₦airaland Forum

jakeporeshenko:
Budexxi whats your opinion on the whole thing, do you think a handful of prisoners can change the path of this war ?
Plus if the prisoners are still willing to be reunited with their terrorist buddies then the whole rehabilitation program is not working is it?

It's in two fold's

- exchanging terrorist prisoners for the chibook girls to reunite with there families, would be a big win in propaganda war for so long.

- exchanging terrorist prisoners to reunite with there buddies, are we ready to face the consequence.

We should learn from other countries ,if we are considering swapping terrorist for hostages or not and we should be ready and prepared to face the consequence. Examples are Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi etc...... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_former_Guantanamo_Bay_detainees_alleged_to_have_returned_to_terrorism. For more list/info.

Returning chibook girl back home would be a very big propaganda war and for the present goverment. because the chibook girls where not the only girls captured in these war there are hundreds of women,girls and children being captured by the deadly terrorist group, but BHT understand the Power of propaganda and needed international attention to the world at that time, like wise the shekau needed the same.

So bringing those girls or exchanging them for detained terrorists would be a giant break through but we should be smart when playing the cards because it comes with a lot of conditions which we populates would not know and would not be made known to the public by the government.

Returning those terrorist back to there group for me would be deadly and fatal, That is my own opinion and stand. An average terrorist is ready to die for what they believe in and they are very difficult to change. The goverment should work with other countries if the U.S.A is not willing to help with the rescue of those girls.

- But if we are ready to exchange those captured BHT commanders for those girls believe me, there would still be another capture of innocent girls. you can't trust terrorist group like BH.

Be wary of prisoner swap offer – UK expert tells Buhari

https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/176472/wary-prisoner-swap-offer-expert-tells-buhari

#CION

ActivateKruger:
With so much fighting in northern Nigeria, one would actually hope to see pictures of soldiers in combat than posing.

That would be difficult to get mate......!

Even with the western and European military fighting terrorism, we see much more pictures of soldiers posing than real combat pictures.

Thank God for few leaked videos......

nemesis2u:
can any body guess what that structure/object is for ?

this is crazy shiit

Shit these looks...... I don't even know.........

But it looks like a weapon used in shooting down a spy satellite, just saying

THE MANY LIVES AND DEATHS OF ABUBAKAR SHEKAU


https://www.africandefence.net/the-many-lives-and-deaths-of-abubakar-shekau/

new offensive against Al Shabaab


Somali National Army (SNA)

Mogadishu, Somalia ( DIPLOMAT.SO) – Somali Federal Ministry of Defense has proposed a new military offensive against Al-Shabaab militants amid increasing insurgent attacks against key government and civilian targets in the country.

According to the Minister of Defence, Gen. Abdulkadir Sheikh Ali Diini, the federal government has devised a comprehensive military strategy towards liberating the remaining Al-Shabaab strongholds in the south and central regions as a precaution against potential terror attacks to disrupt the upcoming electoral process.

Briefing the cabinet during their weekly session in Villa Somalia, Gen. Diini indicated that the SNA, in conjunction with the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia are preparing to wage an all-out military attack to counter the looming Al-Shabaab threats at this high time of parliamentary and presidential election year.

#CION

MikeCZA:
I'm from the Southern tip of Africa and curious.

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@fricaken254 nice pictures.

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MikeCZA:
They wash their uniforms?

Yeap. They do laundry and wash/clean utility vehicles and other hard wares like MBT & light tanks. As you can see in the video.

Why ask.....?

nemesis2u:
@bidexii

longtime i posted here

somebody said the guys in the video u posted were digging for water ?
is it true ?
all i saw was some fellows were dishing water from one side to another side

i have one question only
1.were the troops stopping over to get rest , regroup and replenish themselves for a few hours ? or
2.were they planning to stay there over night ?

Yeap they are digging for water and that process of them doing is that they are gathering and purifying the water .

That particular place is known because of its oasis so troops to watch these cloth, take there bath and wash military vehicles. I av posted a video where soldiers do stop at that particular, it's a popular stop inside Sambisa forest to get water.

They don't stay over there because there are no trenches or defensive, they only do watching/laundry there and leave.

jakeporeshenko:
Meanwhile in Tanzania

The last picture his some how crazy......

His these real......

DEATHMACHINE:
You feel that way after engaging in gunfights for a long time, you get used to it and don't panic,actually the job entails you to stay confident , and sharp with a clear head avoiding bad judgemental errors which could put your colleagues at risk. YOU GET ALL THESE WITH EXPERIENCE ,NO AMOUNT OF BATTLE STIMULATION CAN GET YOU EXPERIENCE

Good to hear from the horse mouth....

