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[size=14pt]............................Enter The Leopard..............................[/size]

New Air Power Nigerian Air force purchases 24 Flying Leopard II modern heavy Jet Fighter-Bombers from China

the great giant of africa is soon to become the only african country with super modern heavy jet fighter-bombers
100 nigerian pilots are listed for training to fly the heavy jets and a technical maintenace team of our engineers are training too.


24 units of all weather deep penetration/strike and anti-ship fighter bombers purchased confirmed along with 10 units of L-15 light attack/trainer jets too.

Extra 24 units of the flying leopard II heavy jet fighter bombers is on the option plans for the future to make total of 48 Leopard Jets.

FBC-1A Flying Leopard II

Engine : Two powerful Rolls Royce British engine licenced built in China with chinese name

Weapons :

Guns: one 23mm double-barrel GSh-23L automatic cannon, 300 rounds

Hardpoints : 9 total with capacity for 20,000 lb weapons

Rockets: 57mm/90mm rocket pods

Missiles:

Air-to-air missiles types PL-5, PL-8, PL-9.
Anti-ship missiles, Yingji-8K, Yingji-82K, Kongdi-88
Anti-radiation missiles, Yingji-91

Bombs:

Laser-guided bombs
Free-fall bombs


It is a modern year 2004 year aircraft in the first version with two British Rolls Royce Engines, further advanced with export version of Nigeria's type having latest year 2011 modern electronics, multi-function radars, targeting pods, heads up display, multiple target tracking, jamming electronics and counter-measures, long range 175km BRV enemy detection, helmet mounted target acquisition sights, multi-purpose BVR for both ground and air enemy targets, special computer separately dedicated for self defence system, and many more.

Payload: 20,000 pounds of various types of mixed weapons

Maximum speed: 1,800 km/h
Combat range: 1,800 km
Ferry range: 3,700 km

it is also an anti-shiping bomber with cruise missiles to d.estroy and sink all south african navy valour frigates with new israeli made coastal defense sea drones confirming the enemy warships geographical co-ordainates in case the south african navy attempts a careless naval blockade of our waters.

Flying Leopard II has enough long range with drop tanks to fly from calabar nigeria to B0MB pretoria capital of south africa.

photos of the nigerian air force new K.iller weapon below.

Source.

Henry120: I do have to agree with my compatriot agaugust. Why has the south african rooivalk failed so much. Apart from south africa and maybe zimbabwe, I do not know of any other country in africa that use the rooivalk or even the lynx for that matter.

An intelligence officer here in nigeria once told me that the south african helos do not have good nor dependable technology.

Your MRAPs are very popular, uganda, kenya, burundi have lots of them. Same cannot be said of your helos. South africa is the only country that flies them.

Please do not compare the MI-35p or MI-24V to the rooivalk, it's an insult to the russians. The MI's are battle tested and proven helos, more than 60% of the countries in the world fly them. It shows how good those birds are.

They have the same sytem has the hinds agreia uses. We upgraded them. The airfram has not sold but all the sytems, avionics, wepaons, rotar blads, seat extra have been put in hinds. They called Supper hinds.


The hind used in the movie blood diomonds and lord of war belonged to SA. It even flown by SAAF so we know what the hind can and can not do.

The super hind (the SA upraded hinds) are even better than some of the russian hinds. Though russia has started a upgrade program.

The rooifalk was all so upgraded last year.

agaugust: south Africa is wasting its time and money to modify and upgrade a half d.ead Rooivalk helicopter gunship project. You cannot compete in international market against Russia and America. South Africans always over- rate themselves, that's why they always get disappointments and final defeat.

Try learn to walk before you run. Nigeria is very careful about jumping too fast in weapons marketing, try learn from us and build cheaper and easy to maintain weapons that can compete with China because the Chinese are selling billions of dollars weapons right under your long nose here in African market.

not even one single Rooivalk helicopter has been sold for many years and NOBODY will buy this bad market product you are boasting about. Rooivalk is more likely to become d.ead than alive.

Go market it in your south African village. Your Rooivalk is a big international failure and all the noise you make here cannot sell it. Put half of it in storage like your money wasting Grippen jets.

The rooifalk was only ever marketed to turky but lost due to them wanting somthing used by NATO. No other county was in the market for a fresh production helicopter while the production line was open.

