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What a treat! Thanks for introducing those two blokes to us, I was both amazed and amassed by their achievements.

I am not an author, finding writing down a few lines of my thoughts a labourious process and often get it wrong with some ?? humorous results??

I did have a lot more that I could have written in my previous post on this thread with a angle towards my Land Rover obsession, but found it would have spilt the beans for my wife's work, so to speak.
Lets just say that she drives her Discovery ( 'Daisy' ) to work each day and that Her Land Rover is of interest to a couple of the African youngsters.
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Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

What a treat! Thanks for introducing those two blokes to us, I was both amazed and amassed by their achievements.
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X 2 , reading your thread is an enjoyment and an educative experience.

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Interesting day in Mogadishu....I have contacted a bloke on the ground...and this ended up happening very, very close to the place where I lived for 3yrs:

Military plane bursts into flames at Mogadishu airport

Kenya dosn't miss out either.

Ref; The Australian

KENYAN President Uhuru Kenyatta
"This was basically a fire."

My Sister was in Kenya leading a tour party, when this happened.

She said that it was lucky that they were flying out on a small charter plane, from the same airport, otherwise she would have a lot of sorting out to do!
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What is not known by the rest of the world, is the fact that the plane that crashed yesterday missed by about 50-300m an ammo dump.

When I first arrived in 2009 I was trying to influence 2 x Ugandan Generals to better situate the bulk ammunition dump that the Ugandan Force had been using, since 2007.

It is/was located 50m from the edge of the runway, and it was between 50-100m from the AMISOM Military Hospital. Any problem with their ammo dump will/would cause the close down of the Mogadishu runway for probably, at least 7 days.






















Unfortunately, the AMISOM and Ugandan Commanders were more frightened of the local threat against any ammunition dump sited at least 1.5km from the airport. They could not imagine what it would mean for the runway to be closed down, for at least 7 days, if there was a problem with their ammo dump.

Such storage needs to be below ground and, in an area where ammunition can be dealt with properly...not beside the ONLY runway in a place where you might want to get out of....quickly!

Hopefully, the problem of yesterday will help them to make better decisions.

Now that's a LOT of ammo!!!

How come a lot of it looks so old? is it reject/out of date stuff from other armies, or they did a big order and didn't get around to using it very quickly?

Originally Posted by spudboy

Now that's a LOT of ammo!!!

How come a lot of it looks so old? is it reject/out of date stuff from other armies, or they did a big order and didn't get around to using it very quickly?

This is Africa mate.....and, they will/do not throw anything away.

Check out this site Dangerous Depots: The Growing Humanitarian Problem Posed by Aging and Poorly Maintained Munitions Storage Sites and see how many magazine blow ups have occurred in the past decade, and how many of them were in Africa...too many.