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Nigerian Army deploys military dogs to sniff out Boko Haram fighters


- COAS Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai has ordered the deployment of military dogs in and around Maiduguri - Buratai says the move is part of efforts to checkmate incessant bomb attacks in the city - The Army chief urges troops and Maiduguri residents to be alert and conscious of their environment as well as strange people around them The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday, April 4, ordered the deployment of military working dogs in and around Maiduguri as part of efforts to checkmate incessant bomb attacks in the city. According to a report on Vanguard, Buratai gave the order after he inaugurated a sports complex built by 7 Division of the Nigerian Army at the Maimalari Cantonment. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1097685-nigerian-army-deploys-military-working-dogs-sniff-boko-haram-fighters-maidug.html

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MikeCZA:
The military freed you?

naaaaa......
nothing of sort.......

missed alot....................

Odunayaw:
I would prefer having them tied to the windscreen of landcruiser gun trucks and be driven into battle

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NAF RANDOM

N620m fraud: Ex-PICOMSS boss never supplied boats to Nigerian Army – Witness


https://theeagleonline.com.ng/n620m-fraud-ex-picomss-boss-never-supplied-boats-to-nigerian-army-witness/

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Expelled student masterminded killing of Ibadan Commandant

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/expelled-student-masterminded-killing-ibadan-commandant/

Nigerian Army: GOC 82 visits formations and units

http://worldstagegroup.com/worldstagenew/index.php?active=news&newscid=33816&catid=2

tdayof:
So painful now anger should be transferred to BHT.

Conduct more airstrikes on their positions.

nemesis2u:
good move

I wish am in the north east, sambisa general area and other affected countries I will just go tracking down on all I.E.D hide out cells & factories.

AN AFSF POSES WITH A CAMEROONIAN IWI GALIL RIFFLE

IGERIAN ARMY TO GIVE N500,000 CASH REWARD FOR INFORMATION ON SUICIDE BOMBERS

The spate of suicide bombings in the North East and in particular, Maiduguri and Madagali metropolis is assuming a disturbing proportion.

Consequently, the Nigerian Army is offering a reward of the sum of N500,000 for any information that leads to the arrest of a suicide bomber, the guide to the suicide bomber, or discovery of the transit house or factory of the suicide bombers.

The offer by the Nigerian Army is to further encourage law abiding citizens to actively join the war against terrorists and our collective security. The following numbers are available for immediate response:

1. Theatre Commander, Operations LAFIYA DOLE, Maiduguri- 09064823221.

2. General Officer Commanding 7 Division Maiduguri- 09078599985.

3. Commander, 7 Division Garrison Maiduguri-08022375305.

4. Commander, 28 Brigade, Mubi-08065504576.

5. Commander, 26 Brigade, Gwoza-+234 809 721 1700 (WhatsApp).

6. Director, Army Public Relations, Abuja-07080217992.

7. Commander, 7 Division Military Intelligence Brigade Maiduguri-09021668444.

We would like to reassure that all information received would be treated with utmost confidentiality and acted upon with despatch.

While we appreciate the cooperation of the members of the general public so far, there is the need to be more vigilant and security conscious to save lives and apprehend Boko Haram terrorists and their sponsors.

Once again we call on all law abiding citizens to provide useful information to security agencies towards a quicker apprehension of remnants of terrorists still bent on unleashing mayhem on Nigerians.

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman
Director Army Public Relations

PRESS RELEASE
Re: THE RANN ACCIDENTAL AIR STRIKE

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is saddened by today’s accidental air strike by its fighter jet at Rann in Kala Balge area of Borno State in which some innocent lives were lost. While available information is sketchy, the Theatre Commander OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE is taking appropriate steps to avail us with details of the incident. The loss occasioned by this unfortunate incident is deeply regretted. The NAF commiserates with those affected and their families and would update the public as soon as detailed facts emerge from the investigation.

NAF jet kills aid workers, civilians in Borno


http://thenationonlineng.net/naf-jet-kills-aid-workers-civilians-borno/

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Lockheed’s design at this stage had a large rotary weapon bay which pushed the engines and inlets outward, in turn producing an excessive amount of wave drag. This is exactly what happened to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with its vertical lift fan making the aircraft too wide and draggy. The vertical lift fan is the original sin of the F-35 design.
The Air Force initially required that eight missiles be carried internally within the F-22’s main weapon bay. That was reduced to six when both of the design teams concluded this could not be done effectively. Similarly, the requirement for thrust reversers was dropped when it was determined that the capability was not worth the price in performance.
The F-22’s basic challenge was to integrate stealth, supercruise, highly integrated avionics and agility into an aircraft with a longer range than the one it was to replace, the F-15 Eagle. It was also to have twice the reliability of the F-15 and half the support requirements. Although in practice, the F-22’s mission availability has risen over the last few years to being close to that of the F-15, but its support requirement is over 50 percent higher.
Both the Lockheed and Northrop designs had diamond-shaped wings with a long root chord joining the wing to the fuselage, providing a more distributed load path and more bulkheads carrying the bending loads. The large wings also provided more fuel volume.

