AFRICOM Donates Four Bell Helicopters to Zambia for $80million
On September 11, 2023 the United States announced an $80 million (1.6 billion Kwacha) grant to Zambia that will supply four Bell 412EP helicopters to the Zambia Air Force with three years of service, parts, and training for the helicopters.
Commander of U.S. Africa Command General Michael Langley made the announcement at the Africa Senior Enlisted Leaders Conference (ASELC), which the United States and Zambia co-hosted from September 10-13, 2023.
The United States committed $80 million to the Zambia Air Force (ZAF) to supply four Bell 412EP helicopters to help the country respond to crises.
The grant includes three years of service, parts and training.
U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), announced the donation in September at the 2023 Africa Senior Enlisted Leaders Conference in Lusaka, Zambia.
Zambia and AFRICOM hosted the event.
The Bell 412 utility helicopter is the workhorse that reliably performs in some of the most extreme climates around the world.
We are in trouble we’ve been finally been turned into an experimental ground where Americans will be coming to intimidate Russia from.
Is Russia in Zambia? Or is Zambia at war with Russia? If so why? Stop being delusional. The Americans are here, the Russians are here. So are the Chinese, the Indians, the British, the Iranians, the Israelis name them. Zambia is open to all and is dealing with all.
Uluse lwalilya inkwale. This is a guy who was staying in Mumbwa and his young brother was my siblings’ headmaster at Hillside Primary School in Matero in Lusaka. He was even sponsored at UNZA by Kaunda and was in the same Law school class with Edgar Lungu.
I wish Kaunda was alive to see this. We all know why the West is so hard on Zimbabwe: land expropriation without compensation and we have those white immigrant farmers in Zambia with one of them producing some of the highest tonnages of wheat at Munkumpu in Mpongwe and another producing impressive yields of tobacco in Choma.
Out of his ungratefulness, Emerson Mnangagwa mentions an innocent country that built him to where he is.
Mugabe made a mistake because he was too arrogant to consult as was his rotten nature in implementing one of the worst economic mistakes in modern history…you don’t grab a well developed and managed farm and give it to an ignorant worker not only to run but own!!!. We made that mistake when we got independence and are paying heavily now. You do not grab and chase. You partner because that person has EXPERIENCE which you do not have. In business, it’s called creating a WIN-WIN situation….or GIVE AND TAKE scenario. So all this “the West wants us to fail” is all hogwash…