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Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by pendicle: 12:58am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Posted on April 26, 2010 Following the initial high attained during the Nigerian Civil War, the Nigerian Armed Forces switched gear in its quest to acquire military hardware in the year 1975 which ended on a high note with the delivery in December 1975 of a squadron of MiG-21MF jet fighters for which orders had been placed by the ousted Federal Military Government of General Yakubu Gowon around 1973 Following the initial high attained during the Nigerian Civil War, the Nigerian Armed Forces switched gear in its quest to acquire military hardware in the year 1975 which ended on a high note with the delivery in December 1975 of a squadron of MiG-21MF jet fighters for which orders had been placed by the ousted Federal Military Government of General Yakubu Gowon around 1973. Ever since, the Nigerian Armed Forces have scarcely looked back as they press on in the quest to acquire modern military hardware for the nation. Between 1976 and 1979, the military government of General Olusegun Obasanjo acquired the first-ever armoured tanks fielded by the Nigerian Army. This coincided with the movement of the 3 Armoured Division and its relocation from Port Harcourt to Jos in 1976. The 1 Infantry Division had earlier in 1972 also relocated from Enugu to Kaduna. The military regime of Obasanjo also acquired Soviet 122mm artillery guns and penned deals for a MEKO 360 frigate which was delivered in the 1980s under the Shagari regime’s watch, Hippo-class Landing Ships (Tank) and British Vosper Thornycroft corvettes. As far as military hardware acquisition goes, the Shagari regime which held office between October 1979 and December 1983 holds the record. The Shagari regime splashed out 6 billion pounds sterling on military hardware between 1980 and 1982. This was expended on the acquisition of everything from French Combattante III and German Lurssen missile-armed Fast Attack Craft, Italian-made G222 military airlift planes and a squadron of Aermacchi MB-339 advanced trainer/light attack jets, Oto-Melara 105mm artillery guns and Palmaria 155mm self-propelled artillery systems. From France, the Shagari regime penned deals and/or took delivery of Roland Surface to Air missile systems and Aerospatiale (now Eurocopter) Puma helicopters. Also delivered were American-made C130-H30 Hercules (the stretch variant, that is) and anti-aircraft artillery guns. Contracts were signed and deliveries made of Swedish-made Bofors FH-77A 155mm artillery guns, Austrian-made Steyr 4K-7FA armoured personnel carriers, Swiss-made MOWAG Piranha armoured personnel carriers, British-made Vickers Mk.3 Eagle main battle tanks and Alvis Scorpion light tanks, squadrons of Franco-German Alpha jets and Franco-British Jaguar jets, German-made Fox armoured cars, Dornier Do-228 utility aircraft and Soviet-built MiG-21 jets, 122mm artillery guns and BM-21 122mm rocket artillery. Deliveries on some the procurement deals penned by the inimitable President Shehu Shagari, a quiet and modest man, continued well into regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. Some of his successors penned new deals for repeat business on deliveries of Scorpion and Eagle tanks and self-propelled artillery, continuing into this decade. The shortlived regime of General Buhari signed deals for additional deliveries of Scorpion light tanks and Vickers Eagle battle tanks and penned a deal for the delivery of Brazilian-made Engesa Cascavel heavy armoured fighting vehicles in an oil-for-arms barter trade deal. The Buhari regime was soon swept aside by General Babangida. The Federal Military Government of Nigeria under General Babangida signed deals for further deliveries of Palmaria self-propelled artillery, Alpha jets and Dornier Do-228 utility planes. It additionally signed fresh deals for the delivery of two squadrons(24 units) of L39 Albatross advanced trainer-light attack jets from Czechoslovakia, Romanian-made APR-21 122mm rocket artillery, Italian-built mine countermeasure vessels, British and French coastal patrol craft, Panhard Sagaie armoured fighting vehicles and VBL scout cars. The Abacha regime came and went while the Abdulsalaam Abubakar regime had little time to leave its footprints. In 1999, General Obasanjo again took the elm as democratically elected President and returned to meet an arsenal which had been blighted by sanctions and embargoes. He did very well in the event, acquiring fifteen Chengdu F7 jet fighter-bombers from China, Agusta AW 139 and A109 Power utility helicopters, Russian-built Mi-34, Mi-17, Mi-24V and Mi-35P choppers and gunships, T72 tanks, MT-LB armoured combat support vehicles, Ukrainian-made BTR-3 armoured personnel carriers, BTR-60 and BTR-70 armoured personnel carriers, Mowag Grizzly armoured personnel carriers, Turkish-built Otokar Cobra infantry fighting vehicles, French-made AMX battle tanks,Sea Eagle Offshore Patrol Craft, many dozens of gunboats and utility landing craft, logistics ships, Unmanned Surface Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and a comprehensive coastal radar systems. The Obasanjo government also signed deals for additional deliveries of Panhard VBL scout cars, Oto-Melara 105mm artillery, Palmaria 155mm self-propelled artillery systems, T55 and Vickers Eagle battle tanks and Alvis Scorpion light tanks. The Obasanjo regime was succeeded by the government of President Umaru Yar’Adua in 2007 and since then, it has paced orders for