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gabng:
IRT & F-SARS arrested Evans.

Irt and SARS did not arrest Evans. IRT has its men drawn from different units of the Nigerian police force. Most of the team members are mostly from F-SARS.

The base was not manned by special operation troops tho it housed some of them. The unit was immediately tasked with suppressing enemy fire till backup came in from AFSF and the NAF.

This is not about being heavily armed. Of what use is having T72 and IFV in a base and you have no situation awareness around? BHT fire as spread out meaning they launched attack with weapons having range between 5-10KM landing on various hardware.

The Nigerian border is extremely weak and porous so stopping Boko Haram will have to take another offensive dimension. There are plans to place new strategy which will further diminish the terrorist and give the military an offensive advantage instead of defensive even when being attacked by Boko Haram.

Since you can't have eyes from the sky 24/7? What else do you think you can do?

I will leave you to guess. The only pain here is that the capability development will take a minimum of 5 months to be inducted.

bidex111:
I wouldn't be surprised if by next year's budget; additional payment for procurement of new jf-17 jets.

Right now, how many orders are one ground and how much has been paid for?

bidex111:
NIGERIA APPROVES BUDGET WITH NEW PAYMENTS FOR JF-17 FIGHTERS



On 20 June 2018, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari signed the country’s next fiscal budget – i.e. the 2018 Appropriation Bill of the Federal Government of Nigeria – into law.[1] Not only did the final budget retain the $35 million US installment allocated for three JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighters – to be procured from Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) – but the revised budget added another $47 million US for the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) JF-17 program.[2] With Nigeria previously allocating $14 million US for JF-17s in its 2016 budget, it appears that the country will complete its payments to PAC by the end of 2018.

Not only does the allocation firmly settle that the NAF is to be a JF-17 user, but with its payments done, it should be on track to begin inducting these aircraft. Currently, the workhorse of Nigeria’s combat aircraft fleet is the F-7NI (i.e. a version of the F-7MG), a platform the JF-17 was designed to affordably supplant. Read more; https://quwa.org/2018/07/14/nigeria-approves-budget-with-new-payments-for-jf-17-fighters-2/

The Air Force procurement details on this JF17 is still sketchy and the top brass are being silent.

Details like how many are we purchasing should be explained especially with it always appearing on every year's budget.

jakeporeshenko:
Who knows. Every story has 2 sides, Boko Haram/media releases claim, it’s someone’s job in the army to release counter claim, at the end of the day you can barely receive the full narrative from either party.

The military facility was indeed attacked by Boko Haram.
The GOC was immediately moved out of the facility during the attack.
Soldiers did their best protecting the base but they lost some certain position.
AFSF unit was detailed to join the team to repel the attack.


The barrack was never in full control of BHT.

We only need to work more on having situation awareness around military facilities.

bidex111:
there are better options instead of destroying a multimillion piece of hardware that calling an A-jet ..

The A-jet was in there already. The troops on ground were not equipped with such capability. It's a unit that has been operating deep in that location for a very long time. They have been under BHT attack several times so they're probably low on some charges.

bidex111:
His talking about the military Base in Tobermory state.

The casualty figures might not be as high as 100 but expect something close to it.

Since I have been following these dude reporting on BHT activity on twitter; his stories as always come out true.

Have you forgotten the downed NAF Mil 17 helo, in as much I hate to dispute the story but it later came out to be true, despite military authorities claiming otherwise and other sad events like these.

The helicopter was never downed but had technical failure. Unfortunately, the aircraft fell close to the
terrorist side therefore the A-jet which went in with the helicopter could not perform CAS due to danger close. The aircraft kept sweeping the area and the jet was later called in to destroy military hardware in that area to avoid it being taken over by the insurgent.

bidex111:
#Update:

10 corpses of soldiers ambushed in Borno have been recovered, the rest remain missing. Also, sources said, #ISWAP attack on a military facility in Jilli, Yobe was more deadly than the #BokoHaram attack on a military convoy, same weekend.

Source: Ahmad Salkida.

The military should know that having men and guns do not win battles. For ISWAP to have attacked a military facility means ISR capability is extremely weak. Base protection is bad. Military facility housing over 500 soldiers should have an overall situation awareness of nothing less than 10km around it.

Most of the over 700 soldiers on duty are only armed with their riffle while the attacking force comes in with military hardware in huge number.

That's not the problem. The danger here is that once they get close to you, these hardware will hit targets up to 10km thereby leaving soldiers to run for safety as they are already exposed to danger flying in.

You have no situational awareness, your hardware are already hit, explosives are landing at different area. A suppressive fire is useless. The only hope is the Air Force or another unit that can come around to divert enemy fire which is not advisable due to ambush.

This attack can be linked to a similar attack on KDF with several lives lost. They were able to hold ground due to them sighting Al shabab with UAV.

A million unaware soldiers cannot stop an attacking enemy with huge fire power once the ambush commence. Just look at how the Russian PMC tried attacking the American forces. The American made use of air superiority and situation awareness. If you don't know what's going on around you, you'll have bunch of dead good guys wrapped with a nation's flag.

The Nigerian military needs to introduce some technology that will enhance the military operation. You all should forget about the military hardware. Cyber security, interception of communication signal, motion detectors etc will do much.

A quick look at an Egyptian military convoy will show you at least a vehicle mounted with sensor and communication gadjets. Even if with moles, the military will go through ambush everytime with this.

It's not about men with guns. Not about having t72 Rolling around. Imagine a convoy of T72 Not being able to detect enemies around the vicinity? An ambush force armed with howitzer?

Tactics needs to change.

Firstly, that is not a ticket but a boarding pass. A boarding pass means he already arrived at the airport and has done check-in process.

Blame your state government.

[quote author=bidexiii post=69348978][/quote]What vehicle is this?

Odunayaw:
Shame o...Shame

I feel so disappointed.

Post pictures please.

gabng:
DSS also getting Surveillance Drones

Can you post for last year?

SternProphet:
The surveillance gear stuff is scary. All those funny project sub heads sounding like Hollywood movies.

Better stop spreading hate against other tribes, spreading false information and insulting Buhari on social media. Insult him in your toilet instead, it will still hurt him.

Not a big deal. Looking at the price, it's a mobile gadget and not something flexible for deployment and coverage of even NE Nigeria alone.

They already operate ELBIT WIT.

EXCLUSIVE: Elbit Systems officials arrive; begin installation of $40 million Internet Spy facility for Nigeria

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/150333-exclusive-elbit-systems-officials-arrive-begin-installation-40-million-internet-spy-facility-nigeria.html

A closer look shows an IMSI catcher.

Nigeria?