User talk:Tempest II

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Contents 1 Zimbabwe 2 Regarding edits to Air Force of Zimbabwe 3 Zimbabwe National Army 4 Zimbabwean Sako TRGs

[edit] Zimbabwe

Just thought I will contact you seeing you efforts trying to keep the AFZ site current. That is my home country.

I do strongly suspect too that Zimbabwe will be buying the FC-1. The $300m arms deal with China has not been fully explained. Interesting enough, China denied Zimbabwe had ordered any planes and then a few months later Zimbabwe had K-8s. The twelve K-8s will cost under $60m – I know the 2nd batch of 6 was for $4.6m each. Then it is said Zimbabwe also got 100 vehicles, said to be the DF Motors version of the HMVEE. That cannot explain the $240m! I do believe the Zimbabwean have placed a advance order of the FC-1.

Tempest II 17:54, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes don't worry , some Vandals trying to remove information just like that , anyways , please do the following:

(1) , edit the article , make each section for each type of info (Current and future aircraft) is bad discribtion , but Current AirCrafts) section and (Future AirCraft) section is a good one.

(2) , start searching for websources , add each source to it owns aircraft or deal .

(3) , use the discussion page often before adding or removing any information

thanx friend Ammar 09:54, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding edits to Air Force of Zimbabwe

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[edit] Zimbabwe National Army

Thanx for contributing to Wikipedia. But: before you simply delete whole alinea, please say so first on the "discussion" tab of that page (it's on top). Your last deletion has been reverted (to Zimbabwe National Army. Thanx. Twerbrou 13:07, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zimbabwean Sako TRGs

I saw your addition of Zimbabwe to the list of Sako TRG rifle operators and put it in alphabetical order. The reference states Zimbabwe bought "light weapons and accessories therefore - sniper rifles and accessories" worth FIM 142.000 (€ 23.883) in 1999 from Finland. Can you provide a better reference that Zimbabwe bought Sako TRG rifles, since "sniper rifles and accessories" can also stand for other rifles and components exported by Finland? If so, did Zimbabwe buy TRG-21/22 or TRG-41/42 rifles and how many? Regarding the price of fully kitted out TRG sniper weapon systems (2007 prices range around € 4.000 - € 6.000) Sako will not have sold many TRG rifles to Zimbabwe.

Francis Flinch (talk) 09:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I mean “sniper rifle accessories” as stated in the EU source on what was exported in 1999 to Zimbabwe leaves room for questions and speculations. Accessories can mean stocks, bipods for sniper rifles, etc. Finnish companies/brandnames like Valmet and Tikka also produced precision shooting orientated rifles around 1999 that could be classified as sniper rifles, since there is no official exact definition on what rifles are (military or police) sniper rifles and what rifles are not. Sako for instance markets the TRG series as a “sharpshooting system”. TRG rifles are actually quite often used in civilian full bore target shooting events that have nothing to do with tactical shooting events, pseudo sniping or official service usage. I realize it must be hard to get concrete information on the internet on the service use of a probably small batch of Finnish made rifles in Zimbabwe.

Francis Flinch (talk) 18:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)