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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 10:23pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
u guys did not understand mu post i was talking about the condition's that is the breeding environment that got manipulated to an certain extent , BH was not in the picture , its fore runners where , but later BH was a direct product of that environment which had gotten more vitriolic. 1 Like |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by MikeCZA: 10:32pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by sheyiofficial(m): 10:59pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Nigeria’s Tiny, Low-Tech
Alpha Jets Have Flown in
Brutal Wars Across Africa
Now the former training jets are
blasting Boko Haram
by SEBASTIEN ROBLIN
On the morning of June 19, 2016,
seven Toyota Hilux trucks manned by
Boko Haram fighters lay in wait near
Daira Noro, Borno State in
northeastern Nigeria.
Members of a fundamentalist
insurgency infamous for its terrorist
attacks and kidnappings of young
girls, the fighters had recently been
chased out of their camps in Sambisa
forest by an African multi-national
task force.
As the African forces advanced north
in pursuit, the Boko Haram fighters
had prepared a road-side ambush
under tree cover. Two of their trucks
were armed with heavy machine
guns.
The distant whine of small airplane
engines sounded overhead. An
unarmed civilian plane flew by.
Then suddenly, a small twin-engine
fighter — an Alpha Jet — came
screaming over the horizon. Radioed
the position of the Boko Haram
fighters by the unarmed plane —
actually a King Air 350 surveillance
aircraft — the Alpha Jet unleashed a
barrage of rockets on the concealed
ambush, followed by 250-pound
bombs and strafing runs.
The Toyotas were all destroyed and
the ambush force thrown into chaos.
Nigerian ground forces followed close
on the heels of the jet and chased off
the survivors. They counted 15 bodies
and two abandoned rocket-propelled
grenades.
This incident, as reported by Nigerian
air force Group Captain Ayodele
Famuyiwa, highlights the role of air
power in the struggle against the
brutal Boko Haram insurgency in
northern Nigeria.
In addition to the Alpha Jets, Hind
attack helicopters and F-7 fighters —
Chinese-built copies of the MiG-21 —
have taken part in the air campaign.
But the Alpha Jets, taken out of near-
retirement five years ago, also played
in important — and at times
controversial — role supporting
Nigerian peacekeeping troops in
Liberia and Sierra Leone during the
1990s.
This is the story of how a diminutive
jet trainer made its mark on West
Africa. 2 Likes |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by sheyiofficial(m): 11:01pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
A Franco-German collaboration
France and Germany jointly designed
the Alpha Jet in the 1970s to serve as
a two-seat jet trainer — the airplane
fighter pilots fly and practice firing
weapons with before they begin
training on combat aircraft.
The French Dassault and German
Dornier aviation companies were
interested in replacing American T-33
jet trainers — adapted Korean War-era
F-80 Shooting Stars — with an aircraft
of their own manufacture.
In the end, the Germans decided
they’d rather stick with American
trainers — but opted to produce the
so-called Alpha Jet as a light ground-
attack plane. You can tell the French
Alpha-E Jets apart by their more
rounded nose, while the German
Alpha-As feature a needle-sharp nose
accommodating more advanced
avionics and sensors, including a
Doppler radar navigation system.
The Alpha Jet entered service in 1978.
Eventually some 480 Alpha Jets were
sold to 13 countries. The 93 German
Alpha Jets retired in 1997, but the
nearly 100 French Alpha Jets continue
to serve as jet trainers.
The Alpha Jet has a reputation for
excellent low-speed handling and
being very forgiving for novice pilots
— in fact, the French air force’s only
complaint was that it was actually too
easy for trainees, who received a nasty
shock when they graduated to more
difficult-to-handle combat aircraft.
The small, lightweight jets — weighing
fewer than four tons empty — are
known for being highly maneuverable
and can fly as fast as 621 miles per
hour — faster than a typical airliner,
but slower than the speed of sound.
They can lug up to 5,500 pounds of
munitions on five hardpoints,
including precision-guided weapons
like Maverick anti-tank missiles or
even heat-seeking air-to-air missiles.
However, a more typical load would
include two SNEB unguided rocket
pods, each carrying 18 68-millimeter
rockets and two 250 pounds bombs. In
addition, Alpha Jets come with a 27-
or 30-millimeter revolver cannon that
can spit out 22 explosive shells a
second.
