~Bluetooth:


You guys should deal with poverty that has ravaged Nigeria first before thinking of advanced weaponry.what is the point in having a sophisticated military to defend your country against external aggression and having millions of your fellow citizens who can't afford a three square and are more likely to engage in internal strife/insurrection ? I'm sure you won't want to use those advance weapons on them.

Eradicating Poverty is naija topmost priority not advanced weaponry.

~Bluetooth:


You guys should deal with poverty that has ravaged Nigeria first before thinking of advanced weaponry.what is the point in having a sophisticated military to defend your country against external aggression and having millions of your fellow citizens who can't afford a three square and are more likely to engage in internal strife/insurrection ? I'm sure you won't want to use those advance weapons on them.

Eradicating Poverty is naija topmost priority not advanced weaponry.

Mad Cow:

Those Jets are very expensive o!!

If France loses one, they can replace it easily.. If Nigeria loses one, omo EKITI State Budget for 4 years never buy one o!!

Instead, make dem come carry Chachangi plane go.. Them fit wind down the window dey shoot them from there..

igbo2011: How much of these are manufactured in Africa? We need to make our own bombs, planes, weapons, drones, etc. We musn't rely on foreigners to supply us forever. WHat if World War III happens? If we are fighting America why would they give us weapons to fight them?

igbo2011:

I we were serious we would have the government heavily support the company so they can make the planes for us instead of foreigners. This was made in the 80s, if they were supported back then then right now we could have more other companies like that and even compete on a global stage. The government needs to do a better job with supporting Africans instead of supporting foreigners. Inferiority complex sha.

ndu_chucks: We have not yet checked the violence and terrorism by both JTF and Boko Harm, yet we are headed to Mali to generate new enemies while our borders remain as porous as the unit of very loose ladies the night. Methinks GEJ and his advisers have gone mad.

slim fit :
These are useless planes most countries don't use them anymore .

Chino_anyi: Y dey no go fite bokoharam wit al dis equipment

Burger01: Are these Nigeria war planes Looks like those war planes used in the movie 'Pearl Harbour'.. I beg go get Apaches..

ochukoccna: Operational history
Most actions carried out by the F-7 have been air-to-ground missions. In air-to-air missions, there have rarely been any encounters resulting in dogfights.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_J-7

This planes are antiques mehn,even at $3mill

Symphony007: Wow..who knew nigeria has an airfleet, those malian militants will soon feel the sting of the federal republic of nigeria. As long as they don't break down.

igbo2011: How much of these are manufactured in Africa? We need to make our own bombs, planes, weapons, drones, etc. We musn't rely on foreigners to supply us forever. WHat if World War III happens? If we are fighting America why would they give us weapons to fight them?

gst101: why cant we start making our war planes here in nigeria. What does it take to maintain a war plane?

naptu2: MiG 21

(Civil war, 1970s and '80s)

naptu2: D'Assault/Dornier Alpha Jet (Liberia & Sierra-Leone)
www.nairaland.com/attachments/832236_alpha_jet_Nigeria_jpg9cc24ccd80ef40286db3872cd0b4c221

The main fighter/bomber used during operations in Liberia and Sierra-Leone.
I'll never forget the BBC African Service's interview with a rebel commander. This was the one thing they feared. Even the BBC's reporter (think it was Jonathan Pelele) was in awe of it.

naptu2: Sepecat Jaguar
www.nairaland.com/attachments/832188_aj_jpg199339ef1b992ac8770dc0af7e1a0ce9

www.nairaland.com/attachments/832204_aj2_jpg489c28746be133f47df9dcf132475d9d

My favourite Nigerian Air Force jet, it was also used for independence day flypasts. (I think it was last used by the RAF in Yugoslavia '99).

naptu2: There are various theories about the decline of the Nigerian Air Force which began in the mid 1980s. Here are 3 of them.

1) The "Vatsa Coup": In 1986 some military officers planned to overthrow the government of Ibrahim Babangida. The plot was foiled. It was an amateurish plan that included the bombing of Dodan Barracks and Ikeja Cantonement by the air force.


After this plot, General Babangida decided to ground the air force. No new planes were bought and old planes were not repaired.

2) An air force officer stated that after one of the air force's display at a national event in 1987, General Babangida made enquiries about the strength and capabilities of the air force. He subsequently decided to ground the air force so that it would not be used against him.

3) The nations economy declined after 1982. It became worse after the implementation of the SAP policy began in 1986. The naira was also devalued. This meant that it became difficult to buy new planes and repair old ones. However, it must be stated that the armoured corp grew during this period.

Things got so bad in the mid and late '90s that the air force had to depend on the Alpha Jets as the only remaining combat worthy fighter/bombers.

President Obasanjo came to power in 1999 and decided too sell off the MiG 21s and some of the Jaguars. He also decided to buy Chengdu F7 fighters (basically a Chinese copy of the MiG 21) as a stop gap measure before buying better quality planes.

Unfortunately, we are still at that "stop-gap" point.


Chengdu F-7 Ni

naptu2: MI-35P Helicopter Gunship


Anybody remember Rambo?

naptu2: Hercules C130


The Charley 130 is the workhorse of the Nigerian Airforce (indeed a workhorse for Nigeria). In the old days, when super eagles players flew to matches on board the presidential jet, supporters club members often flew to match venues aboard a Nigerian Air Force Hercules C130.

Air force C130s have also been used to convey NTA News outside broadcast van to Liberia for the inauguration of Eileen Johnson Sirleaf, carry presidential limousines to states that the president is visiting and carry the corpses of prominent national figures to their hometowns for burial.


President Yar'Adua's corpse is being loaded aboard a C130

luluosas: I hope Boko Haram terrorists are watching this.

Dede1: I wish all planes, civilian or military, Nigeria sent to Mali are destroyed by benevolent forces. If Mali rebels wish to truncate the 1884 partition of Africa by European powers,especially in Mali, I strongly believed Nigeria has no business siding with France to say otherwise.

ROSSIKE: The problem is that it is not "Malian" rebels involved here, but foreign Arab insurgents who invaded northern Mali. They even destroyed ancient monuments in Timbuktu, something no African would ever do.

Dede1: I wish all planes, civilian or military, Nigeria sent to Mali are destroyed by benevolent forces. If Mali rebels wish to truncate the 1884 partition of Africa by European powers,especially in Mali, I strongly believed Nigeria has no business siding with France to say otherwise.