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Litmus:
Hmm, this last line. With all due respect, if I was a bolder individual and if I was as well informed on military matters as the others here, i'd be questioning if you are as you claim.

We make use of their equipment that's exactly what I'm trying to say. I'm not talking about military cooperation.

India will be building landing ships for the navy. They provided some equipment being used etc.

Like I said, being a military personnel no mean say I sabi everything. All I'm entitled to know about is my job. As you can see, in one of my post, I posted a picture of a seized military equipment and asked if it belongs to Nigeria. I don't have idea about everything going on except I'm at the top top.

Social media here is to enlighten us.

kikuyu1:
Think of 5th world Uganda struggling to service and maintain 3 Sues!

Nigeria will not go for a Su aircraft. There has been several talks about the Migs.

American aircrafts version sold to us will be downgraded. British and French aircrafts are expensive. The Chinese and Russians to the help. We have a very good cooperation with India but it all boils down to how ready the Tejas is and others.

kikuyu1

I can't say much on this. I'm not a civilian, giving out unguided information is not allowed as it can be misrepresented as the view of the Nigerian military towards a foreign entity.

So, I have no comment about that.

krattoss:
lol, reminds of this movie. olumpus has fallen.
Those two f16s tried intercepting that laser guided aircraft in the American airspace, only to be bulldozed by it and beaten blue-black by that single aircraft (forgotten its name, and would like to know).
Only for the USA airforce to send in another f16 which this time around, maintained a clear distance and was firing missiles from the back of the aircraft.
The missiles were shielded by the aircraft concurrently, whilst unleashing mayhem to the citizens, guards and security of the white house.
When it's shield Armour must have been exhausted, the one missile from f16 luckily hit it and it dissembled the Almighty aircraft..
So these things happen real life? ..
The aircraft in question is something like this(don't know whether it's it)

Now if f16 didn't hold its own against this, how will f7 fare ?
Mehn we need to upgrade big time

It the video was a F22. it's a movie and in a real life situation, there are ways of intercepting an aircraft.

The two aircraft flying side by side with the gunship isn't realistic. One should be at the back even if there's need to fly side by side.

The movie is actually unrealistic itself. Most of the military movies I have seen are so unreal.

There's a particular movie where 4-6 US SF attacked a base of over 200-300 soldiers and we're killing with one shots but the African soldiers with several shots fired couldn't hit the American soldiers.

What the heck do you think about us? I know how accurate my shots are. Even officers who are not combat active etc won't miss the targets.

This movies are what makes people think foreign troops will have an easy time taking 3rd world nations out or because of some in needed training always being conducted by their personnel here? They're good soldiers because of the access to equipments and hardware.

Nigeria SOF troops are now also tasked with training after leaving NE. We're talking about experience here and we have troops in large numbers with it.

ugo4u:
Aerial refueling? na Canada we wan strike? lol. On a serious note even our Chinese F7s can strike any part of Chad, Cameroon,Niger etc from any base in Adamawa or Borno. Note the F7 NI has a range of about 800km.
As for mid air refueling I laff again, na for enemy territory you wan refuel. Ask any combat pilot, once he is in an enemy air space, the only thing on his mind is to hit his target and return home while watching out for enemy interceptor/missile simultaneously. An aircraft carrier would have made more sense, but which water we wan station the carrier and most importantly which money we wan take buy am, when to buy aircraft na wahala.

This is funny but my own point about the enemy airspace thing is not that easy.

If you fly a F-7 into Nigeria sef, be sure you'll be intercepted before you make a 50-75km journey. With radar systems looking outside own territory, your whereabouts is being known already.

You need to be able to fly a long time undetected to strike your enemy deep into their territory. alot of things are involved.

1) Range of ammunition as this will reduce how far you need to go into the enemy territory.
2) cutting off enemy capability to intercept your aircraft (targeting airfield)
3) jamming their radar systems.
4) flying extremely low to camofluage or avoid radar detection etc
Can you afford this? It's not logical. These things are not for African nations.

