Kenya has acquired 4 drones for KES. 1 Billion

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[Empedocles]

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Ati $9.86 million?

Pfft, that's not enough for the jubilee thieves. $418 million sounds slightly better.

[pdf]http://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/mas/kenya_16-79.pdf[/pdf]

http://www.dsca.mil/major-arms-sales/government-kenya-air-tractor-aircraft-weapons-and-related-support


2-seater AT-802

[Globalcitizen12]

[Georgesoros]

Did they do research, or this is the same like China where we were sold old trains at exorbitant prices!!!
Why is no one ever held accoutanble when taxpayer money goes out the window?
Tanzania does hold people acountable. Ethiopia does too.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

at an inflated cost.  Kenya is ready to pay 35 million USD per frame.  By comparison, an F-15 Eagle fighter jet, the most succesful in history, goes for less than 30 million USD per frame.  Granted it's more costly to operate an F-15 Eagle.  Still if Kenya chooses the air tractor it is not clear how a unit of these machines is more expensive than an F-15.

This looks like a close combat air support machine.  So it does the same job as an A-10 warthog.  An a-10 Warthog is going for about 18 million USD a frame.  Of course it is far superior and cheaper than the KDF air tractor, though it might be more costly to operate. 

Air Tractor AT-802L



F-15 Eagle.



A-10 Warthog

http://www.nation.co.ke/news/kenyas-Sh43-billion-US-arms-deal-at-risk/1056-3815984-xrje3hz/index.html

[MOON Ki]

What do they actually do with these things?    Whenever they take break from sugar-and-charcoal and get down to trading blows with the likes of Al Kebab they don't seem to do particularly well.    But, of course, I'd rather have them "busy" over there than back at home, where, historically, they have proved themselves to be a grave danger to the welfare and security of the citizens ... from Mt. Elgon to Wagalla and in-between.

[Empedocles]

at an inflated cost.  Kenya is ready to pay 35 million USD per frame.  By comparison, an F-15 Eagle fighter jet, the most succesful in history, goes for less than 30 million USD per frame.  Granted it's more costly to operate an F-15 Eagle.  Still if Kenya chooses the air tractor it is not clear how a unit of these machines is more expensive than an F-15.

This looks like a close combat air support machine.  So it does the same job as an A-10 warthog.  An a-10 Warthog is going for about 18 million USD a frame.  Of course it is far superior and cheaper than the KDF air tractor, though it might be more costly to operate. 

Not defending .ke as we all know how we like to eat (and of course this order must be comfortably padded) but this guy's only looking after his voters (doesn't give a sh!t about .ke). Wants to give them business and he's only talking of the planes, not the assorted weapons packages.

I'd earlier posted the source here, explaining what the $418m encompasses:

Re: Kenya has acquired 4 drones for KES. 1 Billion

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

What do they actually do with these things?    Whenever they take break from sugar-and-charcoal and get down to trading blows with the likes of Al Kebab they don't seem to do particularly well.    But, of course, I'd rather have them "busy" over there than back at home, where, historically, they have proved themselves to be a grave danger to the welfare and security of the citizens ... from Mt. Elgon to Wagalla and in-between.

They are supposed to throttle Al Shabaab.  My hunch is they would have done it already, but a Kenyan has to stop somewhere and eat - whether it's charcoal, or regular theft of resources meant for the battle.  I know how much you feel about the brutes in KDF uniform.  But in this case, I think they are as much victims as perps. 

They are renewable cannon fodder.  The resources set aside officially to make it less painful for them whenever they encounter Al Shabaab, are most likely going the way any other public resource goes in Kenya.  Even though CORD talks of pulling out, they'll see the money and simply change their minds - if they win.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

at an inflated cost.  Kenya is ready to pay 35 million USD per frame.  By comparison, an F-15 Eagle fighter jet, the most succesful in history, goes for less than 30 million USD per frame.  Granted it's more costly to operate an F-15 Eagle.  Still if Kenya chooses the air tractor it is not clear how a unit of these machines is more expensive than an F-15.

This looks like a close combat air support machine.  So it does the same job as an A-10 warthog.  An a-10 Warthog is going for about 18 million USD a frame.  Of course it is far superior and cheaper than the KDF air tractor, though it might be more costly to operate. 

Not defending .ke as we all know how we like to eat (and of course this order must be comfortably padded) but this guy's only looking after his voters (doesn't give a sh!t about .ke). Wants to give them business and he's only talking of the planes, not the assorted weapons packages.

I'd earlier posted the source here, explaining what the $418m encompasses:

Re: Kenya has acquired 4 drones for KES. 1 Billion

Yepper.  The man is a Republican, so his empathy quotient is exactly 0.  Everything is about the bottomline to him and loved ones.  You know how they roll.  Like the guy who hated Obamacare with every fibre of his being, until it saved him from going bankrupt and still dying.