kabe1:


No, we are just hypothetically speaking. Politics determines military procurement. Nigeria would not be able to buy the SU-35. That's not going to happen, the Americans would make sure of that.

kabe1:


Serbia can't upgrade MI-24 helicopters, they bought MI-35m from Russia. Czech republic, that's also unlikely.

As it is, I don't see us upgrading those choppers for the foreseeable future.

Covert1:


Nothing like "miraculously" in Air Combat in the context of putting in the good work, systems & platforms: air training hours, re-training, air combat hours, BVR, stealth, EW, ECM, doctrine, pilot skill, discipline, exposure with counter forces to pick up radar signatures, pay & incentives, motivation, logistics, satellites, AWACS, ground based systems and a host of other factors including allies play into inevitable or predictable outcomes other than that combat pilots attribute unseen forces as an "act of God" which can be bird strike or generally uncontrollable acts of nature.

kabe1:


It's not a question of might, warfare is not equipment, equipment helps, but tactics is more important.

kabe1:


With the war in Ukraine, despite some failings of the Russian military, they continue to advance and conquer territory.

while Ukraine has performed exceptionally well against the Russians, it heavily relies on Western military support; if the plug were pulled, it is likely that Ukraine would have been overrun.

The West continues to support Ukraine to the tune of 5-7 billion USD a month.

The West has better Air systems than Russia, but we've seen the Russians deploy many breakthrough systems in Ukraine.

I don't see how Russian fighter jets will compare against comparable Western Fighters, the gap is quite significant more so in the air to ground role.

Russia in many cases bombing targets with advanced SU-30sm fighter jets like the Nigerian Air Force using Alpha Jets. The lack of investment in laser guided systems, and similar JDAM kits by the Russians, a lack of investment in considerable number of UCAVs are showing glaringly.

Apart from the KA-52 and SU-25, I doubt Russian aircrafts can compare favourably to their American analogues.

Bacteria8:
Good afternoon guys... Pls there was a page on this thread where someone said something about America referring to Nigeria as the largest democracy in Africa. Pls I will like to be referred to the certain page, I want to read through it again for research purposes pls and pls

Bacteria8:


Guys pls treat edaakun

Bacteria8:
Good afternoon guys... Pls there was a page on this thread where someone said something about America referring to Nigeria as the largest democracy in Africa. Pls I will like to be referred to the certain page, I want to read through it again for research purposes pls and pls

Toju200:
hint try going to US embassy in Nigeria website then go to news or media you would see it there

MiddleDimension:


The US is this strong yet, they took 7months to defeat libya's pooly equiped military! The Nato campaign started in march and Ghadaffi got killed in october.

JOSCOFELIX:
Iraq was not equip like Ukraine. First USA and EU sanctions Iraq which stop the procurement of part for there aircraft, another Iraq was not support by any country especially in arm

jl115:
no I mean in terms of military, politics and economically they were powerful in the 80s

davefurn:


Just some.little corrections that's all..... Russia had their bad days, US also had that...... You can't compare iraqi war with us, which was just simple crushing in terms of equipments because no matter how you destroy us equipment, they simply make more; that's now terrifying fighting a superpower is but you on the other hand need to buy more unless you have another big nation backing you up just like in Ukraine situation inwhich the whole nato and EU is supporting them. Zelensky knew the trick, so he went round asking for help.

Stormtrooper11:


"were" is the key word. They power couldn't be consolidated. Zimbabwe fell into depression too under the "most exalted" Mugabe.

davefurn:
Even in that 1991. Iraq was just a scape-goat for US to establish their power after Soviet Union collapse and the embarrassing defeat of vietnam redemption, inwhich you see it hyped on hollywood. 2003 US invasion, is not even a war; Russian tanks t-64 to t-74 series tanks being blown up, what do you expect, Soviet are in favour of being large amount of light weight tanks in favour of heavy weight. Western tanks analogy is to have a heavy tanks as the vanguard but different from soviet doctrine that believes in a quantity is far better than quality in tanks and land warfare. Like towards the end of the ww2 before nuking japan; inwhich the us used their large amount of aircraft carriers to crush japanese 2 aircraft carriers after a suffocating loss from them,beginning of ww2 because of japan superior carriers then. That's quantity over quality that influenced the soviet and then Stalin ideology. He mass produced light weight tanks with cheap technology; so most soviet tanks are not as durable as the western/german tanks. If you want to judge the war, just it from 2 povs. Russia just barely recovered from soviet union collapse, we keep watching though. And defeating US, you can't use military to defeat US; just cut off their money and you have defeated them that's why US frowns heavily on anything against dollars sovereignty. Forgive my grammatical errors, not well now; so my typing is sloppy.

kabe1:


Yes, Ugandan MI-28N considerably provide more than the AH-1Z which Nigeria would be getting from the US.

