Wesporting:
as foolish as your question

Wesporting:
as foolish as your question

sanpipita:


The one GEJ commissioned flew, I just posted the video.

obynzo:

But why would there be so much fan fare for a prototype? In Engineering design a prototype is used for testing and modification before rolling out the real thing. The statement by the NAF was just to save face. Because if you go to youtube and check GULMA you would see the control room that was used for the test and also the aircraft itself. I wonder if all that gadgets was all for a prototype, and i know for sure that drone(GULMA) was deployed in combat against boko haram when jonathan postponed the election.

sanpipita:


Issue here isnt buhari commissioning a drone but the lies its Nigeria's first operational drone, imagine being the engineer that worked on the 2013 own and you wake up to hear this? we can't progress with lies, this is from the Nigeria defence site www.defence.gov.ng/index.php/78-featured/169-nigerian-air-force-uav-unveiled

here is video of 2013 drone being operational
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX1L_AxHXXw

rka2:
Why are there so many dumb people? The earlier UAVs (Amebo, Gulma) were prototypes while this latest incarnation is the first operational UAV in the NAF.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50755:nigerian-air-force-unveils-new-indigenous-uav&catid=35:Aerospace&Itemid=107

Godswillu:



Do not misunderstand I saw the video
the question is can a prototype fly?
If yes , why is it called a prototype

deomelllo:




Even a 1 dollar drone can fly and the word OPERATIONAL and able to fly are 2 different things.


OPERATIONAL in this sense means OPERATIONAL in the battlefield.

Lighthouseman:
This same man who scammed Nigerians with a fake result is doing anything to sound relevant.
A man who stole Obama's speech verbatim, commissioned a project earlier done by Obasanjo and now another done by Goodluck has shown that he can't be trusted.
One day, he will commission Aso rock.

desreek9:
By tomorrow or next, they would say the one GEJ commissioned is not Nigerian made but US made brought into the country as the first of its kind so there is a difference, then use PMB's own for campaign in 2019 as part of his achievement.

Get your pvc people, the dullard is all shades of wrong.

Godswillu:



Do not misunderstand I saw the video
the question is can a prototype fly?
If yes , why is it called a prototype

sanpipita:


I didn't know operational now has a new meaning, has the one commissioned by buhari flown is a battle field yet?

FarahAideed:


Are you buying into the nonsense prototype lies by the APC ...Do u think a president will you out in an open ceremony to commission a prototype ? Hell no

deomelllo:



Of course, operational means in operation via the battlefield.


What PMB commissioned was cleared for operation by the Nigerian Aiforce and the president, so it's ready for battlefield operation

sanpipita:


The 2013 drone was equally cleared to by airforce, why being so desperate to twist facts.

obynzo:

But why would there be so much fan fare for a prototype? In Engineering design a prototype is used for testing and modification before rolling out the real thing. The statement by the NAF was just to save face. Because if you go to youtube and check GULMA you would see the control room that was used for the test and also the aircraft itself. I wonder if all that gadgets was all for a prototype, and i know for sure that drone(GULMA) was deployed in combat against boko haram when jonathan postponed the election.

koladebrainiac:
ITS RECYCLE ITS ALLOWED


Modified


just read through and discovered the Jonathan is the prototype. its non-functional and not made to what this one is already

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, said his state was willing and ready to procure the Tsaigumi from the NAF, once available.

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, said the NAF would develop another UAV, called Ichoku, which would be Nigeria’s first indigenous unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV).

The NAF said the Tsaigumi UAV is a much more advanced and operationally ready version of the earlier Amebo and Gulma prototype UAVs.




The Tsaigumi UAV was produced by NAF aerospace engineers in collaboration with UAVision of Portugal. Capable of day and night operations, it has an operational endurance in excess of 10 hours, a service ceiling of 15 000 feet and a mission radius of 100 km. It has a maximum take-off weight of 95 kg and its payload is an electro-optic/infra-red camera system.