Interception of aircraft into the Nigerian Airspace is less than 10 minutes of no radio contact. F-7 are always ready, this has happened before but victims are either commercial aircraft who are unable to respond to atc

Field0Marshall:
Do N.A allow soldiers who can afford private gear(like pistols and night vision) to use them on battlefield.

Pistol, where do you get it from? Nvg yes but it's expensive to guy too so just focus on it.

A collegue has one. Most units operate nvg but not all soldiers. It depends of mission requirements etc.

NaijaMutant:
Ordinary Cameroon has become like Europe to some Nigerians


Buhari is a curse on Nigeria.

Any Nigerian that refuses to be liberated shall be like one of these

cc: BMC

There are more Cameroonian refuges in Nigeria than the other way.

bidexiii:
One of Buhari's success against these fight terrorism, was visiting neighbouring countries: Chad, Cameroon, Niger & Benin to promote bilateral fighting force.

Note the MNJTF was never a new thing, it has been before the advent of PMB regime but they have never functioned has a multinational joint task fighting force.

Now Cameroon and Nigerian forces fight side by side without "beafs", Cameroon and Chadian air assets now are more involve in the fight.

Yes, their air assets conduct air strike with the presence of our own air assets such as ISR.

Who else knows that feeds from the ISR can be transferred to the command and control room during missions?

lionel4power:
Its good that common sense has prevailed.

Talk about the cooperation of Cameroon in MNJTF, the release of the arrested separist leaders to the Cameroonian government etc. I see the handwork of the French there. The presence of Canada in Mali, let see how the result we go.

What matters to me is the safety of Nigerian troops on ground. Defending the territorial integrity of the country. Let DIA and others handle the intelligence aspect.

Some opinion are of mine and not from my field of work. Not every information is made available to me too but I deduce some things too.

kikuyu1:
GASSPPP! Haven't you heard of the crashlanded French Puma in Cameroon 2 yrs ago ferrying arms,the many BH prisoners who confessed to the same or the French tech caught in Sambisa late 2016 servicing BH vehicles announced by your very own COAS?

Because of what you haven't heard about the other side doesn't mean things like this are not happening.

Government / Intel agencies proxy. The detection of foreign network signals in terrorist affected areas in the NE. Everyone plays the game.

Our African neighbors too but theirs this stubborn one who's fond of using her own troops as prey for bht.

Not only do we have coin going on, foreign counter intelligence is also present. We laugh, smile together but then we are after each other. The Americans are trying but more of PR. The Trump administration is better than that fellow black man there.


It's all about governance. Alot are going on.. Exchange of foreign fighters etc. The Buhari administration seems to have the francophone speaking neighbors on their neck. Cameroon has a better relationship with Nigeria for now. It's all about interest and not friendship.

The intelligence world is messed up. Government, political interests, we're still Africans except we don't depend on foreign made technology for intelligence then we will match them up.

After all, all I know na to sit down for control and read online too.

As mentioned above by Stephen, some claims are not true.

lionel4power:
The course which was facilitated by the France Defense Attaché to Nigeria and was organized by the Defence Headquarters in conjunction with the French Military took place here in Defence Intelligence College which is an ideal environment for learning.


Yet again France organizes a ground breaking course for our armed forces.


Yet one guy will sit at his house and claim that France is planning to destabilize and invade Nigeria.

France has no interest in destabilizing Nigeria. They've been better to us in this fight against insurgency. Forget about America's PR. The French are of more benefit to us.

doziex:
If NAF reinstates the sepecat jaguar and the mig-21 and then upgrades them, I go duff my hat to CAS.
I like that general Buratai is a physical fitness guy,but other than servicing and re painting 70's and 80's era equipment, I don't see what NA is doing in making themselves a more lethal force.

With the tight fistedness of our law makers and executive, add to it their overall ignorance of military matters, our generals need to become experts at skewering the surplus to requirement storage lots of the big powers. For good deals.

They're old enough and you'll need a while lot of fund to keep them in a modern state.

