rka2:
You armchair Generals again speaking on operational matters you think you know about. Have you ever considered that there are nowhere near enough platforms in the air force's inventory to maintain a 24 hour coverage of the NE? And you have the platforms scattered over the country on different operations.
Then there is also downtime involving maintenance etc. Only 80% of not many platforms are available at any time. The Airforce needs a lot more close air support aircraft and attack helicopters than they currently have when you look at the size of the NE. There are also aircraft tasked on other missions and as such also not available at your beckon call.

More advanced countries are more successful in responding because they have aircraft available in the air near 24/7 as they have numbers as well as air to air refuelling to keep them airborne for long periods and available to attack when required with Forward Air Controllers always on the ground (I am sure a few people here think a pilot will just show up with his aircraft and immediately know friend from foe).

This is where the Tucano will be helpful with their loiter time as we don't have air to air refuelling to keep aircraft in the air longer. The pilots are getting trained, what we need now are the platforms in significant numbers.

Eta22seconds:
Exactly what we should be going for.

KingAzubuike:

The boy is smart, he knows what he wants.

Eta22seconds:

Anti-missiles Defense can cover I guess?

komekn:


You are inadvertently supporting my position.

If the USA truly believed in the efficacy of the A29 why would they have only 3 of these aircraft according to you, that's SHOCKING. When the USAF procures it procurers in hundreds not even in units of 10.

It's common sense that seems to have evaded quite a few here. if the USAF has only three, that in itself tells the story.

komekn:


I have been consistently clear about my position.

But you in your attemp to contend with me you are agreeing with me, without even knowing it.

It has not won any experiment and that's why it's taken 7 years plus and continous. Without a conclusion.

If after 7 years of experimental assessment you are still undecided. And you call that HIGHLY LIKELY then you are being delusional.

The USAF don't use it for anything of significance.

Tell me what the BATTLEFIELD RECORD is of the A29 in the USAF. You are now imagining things.

Somebody is selling you something they don't use or sell to thier close allies and strategic partners.

I posted a verbatim statement by the head of the USAF and he made it intrinsically clear the purpose of the light attack turboprop aircraft experiment. Read it please and stop conjuring conjuring things from your imagination.

Jelal0007:
All this haphazard way of approaching national security issues is mind boggling honestly. No creativity, no sound ideas, nothing. After all, their family ain't affected. Where's the intelligence in all of these?

Toju200:
i don't get ur point sir

Jelal0007:
leave it at that.

Toju200:
explain further...
Can't leave it

LTGEN:

Not sure you can stack all that on the deck and have a warship that will be ONLY 72m long and displace 800t
you got a RWCS
load from HELIO
Load from Missile system
load from RHIB
45 personnel
That is a lot .

bidex111:


BMAAT personnel inspecting a military outpost protected with Hesco sand barriers some where in the Northern part of the country.

BlackBaron:

Kinda ish I like!
Instead of going for $1 million 'Lamborghini' drones. Dicon should get serious and look for an OEM Chinese/Nigerian factory or get 'Hesco Gabion' machines, install them and start manufacturing this.
I already seen NA engineers with excavators.

This would save COUNTLESS LIVES.

LTGEN:

The boy is definitely not smart . no one will stand by him .
he is low in rank and to be brutally honest is expendable.
the unmentionable who said he stands by him is not going to do his MILITARY PRISON TIME
which is different from being in a civilian prison.
he will be court martialed and sentenced to hard time and it is very doubtful he will see the sun till 2021 arrives .
His biggest mistake is his foolishness and listening to SR REPORTERS
Good luck to him.

BlackBaron:

Kinda ish I like!
Instead of going for $1 million 'Lamborghini' drones. Dicon should get serious and look for an OEM Chinese/Nigerian factory or get 'Hesco Gabion' machines, install them and start manufacturing this.
I already seen NA engineers with excavators.

[/b]This would save COUNTLESS LIVES.[b]

Toju200:
private companies sef can handle dis....

BlackBaron:

[/b]Seen far too many private companies get stuffed by government or army hierarchy change. If Proforce after investing significant sums could get iron clad agreements to supply the government, even better.

Great revenue stream too. Gabion walls, shoreline defences and so are some of the other uses.[b]

Faithful007:
truth be told, buratai has carried so many complaints and allegations, starting from the Dubai houses to inefficiency, have you heard of complaints against the airforce and navy chiefs?

Toju200:
As part of efforts to rid the North West and North Central States of the Country of armed bandits and other criminal elements, the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI has launched a subsidiary air interdiction Operation, codenamed WUTAN DAJI. The Operation, which was preceded by the massive deployment of additional air assets and ground support equipment by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) to Katsina, is aimed at taking out armed bandits’ locations that were painstakingly selected, based on impeccable Human Intelligence (HUMINT) reports as well as series of Surveillance missions, in order to significantly degrade the armed bandits’ fighting capability before it could be brought to bear against friendly forces or innocent civilians.
Since the operation began on 20 June 2020, 10 locations have been attacked and scores of armed bandits neutralized, as confirmed by HUMINT reports. Some of the significant air strikes include those executed at Dutsen Asolo and Birnin Kogo areas of Katsina State as well as at Dogo Gede’s Camp in the Kwayanbana Forest area of Zamfara State.
At Dutsen Asolo, NAF jets dispatched by the Air Component attacked the cave/hideout of the bandits, destroying the main entry point and neutralizing some fighters. Some surviving bandits, who were tracked escaping from the cave area were taken out in follow-on strikes. Also, on 21 June 2020, at the bandits’ enclave in the Kwayanbana Forest, an attack helicopter took out one of the bandits’ logistics huts, which was seen engulfed in flames. Similarly, at Birnin Kogo on 22 June 2020, some armed bandits, who fled their dwellings in the centre of the camp to nearby bushes on hearing the sound of the attack aircraft, were neutralized as the NAF fighter jets hit them at their hiding positions.
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, who was in Katsina to oversee the Operation, has commended the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI for their professionalism. He has urged them to remain resolute in the conduct of air strikes whilst continuing to provide close air support for ongoing ground operations in order to eradicate all armed bandits; thus accomplishing the directives of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to restore normalcy in the North West and North Central Zones of the Country.
JOHN ENENCHE

Major General

Coordinator

Defence Media Operations

Defence Headquarters

24 June 2020

Fynline:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrWj9WIWs4Y

bidex111:


Very clear video.
Which ISR asset could this be ?

Toju200:
King air 350i

bidex111:



It’s like the NAF king air 350i fleet has deferent camera payload variants