Now, even with two extra fuel tanks,
an Alpha Jet loaded for battle has an
operational radius of only 380 miles
and lacks many modern electronic
systems.
However, Alpha Jets are very cheap
and easy to maintain compared to
sophisticated jet fighters — and when
fighting insurgents hiding in the bush,
they are nearly as effective.
How cheap? An Alpha Jet requires
seven hours of maintenance per flight
hour, compared to 19 for an F-16. In
1978, Alpha Jets sold for $4.5 million
each — equivalent to $14 million
today. Used Alpha Jets are
considerably cheaper — one is being
advertised right now for $950,000.
This has led Alpha Jets to be widely
resold to both civilian and military
customers. Google even owns one.
Most military Alpha Jets have been
used in their original intended role —
as jet trainers. The Moroccan air force,
however, employed some of theirs in
its war against the Polisario rebels in
Western Sahara.
It’s the Nigerian air force, however,
that has made the most combat use of
the type. Nigeria reportedly acquired
its initial 24 aircraft — nicknamed “A-
Jets” — from Germany, but additional
aircraft have been acquired over the
years. Most of those photographed
appear to be the French models. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by sheyiofficial(m): 11:04pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Peacekeeping air strikes
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous
country, with more than 180 million
inhabitants, and has long suffered
from tensions stemming from ethnic
and religious divisions. The Nigerian
air force is probably most famous for
the widely condemned bombing of
the Biafra secessionist state — the
1960s equivalent of the conflict in
Darfur.
However, in the 1990s the Nigerian
military embarked on a more
defensible mission, at least in theory
— trying to restore order to a Liberia
torn apart by Civil War as part of a
West African peacekeeping force
called ECOMOG.
By 1990, the corrupt and brutal
Liberian government of Samuel Doe
had been nearly overthrown by two
rebel factions, the National Patriotic
Liberation Front led by Charles Taylor
and a splinter group called the
Independent NPLF.
Funded by the sale of diamond and
making wide scale use of child
soldiers, the two rebel groups
descended on the Liberian capital,
Monrovia, in an orgy of killing,
kidnapping and rape.
In 1990, the English-speaking Western
African countries agreed to form a
roughly 3,000-man peacekeeping force
called ECOMOG to prevent the capital
from being seized by the rebels.
ECOMOG’s largest contingent
consisted of Nigerian troops. Up to
12,000 ECOMOG troops deployed at
one point.
Things did not begin auspiciously
when Doe visited ECOMOG’s new
headquarters to register a complaint.
While there, he was kidnapped by
INPFL soldiers, and videotaped being
tortured to death while their leader,
Prince Johnson, drank a beer and
watched.
Unlike a typical peacekeeping force,
ECOMOG had to militarily subdue the
rampaging NPFL first before it could
try to organize a peaceful political
settlement. In the last four months of
1990, a detachment four Alpha Jets
hammered rebel enemy gun
emplacements and supply convoys at
Robertsfield International Airport and
Charles Taylor’s headquarters in
Kakata, forcing him to move his base.
Later, ships running guns for Taylor
were sunk in the seaport of Buchanan.
“The firepower of NAF fighter aircraft
has finally dealt an incalculable blow
to the war effort of the NPFL leader,”
Time reported.
In October 1992, after a year and half
of sporadic negotiations, Taylor
launched a massive new assault on
Monrovia. A detachment of six NAF
Alpha Jets flew over a thousand
missions in response, employing
Beluga cluster bombs — a 628-pound
munition that disperses 152 small
bomblets by parachute.
Lethal against troops in the open,
cluster munitions are now banned by
convention in Nigeria because of their
tendency to leave behind unexploded
mini-bomblets long after hostilities
have ended.
The NAF’s search-and-destroy mission
were so effective in eliminating rebel
vehicles that the NPFL began attacking
at night. The Alpha Jet didn’t have
night-flying equipment, but the NAF
decided to give it a try anyway.
Experienced pilots flew several night
raids, fortunately without mishap.
The low-flying jets were reported by
to have chased and terrorized the
civilian population. “They say this is
proving Taylor was right, that
ECOMOG is coming to kill us,” one
journalist said to Africa Watch.
Humanitarian relief convoys and
civilian crowds were strafed and a
food-storage warehouse in Buchanan
bombed. A team of Firestone workers
described their horror as an air strike
hit a group of children playing soccer,
killing 40.
