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Better equipment?? ....Hmnn big english, i used to think our soldiers go to war barefeet, with Daneguns"...e.t.c, until i stumbled on " Siriusblack" thread...BH does not have aircover, artillerry, they carry Ak47 like our soldiers, they drive hilux and some stolen APC ...imagine BH asking Shekau for better equipments ..i think his reply will be, "what about the ones we took from the army"?I think the equipments we have are adequate to fight BH ...we are not fighting cameroon , Algeria e.t,c...i thing what the lazy deserters need is courage and u cant buy it from the American or russians.....maybe we might need the Asterix druid...miraculix(Getafix)

abio my broda!!!! ....... by a certain "Attorney Patryk Utulu" a lawyer commenting on medical issue.. "FD[b]A’s Dr. Caplan said the same people who marketed fake HIV cure-drugs to Africans for 30 years are now marketing fake Ebola cure to Africans “BECAUSE OF THE STUPIDITY OF AFRICAN RELIGIOUS GROUPS WHO ARE TEMPTED TO CLAIM MIRACLE CURE.”[/b] .......U think WHO will use word like "stupid" in it report...mtscheww!!!!!

NWANICHODE: The story may be fake (no source) but logical.

I didnt write it...a guy from Beegeagle blog wrote it...excellent piece my best part was "but what is the choice really? Wait for Boko to enter Bauchi and Jos, and then counter attack with SU25s, MRAPs and every soldier carrying Tavors?" ...excellent piece!!

bidexiii: I think you are the best person I love his comment on dis thread I love it and u av said it all the only thing u did not mention is d corrupt and belly top red necks. Did u right dis or curb it from beegles blog, any which I love d piece !

If u ask another policeman ....he might prefer PDP ....150 million naija have different choices....na democracy!!!!

are we really outgunned by the BH read this i got it from beegeagle blog[color=#006600][/color]

zed says:
August 12, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Sorry if i sound callous guys, but i am afraid what we are seeing is a continuation of the softening of the Nigerian Armed forces. championed by the latest television wars between mis- matched parties
US vs Taliban
US/Allies vs Iraqis
Isrealis vs Hamas etc.

We have become soft, We now believe war is fought from 9am to 1pm, break for lunch resume by 3pm after siesta and finish for the day by 6pm, total casualty count (1 soldier, who stubbed his toe on a rock). Once you run into the enemy, hunker down and call in air support. After airstrike go in and mop up, and resume advance.

I have said before that given the equipment i saw on Sirius thread, the Nigerian Army can be better equipped, but clearly for this war against Boko Haram, lack of equipment cannot qualify as an excuse for what we are seeing and hearing in Damboa, Gwoza etc..

I will attempt to outline everything i have seen in the Boko arsenal based on all we have seen and read , and then i will show on the other side the solutions NA has in its arsenal to counter them:

Rifles
—–Boko Haram (AK 47) vs NA (options of AK-47 or FN), the FN out ranges the AK comfortably (dont know why we now only see them at the annual range competitions)

RPGs
——Boko (RPG 7) vs NA (RPG7, recently sighted semi auto grenade launchers)

Machine Guns
Boko (Chinese GPMGs) vs NA (FN MAG, Chinese GPMGs, RPK Light MGs etc.)

Heavy MGs
Boko (Russian 12.7mm DHsKs) vs NA (Browning 50cals) the DhsK out ranges the 50cal marginally, but at regular combat ranges, the differences of 2-300m are not as significant as we sometimes like to make out. Actually most of the fighting happens at 200 to 400m, comfortably within the killing range of both these heavy machine guns and the GPMGs.

Sniper rifles
Boko (unknown) vs NA (Steyr, and Russian Dragunov)

Mortars
Boko (unknown but few if any) vs NA (60mm, 81mm) covering ranges from 0.5km to 7km. This means that when the technicals sit out at 800m range and batter our positions, a mortar battery of 2 or 3 mortars can give them a really bad day from a position sheltered from fire, either a trench or a bunker

Artillery
Boko (Unknown) vs NA (105mm howitzers, 122mm guns, 130mm guns, 155mm howitzers) able to hit targets as far as 12-25km away.

Air power
Boko (None) vs NA (3 Alphajets, 2 helo gunships) i am assuming all the rest is dysfunctional, which of course cannot be. Grossly insufficient, but should be more than adequate for a point battle like we have now in Gwoza

Armour
Boko (few captured NA or Camerounian APCs) vs NA ( Cobra APCs, Scorpion Tanks, Panhard Sagaie1/2, T55s, Vicker Eagle etc.)

Based on the foregoing, we would probably be embarrassed if we were fighting Cameroon, or chad or Sudan and based on that we need to rapidly re-equip. However, we are not fighting them (yet), so i really dont see why we should not win this current fight and much more easily than we are doing today.

In my view our real challenges are
– In-experienced soldiers, who are encouraged by the political press (sahara et al) to believe that if they make sufficient noise this cup will pass over them

– A public that has not understood that this is a war, same blood, guts and sweat scenario the made Churchill make his famous speech.

The improved equipment will certainly come, in fact we are already seeing it in Sirus pix, but we must win the battles before that with what we have. it will mean higher casualties than if we had improved equipment, but what is the choice really? Wait for Boko to enter Bauchi and Jos, and then counter attack with SU25s, MRAPs and every soldier carrying Tavors? In the mean time what would be the situation of the displaced population? we already have a sorry situation with a few thousands displaced from Damboa and Gwoza.

We need to pull up our socks and fight this war, if Boko Haram can storm into the fight carrying only AKs, RPGs and Heavy machine guns, are our soldiers now so soft that they cannot match them except they are comfortably ensconced in air conditioned MRAPS, with jet fighters watching their every move? To think that the heros of Liberia and Sierra Leone didnt even have body Armour!!! What has become of us?
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Eko ooni baaje ooooo!!!!! abi eko ooni ogbanje anyhow sha Wetin the local goverrment chairman dey do?....If na fed gov school we go don dey hear "incompetent", clueless..kindergarten...

OK Thanks for the info

Rikidony: yea is not yet been updated on their site. they wre on air when the brought the breaking news

Checked BBC Africa no show.......anybody with credible source please?

The ony "power generation" deception i know is ENRON......a big fraud!!!!..and it happened under Tinubu gov...abi??

An incompetent man ruling a "competent " man like u .....u no get shame ...mtchewwwww!!!!

Aigbofa: Yep, he is my president but he is incompetent. I even got apprehensive when i heard some folks wanted to screen him for ebola! I hope that didn't happen.

Hmnnnnn!!!! some people fit tell tory!!!!

EMMASON125:

[b]One security source disclosed that a contingent of soldiers was sent to search for the helicopter in Bulabulin. “They found the helicopter and destroyed it,” said the source, adding that the helicopter had a strange red marking in its underbelly. He suggested that the aircraft was brought down by artillery fire. Two members of its crew were found alive and evacuated.
http://saharareporters.com/2014/07/24/nigerian-army-unable-retake-damboa-boko-haram

ShararaLIEreporters.....chei una tory too much

Hmnnnnn comprehension of English, na wahala...there is a difference between "closing" and "Dropping" a case...abi the op is delibrately trying to mislead us.....or naa "Tuerenchi" problem? ..anyway God dey

HMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.....Tory!!!!!

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