SmartyPants:


Not according to reputable rankings.

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing-africa.asp

PhiliptheArab:


Well it was bought specifically for the war on boko haram, not for conventional war

( Every country must have the ability to fight unconventional war).

peppermint7:
Wahala for who be insurgent
Make dem Carry this thing now de go borno

Farki:


You sure took your time to find this highly misleading list, let's break it down;

- First this list is for total military strength, the topic at hand is about Air strength.

- Even at that the way it is measured is highly misleading, population, road coverage, oil production all factor into the ranking and Ethiopia has no oil, a smaller population and is a mountainous area.

- It makes no mention of tactics at all.

Now let's get to the main point.

- It measures number of aircraft as superior but makes no mention of the types of aircraft available.

- Nigeria has more helicopters and trainer aircraft with trainers making 1/3 of the "military strength".

- The 13 dedicated attack aircraft are the Super Tucano planes that we have bought but are yet to use.

- Ethiopia has less aircraft overall but more fighters which are designed specifically to destroy other aircraft. If we were to have an air superiority battle with Ethiopia Nigeria would lose because most of the air power is focused on fighting ground targets.

- If we are even to take this list seriously Angola would destroy Nigeria in the air.

One hundred (100) GBU-12 (500lb) Paveway II (PW-II) Tailkits

One hundred (100) GBU-58 (250lb) PW-II Tailkits

Four hundred (400) Laser Guided Rockets including Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS)

Two thousand (2,000) MK-81 (250lb) bombs

Five thousand (5,000) 2.75 inch Hydra 70 Unguided Rockets (70mm rockets)

One thousand (1,000) 2.75 inch Hydra 70 Unguided Rockets (practice)

Twenty thousand (20,000) Rounds, .50 Caliber Machine Gun Ammo

bidierichie:


Pray that it didnt do accidental discharge

Macsjebs:
Nice one, we hope it delivers, even beyond expectations

...Lagos traffic lately is indeed worrisome and as if that isn't enough stress already, a lady in the car today shocked me when she engaged me in an argument over how I smelled

And I was like, Ma'am pls calm down and give me a minute to explain. It was no small drama as she went on and on, saying, I am a guy and not a lady, I shouldn't 'bath' myself with perfumes

Eventually, I explained to her that less is more with our mind blowing fragrances, It was indeed a happy ending after she got from me for trials and confirmed saying 'never in my over three decade on earth have I used such a potent and astounding fragrance'

This isn't made up and even reviews from Nairalanders on the thread on my signature corroborates it.

Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System




BAE Systems to Supply 9999 Additional APKWS II to Nigeria and Netherlands



BAE Systems is awarded $225 million contract to procure 9,999 additional Lot 7, full-rate production units of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II.

The procurement of the additional APKWS II weapons will upgrade the current 2.75-inch rocket system to a semi-active laser guided precision weapon in support of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and the governments of Nigeria and the Netherlands, the United States Department of Defense said in a statement Wednesday.

Work is expected to be completed in September 2020.

https://www.defenseworld.net/news/24227/BAE_Systems_to_Supply_9999_Additional_APKWS_II_to_Nigeria_and_Netherlands#.X8UIr81KjIU

SmartyPants:


Sir, I used that source because the rest are blogs.

https://www.africanmilitaryblog.com/2017/12/the-top-10-best-air-force-in-africa

Even here Nigeria is still ahead of Ethiopia.

But let me not stray too far from my original point which was that Nigeria does not need advanced fighter aircraft.

Even the most sophisticated fighter jet has a limited flying range so you only buy fighter jets if :

1. You have nearby powerful and hostile neighbors; or,

2. You have aircraft carriers or a network of bases across the region.

The point is, Nigeria is the air power in our region and those with superior Air Forces on the continent do not have the capacity to deploy them against us effectively. So we buy what we need, which is simply enough power to decimate boko haram.

NGpatriot:
This is the most sophisticated fighter jet in the world, the F-35B Lightning II aircraft armed with the Paveway II.


Our Tucano are coming with 200 Paveway II laser guided bombs.


The super Tucano is a mean beast, there's almost nothing the latest jet fighters deploys that the Tucano can not.

NdigboWorldwide:


You know nothing about jet fighters with what you just wrote above.

Farki:


You sure took your time to find this highly misleading list, let's break it down;

- First this list is for total military strength, the topic at hand is about Air strength.

- Even at that the way it is measured is highly misleading, population, road coverage, oil production all factor into the ranking and Ethiopia has no oil, a smaller population and is a mountainous area.

- It makes no mention of tactics at all.

Now let's get to the main point.

- It measures number of aircraft as superior but makes no mention of the types of aircraft available.

- Nigeria has more helicopters and trainer aircraft with trainers making 1/3 of the "military strength".

- The 13 dedicated attack aircraft are the Super Tucano planes that we have bought but are yet to use.

- Ethiopia has less aircraft overall but more fighters which are designed specifically to destroy other aircraft. If we were to have an air superiority battle with Ethiopia Nigeria would lose because most of the air power is focused on fighting ground targets.

- If we are even to take this list seriously Angola would destroy Nigeria in the air.

NGpatriot:



You are obviously not intelligent enough to express yourself with valid counterviews, just yapping your mouth for the sake of talking without any reference or your own sane and valid views is a sign of ignorance and lack of intelligence.

NdigboWorldwide:


Mr man, I have read majority of your posts on nairaland and have seen engaging you is a wast of time. I don't do partisan politics, I say it as it is be it right or wrong, You saying the aircraft is a mean one shows already that you don't know anything about modern warplanes, I can give you histories of all warplanes starting from world war one, but then you have to stop this your partisan politicking.

NGpatriot:




Some of you can be very annoying for real.

naptu2:


Yeah, President Babangida started a programme to build these kind of planes in Nigeria and several were made (they are called the Air Beetle), although they were kit planes.

However, one of the problems with Nigeria is instability. There was the June 12 crisis, Babangida left power, Shonekan came and then Abacha came and we were under sanctions and had an economic crisis.

The programme was not continued due to all these problems.