“”This is a low-tech war, and they are
sloppy,” one journalist concluded.
ECOMOG contended that it did not
deliberately target civilians, but that
the NPFL used them as human shields
— an assertion backed up by
independent observers. ECOMOG
troops, however, were implicated in
looting and humans rights abuses.
The siege of Monrovia was ultimately
broken in the spring of 1993, and
ECOMOG forces went on the offensive
toward Buchanan. However, the
Nigerian troops needed to cross Saint
John’s River Bridge, which had
already been wired with explosives.
Alpha Jets were sent to strafe anyone
trying to detonate the explosives until
ECOMOG troops managed to cross the
bridge.
From then on, the strikes planes were
involved interdicting the NPFL supply
convoys and sank six of the group’s
cargo ships. An air strike even took
out a captured Nigerian ZSU-23 quad-
barrel anti-aircraft tank. Several
aircraft were damaged by anti-aircraft
fire during the campaign but Nigerian
sources state that none were shot
down.
ECOMOG’s efforts culminated in an
election in 1997 — which Charles
Taylor overwhelmingly won. Six years
later, another rebel army brought
Taylor’s government to its knees. A
second African peacekeeping force
finally succeeded in installing a
democratic government, which has
kept the peace to this day under the
first female head of state in Africa,
Ellen Sirleaf Johnson.
In 1992, the civil war in Liberia spilled
over into neighboring Sierra Leone
when one of Taylor’s commanders,
Foday Sankoh — a.k.a. “General
Moskito” — led a force of 3,000
fighters called the Revolutionary
United Front to invade weakly-
governed Sierra Leone. The Sierra
Leone army rapidly lost control of the
country — and its soldiers began to act
almost as brutally towards the civilian
population as the rebels did.
Sierra Leone soon resembled the
wasteland of Mad Max, minus the
protagonists. Charismatic and
monstrous warlords with names such
as General Warboss III and Betty Cut
Hands led bands of drug-addled child
soldiers in a rampage of looting,
murder, rape, cannibalism and
mutilation with little apparent
ideological motivation. They did make
sure to capture profitable diamond
and uranium mines.
ECOMOG was sent to intervene in the
conflict in 1994 — and like in Liberia,
it would achieve temporary military
successes, and then utterly fail to “win
the peace” leading to a resumption of
war. In 1995, two NAF Alpha Jets
detached to support the ECOMOG task
force.
They soon paired with a small South
African mercenary contingent —
Executive Outcomes — which led a
counteroffensive to recapture the
uranium mines. The Alpha Jets, along
with mercenary Hind helicopter
gunships, pounded RUF positions with
bombs and rockets until they began to
flee — into the teeth of ground-based
ambush parties of tribal Kamajor
fighters.
The offensive succeeded in driving the
RUF from the country and led to the
Abidjan peace accords in 1996.
Unfortunately, coups and corruption
from within led to the resumption of
fighting. In 1997, the NAF is accused
of having dropped cluster bombs in
Kenema and the capital of Freetown.
In 1999 the RUF — now a group called
“the West Side Boys” — had overrun
Freetown in what was dubbed
“Operation No Living Thing.” More
than 6,000 were killed and much of
the city burned down while rebel
troops perepetrated mass amputations
of civilians. 3,000 Nigerian troops
supported by two rocket-firing Alpha
Jets led a bloody counterassault that
succeeded in driving the rebels out of
the capital — at heavy cost.
During the campaign, 10 aircraft
sustained heavy damage from anti-
aircraft fire. Three Alpha jets were
lost, though all the crew survived. The
cause of the losses are unspecified,
though at least one is believed to have
been shot down.
Peace would not be secured for
another two years until the
intervention of Indian, British and
Russian troops. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by sheyiofficial(m): 11:08pm On Jul 29, 2016 |
Air power against Boko Haram
The Nigerian Alpha Jets wouldn’t see
action again for more than a decade.
Many of them fell into poor condition
for lack of maintenance.
Unfortunately the winds of war were
blowing closer to home for the
Nigerian air force. In 2009, an Islamic
fundamentalist insurgency called Boko
Haram — which means “Western
education is forbidden” — emerged in
North Eastern Nigeria in the states of
Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
Nigeria is marked by stark religious
divisions between the Islamic north
and Christian south. Boko Haram
wishes to institute Islamic law across
the entire country and bring an end to
Western influence on society.