61mech:
Jees dude .
You need to show this vid to someone who had served in a modern 1st world military. If I were their Co., there would be some NCO's running around flipping truck tires for the afternoon. Don't get upset now , but i'm just going to point out a couple of things.

1. ZERO and I mean ZERO camp discipline. In an operational area of all places ! I see guys walking around like they are on RnR hanging laundry. 2/3's of them are walking around without their weapons at arms reach. Not a SINGLE one wearing any type of webbing/combat gear with ammo. I wonder if their officers even camp with them.

2. Guys standing on top of vehicles goofing around. Do you know what HE does when it hits hard armor ? I don't see anyone manning the guns keeping watch over that laager.

3. Personnel walking around in flip flops and civvie t-shirts. If I need to explain to you why this is wrong, I really hope you're not in any type of command position for your troop's sake.

4. Zero attempt at any type of camouflage of their positions. That bright orange dump truck in the middle of your position would make for a excellent aiming point for my mortar spotter. Christ, even ISIS smears mud on their Toyotas to hide the civvy paintjobs.

5. Absolutely no noise discipline in that camp. A patrol should be able to walk in the bush within 50m of your platoon and not know you're there.

6. Zero organisation of personnel. Everyone is standing around in groups having a chat and "vlegging piele". Mortar shrapnel and gpmg gunners love big groups of people standing around, not to mention snipers.

Vehicles should parked in laager, pointing outwards with personnel spread out EVENLY in their squads between them with fields of fire assigned by their NCO's beforehand. They should be in semi dug in positions with all eyes facing outwards. If you're going to take off your webbing, at least have it within reach along with your weapon for christ sake. Turrets/radio's manned by troops on watch.
No more than 3 people standing in a group and NO smoking at night.
Mortar pits should be dug, supplied and manned. You need to fire Ilum within seconds of an attack at night.

All these things to be observed at all times, whether at training facility, or in area of operations. NO exceptions. People died learning and re-learning these lessons.

Feel free to be pissed at my assessment. Try and find a military professional in any quality infantry organization to disagree with any of my observations and I'll type you an apology.

Oh my God his "over sabii" dey worry you nii or you know watch the video well. Okay let me break it down to you.

- 1st that place his not an operational area or base, it's a place they come to just source of water to do laundry and watch the hardwares. And for heaven sake they where busy with cleaning and laundry when the BHT sneaked behind. So how could you wear ur gear/webbing only few that where securing the perimeter where with gear,webbing and their firearms.

- watch the video there some manning guns /technicals. That's a normal military precaution some will always be on guard and alert and that is why they where able to repel the nursed fuckers.

- personnel walking in flip flop, for heaven sake you av being watching too much of war/action movies. On the real battle ground amidst of the heat on the front troops still must av time to relax, av fun and cool there brain and entire system or else you will av physiological or mental break down. But amidst of these always be on guard and alert.

- the bright orange truck his for the vigilante working hand in hand with our troops, even perfect fly camouflage vehicles get hit in well blended terrain. And that's why in the middle of other military vehicles. Any attempt on one of those military convoys his giving away there positions, BHT is not that dum.....

- too much of movies again, his possible for that number or gathering of soldiers not to make noise. Or even the crank noise made by the military vehicles.

- and please you just showed your level of knowledge on such matters. Am sorry I do not mean to make you feel bad, it takes an experienced army to repel such attack and those soldiers did a very good work by not allowing the enemy to break into there defensive positions. Even developed armies of the world take fall victim of friendly fire, for a large scale offensive in the N.E.

And big UPS for the military camera man capturing such moment, it shows that our army is growing .

#CION

Katyusha:
Unfortunately, a soldier was killed by friendly fire..

Harsh side of the realty of war.

Katyusha:
Oga bidexii, is this not the video you uploaded some time ago?

NOP!

Henry240:
If you don't view this video, you have no business discussing any topics on any African military.

Highlights


- The guy on the Reva MRAP, "screaming na suffer oh!". He said " when you guys see us on T.V eating food, you'll think we are enjoying, but "na die-hard we dey here so".


* LMAO @ Suicide cameraman


- when they came under fire, there was this particular guy who was walking calmly with RPG tubes, i wonder why he did that.


- NA grandpa Vickers broke-down and had to be towed by another Vickers.


- I particularly like the defensive position NA vehicles take as soon as clearing positions begin, very tact.


- NA Pick-up trucks are so well armed. The Hilux is now an integral part of NA mobility, it's good to see the army arming them with HMGs and the provision of a ballistic shield for the gunner.


- Another interesting thing is, despite the fact they are on operations, NA instructors still put soldiers through their paces in marksmanship. Even commandos are not left out, everybody practices marksmanship. Very beautiful, i've ever seen this with other militaries.


- The importance of LUH, such as the A109 cannot be under-estimated, from bring supplies to troops, spare tires for vehicles to taking freed hostages. The A109 has proven to be an integral asset.



