penda Ya Ndakolo, Minister of Defence will give the keynote address.

Proceedings of Exercise Blue Kunene will be live streamed on the Ministry of Defence Facebook page @MODNamibia.

gottfried21:

The problem with my NBC connection is that I'll have to E-wallet him about N$2000 for the footage,unfortunately I can't spend that much my apologies for not informing you sooner gentlemen.

gottfried21:
Waiting for the Angolans to come through with those beautiful Russian aircraft
Ilyushin/Antonov for the Win

ActivateKruger:
Someone should tell the Angolans not to bring real bullets to the exercise to actual kill like some other SADC exercise.

Preparation for SADC military exercise at final stage

Namibian Air Force’s contingent to the much anticipated Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Air Forces, Air Arms and Air Wings Joint military training code named Exercise Blue Kunene is exploring all possible means to ensure that the biennial Southern Africa regional block military air power exercise reaches climax.

Namibia is hosting a two weeks Ex-Blue Kunene in Kunene Region to test and perfect SADC capability to respond to complex humanitarian crisis or emergencies created either by armed conflictis, natural or human induced disasters in the continent and beyond under the SADC Standby Force.

Other SADC contingents are expected to arrive in Namibia from today.
#MODNamibia #Exbluekunene @MICTNamibia

Henry240:
Under 4 years, the Nigerian industry which did not exist before 2013 has so far built 7 different types of vehicles both for the domestic market and export.

When you think about it, that's impressive!

gottfried21:
Yup,and once again I was only really impressed with the marines

Lt Gen Dr. Michael Tempel Visits Namibia Windhoek, 28 July 2017:

The Surgeon General for the German Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Dr. Michael Tempel, visited Namibia for the first time to familiarise himself with the health services in the Namibian Defence Force.

In addition, General Tempel’s visit was to cement the mutual relationships existing between the two Armed Forces in the area of health services and further discuss areas of future cooperation and support to Namibian Defence Force.

The General paid a courtesy call on the Chief of the Namibian Defence Force before meeting the Chief of Staff Defence Health Services, Brig Gen Sofia Ndeitunga at Defence Headquarters.

Dr. Tempel also visited the Mobile Field Hospital at Okahandja, which was established through a joint Inter-Governmental Project between the Republic of Namibia and the Federal Republic of Germany.

FINAL PLANNING CONFERENCE: “EXERCISE BLUE KUNENE.”

The Namibian Air Force hosted the Final Planning Conference for Exercise Blue Kunene at Von Bach Dam in Okahandja from 04- 06 July2017. The conference was held to make final touches on the plans for the upcoming Exercise.

Exercise Blue Kunene is in conformity with Article 13 of the African Union, Protocol Relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council which established the African Standby Force, highlighting the functional aspects of the African Standby Force as being the facilitator of “Humanitarian Assistance to alleviate the suffering of civilian population in conflict areas and support efforts to address major natural disasters”. The Exercise is conducted under the auspices of the Standing Aviation Committee (SAC) of the SADC - Inter State Defence and Security Committee (ISDSC).

The humanitarian exercise is conducted rotationally in all the 15 SADC member states after every two years. The first SADC Air Force exercise code named Exercise Blue cluster was held in the Republic of South Africa in 2011. The second one, Exercise Blue Zambezi was held in Angola in 2013 and was followed by Exercise Blue Okavango held in Botswana in 2015. The Namibian Air Force has participated in all three SADC military aviation exercises.

The conference was attended by delegates from Southern African Development Community (SADC) Air Forces/ Air Arms, Air Wings and other stakeholders, such as Office of the Prime Minister, Ministries of Education, Safety and Security, Health and Social Services, Information, Communication and Technology, Home Affairs and Immigration and the Namibia Red Cross Society.

gottfried21:
Yesterday the Namibian Marine corps turned one years old.
Here are some visuals from it's one year anniversary

kikuyu1:
Namibians , how many of you know your first infantry units, post uhuru were trained by the KDF?



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http://namibia.leadr.msu.edu/items/show/246

Integration of the external RT5 Data Terminal is in final stages.

Soon we'll be able to chat, email, send files and utilise the battlefield awareness applications for our manpack, base station and vehicular systems with this external device.

It is a great addition to our existing HF/VHF/UHF radio already capable doing email, chat, ALE and e-mail with the internal modems.

Having the external data terminal allows more flexibility, interoperability with any other HF set using the same terminal or using it with our radios negating ruggedised tablets.

By adding the Front Battlefield Awareness capability we'll give our users the comfort to know where friendly and enemy forces are.

frumentius:
Agreed. You guys also gave a good account of yourselves.

frumentius:
I'd argue the Congolese should rather be grateful to the men and women of the ZDF, NDF and FAA, and not the grasping political leaders who ordered them to come to the aid of the venal Kabila pere. The elites after all, were motivated more by the loot they could extract out of Congolese mines.

Namibia Command and Staff College Graduates 20 Staff Officer

The Minister of Defence, Hon. Penda Ya Ndakolo officiated at the graduation ceremony at the Namibia Command and Staff College (NCSC) in Okahandja on the 28 June 2017.

The Minister informed the audiences at the event that the Ministry of Defence was committed to enhancing its operational efficiency by developing its human capital. “The graduation of these 20 graduands is a clear testimony of the Ministry’s commitment to build a competent and professional Defence Force,” said the Minister.

The graduation ceremony was attended by General Officers and Senior Officers of the MOD, Senior Officials form the MOD, Police Officers and Correctional Officers from Okahandja town, Special Advisor to the Governor of Otjozondjupa Region, Staff members from the municipality of Okahandja town and family members of the graduands.

PROMOTION
The Namibian Defence Force promoted two Colonels and one Lieutenant Colonel to the ranks of Brigadier Generals and Colonel respectively with effect from 01 July 2017. Colonel Kongeni Nghoshi Shikufa and Colonel David Amutenya were promoted to the ranks of Brigadier Generals and appointed as Chief of Staff (COS) Information and Communication Technology and Chief of Staff Logistics respectively, while Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Hishidimbwa Shinana was promoted to the rank of Colonel and appointed Senior Staff Officer Feasibility Studies and Industrial Liaison. During the conferment of ranks ceremony, Major Genera Ben Kadhila, Chief of Staff Joint Operations on behalf of the Chief of Defence Force (CDF) congratulated and welcomed the members in their new management positions. He informed them that promotion is about added responsibilities and therefore, cautioned them to perform well in their newly appointed positions. The promotion was necessitated by the need to fill the vacancies arising from retirements

gottfried21:
Visuals of the Millitary element which was present at the Funeral/memorial services of the late Namibian leader Mr Toivi Ya Toivi(A founding father of Modern Namibia who spent time jailed at the infamous Robben Island prison in South Africa) over the weekend.

Location:Independence Stadium,Windhoek
Date:23/06/17(Memorial service)

GreenandGold:
Hope the Namibians don't get offended by us posting pictures of the SADF in their country.