Topic: Three Ugandan Choppers go missing in Kenyan Airspace!

It has been reported over the airwaves that three Ugandan Helicopters have gone missing over Kenyan Airspace!! Details later.

It has been reported over the airwaves that three Ugandan Helicopters have gone missing over Kenyan Airspace!! Details to follow.

It has been reported over the airwaves, that three Ugandan Choppers have gone missing over Kenyan Airspace!! - details later.

Je Al-Shaab wanaweza kuwa wamehusika na kupotea kwa chopper hizo nini, nasikia moja imefanikiwa kutua Kisumayu? Habari zenyewe haziko kamili nilikuwa nasikiliza/angalia CITIZEN TV ya Kenya hawakutoa ufafanuzi kamili.

unlikely, call it a technical mishap on the choppers side but lets wait for the official KDF/UPDF communique on the matter. Lets hope for the best. Alshbaabs capacity inside Kenya is zero, suicide missions are their new modus operandi.

Taken down by KDF SAMs?

By livefire

unlikely, call it a technical mishap on the choppers side but lets wait for the official KDF/UPDF communique on the matter. Lets hope for the best. Alshbaabs capacity inside Kenya is zero, suicide missions are their new modus operandi.

Habari za saa hizi Livefire, you are right I don't think Al-Shabaab have means/capability of bringing down a flying TANK - Technical mishap on the choppers could be the most likely culprit.

By Bantugbro

Taken down by KDF SAMs?

unlikely....this excerpt will do for now.

Intelligence briefs confirmed by Strategic
Intelligence confirm that Ugandan air-force
helicopters have gone missing in Kenyan
airspace while one has landed in Wajir
military air-base
Intelligence reports confirm the landing of
one Ugandan defense forces attack
helicopter at Wajir military air-base in Kenya
while 3-other attack helicopters have gone
missing in the Kenyan air-space.
Kenyan intelligence and military were aware
of the flight path to be used by the Ugandan
who were about to deploy the airforce
gunship helicopters in Somalia.
The Mil Mi-24 (NATO reporting name: Hind)
is a large, heavy helicopter gunship and
attack helicopter and 8-troop capacity war
craft produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter
Plant and operated since 1972 by the Soviet
Air Force.
Uganda had acquired Mil-24 Hinds most of
which were unserviceable but later
contracted Russian experts to refurbish
them at Soroti Flying School.
UPDF-AMISOM has been in Somalia for more
than half a decade and has struggled to
make headway outside the Mogadishu
corridor successfully.
Courtsey of Strategic Intelligence News

By Bantugbro

Taken down by KDF SAMs?

Mostly unlikely mkuu, Kenyas and Ugandans are not at loggerheads; mbona wanashirikiana huko Somalia.

By Bukyanagandi

Habari za saa hizi Livefire, you are right I don't think Al-Shabaab have means/capability of bringing down a flying TANK - Technical mishap on the choppers could be the most likely culprit.

Flying tank indeed, Hind is the most feared chopper in modern warfare ...

By Bukyanagandi

Mostly unlikely mkuu, Kenyas and Ugandans are not at loggerheads; mbona wanashirikiana huko Somalia.

Wana vijibeef vya chinichini...

By livefire

unlikely....this excerpt will do for now.

Intelligence briefs confirmed by Strategic
Intelligence confirm that Ugandan air-force
helicopters have gone missing in Kenyan
airspace while one has landed in Wajir
military air-base

Thanks for the info

Uganda had acquired Mil-24 Hinds most of
which were unserviceable but later
contracted Russian experts to refurbish
them at Soroti Flying School.

I suspect the Russian "experts" contracted to refurbish choppers may have done it shoddly!!

UPDF-AMISOM has been in Somalia for more
than half a decade and has struggled to
make headway outside the Mogadishu
corridor successfully.

Come again Livefire! Unasema UPDF-AMISON has been in Somalia for how long?? >5 years!!! oh, what a folly?
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By Bukyanagandi

Thanks for the info
Come again Livefire! Unasema UPDF-AMISON has been in Somalia for how long?? >5 years!!! oh, what a folly?

hehe...Bukyanagandi you are in disbelief? Relax, its since 2007.

''This will be Uganda’s 10th battle group to be deployed in Somalia since the inception of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) in 2007.''

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/633478-updf-sends-3-200-more-troops-to-somalia.html

By livefire

hehe...Bukyanagandi you are in disbelief? Relax, its since 2007.
This will be Uganda’s 10th battle group to be deployed in Somalia since the inception of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) in 2007.

UPDF sends 3,200 more troops to Somalia

Read the stuff alright, it says 'army reserves' does it mean young men sent to SOMALIA by G.O.U are not regular SOLDIERS!!!

