₦airaland Forum

KingAzubuike:
Sometimes it's meaningless arguing with those illiterates. They are blinded and will say anything to give credit to the Nigerian military. That's how one of them was saying the Nigerian military has what it takes to sink a UK aircraft carrier.

Toju200:
the person that Brought this topic doesn't have heart I told u they'll eat me alive..


It's every one with their opinion
Let's just be expecting new Hardwares soon..
That's my take

Toju200:
Bro I can assure u that we won't use up to that amount to develop a tank..
It's almost the same case as lemme say the MRAPs.
We produce the same quality even better MRAPs of some countries yet we get ours for a lower price
E.g Ezugwu MRAP

youghs:
Abeg does anyone knows whether proforce is building a battle tank or planning on building?

bidexiii:
The Libyan army shot down a new Turkish Bayrakdar Drone
I keep asking myself what is Turkey doing in Libya, what’s there interesting or what are they gaining. Only God knows how many drones what millions of dollars that they have lost.

lebuhsi:
This guys are M.I.T , tdayof(I don't know his real name), also signed a R & D agreement with the Nigerian army forces, as far as I know, it didn't concretize, he finally moved to China, I read an article that a Chinese company bought intellectual rights, I can't seem to find it, I'm still looking

Juchii:
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In my own opinion, I think NAF should start absorbing some pure talent like the one in this video

I stand to be corrected though because I don't know much in this area. Actually I haven't seen such talent with much dedication like this guy.
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lebuhsi:
Uavision's work with the NAF was more of a capacity building engagement, I'm not sure they helped with work on the gulma, but they certainly worked on the tsaigumi, which is built on the same platform as the gulma, but major improvements on endurance though, how far their work together would go is left to be seen,but R & D is capital intensive as you said, so the NAF got their work cut out, maybe that's why the NAF eagle project was put on hold?

Toju200:
Nope.....
Tsaigumi isn't a farce...
We just want to look further and deeper into UAV technology..
By the the y'all know they are working on the Ichoku combat drone...So....let them do wat they do

lebuhsi:
The NAF, always spot on , I look on this with promise, it seems they have experience developing autonomous systems, it would interesting to see if this can be substantiated with the development of an indigenous auto-pilot system for the ichoku ucav, or future crafts, uavision's work with NAF on the tsaugaimi was entry level
https://twitter.com/madebycharles/status/1253975435039383554?s=19
https://twitter.com/madebycharles/status/1205872883236560896?s=19[/quote]Hmmn. If Uavision is entry level. I don't know what to call this new partners they got.
In other words, I hope the new guys are up to task. I have read development history of some countries drone programmes and they are very challenging and painstaking.

Knowing Nigeria and not having time for patience, let's hope they'll get all the time they need.

Also this means Tsaugaimi was just a farce?

kabe1:
The current DG of DICON is making considerable efforts in retooling and modernizing DICON, but we need to remember that company was left to rot by the previous government and up until time they never hard a smart DG, who thinks outside the box.

The Beryl deal is dead as far as I know, but efforts are made in other areas. DICON-SUR is a considerable foreign direct investment, NAVMC now integrated into DICON is doing well with a good range of vehicles.

LagosWahala:
Galil is IMI's "take" on the AK47.

This is also the weapon on which the South African R4 rifle is based.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMI_Galil?wprov=sfla1

While Negev is the standard issue light machine gun(LMG) of the Israeli Defence Forces.

The Israeli MiniMi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWI_Negev?wprov=sfla1

If you leave only me, Nigeria would sign tech transfer with Israel, give DICON like 6 production lines and standardise our small arms fleet, service wide.

Those Israeli guns ain't a joke son!

komekn:
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komekn:
Taking a very expensive sledge hammer to kill a fly, doesn't make any sense. How much is one ATGM even as Chinese made cheapest will be around $35k, what is value of one of those rickety run down rusted pick up, maybe $400.

Poor strategy if you ask me.

Salatavor:
Oga are you even reading what they wrote... They said they want to buy an innocent cargo plane and ask Denel of SA to convert into a bad ass fighting machine and you are talking of AC130 are you not the same person that said we can't buy armed platforms from the west. The C130 can be sold to Nigeria by even countries within the North Allied treaty and can be retrofitted for combat roles here in Africa or the UAE.

GabrielYulaw:
And? There are many other things the US does not sell its closest allies. Ever seen an American ally using a Nimitz Aircraft Carrier? And why would the allies buy the Raptor when the JSF is supposedly miles better?

Look, building a gunship is not rocket science. You just have to sit down and understand what you need and the tools you need for the job. You can even model it on computers to know how the armament would change the flight behavior of the plane. There is no science to it. In Vietnam the US even put gun and rocket pods, plus miniguns on light planes. Nothing is stopping us from copying that, but with more modern modifications.

GabrielYulaw:
We don't need to contract the Russkies. South Africa is more than capable of turning just about any cargo plane into a gunship.

komekn:
We are not contending with Algeria or Egypt it's Boko Haram it's not conventional warfare.

Not what we need and therefore not fit for purpose. IMO

rka2:
ST1 light tank it is referred to.

VT4 MBT

Salatavor:
corruption riddled sky. Where are this jets when the great Adeniyi was getting pounded from all flanks.

Post photos of Alpha jet in year 2020 and calls it beautiful sky. Alpha jet became obsolete long before the year 2000

komekn:
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jteku:
More photos of underground bunkers were weapons were found.

jpphilips:
Iran also

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2018/02/13/sentinels-saeqehs-simorghs-open-source-information-irans-new-drone-syria/

Salatavor:
you are right. Very right, but the question is, at what cost? Jonathan fought a damned good war.

Tinfoil:
Considering the number of people who die in the world daily the current pandemic is not as serious as it is being portrayed in the news. I hope Africa can run the numbers and stop curfews and lockdowns and let people work.

For years Africa has been blindly following what happens in the west. They have their own reasons for locking down which have nothing to do with the virus.