Identification of victims ended two weeks ago

Selon le ministère des Affaire étrangères, l’identification serait terminée depuis le 10 août.
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The Fr foreign minister has confirmed that the procedure of identifying the victims has ended since the 10th of August

None of the families seems to have been informed or handled back the remains of their loved ones

Source (Fr):
France Inter.fr

I think we all agree on this.

The big question that remains is how will India seek for compensations? A squadron or two of free Rafale or a fountain of Chanel nbr 5?

Concurrence does not mean competition! It has another sense in this discussion of budgeted aquisition (I’ll let the experts give a proper definition)

As much as 50 new probable debris found in South Africa

50 pieces of debris possibly from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 have been found by amateur searchers along coastlines in South Africa — the same region of the southwestern Indian Ocean where all of the confirmed and “highly likely” pieces of wreckage from the disappeared Boeing 777-200 have turned up.

DefenseNews Today:

the Australian government said the leak would have no effect on its submarine project.

“The Minister for Defence Industry has received advice from the Department of Defence that what is reported to have taken place in regards to the DCNS project in India has no bearing on the Australian Government’s Future Submarine Program,”

Like it is said above, the nature of the Au contract makes this leak irrelevant. Although it opens some credible doubt regarding the seriousness of the gov. structured way of pursuing mil. deals (the timing, the nature, the extend of the leak, the way it was leaked doesn’t point toward a foreign secretive operation but to some internal disfunctionnement..

Yahbon/20 UAV from Dubai for Nigeria

“The government is importing the Yahbon/20 UAV from Dubai. […]

“The latest drone will replace the Chinese CH-3A UAV which was found to be problematic in some ways.

Source:
http://www.igberetvnews.com

Nigerian Air force behead Boko Haram trough airstrike

Tuesday […] the leader of Boko Haram and several of his top commanders were killed or wounded in an airstrike, just as Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrived in the West African nation

No details are given but a bit of information glaned on the web point toward a special task force equipped with AlphaJet and F7.

The Nigerian Air Force on Friday launched the second phase of its counterinsurgency campaign in Northeast Nigeria by deploying six special combat Jets that are geared towards wiping out the Boko Haram insurgency in the region in a short time.

The six lethal aircrafts, comprising three Alpha Jets and three MIF7 jets are to be used by a new combat group, tagged ‘Operation Gama-Aiki’
meaning ‘end the Job’ in Hausa.

“Operation Gama Aiki

Also

The Nigerian Air Force has armed a third Alpha Jet acquired second hand from the United States, and is apparently getting ready to take delivery of Yabhon Flash-20 unmanned aerial vehicles and Mi-35 attack helicopters.
[…]
Nigerian media report that the Yabhon Flash-20 UAVs will replace the CH-3 armed UAVs acquired from China. One crashed in January 2015 and the type has apparently been problematic in Nigerian service. They have been armed with AR-1 missiles, and used to strike Boko Haram positions.

The Yabhon Flash 20 is the smallest of Adcom Systems’ UAVs at about 1.5 tonnes maximum take-off weight.

I am sure some of you guys will quickly poor some light in this.

Source:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/205470-showdown-nigeria-air-force-deploys-six-fighter-jets-end-boko-haram-insurgency.html
The Washington Times
http://itweb.co.za/mobilesite/defenceweb/home/item_id-44783/

Some pic extracted from the Boeing trailers with corrected light (not fun):

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We can see the large LERX à la SH, the wing anhedral, the horizontal stabilizer (sry) and the apparent lack of a vertical fin on these pictures only.