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Nigerian and Ethiopian flags are raised as Ethiopia's Haile Selassie visits Nigeria, 1966.

Change of Command at the Headquarters Sector 2 Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD), Damaturu.

The handing and taking over ceremony between the outgoing Commander Sector 2 OPLD Major General Suleiman Idris and the Incoming Acting Commander, Brigadier General Lawrence Adeleke Araba.

Recall that the outgoing Commander was recently redeployed from Headquarters Sector 2 to Defence Headquarters as Director Liaison while the Incoming Acting Commander redeployed from the Nigerian Army Welfare Limited by Guaranty Abuja has assumed Command.

PERSONNEL WELFARE: NAF PROVIDES ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION FOR AIRMEN IN KAINJI

As part of efforts aimed at enhancing the welfare of personnel for effective service delivery, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) today, 3 April 2020, commissioned 3 newly remodelled and renovated blocks of 10 x single-bedroom flats for Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) at the 407 Air Combat Training Group (407 ACTG), Kainji. The project, which was executed through direct labour by the NAF Directorate of Works, is expected to cater for the housing needs of at least 30 personnel and their families, thereby reducing accommodation deficiencies on NAF Base, Kainji. The provision of more decent accommodation for personnel at the NAF Base in Kainji is in line with the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar’s, drive to ensure that the welfare of all NAF personnel is accorded priority attention.

Speaking during the commissioning ceremony, the CAS, represented by the Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Air Training Command (ATC), Air Vice Marshal Musa Mukhtar, disclosed that the Base was being re-positioned to effectively support the A-29 Super Tucano aircraft when it eventually arrives in Nigeria. According to him, the robust infrastructural development currently being undertaken in the Base would offer the personnel better living and working conditions as well as provide the requisite support infrastructure for effective and efficient operations of the Super Tucano.

Air Marshal Abubakar, while urging the beneficiaries to ensure that the new accommodations are responsibly utilised, seized the opportunity to express his profound appreciation to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, for his continued support to the NAF, assuring that the Service would continue to discharge its constitutional roles effectively to ensure the security of Nigeria and Nigerians.

Earlier in his welcome address, the Commander 407 ACTG, Squadron Leader Kingsley Igwegbe, thanked the CAS for the numerous welfare projects executed in the Unit. He noted that this would undoubtedly boost the morale of the personnel and spur them towards the effective accomplishment of the Unit's tasks of training combat pilots and participating in various combat air operations across the Country.

Also present at the brief ceremony was the NAF Director of Works, Air Commodore Abiola Amodu. It would be recalled that, about two weeks ago, the CAS was in Kainji to commission a newly-reactivated Alpha Jet (NAF 455) as well as a new Technicians' Crew Room Building and a 2.8Km road network on the Base.

IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations
and Information
Nigerian Air Force

ARMED FORCES OF NIGERIA RAMPS UP ATTACKS ON BOKO HARAM LOCATIONS, TAKES OUT SEVERAL TERRORISTS IN AIR STRIKES AT PARISU IN BORNO STATE

1. In furtherance of the objective of restoring peace and security in the North East of the Country, the Armed Forces of Nigeria, through the Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, has ramped up attacks against terrorists’ locations in Borno State. The latest of these attacks was executed at Parisu, a Boko Haram Terrorists’ hideout, within the Sambisa Forest on 31 March 2020, after series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions revealed a resurgence of activities within the settlement.

2. Fighter jets dispatched by the Air Task Force to attack the hideout took turns in engaging the location, resulting in the destruction of some of the structures as well as the killing of several terrorists. Other fighters, who attempted to reposition themselves in order to engage the attack aircraft, were taken out in follow-on strikes at their hiding places under shrubbery.

3. The Armed Forces of Nigeria, working in synergy with counterpart security agencies and stakeholders, will sustain the tempo of offensive action against all elements inimical to the peace and security of our beloved Nation.

4. You are please requested to disseminate this information and show the attached declassified short video clip of the attack through your medium for the awareness of the general public. Thank you for your usual support and cooperation.

BERNARD ONYEUKO
Brigadier General
Acting Director Defence Media Operations
Defence Headquarters

jln115:
Sipri tracks all weapon trades across the glob, its stated on their website that the contract was worth $329 mil, as in the actual amount paid.