The Ugandan Air Force would be able to use their MI-28N as they please without any restrictions, while for nearly 1 billion dollars, Nigeria might not even be able to use the AH-1Z Viper against Bandits.

While Nigeria gets laser guided Rockets (APKWS) which is an amazing system and works effectively against armoured vehicles including Tanks, it is not an ATGM. So that's also an edge for Uganda.

All things considered, Uganda got a better deal.

Notwithstanding, Nigeria also has MI-35M helicopters armed with ATAKA ATGMs, also we have the possibility of upgrading our MI-35ps to the latest MI-35m standards. Although a big "?" At this stage considering the war in Ukraine.

jl115:
yes I know... Hence why I said "were" the whole time??

Stormtrooper11:


This is the point I'm tryna make. You Russian fanboys should understand that Russia is not a superpower and the United States is one. That's why I'm saying that US would crush Ukraine in lesser time. If the US was fighting against let's say Turkey and let's imagine a scenario that the USSR still existed and supported Turkey with all its Eastern blocs, Turkey would had still been crushed. We saw what happened with the 1991 and 2003 invasion of Iraq. Iraq was bolstering with Soviet equipments and was still destroyed.

We simply can't compare alot of Soviet equipment to the Americans.

Stormtrooper11:


That proves my point that landlocked country can barely survive as a regional power.

Omofaye99:


I doubt the bold.


Please elaborate.

Stormtrooper11:



What do you mean Iraq wasn't equipped like Ukraine?! Do you know who the heck Saddam hussein was?! That Ba'athist invaded Kuwait. He chemically experimented on Kurds. Do you have any idea what the Iraqi Republican guards were?! Damn

Stormtrooper11:



What do you mean 2003 invasion of Iraq is not a war because of the quality of the Iraqi tanks?! Iraq had tanks with poor armour, so what?! That's what happens in war. You either win or lose. You either well-equipped or ill-equipped. Soviet tactics has been failing since the early days of the formation of the Isreali state.
The Iraqi loss may look like a walkover, but I bet the Brits can't pull that. The US is so powerful they make hard wins look easy. We gotta understand that fact.

You said "just cut off their money". If it was that easy to cut off American monetary power, we wouldn't have had the United States as the lone superpower in our 21st century planet.

Stormtrooper11:


This is the point I'm tryna make. You Russian fanboys should understand that Russia is not a superpower and the United States is one. That's why I'm saying that US would crush Ukraine in lesser time. If the US was fighting against let's say Turkey and let's imagine a scenario that the USSR still existed and supported Turkey with all its Eastern blocs, Turkey would had still been crushed. We saw what happened with the 1991 and 2003 invasion of Iraq. Iraq was bolstering with Soviet equipments and was still destroyed.

We simply can't compare alot of Soviet equipment to the Americans.

Stormtrooper11:



You haven't heard about CAATSA act?! You wanna be sanctioned?!

JOSCOFELIX:
oga if Russia and China have supported Iraq like they did in Vietnam I bet you USA will run dey same way they ran from Afghanistan. Sadam hussein
Might was stop when USA gave him an arm embargo stopping him from procuring spare part for his aircraft. Majority of saddam hussein aircraft was sanctionable. One thing u you should remember it is not about the number of troop you have it the number of equipment your troop have to fight that determine a war with worldpower. By James mark

Tinfoil:
Seems like Russia is heading towards a recession next year their industrial output is falling, inflation is high, and most importantly they have negative wage growth.


Even though in the media they look like they are doing well because of the oil revenue, the data shows that the sanctions are working

Tinfoil:
Seems like Russia is heading towards a recession next year their industrial output is falling, inflation is high, and most importantly they have negative wage growth.


Even though in the media they look like they are doing well because of the oil revenue, the data shows that the sanctions are working