MAXIM RESPEK.
Peace!! Peace!!! et, QUI, more headed peace!!!! LORD bless Nigerian Military.
RIP all em dead cores. selfless indeed.

nigeria has military might,o yes!

Are you talking about the Chengdu F-7, Nigeria has the latest version and they were delivered to us in 2010.

the F-7, a modern version of the J-7

The KAF operates F-5s,like your F-7s ,basically 50 year old designs,though a new flight of 15 was pimped out by the Jordanians with the latest upgrades. They're a stopgap til 35 F-15s are delivered, (the deal has already been agreed upon).
Naijja should have a flight of similar interceptors which are the same class of su-27,failing that some mirage-2000s or even Swedish jas-39. How can Africa's giant rely on outdated airframe designs and still be a continental player?

Honestly i dont understand, this post is not made for people to express what they will do as PRESIDENTS. OR wat nigeria shuld do with its money or so on

IT IS 2 APPRECIATE THE MILITARY!!!! END OF STORY!!!! TAKE UR ISSUES TO ANOTHER FORUM
THIS IS FOR NIGERIANS TO OBSERVE AND APPRECIATE, INFORMATIVE COMMENTS N PICTURES!!!!!

Btw,I haven't seen a thread on this,which INMHO is a crucial matter.

The Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Lamido Sanusi (above), still forecasts [b]that Nigeria's economy will become the largest on the African continent next year, overtaking South Africa. [/b]The country's GDP is to reach an estimated $3o8bn next year, compared to South Africa's $202bn.

What this translates to in real world terms is that you must as a matter of urgency upgrade your equipment accordingly. Without the means (armour,airpower and naval capability) to protect your economic growth you risk irrelevance and worse ,losing it. Also the inability to project national force ,(a traditional African failing) makes nonsense of any regional giant pretensions.

B]Nigerian Alpha Jets[/B]

[B]Flash Back to the 80's, Nigerian SEPECAT Jaguar[/B]





[B]Flash Back to the 80's, Nigerian MIG 21[/B]



[B]Flash Back to the 90's?, Nigerian L-39 [/B]

Paca-Z:

Honestly i dont understand, this post is not made for people to express what they will do as PRESIDENTS. OR wat nigeria shuld do with its money or so on

IT IS 2 APPRECIATE THE MILITARY!!!! END OF STORY!!!! TAKE your ISSUES TO ANOTHER FORUM
THIS IS FOR NIGERIANS TO OBSERVE AND APPRECIATE, INFORMATIVE COMMENTS N PICTURES!!!!!

In other words, you think this post is meant for sycophants, praise singers and butt kissers.

Sorry bro. but this is a public forum. If you don't like it, take a hike buddy.

what we need is an aircraft carrier.

We have absolutely no need for an aircraft carrier and cannot afford it anyways.

pleep:

what we need is an aircraft carrier.

Are you on crack?!

texazzpete:

Are you on crack?!

yh he is

We need an aircraft carrier so that we may destroy the armies of ghana when the need will arise.

pleep:

We need an aircraft carrier so that we may destroy the armies of ghana when the need will arise.

We do not even need aircraft to take on the Ghanian army or any army in West Africa for that matter.

@ Bleep,

Pls stop reasoning like an idiot, y do u want to attack Ghana or anybody?

Can't we just send these guy to go rescue Nigerians in Tripoli.

Enough of these shakara joo

We need better equipment than we have, but certainly not an aircraft carrier. Those are used to project force in distant lands.
Decent amour, fast attack boats, a couple of submarines and aircraft (in the F16 class) would suit our status as a regional power just fine.

pleep:

We need an aircraft carrier so that we may destroy the armies of ghana when the need will arise.

Aircraft carriers are damn costly and are priced in region of 2 to 3 billion dollars depending upon size plus you have to pay extra 1 billion dollars for aircrafts and you need skilled manpower .
The operating cost of aircraft carrier is huge compared to other naval ship .
Plus you need destroyers,frigates and submarines to acompany the carriers otherwise they will be sitting ducks for enemy submarines.
All this cost 5 billion dollars which is waste for nigeria which donot have serious external threats

Haha I was joking About the carrier I dont want to attack Ghana or any one else. We all know that Cameroon is the real threat.

Beaf:

We need better equipment than we have, but certainly not an aircraft carrier. Those are used to project force in distant lands.
Decent amour, fast attack boats, a couple of submarines and aircraft (in the F16 class) would suit our status as a regional power just fine.

F-16 ? NOO lets get the Su-30 MK the type india uses , better than the super hornet,falcon and strike eagle

So who's up for a bit of fantasy
Basically we come up with a our own Nigerian navy like the ships we would want in it.

I'll bravely risk the scorn of Nigeria first

2 LPD- Probebly the Galicia class
2 Destroyers- Similar to British Daring class
5 Frigates- Meko A200SAN (Valour Class)
8 Missile boats- Stick with the Combattante III
4 Hunter-Killer subs- Diesel Type 214
2x Fleet AOR- Fort-class replacements
2x Fleet tanker- Leaf class
1x Forward repair- Based along the lines of future Diligence class
2x Ice breakers- For research and fun

This list wont include OPV's and other ships not meant for war. Nigeria is the next in line for super power status in all of Africa. Europe has lost it's influence and power ( ) and now it's Nigeria's turn to take Africa forward. I know Nigeria needs to work on poverty first but like I said, fantasy. Don't get too workerd up and have fun

haha this sounds like fun. i have do do a little research first tho.

lordangers:


2 Destroyers- Similar to British Daring class

Aren't destroyers obsolete? Frigates are the way foward.