The sytems used on the rooifalk form the bass of the Hind upgrade program that we do. So it was not a waist. No one bought our airfram yes but they have bouth every thing else.

all4naija: Is that the only thing you saw in my comment? I would dare you explain to me why African immigrants are attacked in your streets. If they are attack on regular streets, from a definitive point of view, it means it would be far worse in the ghettos of Township.

Having 2 million tourists visit Township just proved my point, for the fact that those tourists are well protected and guarded unlike those who live in the country or black Africans residing over there. So, trying to use that to cover-up the crimes in Township woefully is a failure on your side.

While gaurded. They in a bus that is it. No solders or any thing like that just a bus.


Because poor south africans don't like forghiners. Just like nothern nigerians don't like anything western. And when was tge last major attack.

Henry120: Is there an official car for Zuma in every street for him to drive in, when he visits different provinces of your country??

In nigeria when GEJ wants to travel from the capital to any state, the airforce transports his official car ahead of him.

One VIP car is has good has the next. And many times he uses a helicoper. That mathod is much safer. Last time the minster of deffense visted a unit I was in she had 2 helicopters and used a VIP car from the area. The presdiant should be the same. One built proof lojacked merc is has good has the next.

Henry120: The president of nigeria does not drive a limousine. He drives a mercedes G-class.

I do share your sentiments that dedicating a C-130 for the president is a waste of resources. However the agency in charge of his security should be in the best position to answer that question.


I have told you severally that the airforce operates SIX C-130's, however your hard head would not allow you accept this fact.

Now jacob Zuma went to see mummar ghaddafi in tripoli 6 months before the latter was deposed from office, my question is, how was his (ZUMA's) logistics, CAR, pick up trucks for his security team and military hardware transferred to libya?

You are a dolt. The airforce those in house servicing and maintenance for all her planes. The C-130's sent abroad, were sent so that they can receive a comprehensive over haul and up grade of all their systems and gadgets( up to date radar system, defence system). Just to bring it to par with the latest american C-130.

Libya was a hot zone and the presdent received extra protection. So a C130 was used and SF provide the protection. But that was not the norm.

Henry120: How does ZUMA transport his presidential car??

Mali has 2 C-130's and 1 G222 deployed. There are 3 more C-130's in the country. How that is a problem is beyond me.

I though you had 6 C130 2 mali 1 presdent 3 being being renevieted.

Not with a C130 at his personal beck and call. If it is internal there are plenty of VIP cars for him when he lands.

Henry120: You are an idiot

You are an idi*ot. ......lol.. You've ran again to beegeagle abi? Yet you brand it a pro nigerian blog, let me ask you. Is it suppose to be a pro south african blog? Dummy.

yes it is an ex Scandinavian plane, which was sold, due to budget cuts. It seats 230-290 passengers. So as a dedicated troop carrier, it would do just fine.


You keep mentioning cargo, I just wonder where I said it would be used as a cargo plane.

So if it only going to move people to and from prepead airports why not use a civlian airline?

When troops move you move with cargo.

snydergp: Presidential duties where to ferry the presidents wife's on her shopping in Europe. Since when has a C-130 became a plane which is used for official state duties, if so then I strongly suggest impeachment of the GEJ

Now here's the answer on what happened to 1 C-130
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Nigerian_Air_Force_C-130_crash

It is strang he has a persnal cargo plane while mali has only 2 C130s

Henry120: The boeing 737-500 is currently been rigged with airborne sensing equipment. The plane is to be used as a dedicated troop transport plane. While some of the C-130's or G-222 would exclusively get saddled with the transportation of military hardware, equipment, cargo.

Nigerian presidential air fleet

PRESIDENTIAL AIR FLEET

- one Boeing 737 BBJ
(Nigerian Air Force 001 or Eagle One)

- one Gulfstream IVSP

- one Gulfstream V

- one Cessna Citation 2 aircraft

- one Hawker Siddley 125-800

- a Gulfstream 550

- Two units of Falcon 7X jets

- Two units of Falcon 900 jets

"USA is trying to sell the C17 to us. And the suacepan project MPA will all so have a tramsport rolle".

Please provide a source for us to verify your claims else this information is in-permissible and holds no water.

I mention suacepan allready. You welcom to come to any AAD show. Since we cancelled the A400M there been there. I will find a post later.

Why would you convert a boiening in to troop transport. Have you not got a national airline for that. SAA regually flys SANDF personal a number of SAA pilots are SAAF reserve force.

Why so many VIP aircraft.

souldust: this is absolutely, stainlessly and immaculately true! There is no single lie to this.

