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RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by olapluto(m): 2:29pm On Aug 30, 2011
Hard times for Nigeria indeed. We are now increasing our profile in terms of security suspect. May the Almighty God help us as a nation.
A plane from the Nigerian Air Force has had to be escorted into Cambridge Airport by two RAF fighter jets.

Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Nigerian aircraft into Cambridge after its radio failed.

On Saturday, in mid air on his way to have the 30-year-old C-130 Hercules undergo a major servicing at Marshall, the pilot realised he was cut off.

The pilot managed to alert French authorities by changing its transponder code, so an escort of French planes was sent up.

Once across the Channel the aircraft was met and taken to Cambridge Airport by two RAF Typhoons, usually deployed as armed guards.

On the same day a Canadian Air Force plane – an Aurora Maritime Patrol Aircraft of No 405 Squadron – landed in Cambridge before it took part in The Little Gransden Children in Need Day yesterday. Archie Garden, airport director, met it and presented the the crew with a cheque for £500 for Children in Needs as a thank you for using Cambridge Airport.

Terry Holloway, spokesman for Marshall, said the stricken Hercules and its crew were never in any danger. He said: "The age of the plane had nothing to do with the radio failing.

"That just happens sometimes.

"Luckily what the pilot did was absolutely correct and having the French aircraft and Typhoons escort it was purely precautionary."
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Jets-scrambled-to-escort-stricken-transport-plane-29082011.htm
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by nateevs(m): 2:35pm On Aug 30, 2011
I am waiting still for one piece of good news attributed to Nigeria. Just one.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by Rhino5dm: 2:44pm On Aug 30, 2011
How is that difficult for you to understand? quit being silly cos thats a normal security drill.

They crew are even lucky the weren't shot down. how can you fly in to air space without proper comminucation ,and flying plans and expect not to see fighter jets around you?





ola_pluto:

Hard times for Nigeria indeed. We are now increasing our profile in terms of security suspect. May the Almighty God help us as a nation.
A plane from the Nigerian Air Force has had to be escorted into Cambridge Airport by two RAF fighter jets.

The Hercules was flying into Cambridge for maintenance work but had a radio failure over France and was shadowed by fighters for hundreds of miles.

Its arrival at the airport at 19:30 BST on Saturday was accompanied by a high level of security.

Marshall Aerospace at Cambridge are specialists in servicing transport planes from all over the world.

The escorting RAF Typhoon jets took over from French Mirage jets as the Hercules entered British airspace.

They then circled Cambridge airport for some time before returning to Lincolnshire, while police and special branch waited on the ground.

The Nigerian crew were interviewed by immigration officials before being cleared for entry.

The MoD said: "Quick reaction alert aircraft are launched to intercept aircraft which cannot be identified by another means, i.e the aircraft is not talking to Air Traffic Control, has not filed a flight plan and is not transmitting a recognisable radar code."

The Nigerian aircraft is expected to be at Cambridge airport for four months.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by hercules07: 2:57pm On Aug 30, 2011
Dem no get GSM phones? How can the radio fail in a plane, if they had flown over Russia or China, that would have been the end o.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by nateevs(m): 3:05pm On Aug 30, 2011
Rhino.5dm:

How is that difficult for you to understand? quit being silly  cos thats a normal security drill.

They crew are even lucky the weren't shot down. how can you fly in to air space without proper comminucation ,and flying plans and expect not to see fighter jets around you?


Dude I am not a dumb fella. My point is, in the light of everything negative about Nigeria in the world, another radio failure over international waters is the last thing we want. Most readers of this news around the world do not digest the details of the article, trust me, all they see is "Nigeria". . And they respond by saying "Nigeria again"?
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by Nobody: 6:48pm On Aug 30, 2011
same procedure would have happened if it was a jet from any other air force, whats the big deal about?!

how can anyone fly properly and land a jet without a proper radio?! OF COURSE fighter jets would escort such plane!!!!!!!
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by stagger: 6:58pm On Aug 30, 2011
There is no big deal. This is a normal security protocol when an unidentified aircraft does not communicate with the control tower.

What happens is that when contact is not established, the host country will scramble fighter jets to intercept the offending aircraft for airspace violation. Once in the air, the fighter jest try to get a visual.