Fueled by government corruption and
brutal military reprisals that resulted
in hundreds of innocent citizens being
tortured and killed by government
troops, the insurgency escalated its
violent attacks year after year,
employing terrorist bombings,
guerrilla warfare and large-scale raids
on villages and military bases,
culminating in the infamous 2014
Chibok raid in which 276 schoolgirls
were kidnapped to serve as “wives”
for Boko Haram fighters.
The terror group also has made
attacks in Cameroon, Chad and Niger,
and has recently proclaimed a switch
in allegiances from Al Qaeda to ISIS.
In 2013, the Nigerian air force began
to take measures to refurbish 13 of its
Alpha Jets. Two were sent to Niamey,
Mali to support a multi-national
peacekeeping force there — but one
crashed fatally in an accident that
May. As Boko Haram seized control of
more villages, Pres. Goodluck Johnson
declared a state of emergency in the
North Eastern state. Alpha Jets based
in Yola and Maiduguri soon were
flying combat mission in their own
country.
Deep in Boko Haram territory,
Maiduguri itself came under assault in
March 2014, and the A-Jets bombed
targets right next to their base. As
Boko Haram continued its offensive,
Nigerian troops were forced to
withdraw from the town of Bama on
Sept. 1, 2014. Alpha Jets again flew
into battle to recapture the town.
On Sept. 14, 2014, a lone Alpha Jet
flying out of Yola was shot down and
one of its pilots captured. Boko Haram
filmed their infamous leader Shekau
— frequently reported dead —
mounted on a machine gun-armed
truck, then showed pieces of
wreckage. A surviving pilot spoke
briefly to the camera, before a man
cut off his head with an axe .
The Nigerian air force at first denied
the pilot’s identity, but he was later
confirmed to be Wing Commander
Chimda Hedima.
The Alpha Jet’s arsenal also may have
contributed to rebel attacks.
‘Bomblets’ stolen from Nigerian
stockpiles of Beluga cluster bombers
may have been given to young girls
for them to serve as suicide bombers.
Nigeria has signed the convention
agreeing not to employ cluster
munitions, but has not yet disposed of
its stockpile. The Nigerian army has
claimed that the jets have hit friendly
ground troops — possibly because of
bad maps.
Alpha Jets of the Cameroonian Air
Force joined the fray in December
2014 with air strikes against Boko
Haram militants that had overrun the
Cameroonian military base in
Assighasia. The attacks reportedly
killed 41 insurgents and compelled the
rest to flee. Cameroon still operates 11
ground-attack Alpha Jets out of an
original 27 purchased.
In March 2015, Nigeria elected a new
president, Muhammadu Buhari, who
set in motion a new military campaign
against Boko Haram, forcing the
insurgents back into sanctuaries in
Sambisa Forest Reserve. In March
2016, a multi-national African force
moved in to clear out the woods in
Operation Crackdown, supported by
extensive air strikes by Alpha Jets.
Another Alpha Jet crashed while
landing that same month. Both crew
survived, but it is not clear if the
aircraft is recoverable.
Tragically, air strikes targeting Boko
Haram were also liable to hit hostages
and abductees. One 15-year old girl
recounted being kept as a prisoner in
a school repurposed as a base by Boko
Haram in Sambisa forest.
“They hurriedly chased us out with
canes as military jets flew overhead,”
the girl said. “Bombs just started
dropping from the sky, and the school
buildings caught fire. Many of us,
including my three year-old sister,
were badly injured. She died within a
few hours.”
Operation Crackdown succeeded in
driving Boko Haram from Sambisa
Forest, and a new campaign called
Operation Gama Aiki — “See it
Through” in the Hausa language
common in northern Nigeria — sought
to push the fighters northward against
the shores of Lake Chad.
Three Alpha Jets and three F-7 fighters
have been assigned to provide ground
support for the ongoing operation,
leading to the attack described at the
beginning of this article.
Meanwhile, the United States
approved the transfer of four
unarmed Alpha Jets to the Nigerian
air force in 2015, and a fifth may have
been received this June. The Nigerian
air force set about jerry-rigging onto
two of the jet trainers its own
weapons hardpoints capable of
holding bombs or rocket pods.
Reportedly, the modifications cost just
four million Nigerian naira — roughly
$13,000. Some reports state a sum as
low as $2,000. Given typical military
equipment costs, this stands as a
remarkable achievement. Foreign
companies had requested up to
$30,000 just to assess the cost of doing
the refit.