Nor is there a lie that all wepaon salles have to be regersterd to be legall but there are ileagal and grey methods around this problem. Of course only second hand gear can be sold this way.

Henry120: Have you seen the FN P-90 posted anywhere in this thread?? So how is that an old article?

The 2nd photo, is also new and who says it won't be good for mali, you?? Then their has to be something critically wrong with you.

The P90 has been mentioned. The P90 is a good SMG but has very expensive ammo (I mean very expensive ammo)

SANDF dose not really use SMGs that much. There is the BXP,Uzi and some belgiem Uzi coppy but they not really in use. To short range.

Henry120: THE BOEING 737-500 is not a presidential plane, get that into your thick skull now.

I implore you to stop talking nonsense.@ syndergp, I'm just wondering, who the mofos are that liked your silly comment?

NIGERIAN AIR FORCE PLACE ORDERS FOR 9 RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS..3 REFURBISHED C130 HERCULES PLANES TO BE DELIVERED FEBRUARY 2013; 130 PERSONNEL IN COUNTERTERRORISM TRAINING


THE NATION NEWSPAPERS
November 30, 2012

The Air Force has ordered for nine helicopters from Russia to strengthen air surveillance, Air Marshal Alexander Badeh has said.

Badeh, who spoke at the NAF Public Relations and Information Workshop in Abuja yesterday, said the Air Force is fixing three C-130 aircraft in its fleet. According to him, the three aircraft would be ready by February and added to the ones on the ground for enhanced
performance.

The Air Chief said the NAF is training over 130 personnel in counter terrorism. Badeh, who emphasised the advantage of air surveillance in the fight against terrorism,added that there are plans by
the Air Force to assume total control of the nation’s borders.

He pleaded with the public to alert security agencies to information that could lead to the arrest of terrorists. Badeh said without information from the citizenry, it would be difficult for security agencies to win the fight.

TWO C-130's are on permanent duties in mali, 1 is currently been used for presidential logistics. This leaves nigeria with 3 C-130's ferrying troops/ equipment in nigeria it self.

My friend, the G-222 was used to ferry members of the airforce quick response squad to mali. It is a medium transport plane.

You telling me that your boieing is not a VIP aircraft. If you are you are carzy.


I have mentioned the helicopters in a difrent post.


Are those C130s not your own C130 set to be refurbished. Somthing SA dose in house.


The A400M deal was cancelld but the money has been returend and SAAF is again in the market. USA is trying to sell the C17 to us. And the suacepan project MPA will all so have a tramsport rolle.

taharqa: That US official shld be severely reprimanded and sent out of d country if need be. He is a damn HYPOCRITE, esp as an official of d USA.. The type and kind of pardons grantd by Bill Clinton on his last day in office and that grantd by President Ford, are way worst than what GEJ just did. That has also bn d pattern for most US Presidents (pardoning Spies, bank robbers, fraudsters, corrupt officials, murderers, 'prisoners of conscience', etc). Imagine Nigeria 'expressing regrets' ova such Presidential pardons done in d US, and wats worse, using very undiplomatic channels as TWITTER to do so...

Lol you want to make a big diplomatic fight over somthing so small. You d know Nigeria needs America not America needs nigeria and if America no longer dose buiessness with Nigeria the west follows them. People should think before they act.

julioralph: Take it easy bro.
There are no wild tigers in Africa

Actually they did a test project where they released some tiggers in SA

Orpelin: ^I love that.
By "Play Save", I meant the ABC approach to the issue. Cos their are so many enlightenment programmes here which I was directly involved.
A- Abstinence
B- Be Faithful (& Careful)
C- Condomise (using condom 4 those that must Do!)
I need not to broadcast it that I practised the first 2 approached with high level of commitment & self determination.
I equally preach it to ppl & extended the 3rd approach to those that are in dear need!
However,I need to step up to the test level soonest.

Has I said sex is not the only way. Just the most common.

