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RUSSIA REPORTEDLY DELIVERING SU-30 FIGHTERS TO NIGERIA
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) reportedly has 12 Sukhoi Su-30 multi-role fighters on order from Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).
Speaking to , the Deputy Director for the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Anatoliy Punchuk said, “In 2018, Russia will supply 10 Su-30 aircraft. Thus, the contract will be completed by the end of next year.”
As per Sputnik News, two of the Su-30s were delivered to Nigeria in 2017. The variant was not disclosed.
Notes & Comments:
federal budget for 2016 – i.e. the Appropriation Act for 2016 – allocated $15.88 million U.S. for the of three JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighters from Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC). While likely an installment, the earmarked $68.76 million for “platform acquisitions … for counter air, counter surface, air ops for strategic effect and air support operations.”
In light of the recent news about the Su-30, the NAF acquisition budget appears to involve several combat platform purchases – i.e. JF-17, Su-30, and potentially .
With the Su-30 and JF-17, the NAF would maintain a ‘high-and-low’ composition, respectively. The Su-30 would likely be counted upon to provide the ‘strategic effect’ aspect of the NAF’s requirements, such as long-range strikes and maritime operations. The JF-17 would fulfill air defence and attack operations in-land over Nigeria’s territories and border areas.
Source: Quwa
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) reportedly has 12 Sukhoi Su-30 multi-role fighters on order from Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC).
Speaking to , the Deputy Director for the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Anatoliy Punchuk said, “In 2018, Russia will supply 10 Su-30 aircraft. Thus, the contract will be completed by the end of next year.”
As per Sputnik News, two of the Su-30s were delivered to Nigeria in 2017. The variant was not disclosed.
Notes & Comments:
federal budget for 2016 – i.e. the Appropriation Act for 2016 – allocated $15.88 million U.S. for the of three JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighters from Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC). While likely an installment, the earmarked $68.76 million for “platform acquisitions … for counter air, counter surface, air ops for strategic effect and air support operations.”
In light of the recent news about the Su-30, the NAF acquisition budget appears to involve several combat platform purchases – i.e. JF-17, Su-30, and potentially .
With the Su-30 and JF-17, the NAF would maintain a ‘high-and-low’ composition, respectively. The Su-30 would likely be counted upon to provide the ‘strategic effect’ aspect of the NAF’s requirements, such as long-range strikes and maritime operations. The JF-17 would fulfill air defence and attack operations in-land over Nigeria’s territories and border areas.
Source: Quwa
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KOREA AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES PUSHES FA-50 AGAINST GRIPEN FOR BOTSWANA COMBAT AIRCRAFT BID
South Korea’s Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is pushing its FA-50 Golden Eagle to the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) as an alternate to the Saab JAS-39C/D Gripen.
According to the , KAI has tabled the FA-50’s “affordable acquisition and low operating cost” as marquee advantages over the Gripen. While sharing the same turbofan engine model (GE F404), KAI claims that the Gripen’s life-cycle cost is “three times” that of the FA-50.
KAI is also promising a comprehensive training and support package for the Golden Eagle, one comprising of “instructional systems development” (ISD) for the FA-50 as well as its trainer variant the T-50 and the Pilatus PC-7 turboprop-powered basic trainer.
Botswana with Sweden for eight to twelve JAS-39C/D Gripen fighters in June 2016. The prospective deal’s value was pegged at $1.7 billion U.S. The BDF is seeking new fighters to phase-out its legacy Canadair CF-5, a Canadian license-built variant of the Northrop F-5E Tiger II.
KAI is seeing increasing success with the Golden Eagle platform. KAI T-50 trainer customers include Iraq, Indonesia and Thailand, while the Philippines is the launch client of the FA-50 light fighter variant.
Notes & Comments:
While the FA-50’s ferry range and combat radius may not be as much as the JAS-39C/D, the FA-50’s radar, avionics and weapons suite are to the Gripen C/D and other lightweight multi-role fighters, such as the JF-17 and Tejas. The Golden Eagle should imbue the BDF with the same air-to-air and air-to-surface munitions and capabilities as the Gripen. KAI is also pushing the idea of synergy between its near-identical FA-50 lightweight fighter and T-50 advanced trainer – by having the FA-50, the BDF can induct the T-50 with no additional strain to its maintenance and logistics overhead.