or taken delivery of a squadron of twelve Agusta A109LUH choppers, another squadron of twelve Eurocopter AS-550 Fennec attack helicopters, ATR-42MP Surveyor radar planes, five Eurocopter dual-purpose Puma radar helicopters, Shaldag Mk.II Fast Patrol Interceptor Craft, gunboats and combat catamarans and British-built Offshore Patrol Vessels. https://beegeagle./2010/04/26/nigerian-armed-forces-the-post-1975-trend-of-military-hardware-acquisitions/ |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Ngwakwe: 1:12am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Allow Buhari, Babangida, Abdusalami and OBJ to defend themselves on this matter or consult Nigerian Military for record of deliveries. What do you expect in the news when we always have yearly Defence Budgets? It's either they sign fictitious contracts as a cover or they resupply the arsenals in their stores as new consignment to cover for the amount budgeted. Signing a contract is not same as delivering the contract. Moreover, the testimony from Sen. Saleh corroborates with President Jonathan's assertion
www.freedomafric.com/politics/babangida-regime-disarmed-nigeria-military-after-okah-coup-safeguard-regime-sen-saleh-t1609.html 4 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by ayukdaboss(m): 1:14am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwake you hide your own comment? Na wa o 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Bruteforce101: 1:24am On Jan 09, 2015 |
ayukdaboss: Lmaooo. The guy is something else. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Bruteforce101: 1:24am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Oga Jona, your constant lies cant return you to Aso rock. Shame 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Ngwakwe: 1:33am On Jan 09, 2015 |
ayukdaboss: I was resolving administrative error by anti-spambot that hid this thread and erroneously banned the author. 4 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by ayukdaboss(m): 1:40am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwakwe:Of course I wasn't expecting you to accept that report Ngwaks. As long as it stated that weapons were actually purchased under Buhari's regime contrary to what a drunk Jonathan was saying yesterday, you must notice discrepancies in the report. 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by abacus(m): 1:48am On Jan 09, 2015 |
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Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Ngwakwe: 1:50am On Jan 09, 2015 |
ayukdaboss: Where are the weapons? We want delivery notes not media publicised signing. Can you imagine the number of contracts Nigeria have signed for new refineries? Where they built? As I said before and I repeat, let's wait for Buhari to refute the allegations. Thank goodness, he is on political campaign trail. 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by ayukdaboss(m): 2:00am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwakwe:You've not finished asking Jonathan to show weapons he purchased recently in the last four years after allocating the Military the highest budget for those years + 1 billion dollars borrowed. You want to see Buhari's weapons of 1985? Coupled with that Buhari faced and defeated a terrorist group. What did they use? Bows and arrows? This man...hope say sleep no dey your eye? 4 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Ngwakwe: 2:07am On Jan 09, 2015 |
ayukdaboss: Another lies in attempt to repackage over dented ragtag veteran and a man with zero democratic experience. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Firefire(m): 2:17am On Jan 09, 2015 |
dem no dey tire. wondering about like a wounded lion looking for old news to defend the retired tired general |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by pendicle: 2:17am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwakwe: Can your administrative error unban my pendy79 moniker too since it was same silly administrative error that banned it. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by pendicle: 2:22am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwakwe: How does your post about a senator saying his own assumption counter the exposee I put up. Is the Senator the Army Chief or Chief of Defence Staff to know what transpired in the military then? Anyway, Buhari left Government years before the Orkar Coup and I don't know how Orkar's coup concerns or relate to the speech of GEJ who said "the MAN never bought a SINGLE RIFLE" 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by pendicle: 2:30am On Jan 09, 2015 |
when a President who is privy to information and classified information openly exhibited dumbness and ignorance of all that transpired few years before he took power then it shows how stupid and daft the one we call PRESIDENT is. Defence purchase and ammunitions are never remove from the log of manufacturers, it is outright silly of GEJ to say what he said yesterday in Lagos. It smacks of one who is uninformed or maybe and most likely LYING and PLAYING to the GALLERY to earn immediate applause believing all Nigerians are as stupid as him and his mumuish set of supporters. Buhari engaged Maistastine Cult group in his regime, Did the Military use Bows and Arrows then or did they use catapault ni? Who gave this guy PhD? 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by ayukdaboss(m): 2:35am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwakwe:Point the lie out and objectively counter it 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Ngwakwe: 3:58am On Jan 09, 2015 |
