The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plans to indigenously develop an armed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar announced during a 15 February ceremony held to mark the induction into service of the Tsaigumi UAV.

The Tsaigumi UAV was officially inducted into service on 15 February. (Nigerian Air Force)

The Tsaigumi is “just a stepping stone to greater heights”, AM Abubakar said. “The next step in our UAV programme will be to develop the Ichoku, Nigeria’s first indigenously developed unmanned combat aerial vehicle.”

The NAF said the Tsaigumi was produced by its engineers in collaboration with Portuguese company UAVision, and would be used for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations over land and sea.

The group captain who heads NAF’s research said the aircraft’s airframe was produced by the 431 Engineering Group at Kaduna Air Base, while UAVision supplied more technical aspects, including avionics and telemetry equipment.

Fitted with an electro-optical system that includes an infrared camera, the Tsaigumi has an operational endurance in excess of 10 hours, a service ceiling of 15,000 ft, and a mission radius of 100 km, the NAF said. While the NAF statement gave its maximum take-off weight as 95 kg, the group captain said it was 80 kg.

Another Nigerian officer said the new UAV had already demonstrated its capabilities during Exercise ‘Hard Strike’, which simulated a combat search and rescue operation to recover a downed pilot on 10 February.

https://defensenigeria.com/2018/02/22/taking-it-to-the-next-level-nigerian-air-force-to-develop-armed-uav/

They are just protecting the Nigerian Corporation that is owned by Britain and friends abroad. THE NAF cant do sh.it and is not designed to even combat Pakistan...Just to kill civilians that are BLACK

Good steps, we should develop our UAV capacity to augment our current mediocre air fleet.



This technology could really help us in developing manned combat aircrafts in the future. Partnering with the Portugese was a nice idea, those guys have got really good military tech. Partnering with the Pakistanis, Israel(if possible, on lavi technology) and South Africa(especially on rooivalk technology) will be very monumental too.

EVarn:
Good steps, we should develop our UAV capacity to augment our current mediocre air fleet.



This technology could really help us in developing manned combat aircrafts in the future. Partnering with the Portugese was a nice idea, those guys have got really good military tech. Partnering with the Pakistanis, Israel(if possible, on lavi technology) and South Africa(especially on rooivalk technology) will very monumental too.

Always partnering yet refuse to clean up your sh.ithole

TheKingdom:


Always partnering yet refuse to clean up your sh.ithole

Well, you have to take that up with the authorities, not me.


Or betterstill, we can work together to clean it up. Unintelligent ranting will certainly not achieve anything, unless your aim is to achieve nothing.

Trash.