The Nigerian Air Force on 4 October 2016 signed a memorandum of understanding with UAVision regarding the production of UAVs in Nigeria. At the time the NAF said the collaboration would lead to the production of four UAV prototypes with two each produced in Nigeria and Portugal.



Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, Director of Public Relations and Information of the NAF, said on Thursday the Tsaigumi UAV could be used for many tasks, such as ISR, policing, disaster management, convoy protection, maritime patrol, pipeline and power line monitoring as well as mapping and border patrol duties. In addition, it could be deployed for the protection of wildlife, weather forecast and telecast. Additionally, in the maritime domain, the Tsaigumi UAV could be used for search and rescue, coastal monitoring and patrol of Nigeria’s Exclusive Economic Zone.


After Buhari unveiled the Tsaigumi he also examined other NAF research and development projects, including a Hind helicopter hydraulic accumulator diaphragm, aviation power pack, unmanned ground vehicle and F4 rocket launcher heat shield cone.

Also on display was a mockup/fuselage component of the NAFSA Eagle eight passenger multirole aircraft. The NAF said it was locally designed and is being manufactured at the Air Force Research and Development Centre to fulfil a variety of roles in the NAF.


http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50755:nigerian-air-force-unveils-new-indigenous-uav&catid=35:Aerospace&Itemid=107

duni04:
The Air force spokesperson clarified everything so i don't get the confusion! The one Jonathan commissioned was a prototype. It wasn't functional or operational. We never heard any reports of the Air force conducting any air strikes in the North East with a drone during Jonathan's regime.
The one Buhari just commissioned can conduct air strikes and is functional. So what are you dumbasses on nairaland ranting about Buhari again?

FarahAideed:


Prototype indeed ..so president now commission prototypes in big ceremonies abeg stop fooling yourself

sanpipita:


Yes a prototype can fly, its called prototype cos future designs and models will come from it, buhari equally commissioned a prototype and here is some fun fact, the drone commissioned by buhari works with diesel while one GEJ launched is remote controlled

deomelllo:



Feel free to show us where it was cleared for battlefield operation.

duni04:
The Air force spokesperson clarified everything so i don't get the confusion! The one Jonathan commissioned was a prototype. It wasn't functional or operational. We never heard any reports of the Air force conducting any air strikes in the North East with a drone during Jonathan's regime.
The one Buhari just commissioned can conduct air strikes and is functional. So what are you dumbasses on nairaland ranting about Buhari again?

sanpipita:


www.defence.gov.ng/index.php/78-featured/169-nigerian-air-force-uav-unveiled

Read the AVM Badeh address there, now can you show where the recently commissioned drone was certified operational for battlefield? that's if the clearance isn't same thing

Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, said the NAF would develop another UAV, called Ichoku, which would be Nigeria’s first indigenous unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV).

The NAF said the Tsaigumi UAV is a much more advanced and operationally ready version of the earlier Amebo and Gulma prototype UAVs.


http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50755:nigerian-air-force-unveils-new-indigenous-uav&catid=35:Aerospace&Itemid=107

SONofnezzar:
When we say Boharre is a certified dullard...Some people will come here and spew trash

sanpipita:


www.defence.gov.ng/index.php/78-featured/169-nigerian-air-force-uav-unveiled

Read the AVM Badeh address there, now can you show where the recently commissioned drone was certified operational for battlefield? that's if the clearance isn't same thing

Earlier in his welcome address, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal AS Badeh said that the UAV Gulma, could be used for both military and civilian purposes including patrol, surveillance, pipeline and weather monitoring, among others.

He said that the objective of the Nigerian Air Force is to manufacture a self-reliant indigenous equipment which could easily be maintained thereby minimizing huge foreign expenses.

He said that the cost of acquiring the equipment and training the pilots overseas is outrageous.

Air Marshal Badeh said that the UAV Gulma is like other aircraft, but it does not have a pilot nor passenger onboard and is remotely controlled.

The vehicle can take off and land from any suitable leveled ground, using just 12litres of fuel for 7hour flight. It has a surveillance camera that captures and records images from a height of 10,000ft above the ground within a radius of 100kilometers.