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There are some great pics on the Navy News Facebook page. Go check it out

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Roshan Bachan

So Defenceweb confirmed today that it was a German Naval vessel that fired the shots.

I get the point that SA military should have secured the area. I would also like to know how far off the actual target, the fishing vessel was. Surely the navy ships would have been informed of what area the target would be in?

Makes me rather concerned that the Germans would be quite reluctant to perform live firing excercises with the SANDF, in SA again.

For some live firing pics, check these out.
http://www.navy.mil.za/archive/1504/150402_Ex%20Good_Hope_week4/article.htm

Sad that the photographers and authors of some of these articles, still get names of vessels and aircraft wrong

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Roshan Bachan

Yes, I just read all the comments posted on DefenceWeb regarding this incident. It also confirms what our esteemed Web Master has been saying - it was the Germans!

Off topic: It will serve the German Navy (military) well if they applied their trigger-happy attitude to real life challenges such as the recent and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East for example. Their contribution to the shooting side of things, where soldiers bleed and die, was and is zero. Firing on a bona-fide fishing vessel does not wash with me.

Rant over - back to topic.

for some that havent seen these pics...wow

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11149520_1128586563834059_6110281544543938955_n.jpg?oh=497e183ab3e5b783eb69c30d3def84f3&oe=56113528&__gda__=1445464277_e3fcfeb8026dcb0d6f365e0d41f88eb4

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/l/t1.0-9/11108839_1128586707167378_428757210273796080_n.jpg?oh=93ac22823cd4506bee9455232df3e1b4&oe=56586968

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Roshan Bachan

Hi Rosh, whats the SAN Navy News Facebook page name, I just get the poms and Aussies pages!

SA Navy has just reposted photos from this excercise on their Facebook page - https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fb ... 5241689901

I found this article which reveals some relatively sad news about one of our 'regular' visitors.
If I can remember correctly, we knew she was due to be decommissioned.
Looks like she she will be meeting her final resting place soon

http://navaltoday.com/2017/07/24/germany-to-use-recently-decommissioned-frigate-as-target-ship/


Ironically, I also came across an article that involves one or two of our other 'regular' visitors...

http://navaltoday.com/2017/08/02/watch-the-brazilian-navy-sink-a-former-royal-navy-frigate-during-missile-exercises/

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Roshan Bachan