I just found out that Nigeria uses the obsolete Roland ADM system for its air defence...

We need to step it up and hang with the big boys playing with the big toys....

ROLAND ADM SYSTEM Too obsolete for a country as big as Nigeria.

[img]http://beegeagle.files./2012/07/roland-missile-system-parade-position-abuja.jpg?w=640[/img]

Pantsir-S1 - intermediate toy for the big boys and big gunners..

PATRIOT AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM


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The greatest/best/most-advanced of them all!!!

Russia's S-500 air defense system

[img]http://en.ria.ru/images/16687/98/166879864.jpg[/img]

Alpha Jets, J7 and now this obsolete air defence system - Nigeria needs to step it up... Algeria has s300s - and most of the other African countries have at least Pantsir 1...

God bless Nigeria...

Step it up or step it down, it doesn't matter for Nigeria.
When you make nothing technologically you are condemned to using hand-me downs of the world.
Most of those systems you showed are designed and owned by those who made them.
In many cases, of course, they are copies of other countries' system(s)
Design, Nigeria no fit design, copy, Nigeria no fit copy.
Don't hold your breath.

shymexx: Alpha Jets, J7 and now this obsolete air defence system - Nigeria needs to step it up... Algeria has s300s - and most of the other African countries have at least Pantsir 1...

God bless Nigeria...

koruji: Step it up or step it down, it doesn't matter for Nigeria.
When you make nothing technologically you are condemned to using hand-me downs of the world.
Most of those systems you showed are designed and owned by those who made them.
In many cases, of course, they are copies of other countries' system(s)
Design, Nigeria no fit design, copy, Nigeria no fit copy.
Don't hold your breath.

The saddest part of this is that we have all the resources to produce these military hardwares, both natural and human. When is Nigeria going to wake up? It is the kind of research for Next Generation military (and industrial) hardwares that assist in the accelerated growth of our universities. This is the reason, I feel, our universities are not making any headway in terms of recognition and contribution to knowledge.

PGZ-04A PGZ95 self-propelled anti-aircraft air defense system

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Chinese PLA SAM

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French Crotale air defence

[img]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=100757[/img]

Modern warfare is beyond air defences! No SAM can stop a boko haram from exploding in your face. Look at Syria with all their advanced air defences, have they been able to crush the US and European sponsored rebels

And you wouldn't have been ousted by the neo-liberials and r2p, and their humanitarian intervention crap?? He's still standing firm after 2 years, something Gaddafi couldn't do because of Libya's obsolete air defence..

It'll be a walk in the park in Nigeria if the neo-cons decide it's time for regime change...

Nice thread. Nigeria is very vulnerable in these area

Our policy makers are junkies

shymexx: The greatest/best/most-advanced of them all!!!

Russia's S-500 air defense system

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dStyle165/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.defencetalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/s-400-defense-system.jpg&w=365&h=245&zc=1[/img]

There is nothing like s500, that an iskander ballistic missile for delivering nuclear bombs to a country.

There is s-500 google it now and u will see for yourself.

check it below:

malele:
There is nothing like s500, that an iskander ballistic missile for delivering nuclear bombs to a country.

There is s500, the picture I posted is the prototype that was tested by the Russian airforce last year...and it should be in the Russian inventory by 2016.

It is going to be the most sophisticated air defense system ever.

Edited: I just checked the picture that I posted when I created the thread, and that was the wrong pic. Changed it now.

An S-400 can not be more than $15M.
I don't know why we can't get atleast 6 and deploy them in each of the geopolitical zones.

shymexx: S-300VM

Oboy!!! This looks like the devil himself !!! Lawd have murcey!!

shymexx: UK's Rapier air defence system

This looks like something out of Transformers!! I weep for Nigeria.

There are categories of military hardware countries are allowed to own irrespective of their financial muscle to acquire them (most especially countries like Nigeria ie 3rd world).

The way to go obviously is R&D and gradually we shall get there

omenka: This looks like something out of Transformers!! I weep for Nigeria.

it was deployed during the london olympics

I was shocked to find out that Tanzania have S-300 air defense equipments.