Capnd143: good day bro! You havnt answered my question! You guys said you toke a stroll to a military museum and asked about a possibility of a country to acquire arms secretly and the person said it aint possible . . . Well its with deep regrets that i tell you my freind that who ever said that is a Gargantous Liar!!! Unless you have an explanation for all the spartan APC's i have seen in army barracks but never in an inventory
source 1: http://beegeagle./2013/03/14/world-exclusive-an-array-of-three-alvis-scorpion-tanks-and-six-alvis-spartan-apcs-photo-credit-nigerian-army/#comments
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and you should also have an explanation to thousands of 4wDs in security service that i havnt seen in inventories . . . Every quarter of the year the FG donates hundreds of 4WD to the police,mopol and army, the state govt also does same to booast morale, it is also a general thing in Nigeria, whenever NGO are donating to the police,navy,army etc the give Hundreds of military 4WDs, recently rice importers donated 150 military 4WD's, consumers association did same every month,year
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you should also explain to me why all the gunboats constantly donated by state governors to navy operatives are never in the inventory, also why helicopters bought by state government are not there too . . . .

|look bro . . I am not being told this stuff, bt i live in Nigeria and i see this happen first hand! Even in remote under-developed areas, you still see up to 50 4WD's to some extent that its one seargent(with 2 men) one car some time leading to abuses . .

Actually there are ways around this problem of yours. During aparthied SA bought some mine sweepers. Milltary hardware. They got around this by buying them has ocean reshearch veseals. The same thing has hapended with other countries.

MI17 civlian transport helicopters for exapmil

And 4WD drive can be passed of has many thing and or built local

Spartan. I don't know but I am not a arms dealer.



You should watch lord of war(a lot of witch was fillmend in Sunny south africa) to get a rough idea.

Capnd143: good day bro! You havnt answered my question! You guys said you toke a stroll to a military museum and asked about a possibility of a country to acquire arms secretly and the person said it aint possible . . . Well its with deep regrets that i tell you my freind that who ever said that is a Gargantous Liar!!! Unless you have an explanation for all the spartan APC's i have seen in army barracks but never in an inventory
source 1: http://beegeagle./2013/03/14/world-exclusive-an-array-of-three-alvis-scorpion-tanks-and-six-alvis-spartan-apcs-photo-credit-nigerian-army/#comments
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and you should also have an explanation to thousands of 4wDs in security service that i havnt seen in inventories . . . Every quarter of the year the FG donates hundreds of 4WD to the police,mopol and army, the state govt also does same to booast morale, it is also a general thing in Nigeria, whenever NGO are donating to the police,navy,army etc the give Hundreds of military 4WDs, recently rice importers donated 150 military 4WD's, consumers association did same every month,year
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you should also explain to me why all the gunboats constantly donated by state governors to navy operatives are never in the inventory, also why helicopters bought by state government are not there too . . . .

|look bro . . I am not being told this stuff, bt i live in Nigeria and i see this happen first hand! Even in remote under-developed areas, you still see up to 50 4WD's to some extent that its one seargent(with 2 men) one car some time leading to abuses . .

Built locally? Or is regerterd but not public knowledge?

Orpelin: andrewza, I was just thinking this may want to degenerate with counter-claims as we had it in the other thrend abt military might.
Seriously, I may have not had my test yet but I know I "play save".

Sex is the most common way but not the only way. And to many nigerians do not play safe or get tested.

By the way I have been tested 5 times. I know I am safe.




Why down play it. This is a real problem and a big one at that. But a problem we know about.

Dibiachukwu: Do you see any wild life in Europe. Why do you trust this same people with ur wild life. Africans can be funny sometimes

My step father travel all over the world and has only had one run in with a wild life (out side a reserv) and that was almost hitting a dear in Germany.

What is there to deffend.

I mean al least we know our problem. When is the last time you have had a AIDS test.

agaugust:
this is the second big lie by DictatorZAR, south afrian airforce did NOT purchase the huge aeroplane below, they only wanted to produce some spare parts and sell the spare parts to airbus company. all south africans are born with dishonest in their b.lood

While no one has bought any. The thing had some major devloment delays. But SA had a order for them.

snydergp: Why would someone quote a militaryphotos.net and that stup*d fool Maynier who can't even disassemble a R5 matter of fact he never even touched one in his life.

He is one of(and the biggest) resoane I no longer Vote DA. And he would not know a R5 if one hit him in the head.

agaugust:

this is big lie number one by DictatorZAR the south african, there is NO mid-air refuelling aeroplane in south african airforce

You both wrong and correrct and then sort of wrong/correct

SAAF had a mid air refueling abilty durring aparthied but had to withdraw the aircraft during the dark 90 and early 2000s due to budget cuts. The A400M is able to do mid air refuelthing though and the gripen can perform a mid air refueling but due to problems out of SAAF control they have not arrived actualy no one has gotten them yet. This has led to many problems since we scraped out C160 transport aircaft meaning we are consdirbly short of milltary lift. Even though we still have more than you. Our is nigeria copping if we have problems.