Hercules aircraft are usually of the C-130 variety; these are mighty aircraft painted in military camouflage. There is no way such an aircraft will be allowed to land without identification.

Like someone said, they are even lucky they were not shot down. The Soviet Union shot down a Korean civilain airliner that strayed into Russian airspace in 1988.

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Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by Koikoi(m): 8:48am On Aug 31, 2011
I doff my hat for the Nigerian Pilot. Good job
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by claremont(m): 9:02am On Aug 31, 2011
We should be happy that Nigeria still has a functioning Hercules C-130 aircraft, I never knew we had them. I have only seen such aircraft with the US and UK air forces.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by Nobody: 9:45am On Aug 31, 2011
@Op, that is the normal procedure
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by sandee575(f): 9:51am On Aug 31, 2011
That must have been a Nigeria Air Force plane heading for maintenance.
The story doesnt end until the bill covering the fighter jets scrambling costs
is settled by the State of ownership of the C-130.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by rainbowman: 10:09am On Aug 31, 2011
The Nigerian Air Force has 2 more active C 130 H, this one had been grounded for a while and was going for a D check in Cambridge, an in depth maintenance check, so as to be reactivated. The routes would have been planned in advance and all authorities alerted due to the state of the aircraft and the obvious fact that this is a military aircraft thus permission would have to be sought and granted in advance.These aircraft played a critical role during the April elections, transporting vital election materials and troops when the post election violence erupted. We ought to know that the Nigerian Air Force is a professional military organization and the pilot took all the necessary emergency measures when faced with a communication problem.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OLASODE2K: 11:35am On Aug 31, 2011
Fellow concerned compatriots, i am very happy to see both ur concerns and consternations when that radio conked out. The bitter truth is that no instrument or equipment is ever 100% perfect. That is why no modern pilot training sch or airforce wont train their pilots on emergency protocols and procedures to follow if one or more of the most important systems <like the engines, ailerons, radio, GPS, cabin pressure, landing gear etc> suddenly fails to work while u are airborne. The loss of radio, as happened to our unfortunate hercule, is something that happens everyday in the all the developed world. It only bcoms news and embarrasing when u are abt to enter foreign airspace-most especially since sept 11, 2001. Fellow nigerians, we know we arent happy with our sorry maintenance culture, when corruption is tackled such embarrasing situation and lives would be saved the nation. when we launched our sattelite during the OBJ regime and the sattelite developed very serious probs within months, we wanted to hang him for buying us a chinko sattelite then whereas a yr b4 then, germany launched two german built sattelites that couldnt be used because it was a catastrophic diasters much more than wat our chinko own. Fellow nigerians, no foreign nation would give u the real thing it uses. There is always a poorer quality version they sell to foreigners which they shamelessly tag EXPORT VERSION. gear etc> suddenly fails to work while u are airborne. The loss of radio, as happened to our unfortunate hercule, is something that happens everyday in the all the developed world. It only bcoms news and embarrasing when u are abt to enter foreign airspace-most especially since sept 11, 2001. Fellow nigerians, we know we arent happy with our sorry maintenance culture, when corruption is tackled such embarrasing situation and lives would be saved the nation. when we launched our sattelite during the OBJ regime and the sattelite developed very serious probs within months, we wanted to hang him for buying us a chinko sattelite then whereas a yr b4 then, germany launched two german built sattelites that couldnt be used because it was a catastrophic diasters much more than wat our chinko own. Fellow nigerians, no foreign nation would give u the real thing it uses. There is always a poorer quality version they sell to foreigners which they shamelessly tag EXPORT VERSION.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OLASODE2K: 11:52am On Aug 31, 2011
If german made sattelites are conking out at will and americans even lost radio contact with their latest and world fatest aircraft during testing a couple of wks back, would it be fair for u to be gloating over our aged hercules radio?
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OLASODE2K: 12:23pm On Aug 31, 2011
My own fear is that were the situation to be reversed, we would have been in a much trickier situation. Nigeria has only 6 fighter aircraft that can intercept foreign, hostile and unidentified aircraft. Unfortunately, they are stationed in makurdi, close to a thousand kilometers away. I am at a loss of how our airforce can intercept a foreign &hostile aircraft that might sneak on lagos from the atlantic ocean? Not forgetting that u just dont jump into an aircraft without any preflights checks and also the fact the that distance cant even be covered in an hour. Coupled with the expected poor maintenance they are probably subjected to now in that airforce base which might ground like four of them at all times. Our security is worse than we have always imagined.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by Konjour(m): 2:11pm On Aug 31, 2011
For a military transport aircraft that was in vogue in the RAF in the 1960s and the 70s to still be flying about 30 years after its been built

(when it's actually supposed to have been scraped into pieces since 2006),the pilot is definitely riding too hard on his luck.

