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🛡️Video showing a Russian-made Mil Mi-17 (Mi-8MT) helicopter, not a classic first-generation Mi-8, belonging to the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC🇨🇬)
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🛡️Images showing a Nsilulu ninja, member of the close guard of militia leader Frédéric Bitsamou alias Pastor Ntumi, equipped with an Israeli-made Galil SAR assault rifle, fitted with a 40mm grenade launcher under the barrel.
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🛡️ Video showing operational paratroopers from the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC🇨🇬) making successful landings after jumping from a transport/tactical helicopter.
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🛡️Images showing elements of the General Directorate of Presidential Security (DGSP🇨🇬) equipped with Russian-made 7.62 x 14 mm PKM light machine guns mounted on port and starboard mounts and Serbian-made 22 mm M60AT rifle grenades (with shaped charge).
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🛡️Images showing elements of the General Directorate of Presidential Security (DGSP) on a Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ79 "BJ" pickup truck. The soldiers are equipped with Israeli-made AK Alpha assault rifles, a Chinese-made QLZ-87 (or Type 87) 35mm automatic grenade launcher mounted
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on the roof, and Russian-made PKM machine guns mounted on the port (left) and starboard (right) sides. This setup is called a "helicopter" or "battery deployment." It transforms a simple commercial pickup truck into a combat vehicle, often referred to as a technical.
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o achieve this, swivel mounts or custom-made metal hoops are securely fixed in the truck bed or along the sides to allow for lateral firing.
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on the roof, and Russian-made PKM machine guns mounted on the port (left) and starboard (right) sides. This setup is called a "helicopter" or "battery deployment." It transforms a simple commercial pickup truck into a combat vehicle, often referred to as a technical.
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🛡️Images showing two Chinese-made Type 305 PH patrol boats belonging to the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC🇨🇬) The boats are deployed by the 321st Flotilla, part of the 32nd Naval Group of the Congolese Navy🇨🇬
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🛡️Images showing an abandoned armored reconnaissance vehicle (BRDM-2) of the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC 🇨🇬) during the 1997 civil war.
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🛡️Images showing a powerful WL 50 front loader manufactured by the Russian company UMG CDM (formerly UMG), belonging to the General Directorate of Presidential Security (DGSP🇨🇬). 1/2
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The UMG WL-50 is used in the destruction of hideouts or residences linked to criminals as part of Operation "Zero Kuluna". 2/2
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🛡️Images showing elements of the General Directorate of Presidential Security (DGSP🇨🇬) on a Toyota Land Cruiser pickup truck equipped with a W85 heavy machine gun, also known as the QJC-88 heavy machine gun, designed in the People's Republic of China. Pointe-Noire, May 2026
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🛡️Disturbing images from Ivory Coast show Ivorian gendarmes pointing their weapons at a colleague who is being stripped of his military equipment. Before he is escorted out of the barracks.
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This is the logical consequence of a decision to dismiss a gendarme from the military for losing his military equipment. His military uniform was confiscated because, in fact, the uniform belongs to the state, not the individual.
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🛡️Images showing Cobra militiamen, supporters of Denis Sassou Nguesso during the 1997 civil war. Two of the militiamen in the image are carrying a Soviet-made RPO-A Shmele thermobaric launcher, used to destroy structures or vehicles, and a Chinese-made Type 56 assault rifle.
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🛡️Member of the General Directorate of Presidential Security (DGSP🇨🇬) equipped with a Russian-made AK-103 assault rifle. Dolisie 2025
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🛡️Photo showing a rapid intervention team (a visiting team) from the 312th Marine Rifle Battalion of the Congolese Armed Forces (FAC🇨🇬) aboard a BK-10 fast assault boat (also known as Project 02450) designed by the Russian Kalashnikov Concern group . 1/2
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The operators wear lightweight ballistic or tactical protective helmets (bump helmet type), tactical life jackets (automatic inflatable or with integrated buoyancy) with standard tactical fatigues, integrated or added knee pads for joint protection, and tactical gloves. 2/2
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🛡️Image showing two Cobra militiamen, one armed with a Russian-made AKS-74U compact assault rifle and the other with an Israeli-made Galil SAR assault rifle. Brazzaville, 1997
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