Upgrading the jaguars and mig means you should not expect any procurement of 4th generation aircraft. in my view, NAF will lay more importance on numbers of assets ready to be deployed than capability.

The CAS is also a man who admires capability and advance technology so I don't see him going for such thing. It won't help us too. You'll feel like you have much aircrafts while your capability is weak.

Again, on operational requirements any other fighter procurement has to be for air superiority or multirole. The Tucano will handle coin and I'm not sure the F-7 and A-Jet will be resting soon. They're in good shape and overhaul of Airframe may just be conducted. So in term of operational requirement, there's no role ready to be filled by bringing in the Jaguar again.

I'll only suggest upgrading the F-7 once we nordern aircrafts.

jakeporeshenko:
Some crazy shit happened in the Zimbabwean capital today

It's like hilux is a Nigerian thing. No be war na, why deployment of big hardwares?

Xbee007:
NAF has made tremendous technological advancement within very short period of time.

Even Bell helicopters have been weaponized.

They should make Alex Badeh and his cohorts watch this video.

That baba spent our money and will come looking humble with sweet words to the troops.
Fear man

nemesis8u:
Underwater wireless acoustic communication system

We operate several acoustic communication systems both from India and Isreal.

nemesis8u:
Something like these

1. Satellite on the move

2. Transportable satellite terminal communication platform

3. RADSAT rapidly deployable satellite terminal

I have not seen it before so I am not sure of what it looks like. A colleague just told me as mentioned previously.

How much do your attach sat cost?

the 20 something-year-old occasioned many double takes and inspired lustful gawks and inadvertent drool.

1) This is stupid journalism.
2) Mind your business before no one hears about you again.

LTGEN:
A reliable source is also corroborating what the CAS has alluded to:
It does seem in the coming weeks that the NAF will be getting some platforms.
I don't know what type they are.

I hope so. No information on that from my end. I suspect the Yahbon UAV. Some components of the UAV has been arriving for some time.

psucc:
If you doubt this story, you must be from America. Any story linking Nigerian Army with destruction should be accepted without question just like saying Lai Mohammed lied.

This is total rubbish. Arrant nonsense.

Small thing you will see people shouting the police sent from Abuja. What sort of nonsense is this? They are from the state command.

jakeporeshenko:
Well this is interesting, I wonder which satellite is being referred to, is it a national asset of ours or an ally or private company?
By presidential spokesman Garba Shehu

“The Federal Government has assembled 1000-strong military force, compromising the army, air force, police and the civil defence to launch fierce attacks on the bandits terrorising the villages and towns of Zamfara State.

Following directives by President @MBuhari, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has begun the deployment of fighter aircraft to Katsina, the airport with the closest proximity to Zamfara State to make for immediate and effective response to the menace of the bandits.

This had not been possible in the past because there was no fuel depot facility in Katsina, but NAF has devised a way around the problem.

The President has also authorised the engagement by NAF, of advanced satellite surveillance technology to help in accurate detection of movement and locations of the bandits.

The government had to go to this extent because of the limitations of conventional surveillance, as the use of satellite technology could make the task of NAF less problematic....”

Ground direct reception satellite imaging.

ugo4u:
Why can't our regular troops use something like that in (picture 2)? Why do the military have this undying love for rusty AKs? Why cant we properly kit our troops which is the least any serious country fighting an internal war does. Its heart wrenching seeing soldiers especially recruits go for escort missions or ambushes on almost bare bodies. If the problem is that we are too poor to properly kit this guys we can atleast add a level of protection to their bullet proof vest by adding Tungsten titanium carbide steel plates(Which can hold a .50cal bullet), this alone can boost confidence. In one of my numerous visit to 44ref hospital, one will almost shed tears with the various degree of injuries both officers and men suffer, to make matters worse some of them are just too young to be in the military in the first place.
No be only special forces suppose they kit well oo.
May God help us sha
P.S (Picture 1)
Bullet proof vest with allowance for Steel/Titanium plates
(Picture 2)
Tavor rifles

Baba, in most cases men don't even care about this bullet proof . During fire fight at times, you'll see men gisting with bullets flying except it's extremely intense.

