In its continued efforts at reinforcing a culture of self-reliance, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has successfully reactivated 2 Mugin Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for the training of UAV student operators at its 401 Flying Training School (FTS) Kaduna. The repairs on the UAVs were carried out by the Air Force Research and Development Centre (AFRDC).

The 2 Mugin trainer UAVs became unserviceable about 7 months ago due to inadequate spares and components thereby putting a temporary stop to the ab-initio training of UAV student operators. With the successful reactivation and modification of the Mugin UAVs, the ab-initio training of UAV student operators has resumed in earnest.

Speaking yesterday at the flagging off ceremony for the resumption of UAV flying training in Kaduna, the Chief of Logistics, Air Vice Marshal Sambo Usman, who represented the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, stated that the reactivation of the trainer UAVs would ensure uninterrupted UAV flying training by the NAF. According to him, the NAF had in the past sought for training slots abroad for the training of its UAV operators without any success thus compelling it to look inwards.

The AFRDC was then tasked to select and train UAV operators for the NAF. Since the commencement of the in-house UAV flying training, 9 officers have been trained and subsequently deployed for operational duties. The officers have since then been contributing immensely to the ongoing counterinsurgency operations in the North East, conducting both combat and non-combat Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions.

In a related development, a DO-228 light transport aircraft, NAF 027, which underwent in-country Periodic Depot Maintenance (PDM), was also handed over to the NAF today. The reactivation was carried out by Messrs DANA Limited in collaboration with NAF technicians. The local reactivation of both the Mugin UAVs and the DO-228 aircraft resulted in huge cost savings aside from the added value of further building the technical capacity of NAF personnel.

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/07/naf-locally-reactivates-trainer-uavs-dornier-228-aircraft.html

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Sadiq weldone

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Who is sleeping

I love this APC govt.everybody is now looking inward.

To the guy above me nothing is working inward, Apc has failed the people nd care is not taken, the vegetable nd his semi-pastor are living Aso Rock come 2019.

Okoroawusa:
I love this APC govt.everybody is now looking inward.

wee you keep kwayet,Nigerians are looking outward towards London.

APC is a failed party nothing is working

Bullshit.... I came here hoping it was locally made

What a fuckery!!

Goahead:
Bullshit.... I came here hoping it was locally made

What a fuckery!!

it was locally assembled.

what a mockery of a government. they even invited one albino to cut ribbon on top refurbished kite.

Isn't that the Gulma drone? It was supposedly built in Nigeria some years back I wonder why repairing it in Nigeria would be news.

Khd95:
wee you keep kwayet,Nigerians are looking outward towards London.

APC is a failed party nothing is working

To the guy above me, APC has done with so little what PDP could not do in their 16 years of waste and looting. In the defence area, Nigeria has spent only a fraction of the amount stolen during dumbo's regime to acquire 3 times more capability. The only problem with the APC administration is the recession caused by oil price fall and bombing of oil facilities

God bless Buratai and Obiano.

I don't care about the UAV.

Luciferdevil:
To the guy above me nothing is working inward, Apc has failed the people nd care is not taken, the vegetable nd his semi-pastor are living Aso Rock come 2019.

bruv please brush up your grammar

I found myself commenting on almost every post today... I don't know what's wrong.

just got new meme pics @ the 5th picture.

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*oh no! De-fck-givers just fly off the planet*

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*oh no¡ NCAN ARE HERE*

*APC haters expecting Buhari dead bodies like*

Nice

Okoroawusa:
I love this APC govt.everybody is now looking inward.

Another senseless post from a myopic thought process

The handwriting on the wall is getting clearer.......

Nice pics

just want to book space nothing more.

What rubbish is this?

last to comment

Khd95:
wee you keep kwayet,Nigerians are looking outward towards London.

APC is a failed party nothing is working

If Buhari us not looking inward , thats his biz
But , nigerians have chosen to

why cant this UAV blah blah blah be moved to the south

AND A WHITE MAN IS THERE

talk2riel:

it was locally assembled.

what a mockery of a government. they even invited one albino to cut ribbon on top refurbished kite.

Bad belle is "aloud"

So cute, just like me

Good