Very heartening account of events. Proud of the boys

Our boys tried but army and air calvary need to work in greater sync.
I find our approach was poor and too soft...our jets/gunships could have engaged them way before they approached the camp when they were 18kms away, given the drone spotted no anti-aircraft armaments!

Why give the al-sheitans opportunities to regroup and approach the camp - they should never be allowed to even come within 10km (range of some weapons) of the camp!!
Note our soldiers TWICE missed the blue Pajero svbied that passed the hesco barriers with the dependable Carl Gustav 84 mm anti-armour (this was a soft skin vbied ingeraruliwa kabsaa) and exploded, thereby taking away many KDF lives.

What we needed were like 3-4 a multiple rocket launch system to rain real effing fire of shock and awe anti-personnel submunitions on the al sheitans once the drone spots them, a modern version of the soviet-era BM-21 ...offensively take the war to them, not adopt a defensive approach of waiting for them to come to you,ama namna gani my friends?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-lGwyySrwY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEp7vnl2RUE (0-0.20)

Corporal Amani Ramadhan, another battle hardened soldier was the section commander and in charge at the first line of defence. “We were well prepared, the defence was organised. This was not a surprise because we had information. In terms of equipment we were prepared,” said Corporal Ramadhan.

He, continued fighting along with a colleague he identifies as Sergeant Asiz, who was firing using a mounted machine gun. “He told me he had fired the last bullet in the belt. I gave him another belt. He was shot as he loaded it. But he stood up and went on. He fired again before he was shot thrice..."

So what is alshabab's end game? Somalia is currently divided into 3 regions two of which are independent regions in the north i.e. Somaliland and Puntland, and the south which is governed from Mogadishu by the Somali govt with the rag tag alshabab confined in the bushes. If alshetanis are found in only a small portion of a third of Somalia how the hell do they ever think they will ever rule Somalia? Currently they are being pounded heavily by UNISOM, Somali national army and Puntland forces who are fellow Somalis. They are fighting a losing battle.

www.intelligencebriefs.c...untains-kill-over-dozen/

www.garoweonline.com/en/...habaab-fighters-state-tv

"We took them (Shabaab) out from far away. They could not go past this place and so they decided to leave" #Kulbiyow


http://www.nation.co.ke/...02588-vtck8dz/index.html

Okay. The Chinese can reverse engineer anything. Is the CH-4 not a Reaper other than for the name?. I like the price. Anyway,we may get the CH-4 at cheap but how about the expertise and cost of running and maintaining it?

I thought you would know by now what the end game is...
The strategy is to simply wait it out on the sidelines, rack up the enemy body count from sporadic attacks and wait until they get fed up, run out of budget and leave... Then recapture territory with minimal resistance from the poorly trained and poorly equiped local forces...

Check out Iraq and Afghanistan for reference points....

My point was that the use of artillery is primarily a Soviet tactic as seen in the Ukraine conflict.

Aerial warfare to support the ground units is the way to go when considering the enemy and the harsh terrain.

Expertise iko - si ni fighter pilots tu, only that hawaendi kwa field physically. Easy stuff for KDF drone sch to train. Maintenance costs are also cheap.

The al sheitans have now conclusively known svieds are a failed tactic. Sasa watarudia ambushing convoys and support chains. So for KDF now has to find the svieds/ bomb makers (I suspect likely these are foreign fighters) and financiers.

And its sad they have to force small boys from poor families to join them.

@chemirocha, which Ukraine artillery are you talking about. Are you looking at things with a rear mirror flipping over images?