Henry120: Comments from militaryphotos.net

1)South Africa should consider selling those 12 Gripens to countries like Philippines, Thailand (w/c already operates Gripens), and eastern European countries. First Gripen delivered in April 2008 and from other sources it's saying they only have 6 pilots and can't afford to give them the necessary flying hours to maintain their competencies. Translation, those Gripens are barely used.




2)The SA Army faces block obsolessence of their armour, IFVs and logistics vehicles with no sign of recapitalisation. The SAAF medium transport fleet is disappearing and there are no replacements for the MPA and IFR capabilities. The Navy needs funds to revive their MCM capability and to expand their OPV fleet. In short, the SANDF is starved for funds and it is unlikely they will get it. Watch a once proud defence force wither and die.




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What a shame...

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SAADF have become a shade of what they were .............


Some estime says that unemployment rate is 40% in South Africa, in many ways, it looks hopeless,


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The hilarious thing about this is that the bribe investigation is coming apart at the same time, they can't decide if bribes were involved and they can't fly the jets.. Talk about a waste...

SAADF have become a shade of what they were .............
I know what you mean, and I fully agree. Many have said that at its peak, the SADF was one of the most potent fighting forces in the world, and the strongest military force in Africa by a long shot. How things have changed... Some for the better (the fall of apartheid) and a lot more for worse. (crime, unemployment, state of civil and military services, etc.)

The SAAF appears to be in a pretty dire way.




What a sad state of affairs.

The SAAF/SANDF is a mere shadow now of what it was pre 1994.

Originally Posted by Cpl Kat
What a sad state of affairs.

The SAAF/SANDF is a mere shadow now of what it was pre 1994.



The South Africa Gripen deal was controversial at it's time and still is. 26 planes is a lot when other countries only bought 6-12. In general terms there is an unwillingness to pay for military equipment today

What the point of reading reports from peole who know nothing about SAAF or SANDF

http://www.saairforce.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5911


We have more than 6 pilots

8 pilots where sent to sweden for wargames last year.

Henry120: Twelve of the South African Air Force’s 26 Gripen fighter jets are in long-term storage, according to defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, as the Air Force does not have the funding to fly them.

This emerged yesterday in reply to a parliamentary question posed by the opposition Democratic Alliance party’s Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans David Maynier.

“The South African Air Force (SAAF) has 12 Gripen Fighter Aircraft placed in long-term storage. These aircraft are placed in a storage as a planned activity in line with their utilization and budget expenditure patterns/flow of SAAF,” Mapisa-Nqakula said.

“The Gripen fighter jets are supposed to provide the air combat capability for the South African Air Force (SAAF). However, the Gripen fighter jets are effectively grounded because the operating budget has been stripped to the bone and the SAAF cannot afford to operate the ‘Gripen system’,” Maynier said.

Already in 2010 there was great concern that a lack of money would ground the Gripen. Then-defence minister Lindiwe Sisulu warned that the Gripens could be mothballed if the military failed to get hold of extra funding. The Department of Defence annual report released in 2010 warned that “Combined with the recent funding cuts for the medium-term expenditure framework period, the air force will only be able to sustain the Hawk system.

“Without adequate funding levels being provided, the air force will not be able to meet its mandate in terms of defence or its support of government initiatives in the medium and longer term. The unwanted reality is portions of aircraft fleets may have to be placed in long-term storage, and certain capabilities, units or bases may have to be closed down.”

The lack of money for the Gripens has also affected flying hours and pilot training. In April 2011 then-chief of the Air Force Lieutenant General Carlo Gagiano said the Air Force was not going to fly the required number of hours due to a lack of funding and in its 2010/2011 report, the Department of Defence said that due to underfunding, the number of flight hours per Gripen aircrew member was reduced from 224 to 110 per year. At present the SAAF can only muster six qualified Gripen pilots who only have 150 flying hours available across the whole Gripen squadron this year, according to Maynier. The annual target for fighter flying hours was 250 for the 2011/2012 period, according to the Department of Defence’s most recent Annual Report.

Chief of the Air Force Lieutenant General Zakes Msimang when asked about Gripen flying hours earlier this year, said that the Air Force had never failed to deliver what was asked of it. Defence analyst Helmoed-Römer Heitman noted the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) requires fighter pilots to log at least 20 flight hours per month (240 flight hours per year per fighter pilot) to remain qualified.