A Nigerian car manufacturer, Innoson,
has also been contracted to produce
spare parts for the NAF to keep the
old aircraft flying.
Nigeria has requested approval to buy
new A-29 Tucano counter-insurgency
propeller planes to replace its aging
Alpha Jet fleet. However, a U.S. law
known as the Leahy Amendment
prohibits the transfer of military
equipment to military units
responsible for human-rights
violations.
Backers of the Leahy Amendment
have opposed the sale on the grounds
that the Nigerian military has done
too little reform its human-rights
practices.
Boko Haram has displaced more than
a million people and killed at least
10,000 others.
The Nigerian government has declared
that Boko Haram is “technically
defeated.” Most experts are skeptical.
Undeniably, substantial military
progress has been made by Nigerian
and its allied African troops. If that
military progress doesn’t lead to real
political and economic reforms,
however, northeastern Nigeria risks
succumbing to long-lasting conflict
just like Liberia and Sierra Leone did
under ECOMOG.
The Alpha Jet has proven to be a cost-
efficient weapon when employed in
counter-insurgency warfare, if not
always a discriminate one. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 4:12am On Jul 30, 2016 |
An unsuccessful VBIED attack, bomb failed to detonate I guess 2 Likes
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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by celeron40(m): 6:44am On Jul 30, 2016 |
bidexiii:Why was it even allowed to get that close? 2 Likes |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by sheyiofficial(m): 7:13am On Jul 30, 2016 |
Chibok girls: Soldier narrates how
Sera Luka was rescued
By John Owen Nwachukwu on July 29,
2016
A Nigerian soldier fighting Boko Haram terrorists,
Femi Adeolu has recounted what happened on the
day Sera Luka, said to be be among the over 200
girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok by the
extremist sect, was rescued.
According to him, Luka was rescued in May 2016
along with 79 women and children held hostage
by the terrorists.
In a post shared on his Instagram wall,
(femi_Adeolu), Adeolu stated that about 35 Boko
Haram fighters were killed in the clash.
He however regretted that he lost a soldier, who
he described as a friend and brother, during the
firefight. 1 Like
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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by persius555(m): 7:19am On Jul 30, 2016 |
BlackBaron:So are we to conclude that BH was 99% Nigerian with very little foreign input. If it is, then our ability as a nation to secure and protect our sovereignity needs to be worked on. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by persius555(m): 7:35am On Jul 30, 2016 |
celeron40:The attack probably happened in the dead of the night. 1 Like |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Odunayaw(m): 11:54am On Jul 30, 2016 |
JF-17 When this babies land here NAF mustn't dull us o...Make pix flood everywhere 1 Like
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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 2:14pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
Odunayaw: I trust the COAS, His always on top of the game when it comes to media propaganda of all its operations and achievement. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 2:20pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
#PARATROOPERS. 1 Like
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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 2:22pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
celeron40: Even it's at night am still wondering how it got that close. That's what I call a close shave with the death....  |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 3:21pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
nemesis2u: Bidexiii, please, at the risk of posting off-topic, i really want to correct this impression (third world country) about Nigeria in his post. Nemesis2u, Nigeria is by no means a 3rd world country, we do have multiple challenges but we are not a 3rd world Nation. Our GDP is over $540 billion, the largest in Africa and the 23rd largest in the world. We are classified as a middle-income economy. Perhaps you've never been to Nigeria, here are some images of the country. 4 Likes
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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Asuokaa: 3:50pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
Henry240: Oga u fall my hand, we dat knw our country, knws our country... I blame our leaders and some nigerians dat rubbish the country in mud... I even wonder why nigerians collects aids and grants.. This is a country someone will say ders no money and a latest ride dat cost almost $150,000 will pass your side and you will wonder what happen... I bliv 2018 is a reality just watch |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by TrueHeart365(m): 4:31pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
Henry240: no offence man. but Nigeria is a full blooded 3rd world country. we are not close to being a developed nation and those cities you posted lack infrastructures to qualify for a developed city. even south africa that is more developed is still seen as 3rd world. make we face reality and hold our polithiefians responsible for where we are today cos we suppose don pass this level. i know my post will annoy some peeps but i'm not in support of blind patriotism when it comes to being realistic. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 4:47pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
TrueHeart365: I don't make comments based on sentiments either. They are factual and are based on Reliable, Analytical, Sound data. http://data.worldbank.org/country/nigeria data.worldbank.org/country/nigeria According to the World Bank, Nigeria is a middle-income economy to this a fact, your post is based on sentiment not fact. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by TrueHeart365(m): 5:21pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