Not surprised though,cuz even the average age of a Nigerian cargo ship nowadays can't be less than 25-30 years, Pathetic. embarassed
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by kizito96(m): 2:32pm On Aug 31, 2011
The whole system need overhauling. Jonathan is just a figure head
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by Gbenge77(m): 3:45pm On Aug 31, 2011
Why cant we maintain Fighter jets such as f-16's,f-18s and the likes?
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by EuroMeko(m): 5:17pm On Aug 31, 2011
Gbenge 77:

Why cant we maintain Fighter jets such as f-16's,f-18s and the likes?

You just don't get up and order those. It has to be approved by the US Senate I believe. Only few allies can order certain crafts, Israel, UK, etc

I am sure we'll get F-16s in the future when they are old and not as militarily potent.

FWIW, the Nigerian Pilot did a great job, this stuff happens.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by lastpage: 1:59am On Sep 01, 2011
@OLASODE2K
My own fear is that were the situation to be reversed, we would have been in a much trickier situation. Nigeria has only 6 fighter aircraft that can intercept foreign, hostile and unidentified aircraft. Unfortunately, they are ALL (sic) stationed in makurdi, close to a thousand kilometers away. I am at a loss of how our airforce can intercept a foreign &hostile aircraft that might sneak on lagos from the atlantic ocean? ,.,., Our security is worse than we have always imagined.


Hmmmm! l see!
In short, we are at the MERCY of the Northerners, should hostility break out!
They will simply bomb the South to smithereens!

So much for "ONE NIGERIA"! wink angry
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OLASODE2K: 6:45am On Sep 01, 2011
The truth is that the north has utilised excellently their very long yrs of ruling nigeria to their own selfish advantage. Let me start from the army which has 4 divisions. We have one mechanised infantry in ibadan, another one infantry division in kaduna, one composite airborne and marine in the east, one armoured division in jos. They now positioned the Central Army Depot in kaduna. All these are not by mistake. All the army heavy weapons are placed in this kaduna army depot. It is a known fact only infantry cant stand any stand tanks anyday. Hence all these ackward positioning of forces. The airforce has only their logistical group in southwest based in ikeja, none in the east, but the airweapons training sch in kano and most importantly, the tactical fighter squadron in makurdi, benue state. U think all these were done out of ignorance or illiteracy? If the their have access to the sea, i can swear the naval headquarters would have u been located in sokoto. But despite all the naval commands and ships being located in the south, they still sited the naval headquarters in abuja. Can u now see that we are doomed as far as we southerners are concerned? When obj was the president, he saw the anomaly and created upgraded the lagos garrison command to a full fledged division strenght. Immediately yar adua entered, one the first things he did was to revert it back to the brigade sized strength obj met it. A division usually has 3 brigades under it. And i pity my fellow southerners who ignorantly sees the northerners as foolish ignoramuses.