On the other hand, Botswana neighbour South Africa also operates the JAS-39C/D. Acquiring the Gripen could enable Botswana to access South Africa’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities, which may incur cost-savings over seeking those same services from Sweden.
South Korea’s Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is pushing its FA-50 Golden Eagle to the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) as an alternate to the Saab JAS-39C/D Gripen.
According to the , KAI has tabled the FA-50’s “affordable acquisition and low operating cost” as marquee advantages over the Gripen. While sharing the same turbofan engine model (GE F404), KAI claims that the Gripen’s life-cycle cost is “three times” that of the FA-50.
KAI is also promising a comprehensive training and support package for the Golden Eagle, one comprising of “instructional systems development” (ISD) for the FA-50 as well as its trainer variant the T-50 and the Pilatus PC-7 turboprop-powered basic trainer.
Botswana with Sweden for eight to twelve JAS-39C/D Gripen fighters in June 2016. The prospective deal’s value was pegged at $1.7 billion U.S. The BDF is seeking new fighters to phase-out its legacy Canadair CF-5, a Canadian license-built variant of the Northrop F-5E Tiger II.
KAI is seeing increasing success with the Golden Eagle platform. KAI T-50 trainer customers include Iraq, Indonesia and Thailand, while the Philippines is the launch client of the FA-50 light fighter variant.
Notes & Comments:
While the FA-50’s ferry range and combat radius may not be as much as the JAS-39C/D, the FA-50’s radar, avionics and weapons suite are to the Gripen C/D and other lightweight multi-role fighters, such as the JF-17 and Tejas. The Golden Eagle should imbue the BDF with the same air-to-air and air-to-surface munitions and capabilities as the Gripen. KAI is also pushing the idea of synergy between its near-identical FA-50 lightweight fighter and T-50 advanced trainer – by having the FA-50, the BDF can induct the T-50 with no additional strain to its maintenance and logistics overhead.
On the other hand, Botswana neighbour South Africa also operates the JAS-39C/D. Acquiring the Gripen could enable Botswana to access South Africa’s maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities, which may incur cost-savings over seeking those same services from Sweden.
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Mar 3, 2017
and it seems to me she was handed over recently:Sep 18, 2016
now Russians say
French say something to the effect the El Fath is practically ready for manufacturer sea trials, will be delivered to Egypt in the end of 2017:
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Egypt takes delivery of first Gowind corvette from France Posted on September 22, 2017
only now noticed
Egypt takes delivery of first Gowind corvette from France Posted on September 22, 2017
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BY | September 24, 2017 | [email protected] |
Earlier today, the Islamic State released a video showing its men operating in Libya’s desert and elsewhere in the country. It was the first such video in months.
American forces launched “six precision airstrikes” on an Islamic State camp in Libya on Sept. 22, . The bombings reportedly killed 17 jihadists and destroyed three vehicles at a “desert camp.”
“The camp was located approximately 150 miles southeast of Sirte,” AFRICOM today. “The camp was used by ISIS to move fighters in and out of the country; stockpile weapons and equipment; and to plot and conduct attacks.”
The self-declared caliphate , a city on the Mediterranean coast, late last year. At the height of its power, the group considered Sirte to be one of the three most important cities under its control, ranking behind only Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, Syria in terms of prominence. A US-backed coalition pushed the jihadists out Mosul earlier this year and they have lost substantial ground inside Raqqa as well.
Between Aug. 1 and Dec. 19, 2016, US Africa Command “495 precision airstrikes” as part of Operation Odyssey Lightning. The operation, carried out in conjunction with the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), successfully dislodged the Islamic State from Sirte after seven months of heavy fighting. But the victory was costly for the GNA-backed militiamen responsible for the ground assault. More than 700 GNA-sponsored fighters were reportedly killed and thousands more wounded.
In Jan. 2017, the US south of Sirte, citing the presence of the group’s “.” The Defense Department estimated that dozens of jihadists were killed. Subsequent reporting revealed that the “external plotters” were connected to attacks in Europe, including the and possibly the .
Since losing Sirte, the Islamic State has been trying to regroup inside Libya.
In August, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s loyalists , which is south of Sirte in the middle of Libya. Amaq News Agency, a propaganda arm of the so-called caliphate, claimed that 21 members of General Khalifa Haftar’s “militia” were “killed and wounded” during the attack. Haftar leads the Libyan National Army (LNA), which has fought the Islamic State’s men in several areas.