“One of the biggest scandals of the Arms Deal is that we bought military equipment we could not afford to operate. And there is no better illustration of the point than the Gripen fighter jets in long-term storage,” Maynier said. “It is imperative that the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, reviews the allocation of the operating funding to the “Gripen system” in the SAAF.”

In 2007 it emerged that the Gripens cost R19.08 billion, up from the original R17.8 billion estimate for both 26 Gripens and 24 Hawks. It is unlikely that the Gripen situation will improve anytime soon, as the defence budget for the 2013/14 financial year stands at R40.2 billion, just R1.8 billion more than the previous year’s. South Africa bought 26 Gripens (17 single-seat Gripen Cs and nine two-seat Gripen Ds) as part of the Strategic Defence Procurement Package (in 2005 reduced to 26), becoming the Gripen’s first export customer. Deliveries concluded in September last year. The Gripens replaced the Cheetah fleet, which was withdrawn four years early due to funding constraints.


http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?224310-A-dozen-SAAF-Gripens-in-long-term-storage

You slow man. I mentioned it all ready.


Firstly 12 in storage where all ways there. It saves money. We have no need to keep them all operationl. Even if we had the money I doubt we would have made more operational

And there are more than 6 pilots.
Just only 6 who have finshed the course. It takes years to qualfie on a aircraft in the SAAF

And the final budget was 44.6 billion.

agaugust: andrewza, dont waste my time, i dont know the kind of english language they teach you in south african schools. you dont limit the interpretation of various kinds of payload/weapons, it is an open ended statement, google the english meaning. dont wait for every website to write every information about weapons for you like a 3 year old boy.

there are small warhead missiles carried by israeli drones the whole world knows and we all see it fired on TV. i enevr said anti-ship missile, there are small boats on sea that can be quickly hit by a small warhead missile similar to what air drones fire on land vehicles. use your head to think outside a box and dont be locked up in a cage.

please dont waste my time i wont answer baby questions from baby kind of thinking again. sorry no insult intended sir.

Please read carefully. I never said it could not carry a missiel. It could carry AGM sized missiels such has the mokap,helfire,ingwene extra. I said it is a waist on it since a 12.7 can destroy any thing it may encounter.


Do you know how littel 2500kg is. There a pickups that can carry that much.

Msauza: Aguagust you have a serious problem really, I don't know what will cure you. AndrewZA was just making an innocent comment about SA recce training American Army ranger about bush craft. I don't know what does Nigerian Special forces training with Americans, Indians, etc has to do with that statement. Beside Nigerian Special Forces are still very young, hence they require a lot of experience from the likes of Israel, America et al. SA recces have such a mass experience, that's why the Americans still respect them and regard them as masters of Bush craft. Hopefully, this they received from Bushmen (Khoisans), who are still the core elements of our Army.

Even during aparthied the SADF and the recces more to the point leant a lot from the bushman. No one read spoors like them. There are only a few things I fear and a recc who wants me dead is top of that list.

Did you know that it is easyer to climbe mount everest than complete SA speciol forces training.

agaugust: nigerian navy the details says it carries 2,500kg of various kinds of payload/weapons for different types of naval missions, and just like air drone UAV carries missiles for israeli attack in palestine, so does the israeli made USV sea drone carry missiles for nigerian navy. andrewza stop wasting my time and use some adult common sense to interpret what i post all the time, no insult intended, but i have work to do in the office, sorry.

nigerian navy seastar sea drone USV

I looked it up at the manufactors website. No where did I see missils mentioned. The seastar has a platform is to small to carry any form of anti ship missil unless you use AGM in the anti ship role. And they are a waist on the intended target of this veseal. Pirats,rebels and crimnal scum. A 12.7 will shred any thing it will go against so I don't think it carrys missiels.


Stop saying ever nigerian wepaon sytem has missiels. That like me say that SAAF gripen are cerrying anti ship cruise missiels just because they do in some other countries.

Yous comon sense and think with your brain not your heart. If it NN did mount missiels on it they are avtualy waisting nigerias limted budget on uneasry sytems.








On a related note SAN may not operate unmand surface ships(although KND dose have a desgine the navy has no need) we do operate unmand mini subs for anit mine operations and there a plan to maybe get a unmanded survace veasel with a sonar for anti mine opertions.

what you talking about it is mentioned just here it was mentioned. actualy this is a old report