bidexiii:



Based on combat experience and it's the best & long serving SF team we've got. The AFSF are a new team, let's see how long they stay and survive.

Yes.

Nice, it seems we are utilizing some American advisers. To address our logistics in the AOR. VILA vertically integrated logistics approach, indicates helicopter mobility would be a key factor. As air mobile assaults are also termed vertical envelopment.
Hope this means that many tens of choppers are coming to the NA

PRESS RELEASE

TROOPS RAID BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS HIDEOUT IN AMDAGA MADACHI
*.....neutralise 14 terrorists, rescues 21 civilians*

1. Troops of 192 Battalion of 26 Task Force Brigade of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in conjuction with Civilian Joint Task Force neutralised 14 Boko Haram terrorists in a village suspected to harbour terrorists that ambushed a civilian vehicle in Pulka on Wednesday 5th September 2018.

2. The troops attained the feat on Thursday 6th September 2018 during an early hours clearance operation to Amdaga Madachi village in Gwoza Local Governmnent Area in Borno State suspected to habour the terrorists.

3. The troops engaged and subdued the terrorists following a superior fire power of troops in the village. Their aggressive posture, tactics and marksmanship resulted in the following;

a. The troops neutralised 14 Boko Haram Terrorists.

b. Rescued 21 civilians.

c. 6 women.

d. 11 children.

e. 4 men who are being attended to at the military hospital.

4. The Acting General Officer Commanding 7 Division Brigadier General Abdulmalik Bulama Biu, through the Commander of 26 Task Force Brigade Brigadier General Dahiru, has commended the troops for their gallantry, urging them to maintain the momentum by taking out all Boko Haram Terrorists within the Division Area of Responsibility..

5. You are please requested to disseminate this information to the general public through your reputable medium.

6. Thank you for your kind cooperation.

TEXAS CHUKWU
Brigadier General
Director Army Public Relations

More...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyndzq74SsI old vid but still cool

andrewza:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyndzq74SsI old vid but still cool

Long time man

bidexiii:
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God bless Nigerian army. Such treacherous conditions.

42 commando Royal Marines training Nigerian navy

olapluto:

God bless Nigerian army. Such treacherous conditions.

Yeah

Can you guess who that young soldier is?

bidexiii:
Can you guess who that young soldier is?

Okikiola baba Iyabo.

bidexiii:
Can you guess who that young soldier is?

OBJ

Snegalese display team

olapluto:


Okikiola baba Iyabo.

jakeporeshenko:
Snegalese display team

I.D of these aircrafts

‘STRONGER THAN 18 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES’ — NIGERIAN MILITARY RATED 43rd BEST IN THE WORLD.

The Global Fire Power (GFP), an institution which ranks the military of different countries, has rated the Nigerian military as the 43rd best in the world, in its 2018 survey.

This places Nigeria above 18 European countries namely: Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, Austria, Ireland, Macedonia, Finland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Serbia, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Egypt leads the African military power followed closely by Algeria, South Africa and Nigeria, thereby making the country the 4th in Africa.

The ranking is based on population of the country, manpower/personnel strength, financial strength and military arsenal.

Nigeria is credited with 181,000 total military personnel, 172, 400,000 available manpower, those fit for service stood at 40,710,000, citizens reaching military age stands at 3,456,000.

Out of the total military personnel, 124,000 are active while 57,000 are reserved.

According to GFP, the United States retained its prime position as the country with the greatest military firepower beating Russia and China.

The US has a total military personnel strength of 2,830,100 with available manpower of 145 million from a total population of 326 million.

The country is also credited with 13,362 total aircraft strength comprising attack, fighter, transport and trainer aircraft, 20 aircraft carriers, 38,888 armoured fighting vehicles, 5,888 combat tanks, 1,197 rocket projectors among others.

bidexiii:



I.D of these aircrafts

YB30 Epsilon

NAF C-130 pilots “buffalos”

OPERATION THUNDER STRIKE 2:
CAS COMMENDS YOUNG NAF PILOTS, URGES THEM TO REMAIN RESOLUTE

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has commended pilots and other personnel participating in Operation THUNDER STRIKE 2 for their commitment, courage and doggedness in the fight to prevent the Albarnawi group of Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) from establishing a foothold in the Lake Chad Green fringes. The CAS, who was at the Headquarters of the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in Maiduguri to monitor the progress of Operation THUNDER STRIKE 2, urged the young pilots to remain focused and unrelenting in their quest to safeguard the territorial integrity of the country. While assuring the young pilots of the commitment of the NAF in ensuring serviceability of various platforms in its inventory, Air Marshal Abubakar also stated that the welfare needs of the pilots, and indeed all NAF personnel, would continue to receive priority attention.

The steadily increasing number of young pilots who are flying various NAF platforms is a radical transformation from what obtained in the recent past when senior officers of the rank of Air Vice Marshal and Air Commodore were compelled to fly combat missions due to scarcity of young aircrew. It is imperative to state that most of these young, intelligent and courageous combat and operational support pilots, who are flying NAF platforms in the various theatres of operation, including the Northeast and Northwest, are junior officers of the ranks of Flying Officer to Squadron Leader within the age bracket of 25 to 33 years. They now fully man all components of the air operations ranging from combat; Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) as well as air mobility missions, while the senior pilots provide the needed guidance and operational directives. These committed young and energetic pilots conduct multiple missions daily and often remain airborne for several hours monitoring incidents and providing air support to the surface forces.

The foregoing is evidence that the CAS vision of ‘Repositioning the NAF into a highly professional and disciplined force through capacity building initiatives for effective, efficient and timely employment of Air Power in response to Nigeria’s national security imperatives’ is gradually being realized. In the last 3 years, the NAF has produced 90 young pilots, both male and female, most of whom have subsequently been deployed to various theatres of operation across the country. Additionally, for the first time in the history of the NAF, one of the female pilots is currently undergoing fighter pilot training in the United States of America. Many more young officers are also currently undertaking pilot training both locally and abroad to further bolster NAF’s operational capability.

Operation THUNDER STRIKE 2, which commenced on 3 September 2018, is an independent air interdiction operation aimed at destroying vestiges of BHT around the fringes of Lake Chad. It is a follow up to Operation THUNDER STRIKE 1, which was launched on 14 May 2018, to attack selected BHT locations that are inaccessible to surface forces on account of the swampy nature of the terrain in the aforementioned areas during the period of the rainy season.

IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force

Our biggest issue in Nigeria is leadership, this is thesame air force that looked like it had no hope 2010-2014 era

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Alpha jets fly at night now ?

jakeporeshenko:
Alpha jets fly at night now ?

With Alpha jets that does not av night capabilities..

jakeporeshenko:
Our biggest issue in Nigeria is leadership, this is thesame air force that looked like it had no hope 2010-2014 era

Am so so proud of the CAS and it's leadership. They are doing a nice job. I mean look at these PR materials.

It gives me hope in our military, we need someone like him in the other arms of military.

bidexiii:



Am so so proud of the CAS and it's leadership. They are doing a nice job. I mean look at these PR materials.

It gives me hope in our military, we need someone like him in the other arms of military.

We need people like him not just in the military, in government as well

jakeporeshenko:
Alpha jets fly at night now ?

Just saying
What about dusk or dawn

jakeporeshenko:
Alpha jets fly at night now ?

Yes, they conduct night ops.

allexpensive:

Yes, they conduct night ops.

How possible let is these

With a jet that does not have night capabilities.

allexpensive:

Yes, they conduct night ops.

I wasn’t aware, since when and how do they obtain targets and engage at night ? What kind of pilot aids