BHT is in no way our match when it comes to conventional warfare. It has been identified that our problem is lack of equally distributed firepower. Our military equipments are being used in the northeast and some BTR are also deployed in the SS.

Actually, we can't deploy every single military hardware because of bht. We only need to work on more equipments. During our intense offensive last year which saw the deployment of technology, that was when I realized we can actually deal with those bastards without IFV and Tanks. The government deployed surveillance where we had a full knowledge of their movement.

CH3 and A-jet destroyed their hardware while ground troops and the hind take them on. Bht was able to take in casualties ranging from 60-100+ during each encounter. We do end up with just injured soldiers alone.

Naval, Air assets are armed with Tavor. AFSF and direct contact troops are armed with beryl, AK74M, arm1 etc. The weapons used depends on your choice but they operate calibers which are widely used while also considering the availability.

There are modern AK 47 in wide use by the troops. AK-103 is also in use in the northeast. Some of these guys are pictures do not make it online.

I understand your point on the regular terrorist looking AK riffles seen online. These soldiers are mostly embedded with SF, TF etc who are also armed with better weapons. In some cases, you just need to shoot sporadically to hit something so the regular looking AK47 do the work too and this makes the use of riffles like beryl being in wide use. You can't arm all officers with Tavor except you want to start seeing videos of BHT with Tavors.

SF shoot what they can hit. They're trained and better shooter so there's no need arming a regular soldier with the beryl when he can fire 3-4 rounds hitting the same target and the AK - bullets plenty every where. Kill a terrorist and jab out his own magazine then fix. It's easy and the guys are used to it.

The government however has been phasing out the use of the regular AK series. Our AK seems to be mostly of the the Chinese origin too and they're working perfectly fine.

The problem now isn't the guns. Kit up is available but cannot be maintained as these soldiers spend weeks far away from base.

Long range operations. Most supply are armament and foods.

Who wrote this rubbish? This sounds like a movie script. With all my years as an intelligence officer and now training and advisory the whole tracking mode seems unrealistic.

kikuyu1:
In other words you'd need coy sized Forward operating bases with all OWN assets,APCs,MRAPs,mortars and at least one own 105 mm to stage Area Domination exercises. Ideally mechanised forces and gunships should be at the battalion level a half hour away.

Accurate. FOB was widely used during the intense fight against BHT.

To the men of the the Nigerian Armed Forces special force. I give you all the biggest respect and accolades. In this coin warfare, the men of the AFSF has been a terror to bokoharam. The presence of elements of the AFSF serves as courage and morale boost to other troops on the field.

While talking to a friend who's with the 22 TF, he commended the AFSF who backed them up after their outpost was overrunned. They delivered firepower and proved what it means to be a SF operative.

I just want the government to support them the unit more by improving their kit and weapons. More FOB made up of the AFSF should be made established. I haven't been on operational missions with them but we have moved out on escort missions together.

The ambush that led to the kidnapping of police officers could have been extremely worse if not for their professionalism. The terrorist know about the convoy pattern. Allowed the AFSF convoy to move on before opening fire on vehicles. The officers expecting other vehicles to follow suit were disappointed as some drivers had to abandon the vehicle and the convoy scattering. With the police officers in trouble and not minding the fact that bht attack was from both position had to return back to the initial position but could do less.
They called in for air support and I think 3 Jets were immediately scrambled with the F-7 taking off using it's speed advantage to intervene. The AFSF relayed their position to the F-7 through visual contact by flying low to ascertain the next best action (F-7 arrived before ISR)
THE f-7 fired rockets to create a barrier between own troops and bht but little could have been done as civilians are already running around for safety where they eventually got into bht hands.

The convoy was a weak one. Armed with opened hilux and less than 20 men against over 100 bht who came in heavily.

Make this war finish. Good men will die but this does not mean we are less capable. Some bad comments from Nigerians when military position is being overrunned.

