Photo Of The Day and we go to Africa for the Joint Knowledge Exchange 24 exercise, where members of the Somali National Army’s 162nd Danab Special Engagement Cell aim their weapons downrange in Kismayo, Somalia, Jan. 11, 2024. JKE 24 provided U.S. Forces an [Read More…]
Here photography and firearms are a true passion so every day we run an article called Photo Of The Day. Today we have a Montenegro Navy soldier looking through the riflescope of the legendary Heckler & Koch MSG90A1. The picture comes from the European Union Naval [Read More…]
Today we look at photos of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and Navy. Above, and the two pictures below show the Lithuanian rotation which takes part in the operation for fighting piracy and armed robbery in the Indian Ocean off the coasts of Somalia from mid-August to the [Read More…]
Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah has reported that MKEK will be delivering 450 7.62x51mm NATO MPT76 services to Somalia, and another 2,500 have been ordered by the Turkish Republic of Norther Cyprus. Although the Somali order is quite small comparative to the size of the [Read More…]
It has been revealed that the US recently shipped 40 tons of small arms and ammunition worth $10 million to supply the Somali government. Reuters reports: The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to Somalia’s embattled government in [Read More…]
Last Friday the Portuguese frigate Corte Real (not be be confused with the ex-USS McCoy Reynolds, which had the same name when it was in Portuguese service) was called to the aid of an oil tanker being attacked by Somali pirates. After foiling the attack, which probably [Read More…]
The Royal Navy HMS Cumberland (Type 22 frigate) took on a pirate dhow on the high seas. No prize for guessing who won that fight! The Times has the story Pirates caught redhanded by one of Her Majesty’s warships after trying to hijack a cargo ship off Somalia made the [Read More…]
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