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Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OLASODE2K: 7:12am On Sep 01, 2011
Hence posterity wont forgive both jonathan and his ibo chief of army staff, general ihejerika if dont make use of the excellent positions to undo all these selfish arrangements so that other nigerians wont be shortchanged and too scared to challenge the north even politically. Most of times that northern politicians wanted anything, they more than usually overdo things. The only bargaining power they use is to threaten southern politicians with their awesome firepower. And pronto we start shaking. If these forces are well-balanced, nigeria would be a much better place and it would trim them to size. The sooner jonathan tries it the better for nigeria. Unfortunately, i seriously doubt if he can even it.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OLASODE2K: 7:22am On Sep 01, 2011
Unfortunately, i seriously doubt if he can even try it.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by lastpage: 11:48am On Sep 01, 2011
@OLASODE2K
The truth is that the north has utilised excellently their very long yrs of ruling nigeria to their own selfish advantage. Let me start from the army which has 4 divisions. We have one mechanised infantry in ibadan, another one infantry division in kaduna, one composite airborne and marine in the east, one armoured division in jos. They now positioned the Central Army Depot in kaduna. All these are not by mistake. All the army heavy weapons are placed in this kaduna army depot. It is a known fact only infantry cant stand any stand tanks anyday. Hence all these ackward positioning of forces. The airforce has only their logistical group in southwest based in ikeja, none in the east, but the airweapons training sch in kano and most importantly, the tactical fighter squadron in makurdi, benue state. U think all these were done out of ignorance or illiteracy? If the their have access to the sea, i can swear the naval headquarters would have u been located in sokoto. But despite all the naval commands and ships being located in the south, they still sited the naval headquarters in abuja. Can u now see that we are doomed as far as we southerners are concerned? When obj was the president, he saw the anomaly and created upgraded the lagos garrison command to a full fledged division strenght. Immediately yar adua entered, one the first things he did was to revert it back to the brigade sized strength obj met it. A division usually has 3 brigades under it. And i pity my fellow southerners who ignorantly sees the northerners as foolish ignoramuses.

YOU are the man!
YOU are blessed for laying it out so succinctly!

Like they say, "There can never be Peace, without Justice"!

How then can there be "Justice" in our Nigeria if our 'brothers up North' are already prepared for "WAR" long before we even contemplate it?
And if they are already prepared for 'WAR', how then (or why then) do they keep singing ONE NIGERIA?


Those who have ears, let them hear, NOW!


Now am thinking, OBJ despite all his flaws, IS NOT SOO BAD!

Jonathan is making him a SAINT!
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by fid4992: 2:17pm On Sep 01, 2011
odiaero:

@Op, that is the normal procedure

pls do u mind giving me your email addy,certain info i want to get from about aviation.you can contact me
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by umand: 2:23pm On Sep 01, 2011
Will you guys give it a rest? What's the big deal? It's not as if the NAF crew crashed the plane. If any of you actually read the full article, you'll know that the crew followed all necessary protocols and acted professionally. Oh, one more thing, machines do FAIL.


I tire for the level of negativity on nairaland  angry
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by umand: 3:04pm On Sep 01, 2011
OLASODE2K:

The truth is that the north has utilised excellently their very long yrs of ruling nigeria to their own selfish advantage. Let me start from the army which has 4 divisions. We have one mechanised infantry in ibadan, another one infantry division in kaduna, one composite airborne and marine in the east, one armoured division in jos. They now positioned the Central Army Depot in kaduna. All these are not by mistake. All the army heavy weapons are placed in this kaduna army depot. It is a known fact only infantry cant stand any stand tanks anyday. Hence all these ackward positioning of forces. The airforce has only their logistical group in southwest based in ikeja, none in the east, but the airweapons training sch in kano and most importantly, the tactical fighter squadron in makurdi, benue state. U think all these were done out of ignorance or illiteracy? If the their have access to the sea, i can swear the naval headquarters would have u been located in sokoto. But despite all the naval commands and ships being located in the south, they still sited the naval headquarters in abuja. Can u now see that we are doomed as far as we southerners are concerned? When obj was the president, he saw the anomaly and created upgraded the lagos garrison command to a full fledged division strenght. Immediately yar adua entered, one the first things he did was to revert it back to the brigade sized strength obj met it. A division usually has 3 brigades under it. And i pity my fellow southerners who ignorantly sees the northerners as foolish ignoramuses.

First of all, there are FIVE army divisions, with the 81st Division based in Lagos (its AOR). Also, you forgot to mention that these mechanized divisions in the south, including the 82nd Composite division, also have armored units attached to them, you know with their Centurion MK-3 tanks, along with APCs. And yes, infantry units can defeat armoured units if armed with the necessary weapons (ATGMs, etc) and tactics.