And yes for $329 mil its very very good value for money!

[/b]The US Air Force awarded Sierra Nevada a $329 million foreign military sales contract to build 12 A-29 Super Tucano aircraft for the Nigerian Air Force. [b]
But the total contract is $593M which includes spares parts for the 12 aircraft, support equipment and services, and associated weapons/munitions, and even building hangers and A29 stimulator in Kanji, which brings the whole spending to $593 million which has been fully paid. The associated weapons do not appear to be part of the recent $329 million award to Sierra Nevada.

PRESS RELEASE

CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF EMBARKS ON FACILITY TOUR & ASSESSMENT OF SPECIAL FORCES TRAINING AT THE NIGERIAN ARMY SCHOOL OF INFANTRY

The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai was at the Nigerian Army School of Infantry Jaji on a one day working visit to assess the level of a tailor made Special Forces training comprising of elements of 81 Battalion and newly formed 198 and 199 Special Forces Battalions.

According to Maj Gen Kevin Aligbe the Commandant of the Nigerian Army School of Infantry (NASI), - "the officers and soldiers of these special units commenced the training on the 20th of January, 2020".

"The training which is for three consecutive months would be rounded off in the next two weeks".

While addressing the troops, the COAS explicitly enjoined the trainees to make the best use of the special training and new skills acquired which will certainly be useful in the course of their current and future deployments in the Nigerian Army.

The extensively rigorous special training was facilitated by the StarterPoint Integrated Services.

While going round the training area, General Buratai was visibly impressed with the level of organization, discipline and training which border on tactics, skills at arms, rescue operation, first aid, navigation, surveillance as well as survival skills.

The trainees were equally elated to see the COAS in their midst. They promised to give in their best as they look forward to their deployment in any part, - within or outside Nigeria. The trainees will graduate soon.

To further demonstrate the importance of physical fitness to military profession, the COAS led the troops to special forces' push ups where the troops again became proudly excited.

Thereafter, Gen Buratai proceeded to inspect the Nature Conservation Area initiated by NASI. The Conservation Area which is being developed within a themed park-zoo would provide a place for curiosity, research, leisure and entertainment when finally completed.

Before leaving Jaji Military Cantonment, the COAS and his entourage also inspected ongoing projects at the Martin Luther Agwai International Leadership and Peacekeeping Center.

The last stop over during the visit was at the Command Engineering Depot Kaduna where the COAS also inspected various locally made armoured fighting vehicles at different levels of completion.

The COAS commended and enjoined the Commander and his staff to keep up the ingenious work which have saved the Nation huge amount of foreign exchange which would have been spent on importation of similar vehicles.

This feat is in furtherance of the Federal Government's Local Content Policy and the necessity of the service to manufacture some of its war fighting equipment especially that the same equipment are not easily acquirable in the open/international market.

SAGIR MUSA
Colonel
Acting Director Army Public Relations
2 April 2020

[b]The A29 is an excellent turbo prop planes armed with one 20mm cannon below the fuselage able to shoot 650 rounds per minute, one 12.7mm machine gun (FN Herstal) under each wing and up to four 7.62mm Dillion Aero M134 Miniguns able to shoot up to 3,000 rounds per minute.

Super Tucanos are also equipped with 70mm rockets, air-to-air missiles such as the AIM-9L Sidewinder, air-to-ground weapons such as the AGM-65 Maverick and precision-guided bombs. It can also use a laser rangefinder and laser-guided weapons.

The Super Tucano is a highly maneuverable light attack aircraft able to operate in high temperatures and rugged terrain. It is 11.38 meters long and has a wingspan of 11.14 meters; its maximum takeoff weight is 5,400 kilograms. The aircraft has a combat radius of 300 nautical miles, can reach speeds up to 367 mph and hits ranges up to 720 nautical miles. Its range of 300 nautical miles positions the aircraft for effective attacks within urban environments or other more condensed combat circumstances.

There are a variety of respects in which A-29s can change the equation when it comes to counterinsurgency. First and foremost, they can save lives. If overhead fire support is able to identify and attack pockets of enemy fighters, fewer ground troops have to enter into enemy fire. Also, an overhead asset of this kind can be an intelligence node able to send targeting information and data regarding troop movements.