KAMPALA (Reuters) – A number of Ugandan
military helicopters went missing in Kenyan
airspace on Sunday on their way to Somalia
to reinforce African Union peacekeeping
forces battling al Shabaab rebels, the
Ugandan military said.
The military told Reuters that a team of
helicopters had left a base in the Ugandan
city of Entebbe but only one had landed in
the Kenyan town of Wajir, where they were
scheduled to refuel before flying on to
Somalia.
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF)
said they had no details about what had
happened to the rest of the helicopters.
They did not say how many were missing or
how many people were on board.
“The search is going on, we don’t know
what exactly happened but we are
investigating it and we will let you know
when I get adequate information,” said Felix
Kulayigye, UPDF spokesman.
Ugandan troops form the backbone of the
African Union peacekeeping force (AMISOM)
in Somalia. The air force said on August7
that it was deploying transport and combat
helicopters into Somalia to beef up the force.
The AU force, which also comprises of
Kenyan and Burundian soldiers, is planning
an onslaught on Kismayu, Somalia’s second
biggest city, which is a hub for the al Qaeda-
linked al Shabaab Islamist militants, before
August 20.
Weakened by internal divisions and financial
constraints, the rebels have surrendered
territory in Mogadishu, central and southern
Somalia where they are also battling
Ethiopian forces.
A U.S.-backed plan calls for Somalia to
establish a legitimate government accepted
by fractious clans and a new parliament and
constituent assembly to replace institutions
plagued by corruption and infighting.
The National Constituent Assembly, sitting in
Mogadishu early this month, approved a
provisional constitution to replace an 8-
year-old Transitional Federal Charter and
lead to the end of the transition process on
August 20, when the mandate of the U.N.-
backed government expires.
(Reporting by Justin Dralaze; Writing by
Duncan Miriri; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)

Hapo ndio mtajuwa maana ya Allahu Akbar!

By Bukyanagandi

Read the stuff alright, it says 'army reserves' does it mean young men sent to SOMALIA by G.O.U are not regular SOLDIERS!!!

i am not well versed with Ugandan military formations but they have one distinct battalion, UGABAG6 trained by the USA and deployed wholly in somalia, mayb they now have a new crop of soldiers. I presume this batch is what formed the bulk 3K plus soldiers. About ''reserve force'', i really dont know what the colonel was alluding to....maybe surplus soldiers yet to be deployed.

Two of the missing Ugandan attack
helicopters which went off the radar on
Sunday as they flew to Somalia to shore up
the final attack on the port city of Kismayu
have been sighted after crash.
Kenya's Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said
in brief statement: "one has been sighted on
Mt Kenya and another in Meru area." We are
still trying to find out finer details of the
crash and the search and rescue missions
are on-going."
The choppers three are said to have gone
missing within Kenyan airspace as they flew
to Somalia, a source said.
A search on the three MI-23, which
disappeared was concentrated near Mt
Kenya while a fourth one landed in Wajir,
initial reports said.
The Kenya Defence Forces officials
confirmed the incident but referred
journalists to the police saying the incident
was a homeland matter.
“It's true an incident happened on the
choppers but talk to the police or Ugandans
themselves. The matter is more of a
homeland,” said a senior military officer
who asked not to be named.
Kiraithe asked for more time to get detailed
information on the incidents before making
a full statement on the circumstances.
It is not yet clear on what happened to the
helicopters. The choppers were apparently
headed for Baidoa in Somalia.
The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF)
said a team of helicopters had left a base in
the Ugandan city of Entebbe but that only
one had landed in the Kenyan town of Wajir,
where they were scheduled to refuel before
flying on to Somalia.
UPDF did not say how many helicopters
were missing or how many people were on
board.
"The search is going on, we don't know
what exactly happened but we are
investigating it and we will let you know
when I get adequate information," UPDF
spokesman Felix Kulayigye told Reuters.
This comes at a time when the long-planned
assault on Somalia’s southern port town of
Kismayu by the Kenya Defence Forces and
their Amisom allies is probably only days
away in what will be a decisive week for
Somalia.

By livefire

i am not well versed with Ugandan military formations but they have one distinct battalion, UGABAG6 trained by the USA and deployed wholly in somalia, mayb they now have a new crop of soldiers. I presume this batch is what formed the bulk 3K plus soldiers. About ''reserve force'', i really dont know what the colonel was alluding to....maybe surplus soldiers yet to be deployed.

I see!

By Bukyanagandi

I see!

he he...brother u are not giving me much insight, do u know sth i dont as partaining to UPDF deployment in somalia? Date of deployment and any unit aside UGABAG6 (specialised brigade)?