pendicle: You lack courtesy hence I'm no longer interested in your case. Bye 3 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by meracool(m): 4:20am On Jan 09, 2015 |
GEJ didn't make his research well before saying Buhari never Bought a Single rifle while in office.. I pray stops Attacking personalities rather than telling us his manifesto and laudable achievement that will warrant his Re-Election.. |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by jamace(m): 4:32am On Jan 09, 2015 |
meracool: GEJ is very correct. Was Buhari the head of state in 1982? https://www.nairaland.com/2082831/another-apc-lie-bursted 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by pendicle: 8:45am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwakwe: You mean i should prostrate to you online after you admittedly made a goof, sorry to disappoint you, not everyone is cut out for a.sslicking. I dont know what case you have if you like ban it till the day of resurrection. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Ngwakwe: 9:57am On Jan 09, 2015 |
pendicle: When will you learn, I saw a new thread marked as spam by AntispamBot and suspected that the programmed Bot that hid the thread may have also banned you. I could've easily allow it until you report but since it's not in my character to sheer away from such responsibility notwithstanding who is involved. What is there that you can't understand? Is Ngwakwe the antispambot? |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by pendicle: 10:31am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwakwe: If the antispambot errorneously ban me and i call it silly, how does that relate to you taking offence? Is your name "silly administrative error" i was bringing it to your notice when you mentioned the observation that my main momiker was unjustifiably banned too by the admin error you quoted. If you saw this one then you ought to see the other one too and if you didnt i brought it to your notice. It is not the first time and i dont complain anyway until the ban expires but you observed this and revert the ban on your own. 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by OrlandoOwoh(m): 10:35am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Ngwakwe:You used a media report to counter the OP, but saying you don't want any media report but Buhari to counter Jonathan. How do you reason? 2 Likes |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by omenka(m): 10:44am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Bruteforce101:Utterly shameless fellow. Never seen anything like him. Imagine coming here to type all that crap when he made no show in the other thread where a catalogue of purchases made under the General was presented with credible sources as opposed to the blatant and despicable lie his Lord Commander told the world yesterday! And as shameless as things go around here, that thread is still languishing in the dingy sections of the politics board. Such a big shame. I wonder how some people manage to live with themselves. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by omenka(m): 10:46am On Jan 09, 2015 |
OrlandoOwoh:Dude is just shameless. Buhari is going to be elected the President of Nigeria in Feb 14th 2015. I hope he does himself in when the result is announced. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by omenka(m): 10:56am On Jan 09, 2015 |
Firefire:Is one supposed to use "new" news to burst lies told about history?? That is done only in PDP; refurbishing the past using present day lies. Jonathan said "not a single rifle was purchased". Isn't that a terrible lie?? And this is a man with kids, a leader of the most populous black nation on earth. He speaks and exaggerates like a drunken man in a sleazy pub. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by OrlandoOwoh(m): 11:08am On Jan 09, 2015 |
omenka:His overzealousness once cost him his post as a moderator. Seun had better do something about him because of the period - election, we are in. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Ayed44: 12:19pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
ayukdaboss:my dear the post was actually talking about some imaginary deals signed, but we are not interested in that. We are only interested in the amount of weapons added to the nigerian army weaponry during the regime of Buhari. But wait a minute, why are you over-labouring yourself bearing another man's burden? I think it is Buhari's burden to defend himself. Buhari is alive today and why don't you allow him to defend himself? |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Firefire(m): 12:53pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
omenka: Buhari should be in a better position to defend himself |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by omenka(m): 1:21pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
Firefire:Oh, really!!! And when you guys defend Jonathan here you don't imagine he can "defend himself", right?? Smh. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Firefire(m): 1:25pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
omenka: We are responsible for Jonathan’s defense and to defend our growing democracy without mincing words. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Armed Forces: The Post-1975 Trend Of Military Hardware Acquisitions by Firefire(m): 1:28pm On Jan 09, 2015 |
omenka: We are responsible for Jonathan’s defense and to defend our growing democracy without mincing words. A selfless-service to our motherland 1 Like |
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