An advisor from one of the big countries told me if we were to be in daily ground operations in Syria, Mali and Iraq, they'll be taking casualties.

Since I have been here chilling after a very long time with few knowledge on the attack except from internet and my colleague.

They actually praised the effort of the Nigeria CTU and Mobile police. A military outpost was over runned but the police kept them for over 30 minutes before the military back up came to support.

Like I said, the attack eventually happened consecutively while trying to get in. To the gallant officers who died RIP but bokoharam paid severely for it.

We're making huge success but it's very sad that we have to loose men during attacks no matter the success acquired. Even if we kill 200, loosing 3 men still hurts.

Odunayaw:
I am happy to be another SOMEONE to tell you your statement is UNREASONABLE

Go & check how countries the world over handled their terrorist/insurgent/bandit infiltration & influence, increasing Military numbers wasn't part of it. It may work in your fantasies but this is the real world

We had better maintain an efficient paramilitary force in the MOPOL & Civil defence

The Russian police have presence in Syria. Nigeria should gear up NSCDC and the NPF should stop being useless and a torn in the flesh.

Ordinary secure this area, they'll find it hard to do. They don't want to learn. The presence of soliders give them operational confidence. They should learn to work effectively without us.

In most countries, their police force can be a torn to the flesh of terrorists. Iraqi police force is a good example . Men of the NPF have in previous time been under ambush in Somalia and fought it off but here in Nigeria na to dey intimidate.

The day I will be harassed, I will let them know khaki get grade.

Field0Marshall:
These writings are quite irritating...how will dissolution solve any problem... Instead it will create war.
Go back to history and learn.
This attacks illustrate how bad our intelligence gathering agency and quick response teams

Intelligence agencies are stretched. I put a very huge blame on the department of state security services tho.

the problem with intelligence agency in Nigeria is that most intel equipments end up being deployed from Abuja to other states when needed. This gives them a very minimal capability. State HQs are acting as just operational staging ground. Deployment of a full spectrum SIGINT coverage of Nigeria by each state command is extremely needed for a safer Nigeria.

CaptainStephen:
I also have this same opinion too.
What I usually do then was moving across different locations where my men were when I am not rolling in the iron to beef off the numbers and also stay informed. this was dangerous as we kept encountering IEDs.
I also tell those around me to not always rely on official channels for intel alone, dress like the locals go into their means as well as other extras I can't say here.
God keep you buddy's safe and show no mercy.

Thank you bro. Where are you now?

bidex111:
Four Soldiers, Two Policemen Among 13 Killed By Boko Haram In Latest Boko Haram Attack


http://saharareporters.com/2018/07/27/four-soldiers-two-policemen-among-13-killed-boko-haram-latest-boko-haram-attack

My opinion, we in the northeast need to change our deployment status. You cant have 30 soldiers here and 15 around 10km away, etc. Military hardware are being expended that way.

Bokoharam comes for a unit of 15 soldiers who are armed with their hilux and riffle with AA guns. This is one of the reason why we have been taking huge casualty.

We need to adapt the tactics of securing areas and then allowing internal security to be incharge of the police, NSCDC and DSS. They have men with COIN qualification. We need to be able to respond with our own fire power when needed.

Imagine when you're under an attack and your IFV Is 50-70km away. Your t72 is 30km away. Bht operates with HUMINT so except we're going to track every single communication in the northeast and filter out the useless ones then we will do well in thwarting their plan.

Expecting attacks in the coming days. MNJTF, SF and air assets gearing up. This current state of weather is not helping.

I do not know about the ISR plan or offensive being planned at the theater command.

nemesis8u:
So will the enemy

Yes, reason why I used the word suppressive fire. At that moment, it's about fighting off the ambush and living to see the next minutes.

ISR may be called in.

lebuhsi:
what are you thanking us for??!...I think we should be the ones thank you!....or are about to disappear!

Haha no. I have been told of my presence here on social media. They are okay with it but I'm limited to posts alone. I still wish I can attach pictures.