Odunayaw:
Seems USASF ran into trouble in Cameroon

Serious one?

INTERNAL SECURITY OPERATIONS: NAF INDUCTS ANOTHER HELICOPTER REACTIVATED LOCALLY IN PORT HARCOURT

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has inducted into service another EC-135 Helicopter, NAF 549, which was reactivated in-country by NAF personnel in collaboration with some technical partners from within and outside Nigeria. The induction of NAF 549 today, 24 August 2019, at the NAF 115 Special Operations Group (115 SOG) in Port Harcourt signifies the substantial progress the Service has made in its bid to continually build capacity to cope with technological advancements in the field of military aviation and further prosecute the various ongoing operations in the Country. It could be recalled that the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, was in Port Harcourt in 2018 to unveil an Mi-35P helicopter, NAF 531, after an in-country Life Extension Programme, which was successfully conducted in Nigeria for the first time since the helicopter was inducted into the NAF in Year 2000.

In his remarks during the ceremony, the CAS noted that the addition of the newly re-activated EC-135 helicopter would be a force multiplier in the effort of the Service to secure the lives and property of Nigerians as well as protect the territorial integrity of the Country. He added that the successful in-country reactivation of the helicopter has enabled the NAF to save scarce foreign exchange that would have been expended in carrying out the Periodic Depot Maintenance (PDM) abroad. In addition, Air Marshal Abubakar explained that the in-country reactivation has enabled the transfer of required skills and expertise to NAF technicians, thereby helping the Service build additional capacity to sustain its operations. According to him, “this is in line with the Service’s projected end state, which is to ensure that in the near future, the NAF would have sufficiently domiciled the technical expertise and technological know-how to conduct the full spectrum of maintenance activities locally using its own engineers, technicians and resources”.

Speaking further, the CAS added that in order to ensure adequate manning and capacity building for crew of its various helicopter fleets, the Service was conducting various initial and advanced training for NAF helicopter pilots both locally and overseas. He stated that the Service recently approved the training of 10 helicopter pilots by Cobham Helicopter in the United Kingdom. “We have also commenced the tactical training of NAF helicopter pilots at the 405 Helicopter Combat Training Group (405 HCTG) Enugu in order to build their capacity to function more effectively in complex air-ground environments. All these efforts are being made to enable the NAF build its core competencies towards the employment of air power in the discharge of our constitutional responsibilities”, he added.

Air Marshal Abubakar restated his commitment to enhancing the welfare of personnel through the provision of conducive work and home environments for personnel and their families to enable them continue to put in their best in support of the various Internal Security operations across the Country. This, he said, would include the provision of additional married accommodation for Officers and Senior Non Commissioned Officers (SNCOs) in Port Harcourt as well as the eventual upgrade of Air Force Secondary School Port Harcourt to a boarding school. The CAS also used the opportunity to express the profound gratitude of the Service to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, for the priority given to NAF’s efforts in maintaining its platforms and equipment as well as the support given to acquire new platforms such as the A-29 Super Tucano, JF-17 fighter aircraft, Mi-35M, Augusta A-109 Power and AW-139 helicopters.

Earlier, while delivering his welcome address, the Air Officer Commanding Tactical Air Command (AOC TAC), Air Vice Marshal Charles Owho, represented by the Chief of Staff, Air Commodore Shehu Bakari, expressed his delight for the enabling environment the current leadership of the NAF has granted the Command to display its ingenuity towards the achievement of the landmark feat. He added that the reactivation would no doubt contribute to the actualization of one of the key drivers of the CAS’ Vision, which is, “robust logistics support and maintenance culture to sustain platforms and equipment serviceability”.

The reactivation programme of NAF 549, which had been unserviceable since June 2013 before its handover to the NAF in 2016, commenced on 10 January 18, with critical assessment of the helicopter, and the entire work was completed in June 2019. The helicopter is one of the three EC -135 helicopters inherited by the NAF from the NNPC. The other 2 EC 135 Helicopters, NAF 547 and NAF 548, have been reactivated in-Country and have since been deployed for operations.