Henry240: actually you are the one making posts out of sentiment and your link is insignificant to the argument i raised. having a middle income economy doesn't make you a developed nation. we both know the ouk boom got us there and not a sophisticated or industrialized economy. now that the oil is basically useless we are back to square one. so, there is no correlation between your link to a developed economy/country and yes bro.. my assertion is based on facts and i'll just leave it here for you to read yourself yhe meaning of a third world country. again.. i don't mean to offend anyone. just saying it as it is because denial don't erase the problems. 1 Like
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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 5:22pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
Nigerian Army relocates special forces training school to former Boko Haram stronghold he Nigerian Army has moved its Special Forces Training School to Buni Yadi, a town once controlled by Boko Haram in Yobe State. Created at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency, the Special Forces is considered one Nigerian Army’s most effective fighting unit. While giving reasons why the training school was moved from Niger State to Buni Yadi, the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, said it was because of the strategic location of the town in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgents. “We know the importance of this place – Buni Yadi. This is the route they (insurgents) passed through to other parts of the North East and even Plateau in the North Central,” he said while addressing troops at the training school on Saturday. “It is better for us to have dominated and taken over the place,” the Lieutenant General said while assuring the troops of their welfare and logistics need, including required equipment to prosecute the war. Buni Yadi, the headquarters of Gujba Local Government Area, was controlled by the Boko Haram for several months before it was recaptured by the military in March 2015. It is the town where 59 schoolboys were murdered by the Boko Haram as they slept in their dormitories at a Federal Government College in 2014. The town is also the headquarters of the 27 Task Force Brigade of the Nigeria Army. Speaking on Saturday, Mr. Buratai assured that the military will restore full peace to the North East in line with the desire of President Muhammadu Buhari. He charged the troops to sustain the momentum of ongoing counter insurgency operations to flush out the insurgents. According to him, “Operation Lafia Dole’ has entered a critical stage. You must sustain the momentum; there is no going back “There is no time to waste. We want full restoration of peace in the North East. That is what the president wants,” the chief of army staff said. Mr. Buratai later told journalists that he was in Buni Yadi to see how the troops undergoing the Special Forces training were faring. He explained that the exercise was to make the personnel resilient and be able to withstand challenges they might face in the course of the ongoing operations. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 5:32pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
TrueHeart365: Henry240: You don't even understand what you're responding to, yet you're responding. I'm not going to go back and forth with this. Thanks for correlating what i've been saying. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by TrueHeart365(m): 6:05pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
Henry240: Henry240: actually, i do. and i know very well that you do too. unless you've edited your earlier reaponse to @Nemesis2u about Nigeria not being a third world country. of which you did not give good reasons to support your claim. but let's not derail this fine thread instead.  |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 6:45pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
TrueHeart365: Unfortunately you don't seem to understand my post which clearly is in black and white. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 7:07pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
@Henry240 this is what BlackBaron wrote ********************************************************************* BlackBaron: To an extent this is not the dynamics of the situation. Very little evidence of external support to BH has been proven over the years. You'd have to be Nigerian or have lived to know why it happened. Northern Nigeria has always been a simmering hotbed of conservative and almost domineering religious views. The Northern Premier after independence made some controversial statements right from the amalgamation. Few years after independence, it spilled into religious crisis which became a common occurrence. We previously also had a Boko Haram 'lite' in Maitatsine and his followers. It is no rocket science that a third world country would have poor intelligence but to state that BH is as a result of external preachers is far fetched. BH has been very localised to certain regions of the North, The NE and NC. The spread of sunnis goes across the whole north which then does not correlate with the theory else we would have potential cells all over. A better example are the Shias who even if not a major headache now are shown to have active backing from external sources. Its why we got to look into getting the right people and instead we get Islamists like a previous Zamfara governor whose body language leaned more into religiousity than a functional secular society. Those are the people oiling the cogs. ********************************************************************************* i