citizenY:


Nairaland, u forgive me but una blind, abi?

Nigeria has a big factory for drones 0!!!

Drone for flying ballot box, contract splitting , oil theft, mago mago, witches and wizard wey dey do midnight meeting etc.

So you did not see all those drones in agbada.

Hezron Lorraine: This isn't the first,there's the one built by young engineers in the airforce.


Young NAF officers design, build drone
on january 23, 2013 at 6:02 am in news
By Luka Binniyat
KADUNA — Young officers from Nigerian Air Force
School of Engineers, Aircraft Design Centre, Kaduna,
yesterday, dazzled the Minister of Science and
Technology, Prof. Ita Okon Bassey-Ewa when they
displayed to him an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV,
referred to as drone, which could fly non-stop for
about four hours at 3000 feet.

The drone was conceptualised, designed and built by
them in Kaduna under the direct supervision of the
Provost of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Institute of
Technology, Prof. Emmanuel Ezugwu.

According to officials of the institute, the drone’s
empenage was about three metres while the wing
span was about half a metre.
The four officers, all Flight Lieutenants, said it was a
three-year effort in collaboration with Cranfield
University of United Kingdom with funds from the
Federal Government.
The officers who asked that all the credit for break
through be given to the Commandant of the school
and Chief of Air Staff pleaded that their names be not
mentioned in the press.

The school had earlier displayed a conceptualised
model of an ab-initio training fighter aircraft known
as Farawa (meaning “the beginning” in Hausa) for
the Air Force just as it was trying to design a
Nigerian-made Air Beattle, AB-18, for the Air Force.
The four officers had bagged Masters degrees in
various fields related to avionics from Cranfield
University, after their first degrees from the Nigerian
Defence Academy, Kaduna.

They told Vanguard: “We designed and built this UAV
based on the pressing needs of our country today.
The vehicle can be used in pipeline monitoring,
border patrol, mapping and disaster monitoring.
Other areas of use include maritime patrol, aerial
surveillance and pest monitoring.
“The vehicle can fly at 3000 feet, and remain
airborne for four hours using petrol for now. The first
one we built is called Amebo 1. The second one is
Amebo 2 and is an improvement over the first.
“If we keep getting the right support as we are
getting now, we will accomplish our mission for the
country.”

In fact in the next five years, we may start building
our own light aircraft for training new pilots”, the
officers said.

The Minister who was obviously amazed at the
development was in Kaduna attending the National
Stakeholders’ Workshop/Exhibition on National
System of Innovation, NSI, during which several
inventions by Nigerians were exhibited.
Earlier in his opening remarks at ceremony the
Minister had said, “as demonstration of the drive
towards promoting innovations the Ministry is calling
for entries for the maiden, ‘’Best
Innovation/Invention Award.’’

The award which was open to individuals, institutions
and corporate bodies has a grand prize of N1 million.

Corky Joe: ...huh? ..drone or kite? ...I give up!

afroxyz: Itz obvious most of you don't know what a drone is going by the blind people commenting

Akpangbon:

you are as dumb as a monkey.

gratiaeo: What obasanjo could not archive in his 8yrs

gratiaeo:
Enemy of progress. Should it be Fashola that dreamt of building a similar thing

naijababe:

If they have built a drone, why they are showing us a cardboard na?

Horus: BREAKING NEWS: An unmanned aerial vehicle (drone), GULMA, designed and constructed by the Nigerian Air Force malfunctioned and struck Aso Rock Presidential Villa. The Nigerian Air Force had no immediate information on whether the drone has malfunctioned before.

Babzilla: THE WAY I C IT THIS DRONE WILL BE USED TO CARRY OUT SURVEILLANCE
SEEING THE ENEMY IS ONE THING
BEING ABLE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUTTHE SEEN ENEMYIS ANOTHER

voltron: this is an Isreali-adapted UAV possibly with degraded functionality for Security Purposes. It is simply Isreali Technology built by Isreali Defence Contractors for Nigeria..
It is infact the AEROSTAR shown below

NIGERIAN UAV





ISREALI HENRON 1 UAV






[size=20pt]‘Isreali contractors sold Nigeria $240m non-functional drones’[/size]
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/isreali-contractors-sold-nigeria-240m-non-functional-drones/#sthash.xsx0YmHK.dpuf

Desola:

trust me, jonathan is very far from clueless. He is EVIL!!

pDude: No pix, no test flight, nothing.


In this day and age of camera phones

Keep deceiving yourselves

chris baba: this jonathan is a jooke, my goodnes, is this a drone Ha!!! Nigeria has suffered!!! Wat can dis one do?? This is merely a pritotype of a drone.

A drone is meant for information gathering and warfare at d same time. This is a toy plane fool.

voltron: this is an Isreali-adapted UAV possibly with degraded functionality for Security Purposes. It is simply Isreali Technology built by Isreali Defence Contractors for Nigeria..
It is infact the AEROSTAR shown below

NIGERIAN UAV






ISREALI HENRON 1 UAV

free2ryhme:

It is a pRototype and besides design info of this natuRe are highly classified