When it comes to actual close-in counterinsurgency combat, fighters often obscure themselves in defilade or in buildings, requiring a need for precision strikes. The air-ground Maverick precision weapon can use a laser rangefinder and other kinds of advanced targeting technologies - providing what could be called an indispensable element of attack support. Naturally, advancing ground forces can benefit from air support while advancing on enemies for direct targeting or suppressive fire to enable forces to maneuver.. The Super Tucano is an affordable, light, cheap to maintain and durable just what you need to fight insurgents. High-tech weapons have a place, but why use them when other ones will do?

US-trained pilots with the Afghan Air Force have been attacking the Taliban with A-29 Super Tucano aircraft, a platform which seems well-suited for the Air Force’s intended mission scope. Its integrated weapons and laser-firing technology enable the platform to both lay down suppressive fire in support of advancing infantry and pinpoint targets for precision strikes.

A-29s are turboprop planes armed with one 20mm cannon below the fuselage able to shoot 650 rounds per minute, one 12.7mm machine gun (FN Herstal) under each wing and up to four 7.62mm Dillion Aero M134 Miniguns able to shoot up to 3,000 rounds per minute.

Super Tucanos are also equipped with 70mm rockets, air-to-air missiles such as the AIM-9L Sidewinder, air-to-ground weapons such as the AGM-65 Maverick and precision-guided bombs. It can also use a laser rangefinder and laser-guided weapons.

The Super Tucano is a highly maneuverable light attack aircraft able to operate in high temperatures and rugged terrain. It is 11.38 meters long and has a wingspan of 11.14 meters; its maximum takeoff weight is 5,400 kilograms. The aircraft has a combat radius of 300 nautical miles, can reach speeds up to 367 mph and hits ranges up to 720 nautical miles. Its range of 300 nautical miles positions the aircraft for effective attacks within urban environments or other more condensed combat circumstances.

There are a variety of respects in which A-29s can change the equation when it comes to counterinsurgency. First and foremost, they can save lives. If overhead fire support is able to identify and attack pockets of enemy fighters, fewer ground troops have to enter into enemy fire. Also, an overhead asset of this kind can be an intelligence node able to send targeting information and data regarding troop movements.

When it comes to actual close-in counterinsurgency combat, fighters often obscure themselves in defilade or in buildings, requiring a need for precision strikes. The air-ground Maverick precision weapon can use a laser rangefinder and other kinds of advanced targeting technologies - providing what could be called an indispensable element of attack support. Naturally, advancing ground forces can benefit from air support while advancing on enemies for direct targeting or suppressive fire to enable forces to maneuver.

Having said all these this is the best value for our money, I know a lot of people has issue with the jet been a turbo prop aircraft and it would have gone for an COIN & power projection aircraft, considering the fact that even Russian aircraft still lack in precision air strike and some numbers of capabilities, there cost of maintenance is on the high side.

In August 2017, the US State Department approved the sale of the 12 A-29 Super Tucano, spares, support equipment and services, and associated weapons for $593 million to the Nigerian Air Force. The associated weapons do not appear to be part of the recent $329 million award to Sierra Nevada.
The US Air Force awarded Sierra Nevada a $329 million foreign military sales contract to build 12 A-29 Super Tucano aircraft for the Nigerian Air Force, which are intended for use against Boko Haram and ISIS.

In addition to the 12 aircraft, the company is contracted to provide ground training devices, mission planning systems, mission debrief systems, spare parts, ground support equipment, alternate mission equipment and contractor support, the US Department of Defense says in a notice posted online.

For me the Super Tucson is the best option for the COIN operations in the north east even the United States are set procure more A29 to be inducted and to be used in conflicts area. The Airforce Authorities made the right choice.


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komekn:
Topic for discussion and question.

Quite recently well last 18 months a lot of talk went into the procurement from the USA of 12 Super Tucano A29 light attach aircraft.

Cost of procurement for 12 aircraft $600 million.

It's been presented by quite a few as the game charger we need in the SE to completely turn the tide in this seemingly never ending war.

Is this " best value " and best use of our very limited resources for the greatest impact and best outcome delivery.