did not say anything about nigeria being a 3 rd world country , i quoted a line from blackbaron post, to clarify about intelligence inaction. BlackBaron: and this was my reply to the above post nemesis2u: why the hell did i put it in between commas ? to indicate that it is a quoted line i am interested in defence not in stupid classifications and matters on which i have no interest compare the red color sentences in blackbaron and and the same between commas in my post if u had gone through , read properly everything u would not have jumped to this conclusion . and if u knew me by my posts in this forum u would not have made such baseless assumptions about me. please read twice before jumping to conclusions. and i think an apology is due because u plastered something on me which i did not even write. it was total surprise for me 2 Likes |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by bidexiii: 7:18pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
LOADING THE SPAAG ZSU-23-4 WITH 23×152mm AMMUNATION ROUNDS
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| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by BlackBaron: 10:19pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
I actually made the comment about Nigeria being a 3rd world country. The lack of some basic amenities, infrastructures and industries points to that. It ranks amongst the top tier of developing countries but still lacks a lot. Maybe developing would have been a better adjective. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 10:23pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
BlackBaron: Nemesis2u, it was my error. I saw it in your post, and i felt obliged to correct it. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 11:36pm On Jul 30, 2016 |
Henry240: Henry do you visit skyscrapercity ? |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Adminisher: 12:03am On Jul 31, 2016 |
bidexiii: Almost sure the guys were sleeping inside that MRAP after a hard day's patrol or battle....then rammmm!!! |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by Nobody: 6:07am On Jul 31, 2016 |
bidexiii:serious close shave , like someone said it shouldnt have been allowed to get that close . from my experience this kinda attacks takes place between 2 -5 am so its like the men there loosed their guard. those bastards usually follow this up with swam attacks. |
| Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by sheyiofficial(m): 6:22am On Jul 31, 2016 |
National Defence College set to induct of
military officers from Brazil, Turkey, Germany,
India in Sept.
The National Defence College (NDC) says it
will, for the first time in its history, admit
foreign participants from Brazil, Turkey,
Germany and India, for the college’s next
academic programme to be inaugurated on
Sept. 15, 2016.
The college secretary, Air Vice Marshal Uko
Ebong disclosed this on Friday in Abuja while
addressing a news conference on the
forthcoming graduation of institution’s course
24 participants.
According to AVM Ebong, admitting foreign
participants from these countries would
improve the institution’s strategic partnership
with the armed forces countries around the
world.
He added that the interest shown in the
college’s academic programme was a
testimony to the excellence that the college
had attained over the years.
His words, ``The National Defence College
provides the highest level of formal military
education intended to inculcate a sense of
advance military professionalism and
involvement in the decision making process.
“I am happy to state here that the next course
of the NDC will be having participants from
Turkey, Germany, India, Brazil and other allied
African countries and it is expected to be
inaugurated on Sept. 15, 2016.
“It is my earnest desire to continue to
promote the college as the centre of
excellence for developing potential strategic
leaders in Africa and globally’.’
Ebong noted that the college would in the
nearest future open its doors to participants
from the private sector as part of efforts to
increase public awareness on the issue of
national security.
He said the college’s proposal to admit
participants from the private sector was also
borne out of the need to increase the
understanding of civilians on defence and
security issues.
Ebong said the college had in the past years
of its existence made deliberate efforts to
improve on the content and quality of its
programmes which had attracted interests
within and outside Africa.
He said alumni of the college had
distinguished themselves in different positions
of responsibility given them both at strategic
and command levels.
The secretary of the college said some
aspects of the institution’s curriculum had
been reviewed while infrastructure and other
facilities at the college had been upgraded in
line with its growing status.
On the course 24 graduation, Ebong said 130
participants comprising officers from the
Armed Forces, Nigeria Police, Nigeria Security
and Civil Defence Corps and the Department
of State Service participated in the course.
According to him, other participants of the
course 24 include officers from the Federal
Road Safety Corps, Nigerian Immigration
Service, Ministry of Defence and allied
countries of Ghana, Sierra-Leone, Benin and
Zambia.
Ebong said the overall performance of
participants was adjudged above average
while their general conduct was satisfactory.
He said the highpoint of the graduation
ceremony was the presentation of certificates
to participants by President Muhammadu
Buhari on August 5.
Ebong added that the Emir of Kano, Sanusi
Lamido would deliver the graduation lecture
on August 3 on the theme `Deregulation of the
downstream oil sector and Nigeria’s
economic development: an appraisal’.
It will be recalled that the graduating NDC
course 24 was inaugurated in September
2015. |
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