Photos Southern, Central & Northern African Military Photos

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Mozambican Paramount Group Marauder MRAP

 

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Chadian soldiers rest in the shade of their WMA301 Fire Support Vehicles near Malam Fatori following the retaking of the town from Boko Haram, April 2015.

 

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Malawi Defence Force, Paramount Marauder MRAP

Malawi Police, OTT M26 Puma MRAP

Malawi Police, with a Korea Defence Industry Co., Ltd. SJ100 series multi-purpose gun (37mm, 38mm and 40mm versions available)

 

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Cameroon
Rapid Response Brigade

 

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Cameroon
Rapid Response Brigade
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Interesting rifles; Galil's I assume? I think the Israeli's were heavily involved in the formation of the BIR?

 

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I was going to say exactly the same, interesting version of the Galil, with the new barrels of the Emtam rifles

 

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Nigerian Air Force special operations forces

 

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Nigerian and Ivorian joint training. Both are members of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States)

 

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(April 20, 2014) – Nigerian Navy Rear Adm. S. I. Alade, flag officer commanding Western Naval Command, arrives by AW109 helicopter aboard the FGS Bonn (A-1413) during Obangame Express 2014.

 

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These guys look like they're hunting Jawas in the latest Star Wars spin-off;

Gendarmerie Nationale de Côte d'Ivoire, armed with Galil Ace's and a 12.7mm Norinco W85 mounted on the ubiquitous Land Cruiser

 

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Benin 1st Commando Parachute Battalion hoists a simulated casualty onto his shoulders during Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) in Ouassa, Benin, March 08, 2022.

 

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Ghana Navy Special Boat Squadron

 

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Benin 1st Commando Parachute Battalion hoists a simulated casualty onto his shoulders during Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) in Ouassa, Benin, March 08, 2022.
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Love this camo pattern. What's the muzzle device on the rifle? Blank firing adapter?

 

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Ugandan Police, with what look like Mossberg 500 or 590 shotguns (or possibly a Chinese clone?), with tear gas cannister launchers.

Senegalese law enforcement with an unidentified shotgun (would love to know what type/country of origin this is), and what looks like a holstered Makarov 9mm pistol

Togolese Gendarmerie, again with an unidentified type of 12-guage. The Toyota looks like it's fitted with a multi-shot teargas launcher

 

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Turkey donated two protected Otokar Cobra vehicles to the Gambia Armed Forces.

 

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Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service (NNSBS) Operative armed with M4A1 Carbine at the amphibious warfare Exercise Crocodile Lift

 

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OMG, nothing really changes over there........they/he has sawed the flash hider in half on that rifle, good grief

 

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Chadian DAR/Special Forces (October 2023)

 

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US Army Special Forces on an exchange program with Zambian Defence Force Special Forces. The Zambian Defence Force Special Operations consists of the Special Forces School, the Commandos and a Marine unit

 

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Ethiopian armoured vehicles at a parade. The vehicles in the front are WZ551s

Type 89s with 23mm autocannons