If you do agree why ❓ and if you don't what would be your alternative procurement model and or approach.

Guys please no abuses, lets be constructive.

NAF SOF

CaptainStephen:
Abuja don't know know what they are doing. How do you explain why some officers are chilling because they are 'some people's wards' while you keep jumping up and down one war zone to another.
Na we like war pass

As part of the efforts to combat the spread of the corona virus.. the armed forces provide medical and medical devices and supplies to counter the new corona virus in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of health and the Egyptian Unified Purchase and medical supply...


Under the guidance of Mr. President / Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President-Supreme Commander of the armed forces to take all measures and measures of the various state organs to counter the risk of the spread of the virus, and from the social responsibility of the armed forces towards civil society and take All proactive measures to ensure protection of the Egyptian people.

The General command of the armed forces has issued its orders to its specialized departments to assist the state agencies in the process of providing medical and medical devices and supplies to help the state health sector in order to maintain the ongoing medical treatment against the new corona virus. East Cairo air is a military transport aircraft loaded with an integrated shipment of medical supplies imported from abroad, in coordination between the armed forces, the Egyptian Ministry of health and the Egyptian Authority for unified purchase and medical supply.

The crew of the crew have been taken in terms of sterilization, temperature measure and analysis to ensure the safety of all crew members.

This comes within the framework of the cooperation of the armed forces with all the ministries and agencies concerned of the state and from its role as a guard and to the Egyptian people to get out of this crisis in order to preserve the safety and health of the people of this country.

NIGERIAN MILTARY ELIMINATES ANOTHER TOP BOKO HARAM COMMANDER

1. It would be recalled that on 22 March 2020, troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, while conducting a Special clearance operation in a subsidiary Operation called Operation AYISO TAMONUMA, decimated some key Boko Haram elements in an encounter at Gorgi in Damboa LGA of Borno State. In our earlier Press Briefing, we reported over 100 Boko Haram insurgents neutralized while scores of them escaped with gunshot wounds. This was in addition to several equipment casualty suffered by the Boko Haram insurgents.

2. As an update to that report, it is gratifying to note that, own communication intercept confirmed by accurate intelligence revealed that a top Boko Haram Commander, *ABU USAMAH* was among those Boko Haram insurgents killed during that encounter. He had earlier sustained fatal gunshot wounds in the fire fight that ensued during the encounter before his foot soldiers hurriedly evacuated him and withdrew. Nevertheless, Abu Usamah died in the process. His death has no doubt created a consequential vacuum in the Boko Haram leadership particularly as the gallant troops remain resilient and continue to rout the criminal elements from their last enclaves in the North East.

3. In another development, troops of 159 Task Force Battalion, Operation LAFIYA DOLE deployed in Forward Operating Base Kanama, Yunusari LGA of Yobe State, neutralized scores of the Boko Haram Terrorists/Islamic State's West Africa Province insurgents who attempted to infiltrate their location on 27 March 2020.
The terrorists were severely decimated by our gallant Ground troops supported by the Air Component of Operation LAFIYA DOLE. They withdrew in disarray under superior fire power and were subsequently crushed by own troops.

4. Furthermore, during the encounter several terrorists were neutralised while one Gun Truck and various arms and ammunition were captured by the troops. These include; one DSHK Gun, 2 AK 47 Rifles, 2 AK 47 Rifle magazines, one Rocket Propelled Grenade bomb, 273 rounds of Anti-Aircraft Gun ammunition, 101 rounds of 7.62mm (NATO) ammunition, 15 jerricans of Premium Motor Spirit and a Boko Haram Terrorists flag.

5. Meanwhile, the Military High Command, has congratulated the gallant troops for their resilience, courage and dedication to the noble cause of defending our fatherland against the criminal elements. They were equally enjoined to continue to be steadfast and relentless against the enemies of our nation.

6. You are kindly requested to disseminate the above information to the general public for awareness. Thank you for your usual cooperation.