But in January 1989, the U.S. Air Force put a cap on the cost of the F-22’s avionics at $9 million per aircraft in production. At that time, Lockheed’s paper design had over $16 million of avionics in each aircraft.
Thus, the IRST was dropped — as were a number of other systems, including the side-looking, cheek-mounted radars.
The processing power of electronics and the acuity of optics have improved in the last decade so the cost of avionics relative to the cost of the airframe has fallen. Nevertheless, the reason why the F-22 doesn’t have an IRST dates from the avionics cost cap imposed in 1989. The U.S. Air Force didn’t prescribe which systems were to be dropped in order to meet the cap. The companies decided what would provide the best value for money.
And 27 years later, the F-22’s main competition, the Russian Su-35 Flanker-E, has infrared-search-and-track and cheek-mounted radars.


Curled from; "war is boring".

The F-22 Stealth Fighter Has More Than One Weakness Compared to Modern Russian Warplanes


America’s F-22 Raptor is one of the world’s most advanced warplanes. But it has several weaknesses. For one, it’s blind in the infrared though several of its potential rivals have infrared-search-and-track sensors, effectively allowing them to scan for enemy warplanes’ heat signatures.
The last U.S. fighter to have an IRST sensor built in during development was the F-14 Tomcat. The F/A-18 Super Hornet now has the option of carrying a centerline droptank with an IRST, which will make it expensive to actually drop in combat.
The F-22 also lacks side-looking radars, which allow an aircraft to fire a missile that requires mid-course updates from the aircraft’s radar while continuing to provide tracking data after turning more than 90 degrees away from the path of the missile.
Without such a radar, an aircraft would have to keep pointing toward an enemy plane — and getting closer to any missiles an enemy might fire.

The reason for these shortcomings dates back to the Raptor’s origin.
The F-22 had its beginnings in the Advanced Tactical Fighter program which began in 1981. The U.S. Air Force awarded General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas contracts for initial design work for an air-to-ground fighter that could fly at Mach 2.5 at high to medium altitudes, and carry standoff weapons to destroy tanks and other ground targets.
Nothing came of that program initially because the F-16 Fighting Falcon, originally designed as an air-to-air fighter for daylight hours, came in the back door and was repurposed to fill the air-to-ground role.

In late 1985, the U.S. Air Force made a number of changes to requirements as the program progressed, including a greater emphasis on stealth. It also changed the selection process so that, instead of four companies receiving approximately $100 million each, two would be awarded contracts of $700 million each to produce flying prototypes.
One of the prototypes would be powered by Pratt & Whitney F119 engines and the other with General Electric F120 engines. At around the same time, the U.S. Air Force sent out letters to the competing companies to encourage teaming.
The idea behind this was that the U.S. Air Force wanted as much talent as possible for such a large and expensive program. As a result, Boeing, Lockheed and General Dynamics formed one team, and Northrop and McDonnell Douglas formed another. Rockwell and Grumman did not team.
On Oct. 31, 1986, the Air Force announced Lockheed and Northrop as winners of that stage of the Advanced Tactical Fighter program. The teaming agreement among Boeing, General Dynamics and Lockheed called for the winning company to be the team leader, so Lockheed took that role. The winning teams were given four years to produce their flying prototypes.

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UNIMAID attack: Shekau claims responsibility



http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/unimaid-attack-shekau-claims-responsibility/181124.html

Katyusha:
The NAF is the only service arm that has taken online media seriously. The Army is nowhere to be found. Even the six-part documentaries aired last year are yet to be put online. The Army doesn't even have a YouTube page. That is what happens when you appoint a grandfather to head a position as sensitive as P.R. No innovation, no nada.

I concur.

But you don take laugh kill me here........

NAF IS WINNING THE WAR



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8X7Rct07sE


Shot video yet very nice.