Highlight of the event was the conduct of a Functional Check Flight (FCF) by pilots of the 115 SOG, under the guidance of the Commander, Air Commodore Elijah Ebiowe, to certify the aircraft ready for flight operations. After which the technical documents for the aircraft were handed over to the CAS by the Chief of Aircraft Engineering CAcE, AVM Musa Mukhtar, who subsequently handed these over to the AOC TAC for safekeeping. Also present at the induction ceremony were the Commander Operation DELTA SAFE, Rear Admiral A Akinrinade, as well as other serving and retired military officers and heads of other security agencies in Rivers State.

Before leaving Port Harcourt, the CAS, who was accompanied on the operational visit by other senior officers from Headquarters NAF, also had an interactive session with officers, airmen and airwomen of NAF units in Port Harcourt and other locations in the South South Geo-Political Zone. The session was aimed at keeping the personnel informed about the policy directions of the Service while also receiving feedback as well as suggestions from them on how to move the Service forward for effective and efficient service delivery.

IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations and Information

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Odunayaw:
Seems USASF ran into trouble in Cameroon

Is it possible that they (us) will get it back??

All depends on how it got into Nigeria, they need to first explain how they lost 6 military vehicles

joshingjosh:



Is it possible that they (us) will get it back??

joshingjosh:


Is it possible that they (us) will get it back??

Perhaps

GabrielYulaw:


He has a valid point though. Using Chinooks mean that the military can move men and material around far more rapidly than Boko Haram can react. With helicopters like that we can finally go on the offensive, rather than sitting around waiting to be attacked. In that, his suggestion makes sense, just like the Americans used Hueys to such good effect during the Vietnam war. Even if the US won't sell us Chinooks, we can buy the rough equivalent -perhaps the Mil M-26- from the Russians and Chinese.

Funny guys! I asked where you will get a Chinook from you are reeling out what you will do with one

#Algeria- weapons cache discovered in Tamanrasset on #Niger/#Mali border, containing what's described as an improvised 107mm rocket launcher, along with a 14.5 & 12.7 HMG, 2 PG-7s, and assorted ammo.

joshingjosh:
The Comd 23 Bde Brig Gen SG Mohammed on 23 Aug 19 carried out handing over and taking over of 6x Mineresistance All Terrain Vehicles (MATV) between him and the Comptroller of Nigerian Customs Services Adamawa and Taraba Command Mr Olumoh Kamaldeen. The event took place at Konkol in Fufore LGA. The high value weapons were arrested by troops of 23 Bde stationed at the Area . The troops were not convinced of the ownership and the location the weapons were helding to hence they were arrested. Meanwhile, after preliminary investigation,
ASA from higher Command directed the handing over of the weapons to the Nigerian Customs Services for more details to ascertained the shipment locs from and to where or otherwise of the weapons. Pics attached.]




Saw this info somewhere...who can verify??
This product looks like USA Made
What are they doing in Nigeria without official link?

Any update on this...?
Or Maybe link to read more news about it

klhazhik:


Any update on this...?
Or Maybe link to read more news about it

Stuffs like these are eventually buried' made secrete and we don't here anything about it again.

joshingjosh:




https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/348370-just-in-nigerian-soldiers-intercept-strange-military-equipment-in-adamawa.html

possibly was heading for ISWAP from either Libya or Syria....

Toju200:
possibly was heading for ISWAP from either Libya or Syria....

Doesn't look captured to me, maybe they miss their route... but I so much wish that US won't claim it and then it will be added to our Inventory

joshingjosh:



Doesn't look captured to me, maybe they miss their route... but I so much wish that US won't claim it and then it will be added to our Inventory

then ends in a workshop with flat tires and peeling paint because the engine cannot be serviced

joshingjosh:



Doesn't look captured to me, maybe they miss their route... but I so much wish that US won't claim it and then it will be added to our Inventory

What if it's US PMC owned, like you rightly noticed everything is intact, judging by the comm antennas in place..US transport wouldn't just randomly miss their route and end up in Nigeria, without US owning up to it.

rka2:
It might be a dream, but "some people" are saying the super tucano will start arriving from 2020.

https://www.legit.ng/1255241-nigeriall-delivery-super-tucano-fighter-jets-2020.html

"Nigeria to take delivery of Super Tucano fighter jet in 2020, the Presidency said delivery of the fighter jets is in federal government's determination to keep Nigerian Military in good fighting shape - Bashir Ahmad said the jets are expected to be delivered from the United States of America."