In all, there are still multiple improvements that can be made, however no military can have it all. Only if we can invest in more IFVs to support the Tanks and MRAPs.

Hahahaaaaaaaaaa....... I now believe you av totally fell in love with the video..

I never knew u noticed also;" soldier carrying RPG rounds so calm,walking when they ar even under attack and I saw other solders.jumping and taking cover......

My conclusion is that soldier has seing a lot of battles and has a lot of close shave with death.... What do u think!

#AFSF

olapluto:
Top top video. This is the 1st real tactical vid seen of the front line. The army seems to have properly adjusted to the BHT tactics. I particularly like and admire how the commander was in full control of the camp, while also mingling well with the boys. Impressive.

Me also...
And another thing I would like to say, his these soldiers go through a lot. That is why sometimes you pattern the kind of ur military training in accordance to ur terrain/enviroment. There is these popular saying amongst our troops that when;" you train hard you fight easy". I can't imagine these soldiers after fighting hard they av to dig to get water inside that evil part of the forest, you dig trenches for protection and for training/marksmanship everything under the harsh weather inside Sambisa.

God bless our troops and God's speed......

Henry240:
I thoroughly enjoyed the video!

It was not a friendly fire, we had one KIA. The soldiers were shouting RPGs shouldn't be fired, that we had guys in-front repelling the attacks.


I thought know person noticed that, our defensive parameters show that the Nigerian army is a well trained, well organised for. No amount of media propaganda can take that away. I just wish we had more IFVs though.


The defensive parameters were well organised and spaced just like you see in all British army videos.


The videos shows the importance of Light Utility Helicopters in operations. That guy came from Bama, he flew from Bama to Sambisa, then back to Bama, then to the Air Base.


Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Wow.i.never noticed an RPG, was fired.

On the IFV I wish the same also but there is something I know for sure it's a matter of time both tracked and wheeled IFV will be added. We've lost a lot of brave men which could av being averted if they had being riding in IFV. IFV had more fire power and protection of men and also support our MBT from rockets/RPG.

Henry240:
I love our military, it's beginning to feel like a sickness!!!



I would have been so angry if i were from any other country in Africa but Nigeria.


God bless our military!!!

I can't stop.laughing..........

giles14:
I totally agree with u was a great enlightenment.

but 4 things disappointed me.
1.d Vickers tanks we need to replace dem
2.d destruction of grains wen we have starving n malnourished children in IDP camps
3.lack of proper communication gadgets eg firing on advanced troops which if der was good radio communication would b avoided.
4.lastly d Augusta 109 light skin choppers have no business dere.d commander towards d end was speaking of d chopper being fired at.dis ought to b d job of d super puma or maybe d mi17.


over all it was nice seeing d stuff our troops was made of.
more of dis videos are needed pls.

I agree with u hernry on the video and am proud of our frontline troops.

I agree with you giles14 but what do you do when you are shot of the proper assets. What's make you excel in what ever you do is not much and better things you av available to you but how good you make of the little you have.

Even the developed army can't av it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DbZjmm7hs

Guys you must watch these video, tester night when I finished downloading it, I just skipped through the video because it's about 43 mind video.

It shows every thing about the lives of troops in sambisa forest & CION.

At the beginning of the video soldiers where digging for water when they came under fire by BHT but they repelled the attack. Accidentally it looks like there was a friendly fire or a soldier being mistakenly ran of by a MBT.

Another part of the video I like is the tactical movement in which troops move inside Sambisa and the position of the MBT,MRAPs and Gun trucks are stationed in area of operation in case of attack.

And in the video, it shows how the NAF helps.in logistics supplies and evacuation of rescued civilians through air assets. A Lot of things you get to see in the video.

Big ups @fynline for these.....!

National Guard Apache helicopter is stuck in the mud after an emergency landing in the Baytown area overnight. https:///P0F42iY6p0

Henry240:
Nigerian Air Force MI-24V Attack Helicopter

Boko Haram: "Shekau is dead," - Nigerian Army insist -


http://scholarspost.com/boko-haram-shekau-is-dead-nigerian-army-insist

Henry240:
On closer inspection, I don't think that's a Nigerian boat. The sailors look Israeli to me.

That's a NN vessel.

-firstly the naval personnel on the vessel are all black personnels,though the picture is somehow blunt but look closely very well.

- those personnel are wearing the traditional light navy blue on dark blue, the Israeli navy either wear the white on white or light brown on light brown on ship.

- then the NN has these tradition of arming the light vessel and gun boats with grenade launchers, which is visible in the front.

#AFSF

Henry240:
Malaysian and Kuwati F/A-18 hornets training alongside the JF-17 in Kuwait.

Tnks.