Nice inventar, but how effective is todays ZNA at all, would they be strong enough to withstand a guerillia fight aginst people, who fight for the freedom of the people of zimbabwe. How high is the morale of the soldiers of the ZNF ? Equipment Armour * NORINCO Type 59 MBT - 35 * NORINCO Type 69 MBT - 10 * Type 63 light tank - 20 received 1983/1984 from China * T-54 - 20 tanks received from USSR in September 1984.[2] * T-54/55 ARV * T-55 tanks - 12 from North Korea, 1981 * EE-9 Cascavel Armoured Car - 90 * EE-11 Urutu - 7 * Panhard AML Armoured Car - 30 * Eland Mk7 - 20 * EQ2050 Armoured Car (Chinese version of the American M998 (HMMWV) - 100 * PRC Type 63/YW 531 Armoured Personnel Carrier - 30 (8 from China and 22 Korean VTT-323 version) * Unknown type Armoured Personnel Carrier - 22 donated by China in January 2005 * UR-416 Armoured Personnel Carrier - 36 * Crocodile Armoured Personnel Carrier - 40 * BRDM-1 Armoured Personnel Carrier, from North Korea in 1984 - 20 * BRDM-2 Armoured Personnel Carrier, from Russia - 1980 * BTR-152 Armoured Personnel Carrier, from North Korea - 1983 * BTR-50 Armoured personnel carrier, from Syria - 1984 - 40 * ACMAT TPK 4.20 VSC Armoured Personnel Carrier 260 * Steyr-Daimler-Puch 4x4 Armoured Personnel Carrier (exact type not known)- at least 66 Field Artillery * 2S1 122mm Self-propelled howitzer - 12 * D-30/2A18M Towed Artillery (122mm) - 4 * PRC Type 60 Towed Artillery (122 mm) - 18 * PRC Type 54 Towed Artillery (122 mm) - 12 * OTO Melara Mod 56 105mm Pack Howitzer - 18 * L118 Light Gun 105 mm towed howitzer - 12 * PRC Type 63 Multiple Rocket Launcher - 18 * RM-70 Multiple Rocket Launcher - 52 * BM-21 Grad - 25 * L16 81mm Mortar - 100 * 81 mm / 82 mm Mortar - 502 * 120 mm Mortar - 74 (60 of unidentified type delivered from Bulgaria in 2000, according to the 2001 edition of the U.N.’s Register of Conventional Arm) Air Defense Artillery * ZPU-1/-2/-4; ZU-23; M1939 Air Defence Guns - 215 * ZSU-23-4 Shilka * SA-7/SA-18 Igla Surface-to-air missile - 30 * Seacat/Tigercat missiles [3] * HQ-2 Surface-to-air missile - Reported. Quantity unknown. * ATGM missiles have been cited in military exercise reports. Light Infantry Weapons * L85A1 Assault rifle * AK family of rifles is standard issue infantry weapon * FN FAL sometimes issued the special forces * MAG Machine gun * PK Machine gun * Dragunov Sniper Rifle Barracks * KG VI (Harare) - Defence Forces HQ, Zimbabwe Staff College * Inkomo (Harare) - Armoured Brigade, Parachute Group * Dzivarasekwa (Harare) - HQ Presidential Guard * State House (Harare) - 1 Presidential Guard Battalion * Kabrit (Harare) - Military Intelligence * Pomona (Harare) - School of Combat Engineering * Old Cranborne (Harare) - HQ 2 Brigade * Cranborne (Harare) - HQ Commando Regiment * Ingezi (Harare) - 2 Mechanized Battalion * Darwendale (Darwendale) - * Elfrida - Zimbabwe Defence Industries * Induna (Bulawayo) - * Imbizo (Bulawayo) * Llewelyn (Bulawayo) - School of Infantry * Brady (Bulawayo) - HQ 1 Brigade * Mbalabala (Bulawayo) - 1.1 Infantry Battalion, School of Infantry * Plumtree (Plumtree) - 1.3 Infantry Battalion * Chikanga (Mutare) - HQ 3 Brigade * Masvingo (Masvingo) - HQ 4 Brigade * Dadaya (Zvishavane) - 5.1 Infantry Battalion * Connemara (Gweru) - * Guinea Fowl (Gweru) - HQ Mounted Infantry * Kutanga Range - Training School (artillery, armour and airforce bombing range) * Zimbabwe Military Academy (Gweru) - * Border Battle School (Nyanga) - Combined Arms Battle school * Lazy Nine (Shurugwi) - Combined Armes Battle School * Battlefields (Kadoma) - 5 Brigade * Nyami-nyami (Kariba) - Boat Squadron * Wafawafa (Kariba) - * Magunje (Karoi) * Rusape (Rusape) - 3.2 Infantry Battalion Impressive, but would it be strong enough to launch military operations in Zimbabwe itself to engage a unknown enemy ? Regards, Che.
Seeing as there is a rising four-digit something inflation rate + other drains on the economy, and considering that most Zimbabweans go hungry, I can imagine that it is not in the best state.
To say the least, although it's likely that Mugabe's troops do eat better than the average citizen does, since Mugabe needs them to stay in power.
lol, maybe ??!! But how are they trained, which fighting doctrines for example, how great is their loyalty to Mugabe ? I´ve read an article of an young guy, who fought for mugabe and who had the chance to escape of this bloddy shit in Rhodesia. He first joined the ZNF so he has better conditions to live, then one day an advisor took him and two other guys to a barrack, there was a girl ca. 15 years old. The advisor said that she tried to phone, while it was not allowed to hear, so they are the punishment for her. The guys said no, but the advisor gave em joints and get them drunk then they raped the young girl which screamed until the last one (the teller) was, when she was quiet. Oh, man that is such a shit in Rhodesia, if you think that there were young guys of hope once get trained in this barracks, a palladium of honor and for respectable soldiers of Rhodesia and now, there are mass murders creating beasts and monsters, who have no mercy, ahhr, that´s suxxx. Then the CIO (Central Intelligence Organisation), the intelligence of zimbabwe, raided a pub in Salisbury and there were 40 persons of the opposition, then they forced the female and male humans to sleep with eachother by the gun, ahhh, I can´t think about it, that makes me sick. It´s the same with the german women in east prussia or anywhere else, if I think about it and how they feel, how they look, what they think at this moment, that makes me crazy, would wish if on every tree of our alleys would hang a rapist. But even a justified homicide is a homicide, so everyone should get his sentence of death or not only ba a fair trail, even if they didn´t deserve it. Would like to end the suffering of the innocent ones, but how as a single one, would be quite hard to form a guerillia via the internet to join the fight in Zimbabwe, but if someone wishes you´re welcome; You can answer the call here on this thread, you have to take care for your equipment, your weapons everything you need even the journey, so if you would like to enlist wrote an email to me fugazi_vc@yahoo.de, that´s neither a joke, nor to serious, I would just like to know, if someone would join the fight if possible. :smok: (would this be ridiculous ?) Regards, Che.
lol, that was a joke, however it seems that it stagnates the number of replies :kill: :smok: hehe, Che.^^
