​The Nigerian Air Force is West Africa’s dominant Aerial Power and one of the largest and most professional in all of Africa. With 18 distinct types of aircrafts and many more subvarities of airframe, unmatched ground forces, infrastructure and logistical assets it is easy to understand why the Nigeria Air Force has no peers in the sub region.

The Nigerian Air Force today can best be described as an unusual paradox. It fly’s vintage outdated Cold War era fighter jets yet fields the most sophisticated Airborne Surveillance and Electronic Intelligence gathering systems( AWACS/ELINT) in Africa. It lacks GPS and radar guided munitions (Smart Bombs) yet is Africa’s Space power and has a total of t satellites in orbit. That’s more Space based infrastructure than the rest of Africa combined, It produces its own Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and is the 4th country in the world after the United States, Israel, Britannia to have employed the use of armed Drones in a conflict

Nigeria’s pechant for investing in high tech ISTAR/ELINT systems over legacy aircraft could very well be due to the fact that the gravest threats to Nigeria’s national security are more from within than from outside. Nigeria’s primarysecurity challenges range from :

Ethno -Religious Crises.

Islamic Insurgency ( provoked by Muslims who simply refuse to leave the Mohammedian era stone age mentality and revell in their delusion of an Islamic Caliphate )

Militancy/Oil theft ( Nigeria’s UAV’s were initially acquired to monitor Nigeria’s oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta)

Nigeria’s current aerial assets is best suited to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

Below are the aircraft’s and weapons systems the Nigerian Air force currently fields as of 2017.


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https://defensenigeria./2017/05/01/these-are-all-the-planes-and-weapons-of-the-nigerian-air-force-2017/

Hmmm!! Still chance for growth.


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