In early September, the jihadists carried out a series of small-scale operations on the road between Sirte and Nawfaliya, a town they seized in 2015. They attacked forces loyal to the LNA and set up checkpoints to extort payments from travelers. Their mini-surge along the coastline was celebrated in an issue of Al Naba, the Islamic State’s weekly newsletter. (A screen shot from Al Naba can be seen on the right.)
Then, earlier today, Wilayah Barqah (an Islamic State “province” in Libya) released a 17-minute video advertising the group’s continued presence inside the country. The footage contains scenes of the aforementioned checkpoints, as well as other operations. Some of the footage documents the jihadists’ monkish life in Libya’s deserts.
According to the State Department’s , the so-called caliphate lost a significant number of its fighters during the battle for Sirte. Yet, several thousand of its men were either stationed elsewhere or survived the siege.
“Although more than 1,700 ISIS terrorists were killed during the Sirte counterterrorism operations,” the State Department reported, “many members of the terrorist organization fled to Libya’s western and southern deserts, abroad, or into neighboring urban centers.”
State also cited reports saying that Baghdadi’s organization had “as many as 6,000 fighters in its ranks” as of early 2016 — that is, several months before the US began its air campaign in Sirte in Aug. 2016. The number of jihadists fighting under its banner swelled between 2015 and 2016, as the Islamic State “doubled its presence in the country” during that time.
Taken at face value, therefore, the State Department’s report suggested that approximately 4,300 members of the Islamic State’s Libyan arm were not killed during the operation to free Sirte from the jihadists’ grip. It is not clear how many of these men are stationed in Libya, or fled elsewhere. Nor is it known how many were killed in other operations inside Libya since then.
Foggy Bottom also warned that the Islamic State has cadres sprinkled throughout the country.
“At the end of 2016,” Foggy Bottom said, the Islamic State was “no longer in control of any towns in Libya, but its members continued to operate throughout the eastern, southern, and western regions of the country.” The jihadists “also carried out attacks in Tripoli and Benghazi.”
Last December, the Islamic State’s Rumiyah magazine, which is published in multiple languages, , who was identified as the group’s leader in Libya. The “detachments of the mujahidin” are “spread today throughout the deserts of Libya,” Muhajir claimed, and they will make their enemies “taste severe hardship.” He vowed that they “will reclaim the cities and areas once more, by Allah’s power and strength.”
Muhajir was asked about the Islamic State’s strength in “regions outside of Sirte.” He claimed that the number of “mujahid brothers in the Libyan wilayat [province] continue to be…abundant.” Their “covert units are scattered throughout all the cities and regions, and their detachments cruise the deserts both east and west.” Although he exaggerated his followers’ capabilities, there was some truth in Muhajir’s claims.
In its announcement today, AFRICOM that both “ISIS and al-Qaeda have taken advantage of ungoverned spaces in Libya to establish sanctuaries for plotting, inspiring and directing terror attacks.” Both groups have used Libyan territory for “recruiting and facilitating the movement of foreign terrorist fighters,” as well as “raising and moving funds to support their operations.”
While the Islamic State has consistently advertised its presence in Libya, however, al Qaeda and its regional branch, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), have often sought to obscure the extent of their network in North Africa. For instance, the State Department that AQIM has backed alliances fighting in Benghazi. “In the second half of 2016,” State , “AQIM increased its personnel and weapons support to the Benghazi Revolutionary Shura Council [BRSC] and the Benghazi Defense Brigades [BDB].” The BDB has denied links to known terrorist organizations, a claim that the US government clearly doesn’t buy.
Thomas Joscelyn is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Senior Editor for FDD's Long War Journal.
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which doesn't show the scale, but the article says the distance to Mali border is "approximately 17 miles":
Three American Soldiers Killed in Niger in Suspected Ambush
Oct 4 2017, 10:15 pm ET
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Thursday at 12:30 PM
and now noticed Fourth US Soldier Was Killed in Niger AmbushTongo Tongo automatically marked in the map
which doesn't show the scale, but the article says the distance to Mali border is "approximately 17 miles":
Three American Soldiers Killed in Niger in Suspected Ambush
Oct 4 2017, 10:15 pm ET