Question would the Nigerian Military be honorable and not obey orders to attack civilians in Nigeria, Are they really honorable? or not

xterra2:

F-16 ? NOO lets get the Su-30 MK the type india uses , better than the super hornet,falcon and strike eagle

The F-16 is superior and its also the minimum standard for modern airforces. This link has videos that might interest you: http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2008/11/usaf-pilot-describes-iaf-su30m.html

I can understand if your argument is based on purchase and maintainance costs though, in which case I'd suggest the J-17, a sub-$20 million fighter produced by China and Pakistan.
A stealth version of this baby is also in the pipeline.

So who's up for a bit of fantasy Grin
Basically we come up with a our own Nigerian navy like the ships we would want in it.

I'll bravely risk the scorn of Nigeria first Wink

2 LPD- Probebly the Galicia class
2 Destroyers- Similar to British Daring class
5 Frigates- Meko A200SAN (Valour Class)
8 Missile boats- Stick with the Combattante III
4 Hunter-Killer subs- Diesel Type 214
2x Fleet AOR- Fort-class replacements
2x Fleet tanker- Leaf class
1x Forward repair- Based along the lines of future Diligence class
2x Ice breakers- For research and fun Wink

This list wont include OPV's and other ships not meant for war. Nigeria is the next in line for super power status in all of Africa. Europe has lost it's influence and power ( Angry) and now it's Nigeria's turn to take Africa forward. I know Nigeria needs to work on poverty first but like I said, fantasy. Don't get too workerd up and have fun Grin

Actually lordangers,that kind of investment would demand an indigenous ship building capacity. GO FOR IT! Too many negroes are all talk. If we had our own ship building industry, the embarrassing story of the KNS Jasiri wouldn't have happened. Basically the gov't floated a tender to build a 300 ft long OPV,won by EUROMARINE,AN ESTABLISHED Spanish constructor at the extremely reasonable price of 4.2 bn kshs. or 60 mn $at the time. The Brits and their local henchmen,who are neither few now quiet burst into an orchestrated outrage of barking and bleating. The gov't (state house,rather)never made the final; payment and the corvette is still there 5 years later,piling on hellish demurrage fees.
What went almost unnoticed was that the BRITS in the Moi era were never subjected to tendering processes and would win supply contracts automatically WITHOUT TENDERING!! Since then we've been making do with 4 of these Brit built Vosper Thorneycraft smaller,less able 200 foot corvettes

@kikuyu1
Good analysis. Like it, but this is fantasy.
Besides Nigeria doesn't really need a ship building industry. Pretend your the president or minister of defence. Your admirals come to you with a nice long list, what would be on that list?

Mariory:

Aren't destroyers obsolete? Frigates are the way foward.

They take more of a beating from missiles then frigates, they can carry more heli's usually. They lay out a political message. They can carry more arnament and can perform more duties. Britain has destroyers for escort duty of the up-coming super-carriers

@kikuyu1
Good analysis. Like it, but this is fantasy.
Besides Nigeria doesn't really need a ship building industry. Pretend your the president or minister of defence. Your admirals come to you with a nice long list, what would be on that list?

Fantasy-why do you say that!!? 30 years from now you're slated to be among the top 20 world economies. Can you keep that position without any meaningful indigenous warfighting equipment manufacture capacity including shipbuilding?? I think not,son.
A favourite onyibo tactic is exploiting regional rivalries into war then coming to the 'rescue' with arms embargoes when the victims have already gotten their collective sausage well and truly stepped on by aggressors armed by-guess who?
If I were the prez I'd insist the admirals start with corvette building using serving and ex-navy marine engineers. After maybe 5 or so years of experience they can then begin larger frigates,

kikuyu1:

Fantasy-why do you say that!!? 30 years from now you're slated to be among the top 20 world economies. Can you keep that position without any meaningful indigenous warfighting equipment manufacture capacity including shipbuilding?? I think not,son.
A favourite onyibo tactic is exploiting regional rivalries into war then coming to the 'rescue' with arms embargoes when the victims have already gotten their collective sausage well and truly stepped on by aggressors armed by-guess who?
If I were the prez I'd insist the admirals start with corvette building using serving and ex-navy marine engineers. After maybe 5 or so years of experience they can then begin larger frigates,

My bad, sorry there kikuyu. Your not talking fantasies, I am talking about designing your own navie being a fantasy not your ideas. I agree with Nigeria being a clear African super power in a decade or so, it's going to need strong industries driving it, yet it also need's cooperation. A ship building enterprise can't be set up over night. But there should be a good market for it in Nigeria. If it can build a space programme, give me one reason why it can't build a ship building programme to rival the likes of Germany, that's if Nigeria's government can get it's act in gear.