DefenceTalkThe Nigerian Army stationed a new fleet of armored personnel carriers (APCs) supplied by Inkas Armored Vehicle Manufacturing into service. Inkas Armored Vehicle Manufacturing is a leading Canadian-based company that specializes in the production of security transportation solutions. The APCs were fully designed and built at the Inkas Armored manufacturing facility in Toronto, Canada. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nigerian-army-deploys-inkas-armored-vehicles-63695/

DefenceTalkCairo has carried out air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Libya after the jihadists posted a video showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians. Egypt said a “tough intervention” was needed and with France called on the UN Security Council on Monday to “take new measures” against the jihadists in neighboring Libya. With […]https://www.defencetalk.com/egypt-strikes-is-group-targets-in-libya-63134/

DefenceTalkBy targeting the Islamic State group with air strikes in Libya, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, having crushed Islamist opponents at home, has become a key ally of the West against jihadists, experts say. His warplanes bombed IS camps and weapons stores in the Libyan city of Derna hours after the Sunni extremists released a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/libya-raids-turn-egypts-sisi-into-key-anti-is-ally-63131/

DefenceTalkUS drone aircraft targeted a senior figure in Somalia’s Shebab militia, the Pentagon said Tuesday, in the latest bid to take out leaders of the al-Qaida-linked group. US special operations forces “using unmanned aircraft and several Hellfire missiles” carried out the strike on Saturday against Shebab’s chief of external operations and planning, spokesman Rear Adm. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-drone-targets-senior-shebab-militant-in-somalia-62603/

DefenceTalkSpain said Friday it was starting negotiations with Washington to host a permanent US Marines intervention force for deployment on missions to Africa. The Spanish government said it was ready to permanently extend an agreement under which the force has been based at Moron de la Frontera, near Seville in southern Spain. The government approved […]https://www.defencetalk.com/spain-negotiates-permanent-us-marines-africa-force-62220/

DefenceTalkFrench Army operations in Mali (Operation Serval) in 2013 provide a model for designing and operating an expeditionary force, one that has a number of attributes and competencies that United States Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno has indicated to be requirements for the Army. The model therefore provides a living example that illustrates […]https://www.defencetalk.com/frances-war-in-mali-lessons-for-an-expeditionary-army-60828/

DefenceTalkMilitia fighters stole hundreds of American-supplied automatic weapons and other equipment in a raid on a Libyan base where the US was training local forces, bringing an abrupt end to the secretive program, a report said Tuesday. Elite US troops have been tasked since last year with covertly forming local counterterrorism units in Libya, Mauritania, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/libya-militia-stole-us-weapons-in-raid-report-59718/

DefenceTalkFrance has delayed plans to pull troops out of its former colony Mali after a fresh bout of clashes in a key town. France said earlier this month it was ending its “frontal war phase” in Mali after sending troops there in 2013 to free the country’s vast desert north from Islamists and Tuareg rebels […]https://www.defencetalk.com/france-defers-troop-pull-out-after-mali-clashes-59688/

DefenceTalkRheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf has just booked another important order in the field of military air defence. The Republic of South Africa has decided to embark on a thoroughgoing modernization of its existing air defence systems. The contract was signed several days ago. Including logistics and training services, the complete package is scheduled for completion […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rheinmetall-to-modernize-south-africas-air-defense-59165/

DefenceTalkThe US military faces a chronic shortage of surveillance aircraft in Africa needed to track extremists on the continent, particularly in the Sahel region, a top general said Thursday. Only seven percent of the military’s requirements for reconnaissance and surveillance planes — including drones and other aircraft — were met last year in Africa, said […]https://www.defencetalk.com/for-us-forces-in-africa-spy-drones-in-short-supply-58966/