Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

Battle: Dar es Salaam vs Nairobi

bado wanaendelea kulalamika?, nauliza tu kwa nia njema si kwa ubaya.

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Kenya defies austerity, buys 12 US helicopters

Kenya is set to acquire six new US-made light attack helicopter gunships in a multi-billion shilling deal that is being closed in the middle of severe austerity, an international arms magazine has said.

The planes are part of the $253 million (Sh25 billion) arms deal that Nairobi signed with Washington and got the United States Congress approval in May last year.

UK-based defence magazine IHS Jane's Defence Weekly says in its latest edition that the six MD Helicopters Inc (MDHI) MD530F Cayuse Warrior scout and light-attack platforms will be delivered between April and August next year.

The contract, which Arizona-based manufacturer MD Helicopters announced last Thursday, covers half the 12 helicopters that were approved by the US State Department in May 2017.

The Kenya Army said it plans to use the choppers against Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militants and in support of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom).

The deal includes 12 MD530F Cayuse Warrior light attack helicopters, machine gun pod systems, rocket launcher systems and assorted ammunition.

The new arms acquisitions signal President Uhuru Kenyatta’s resolve to continue upgrading Kenya’s military capabilities despite his recent push for austerity that last month shaved off Sh34.33 billion from the development budget.

Kenya, East Africa’s largest economy, has in recent years suffered deadly gun and bomb attacks from the Al-Shabaab militants who are demanding withdrawal of Kenyan troops from the Horn of Africa nation.

Kenya does not make public its military purchases and only Parliament is mandated to scrutinise expenditure by key security organs.

The US manufacturer’s contract notification for Kenya says the helicopters will be fitted with enhanced firepower, including the FN Herstal Weapons Management System, the DillonAero Mission Configurable Armament System (MCAS) and the DillonAero fixed-forward sighting system.

Besides, the planes have a 62mm ballistic armour protection, FN Herstal 12.7mm HMP 400 machine gun pods and M260 seven-shot pods for 70mm rockets.

Kenya is procuring the MD 530Fs to replace existing MD 500 platforms that are flown by the 50th Air Cavalry Battalion and constitutes the core of the reconnaissance equipment supporting ground forces.

Afghan Air Force has used helicopters that are similar to the six Kenya is about to acquire under the proposed deal. The efficacy of the gunships was, however, questioned last year, according to an interview in the New York Times.

Afghanistan’s most decorated pilot, Colonel Qalandar Shah Qalandari, was quoted as saying, among other things, that the helicopters “cannot reach areas where Taliban insurgents operate from because they cannot cross the mountain ranges that surround Kabul.”

“If we go down after the enemy we’re going to have enemy return fire, which we can’t survive. If we go up higher, we can’t visually target the enemy. Even the guns are no good,” he said of the planes.

US Defence Security Co-operation Agency (DSCA) had, however, said earlier in a May 2, 2017 statement that the helicopters will go towards helping Kenya “modernise its rotorcraft fleet in order to improve border security, undertake operations against Somalia-based jihadist group Al-Shabaab and contribute to the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom).”

Kenya has consistently upgraded its military hardware in recent years, raising its spending on the armed forces to Sh96 billion in 2016 to stand above neighbouring Ethiopia and Uganda combined, a global report said.

Nairobi’s arms orders, which have stoked fears of an arms race in the region, last year included a second-hand naval gun, AK-630 30mm, from Montenegro “for modernisation of Jasiri OPV (offshore patrol vessel)”.

Besides, the Kenya Defence Forces last July received the last two of the eight Bell Huey II helicopters it ordered from the US to reinforce its air assault capability against terrorists.

Jordan, a long-time seller of arms to Nairobi, last year also donated two second-hand AH-1F Cobra attack helicopters to Kenya.

Under the earlier US deal with Nairobi, the 12 MD530F weaponised helicopters were to be supplied together with 24 heavy machine gun pods, 24 HMP400 machine gun pod systems, 24 M260 rocket pods and 4,032 M151 high-explosive rockets.

The planes were also to be fitted with 1,536 M274 smoke rockets, 400,000 rounds of .50 calibre ammunition and communications/ navigation equipment.

Kenya was also to get logistics support, training and technical assistance, spare parts and field service support and special assigned airlift mission (SAAM) flight delivery under the deal.