BENARD ONYEUKO
Brigadier General
Acting Director
Defence Media Operations
30 March 2020

A Photo of an Egyptian military aircraft of an ilyushin 76 FM arrived at Beirut airport with Egyptian medical assistance to face the new corona epidemic

PERSONNEL WELFARE IN NAF RECEIVES BOOST AS CAS COMMISSIONS ADDITIONAL SNCOs’ ACCOMMODATION IN KADUNA

In furtherance of efforts at ensuring decent and comfortable accommodation for its personnel towards enhancing service delivery and professional performance, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) today, 30 March 2020, commissioned 2 newly renovated blocks of 30 x 2-bedroom flats for Senior Non-Commissioned Officers (SNCOs) at the NAF Base Kaduna. The commissioning, which was performed by the Air Officer Commanding Air Training Command (AOC ATC), Air Vice Marshal Musa Mukhtar, on behalf of the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, lends credence to the efforts of the current NAF leadership in bridging the accommodation gap in the NAF since 2015. Indeed, the level of infrastructural development in the Service in the last 4 and a half years, which include residential accommodation, messes, recreational facilities, schools and hospitals, amongst others, has been unprecedented.

Aside the construction of new residential buildings to accommodate the large number of newly recruited personnel into the Service, the NAF has also taken steps to ensure that existing structures and dilapidated buildings in units across the Country were either remodeled or renovated for both aesthetic quality and enhanced functionality. The infrastructural renewal is aimed at boosting the morale of NAF personnel, who continually devote their lives to safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Nation and sometimes pay the supreme price. With today’s commissioning, the NAF is steadily moving further towards total accommodation sufficiency.

IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations
and Information
Nigerian Air Force

#RANDOM

Odunayaw:
If by now this isn't the thought on everyone's mind in those high offices, then we are in further trouble.

War isn't pretty at all sha

Ever since the creation of the super camp, BHT knows that attacking these camps would be a suicide mission for them, they’ve changed tactics by attacking/ambushing military convoys and troops temporary base during clearing missions, like recent attacks we’ve had.
For this reason troops need serious fire power and protection in mobility, which we are still lacking. It’s high time we look into giving the army there own dedicated air wing. Even if it means only 3 MI-35 and let the air force handle air interdiction/evacuation of wounded troops & logistics supply.
Bro we are in serious trouble, after a while now they will forget everything casualties, surfaced video online and we have no option to carry on with the fight.

https://twitter.com/adeyanjudeji/status/1244600352047009792?s=21

GabrielYulaw:
Hi Bidexii, is the helmet as good as the one in the JSF? If so, it's combat value just decreased.

Can’t really tell?

Odunayaw:
More painful to me is that the General knows if he doesn't make a video and put out, most likely the vampires in Abuja and DHQ/AHQ trying to save face will pounce on them; especially the junior ranks.

If only corona can speed up on these thugs we have

The theatre commander for the matter...
Am happy his around to feel what we undergo, things are worst here and boys morale are still high.
For those criticizing the general, things like these needs to happen once in a while so that people in Abuja and AHQ. We need to do serious shopping for the army, right now the Nzegwu/Proforce MRAP should be the standard means for all our troops.

#Tunisian USGN operators

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Su-57 new generation Helmet with Increased situational awareness

islamic state Wilayat Gharb ifriqqiya scholar proselytising and an adjudicating court in session in Lake Chad stronghold.

kabe1:
I just shed tears for that soldier in the last video. While everyone one is chilling in Lagos and Abuja, you see the hell they are going through.

Yet you see ignorant foolish Nigerians talking nonsense, and Abuja politicians living in a fantasy world.

I don’t believe that this his kabe1 talking

President Idriss Derby in full military uniform at the frontlines...

Iswap release pictures of their missionary tours around the lake Chad area. They are so comfortable that they hold lectures, live in numbers and not in hiding. They are also preaching to non muslims and converting them to Islam. I assume that comes with incentives.

Commander of the multinational joint force, General Major Ibrahim Manu praised Idriss Deby for personally coordinating military response/operation against Bokoharam

Chadian �� soldiers seen with M99 anti material rifles.

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Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum mni, FNSE @GovBorno @ProfZulum visited the Headquarters of the 7 Division @HQNigerianArmy to commiserate with fallen heroes and see those injured. The good news is that the Governor also announced a token donation of N500,000.00 to the 47 lost aoldiers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMOnv9gwBKg

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