Regarding the airforce, yes Lagos has a Logistics Command. But you forgot to mention the Transport base in Ilorin where the G-333s are based, or Benin were you have the ATR-42 Maritime Recon aircrafts. Keep in mind that the NAF Helicopter training school is also based in Enugu with the new AW-109 LUH helicopters based there  (in the past, during the military rule, some of the MIGs were actually based here), with the deadly Mi-35s helos based at the 98th Special Operations Base in Port Harcourt. And have you forgotten that the MB-339AN attack planes were stationed in Calabar, and the NAF intends to move some of the Alpha Jets to PH? By the way, the weapons training school is in Kianji, Niger State, not Kano. It's only the basic and advance flight training school that's based in the later. One more thing, most flight training schools and weapon schools around the world tend to be based in regions with low rainfalls, and in some cases areas with large airspaces, and low air traffic. Maybe NAF located these schools there for these reasons.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by Mobsync(m): 5:29pm On Sep 01, 2011
We should be happy that Nigeria still has a functioning Hercules C-130 aircraft, I never knew we had them. I have only seen such aircraft with the US and UK air forces.
I've seen one at ilorin nd another at MMA, Lagos.
I think i have seen some at Sam Ethnam but I'm nt sure
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OLASODE2K: 8:57am On Sep 02, 2011
My friend, I am very happy with ur contributions along in respect to my earlier posting. It really opened my eyes. It is very obvious u are very close to the Nigerian military. However, u made one or two mistakes in ur response.
Truly, all mechanized divisions are set up in order to operate independently on the battle field. Hence they include all the army units like engineering, medical, reconnaissance, armoured, infantry, artillery etc. However, u need to read abt the tactics of modern tanks since the german blitzkrieg in 1939 when the germans defeated a much more experienced and better armed French in an humiliating 40 day war. The French spreaded their tanks as supporting units while the germans concentrated their tanks into panzer combat armies. This same tactics was effectively used to almost humiliatingly defeat the Russians too.
And since these great humiliations, successive western countries even used this tactics in order to be able to defeat the germans themselves. Since then no big war has been fought without the employment of this blitzkrieg tactics except in heavily forested Vietnam where tanks are useless. Of course u can easily defeat tanks with ATGMs. Meanwhile u need to be reminded that Nigeria army is still been armed with RPG-7 which is very useless against against modern tanks or ERA [explosive reactive armour]-armed tanks. It is only RPG-29 that can destroy most modern tanks. So therefore if the northerners invade the south with a column of tanks today, u think ur RPG-7 will stop them? U make me laugh. Aside from this, ur anti tank weapons like ATGMs can only be effective if the northern generals are so dumb to deploy tanks without adequate infantry screens. Me that is never a military man self would shoot any general dumb enough to commit this dumb mistake too. B4 u attack a place with tanks, infantry must first of all the deployed on the sides of the tanks to take of anti tank crews first. Hence making nonsense of ur anti tank crews.
Pls u need to google to find out if the former Lagos Garrison Command has really been converted to a division now. The said conversion was made by obj but late yar adua reverted it back to the former LGC status. Please just confirm online now.
Concerning the airforce, why would they place only transport and reconnaissance aircraft in the south? And the only attack planes u said were in the east were either scraped or allowed to rot away and u cant see beyond ur nose? In the military, u have offensive weapons, defensive weapons, airlift platforms, recce platforms and communication equipment. As far as u can bring destructions to the doorsteps of ur enemy anytime and anyhow u want, even if ur enemy is much more better equipped in the other areas, u will always carry the day. If a commander with only the offensive weaponry is creative enough, he would hardly feel too much his handicaps on the battlefield. Even to make matters worse, u even mentioned the Mi-35s, but u can I ask u a question sir?
Have u ever seen anywhere in the world where an helicopter gunship shot down an airborne plane b4? Helicopters only destroy planes still on the tarmac. I stand to be corrected. Hind is only effective against infantry and if u use the right weapons against tanks, APCs, and fortifications.
But this same alpha jets u indicated would be moved to PH is a very sad reminder to the status of our aircraft. Last yr, after the 6 chinese combat aircraft were bought, the airforce were indicating their willingness to retire their fleet of 24 alpha jets. So I am very surprised that in order to pull off the great deceit they told us that they are relocating them to PH to give us false hope of sincerity? Why cant they move the six Chinese aircraft to PH?