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hawa washenzi eti leo wanakuja na kauli ya kijinga ya character assassination.

wanasahau wanamvofanyia character assassination ichoboy kutokana na uhindi wake.

nawatazama tu vile mnavyojihangaisha.
Hahahahaa..ata mimi nimeshanga! Mapere imekula kwake. Sipati picha hii ingekutokea kwa Mtz wangeanzisha thread ya picha zake. Ata Mulisaa huwa wana msimanga kwa kuzusha upuuzi kwa kutumia picha ila huwa ana take easy..
 
Hahahahaa..ata mimi nimeshanga! Mapere imekula kwake. Sipati picha hii ingekutokea kwa Mtz wangeanzisha thread ya picha zake. Ata Mulisaa huwa wana msimanga kwa kuzusha upuuzi kwa kutumia picha ila huwa ana take easy..
mulisaaa huwa wanamfanyia bullying kwa kumuita mkongoman. yaani mkenya akigundua tu kuna mtanzania kamzidi katika life standard, wanachofanya ni character assassination.

ichoboy wanamsimanga kwa uhindi wake kisa tu huwa anapost latest apple handset na picha ya gari lake.

huwa nasema kila siku, kitu pekee ambacho mkenya wa nairobi amemzidi mtz wa dar es salaam ni kuzungumza kingereza tu, ila sio life standard, exposure, ujanja wa mjini(street smartness), uvaaji wa kimjini, kula bata nk.
 
mulisaaa huwa wanamfanyia bullying kwa kumuita mkongoman. yaani mkenya akigundua tu kuna mtanzania kamzidi katika life standard, wanachofanya ni character assassination.

ichoboy wanamsimanga kwa uhindi wake kisa tu huwa anapost latest apple handset na picha ya gari lake.

huwa nasema kila siku, kitu pekee ambacho mkenya wa nairobi amemzidi mtz wa dar es salaam ni kuzungumza kingereza tu, ila sio life standard, exposure, ujanja wa mjini(street smartness), uvaaji wa kimjini, kula bata nk.
Kweli jamaa niwakuja sana! Ndiyo maana mademu zao huwa beki hazi kabi kwa wabongo wenyewe wanasemaga wako in love na bongo. Kuhusu Mulisaa wana endaga mbali zaidi, kumbe yote kwakua amewafunika . Huyo Mapere awe mpole tu kuanzia sasa, nina karibia kuzipata picha za Pinglinywe, kaeni mkao wa kula

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Kweli jamaa niwakuja sana! Ndiyo maana mademu zao huwa beki hazi kabi kwa wabongo wenyewe wanasemaga wako in love na bongo. Kuhusu Mulisaa wana endaga mbali zaidi, kumbe yote kwakua amewafunika . Huyo Mapere awe mpole tu kuanzia sasa, nina karibia kuzipata picha za Pinglinywe, kaeni mkao wa kula

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pingli-nywee aongeze ulinzi kwenye page zake za social media... asije akaja kutafuta huruma hapa....ila kwa niaba ya wakenya naomba kumuombea msamaha... usimu expose pls, ila unaweza kumtumia picha yake kwa pm kumpa warning.
 
We have unique cities and big towns......
Nai
Mombasa
Kisumu
Eld
Nax Vegas
Thika
Machakos
Kisii
By the way btn Thika and Kisii which is bigger than the other
 
Hahahahaa..ata mimi nimeshanga! Mapere imekula kwake. Sipati picha hii ingekutokea kwa Mtz wangeanzisha thread ya picha zake. Ata Mulisaa huwa wana msimanga kwa kuzusha upuuzi kwa kutumia picha ila huwa ana take easy..
They real have some psychological problems .. We come to JF to have fun for them they come for a real battle. Thus why they are easily exposed because they panic.😂😂
 
sawa duncan, mimi ni matured and a well mannered person, sita-expose sura yako.

ila kwa yale matusi unayonitukana hapa jf, angekuwa mtu mwingine lazima angekuadabisha....angekulambisha lolo.


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😂😂😂😂Huyu jamaa nilishataka kufanya kazi uliyo fanya leo sema tu jana ilitokea nikawa busy sana ghafla
.😂😂😂Ahsante Kadoda😂👏👏👏😂
 
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