Eastern Libyan army commander signs arms deal with Russia despite UN embargo



A deal between the commander of Operation Dignity forces, Khalifa Haftar, who leads the forces of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), signed a deal with the Russian government that would see $2 billion dollars worth arms coming to his self-proclaimed army, an HoR members, Ismaeil Al-Ghoul, revealed to the London-based Al-Arab newspaper.

Al-Ghoul told Al-Arab on Monday that the visit of Haftar to the Russian aircraft carrier off Tobruk port saw the two parties signing a deal that would allow Haftar to reactivate the contracts of the former Libyan army of Muamar Gaddafi with Russia.

“Abdullah Al-Thinni-led government of the HoR has tried many times to reactivate the contracts with Russia, it is the right of the Libyan army to have them back from Russia.” He added.

Al-Ghoul told the UK-based Al-Arab that this new deal signed with Russia would be so useful to pave the way for lifting the UN embargo on exporting weapons to Libya’s army, which he said is fighting terrorists across the country.

“Such a deal between the Libyan Army and Russia is a good loophole in the legal body of the UN embargo on Libya as it envisions an upcoming collapse of the resolution as Russia’s step would be so vital in that regard.” The HoR member indicated.

According to the Al-Arab newspaper, the deal that Haftar stroke with Russia onboard the aircraft carrier earlier last week is a continuation of the 2008 stopped contracts between Libya and Russia.



http://www.libyanexpress.com/eastern-libyan-army-commander-signs-arms-deal-with-russia-despite-un-embargo/

More pressure-plate IEDs recovered in #Benghazi, #Libya.

#Egypt- #ISIS claim sniper attack targeting a checkpoint south of al-Arish, North #Sinai, which killed 4 soldiers .

Police urge calm as Army conducts fire power demonstrations


Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/police-urge-calm-as-army-conducts-fire-power-demonstrations/181114.html#ZCe7JTu2Rovj1JUM.99

Nigeria Airforce says it flew 6773 hours in 2016.


he Nigerian Air Force said on Monday in Yola, Adamawa, that it flew 6773 hours in 2,105 missions and 3,534 sorties in its operations in the North-East in 2016.

The Air Officer Commanding, Tactical Air Command, Air Vice Marshal Nurudeen Balogun, made this known while briefing the Federal Government team and representatives of Bring Our Girls Back (BBOG) on tour of the North-East.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and his Defence counterpart, Mansur Dan- Alli, led the team.

Nurudeen said that over N2 billion was used for Jet A1 fuel for aircrafts, excluding the cost of maintenance and consumables during the period.

Giving update on significant operations conducted within the period, he said that crackdown on the insurgents was organised by the Theatre Command, which commenced on April 25, 2016 and lasted for 23 days.

“A total of 348 sorties were generated by the air component for the operation that led to the capture of Alargano, the supposedly spiritual headquarters of Boko Haram.

“The intensity of the operation of crackdown forced some breakaway groups of the Boko Haram insurgents to move towards the far North.

“The Multi-national Joint Task Force initiated Operation Gama Aiki and very important location, Malamfatori, was captured on Sept. 27, 2016,’’ he said.

He said that Operation Forest Storm was also organised by the headquarters of the Nigerian Air Force, which aimed at identifying Boko Haram targets at Sambisa with a view to degrading the capacity of the insurgents.

The commanding officer disclosed that a seven-day operation between Oct. 22 and Oct. 28, with 55 missions, was a precursor for the Operation Rescue Finale that was going on in the region.

According to him, the Operation Rescue Finale which commenced Nov. 1, 2016, was instrumental to the Dec. 22, 2016 fall of Camp Zairo, the major stronghold of Boko Hram.

In his contribution, the Air Component Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Air Commodore Charles Owoh, said that during the operation, the Air Force carried out medical outreach programmes in military hospitals at Balori and Bama.

He said that as a result of government’s commitment to ending the insurgency in the region, not less than five serviceable surveillance aircraft were now operational, compared to only one in July, 2015.

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SNA, KDF Push Al Shabaab Out of Key Area in Gedo


A Somali official says Somali and Kenyan defence forces have driven out Al shabaab from a key village near Beled-Hawo town in Gedo region following military operations.

Osman Nuh Hajji, the deputy governor of Gedo region has confirmed to Radio Shabelle the capture of Nusdariiq area, about 90Km away from Beled-Hawo town by the allied forces.

He added that Al shabaab militants fled the area after they were being defeated by the Somali troops, along with KDF moved in, and seized the control during the offensive.

Al shabaab did not comment of the seizure of Nusdariiq, where has been the scene of heavy clashes between the coalition forces and the militants, linked with Al Qaeda in the past weeks.