Mind u, the alpha jets is not even an attack aircraft but just an ordinary jet trainer and production has ceased in the assembly plants.
They are very good in the act of giving us, the southerners, only the less dangerous weapons systems. They take an assault rifle and give us a shotgun. They also take the most advanced jets while give us helicopters that have hausa crews. I am neither an anarchist nor a warmonger, but I can only read inbetween the lines. U said something abt siting of training schools all over the world, u are very right because the germans have been training their airforce pilots since the end of the second world war in Canada. This is because Canada has a very large airspace to play around with and even the weather is not as cloudy as the german airspace. Does that stop the germans from siting their air bases all over the country where threats are can easily be countered b4 it turns into an invasion?
The worst place in Nigeria to even place our combat aircraft is that makurdi. U know why? We have a long history of tensions with the conflicts with the French and the camerounians and from my history books, aircraft packed where they can be easily be reached and consequently destroyed have been the determinant to guess which side would eventually win a war. If the camerounians staged a surprise attack with French assistance, they would easily destroy most of our aircraft without suffering any casualities within two hours. Go and ask Stalin when Hitler suddenly attacked him and totally destroyed thousands of the best Soviet aircraft on the ground. Such wholesome destruction was too much for the Soviet forces to fully recover throughout the war. Even tiny Bafra destroyed more than 30 federal military aircraft within some weeks by using only two monoplanes fitted with machine guns and grenade launchers. They used element of surprised and flew at tree-top level thereby outwitting the federal radar systems then which couldnt pick anything at that level.
It is best sited in places like Abuja and must have a ring of anti aircraft missiles systems around it so that b4 they get there, their pilots would have undergone a lot of stress, distractions and casualities-thereby considerably reducing their efficiency, weapon loads, and alertess.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by imperiouxx(m): 12:32pm On Sep 02, 2011
@usmand and olasode2k,

It's obvious you guys have studied weaponary very well. You guys thrill me by teaching me about the Nigeria military defense but still security in Nigeria sucks, you and I know that fact.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OLASODE2K: 4:32pm On Sep 02, 2011
Its formations include the 1st Division, headquartered in Kaduna in the north-west, and 2nd Division (HQ Ibadan in the South-West, includes 32 Artillery Brigade at Abeokuta),[8] 3rd Armoured Division (HQ Rukuba Cantonment, Jos in the North-East, and including 21 Armoured Brigade Maiduguri, 23 Brigade Yola, and 33 Artillery Brigades),[9] 81st Division (Amphibious) HQ in Lagos, which includes the 9th Brigade, based at the Ikeja compound in Lagos, 82nd Division (Airborne and Amphibious) HQ in Enugu in the South-East, which includes the 2 Brigade at Port Harcourt, 13 Brigade at Calabar and the 34 Artillery Brigade at Obinze/Owerri. The Composite Division at Enugu was formed in 1964 as 4th Infantry Division, in 1975 became Lagos Garrison Organization; in 1981 became 4th Composite Division; became a Composite Division in May 2002.[10] 3rd Armoured Division was responsible in 1983 for the security of areas bordering Chad.[11]
Lagos and Abuja have garrison commands with the Lagos garrison as large as a division. 81 Division was the youngest Division in the Nigerian Army. The Division was formed on 26 May 2002 when the Lagos Garrison Command (as it then was) was upgraded to a full-fledged Division. The Division therefore inherited the security roles hitherto performed by the defunct Lagos Garrison Command.[12] However a later undated article in a Nigerian online newspaper says the 81 Division was later again renamed the Lagos Garrison Command. In the 1980s, the Army's brigades included the 7th Infantry Brigade in Sokoto. There are also Divisional Artillery Brigades, among which are the 32 and 34 Artillery Brigades,[13] ordinance corps units as well as Combat Engineer Regiments, and many other service support units spread across the country.
Re: RAF Fighter Jet Escort Nigerian Aircraft After Radio Failure by OmoTier1(m): 8:51pm On Sep 06, 2011
Don't understand what the poster is on about!

To the poster that said the C-130 should be cut up, I take it you know little or nothing about the C-130s programme. Even the UK still uses thier old C-130, if not for security reasons, I would have sent you the UK C-130 Aging aircraft life extension programme.

To date, there is no competitor to the C-130s in terms of far and near field battle drop requirements except for the belated A400M.

Aircraft life span is not based on the EIS year rather on flight circles, FC or flight hours FH, or Average Flight Time fatigue missions, AFT which ever is greatest.So far a good ISM is in place for the aircraft, there is nothing to be worried about.

The only challenge is the avionics which over the years will require modernization which often cost a lot of money!

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