The Senegalese armed forces has been conducting giant purchases of device within the closing few years, with the army receiving new armoured vehicles, small arms and artillery whereas expecting extra hearth aid weapons over the coming months.
The army has already taken delivery of IAI RAM Mk.3 easy armoured cars and NORINCO WMA-301 tank destroyers; IWI Tavor TAR-21 assault rifles and Negev easy desktop guns; and Nexter TRF-1 towed howitzers.
meanwhile, the navy has been supplied with three coastal and offshore patrol vessels within the final three years.
As their fresh intervention in the Gambia, as a part of Operation fix Democracy – a military deployment undertaken as a part of the financial neighborhood of West African States' Mission within the Gambia (ECOMIG) – has evidenced, the Senegalese military (SAF) have developed into a well-structured and coherent force working under the ideas of joint forces integration and combined palms operations.
The SAF has additionally been receiving new equipment and formally commissioned its new CN235-220 transport aircraft and a first Mi-24V in a ceremony at Yoff Air Base in Dakar, on 16 February.
The SAF only received the CN235-220 from Indonesia in January but the plane was instantly mobilised to aid ECOMIG, even flying The Gambia's President elect Adama Barrow returned to Banjul on 26 January.
the brand new plane joins a pair of CN235s and is likely to be supplemented by means of C295W medium transports within the near future, a sort for which Senegal has expressed mighty hobby.
moreover, Senegal is for the reason that the buy of a single CN235-220MPA maritime surveillance plane from Indonesian Aerospace, in response to Indonesian sources.
The Mi-24V is considered one of three former Slovakian Air force aircraft being procured second-hand from Poland the place they are being refurbished by way of WZL-1.
Senegal already flies two Mi-24P upgraded with sensors from Controp Precision technologies Ltd, each of which might be at present committed to the United international locations Multidimensional integrated Stabilization Mission in primary Africa (MINUSCA) the place they have lately been used in combat, stopping a column of Seleka rebels on 11 February, based on the UN.
Continues...