One of the most senior media officials at highest level inside Presidency of Nigeria calling Super Tucano a Fighter JET in this modern day of free info Google ! Ignorance, incompetence at all levels, yet this is the best government Nigeria can produce for now, those other elites people are calling to rule, are even worse than these ones we complain about. We cannot produce Ghandi, Churchill, Xi Jinping type of capable leaders in Nigeria, ah! we will suffer for the next 30 years! Some 10 years of big messy BHT war, yet our top level public officials still don't understand simple basic military words.

Also our dear army cannot re-strategize, redeem itself, save us from invasion and international shame. Our current NA COAS was trained in Bangladesh Military Academy, same Bangladeshi Army that messed up in Sierra Leone UN peace keeping, some 1,000 Bangladeshi troops and army generals were disarmed of all weapons then stripped down to underwear by Sierra Leone rebels with only AK-47, PKM not even anti-aircraft guns like BHT, same Bangladeshi army academy trained our top army leader, no wonder he told journalists "Old 1940 weapons are okay now 2019 to defeat ISWAP, it's NA troops who lack courage to use obsolete weapons to fully defeat BHT." Please lets leave sentiments aside, Nigeria has no quality leaders, no saviour anywhere. A-29 Tucano is turbo-prop aircraft not fighter jet, our dear Aso Rock Presidency bosses don't even understand what they paid $500 million big cash to buy.

joshingjosh:



Doesn't look captured to me, maybe they miss their route... but I so much wish that US won't claim it and then it will be added to our Inventory

If it is for the US then there would have been escort

joshingjosh:



Doesn't look captured to me, maybe they miss their route... but I so much wish that US won't claim it and then it will be added to our Inventory

jpphilips:



Funny guys! I asked where you will get a Chinook from you are reeling out what you will do with one

How was what I said funny?

QuietMynd:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs6csMFBmth/?igshid=1aol6bt3rsahd

A quadcopter drone with IR sensors observing from safe altitude above enemy position could help to effectively co-ordinate these fires. All the same, the men on the front seem to be holding their ground.

Fynline:


If it is for the US then there would have been escort

I have seen a ship transporting military hardwares(mbts etc) without any escort...it was shown in a documentary. And the ship was captured by pirates sha

US PMC

No escorts , generally the equipments r completely covered to avoid raising curiosity

joshingjosh:



Doesn't look captured to me, maybe they miss their route... but I so much wish that US won't claim it and then it will be added to our Inventory

For 5 or so vehicles u r willing to add exorbiant maintenance costs ?

nemesis8u:


For 5 or so vehicles u r willing to add exorbiant maintenance costs ?

Maybe the army will use the engine to learn R and D and start producing similar vehicles

bidexiii:



At least it's far better than your wack and almost YouTube content.

My contents are not wack. You know it.

S3BViking:


My contents are not wack. You know it.

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WACK.....!!!!!!!Your own na just to dey critisize people.......

Toju200:
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WACK.....!!!!!!!Your own na just to dey critisize people.......

his videos sound like strangled squirrel

Toju200:
possibly was heading for ISWAP from either Libya or Syria....

So i was thinking...,
It must definitely be heading to ISWAP Buh it can't come from Libya or Syria without being noticed, except it being transported on our local airforce .

Buh if it's actually heading to ISWAP, then this guy's are up to something

bidex111:




Stuffs like these are eventually buried' made secrete and we don't here anything about it again.

Hidden to the general public, buh if the military is willing to set things right here, they should dig deep into this matter. Let's see who our enemies are really are...

Personally, I don't trust the U.S of A.

joshingjosh:




https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/348370-just-in-nigerian-soldiers-intercept-strange-military-equipment-in-adamawa.html

Thanks boss