₦airaland Forum

rka2:
Looks like we have a bit longer to wait for JF-17.

“We have made substantial progress in terms of acquiring the JF-17 (Thunder) fighter aircraft from Pakistan and I believe that very soon our officers and men will move to Pakistan for training while the production of the aircraft is ongoing.”

https://punchng.com/naf-to-acquire-fighters-jets-from-italy-pakistan-cas/

When 3rd world country buys from 3rd world country.

MiddleDimension:
and a ''fixed winged fighter'' means what? an SU30 won't be coming in?

I am sure you dont have NAF strategic plan. All copies online have key areas blotted out. There are proposed acquisitions not even published

However I suspect MIG 29MST more possible than SU-3X and Yaks are sure as replacement for Alpha jets.

Yusman316:
That's what I don't understand. Hausa and Fulani are two distinct languages, nothing connects them at all other than region.

Fulani language is fulfude. Can she speak fulfude? Nobody asked because the ignorant reporter already called Buhari on Hausa man. Lazy, ignorant youths

Trump is not serious. He is probably going to announce that they have killed or captured Al Baghdadi (leader of ISIS. ) Who had been injured since 5 months ago and probably not the current leader

All this to distract from impeachment inquiry and Bolton testimony against him

Everybody pls stop blaming politicians for fire service. Nigeria is being failed at a lower level. I know politicians were/are the cause of most of the ills BUT please people are actually getting salaries for these services that they are not delivering.

realnas:
oga bidex abeg who is that bearded egbon ?

Gebi ?
He did not even win a seat in NASS for all his support and contributions to defence/security in Nigeria .

Nigeria is not a meritocracy

PerfectlyPerfect:
They didn't provide any info about the ballistics protection and the armour of the vehicle and you're already claiming it can be destroyed by an RPG. It this exact MRAP was provided by the US, you would've rushed to praise it

Many people don't realize that technology must be married to operational techniques. In an ambush, the procedure is to shout a code word for ambush and get out of the vehicle fast if the road in front is blocked. If the enemy fires RPG, shout "incoming ". Keep engaging on foot while the gunners use the 12.5mm machine guns and grenade launchers. MRAPs are not to stay put in one place and take fire. They are to kill the ambush party with combination of the protection, the ojboard weapons and dismounted troops. Practice and inventing new simulated exercises are tue way to go

brownbib:
Still wondering the complexity of the brain of a monkey.

Not complex. They learn by immitation. Parrots probably use more brain power to remember and mimic sounds. Lions track territory and maintain pride hierarchy with even more brain power. Monkeys behave like us that is why we think they are so smart

WARTHUNDER:
Russian rival to American Apache helicopter, the Mi-35 M Hind E is Nigeria's most powerful, most sophisticated CT-COIN asset, NAF's pride.

All MI 35Ms are Hind Es.
MI 35M Hind E does not mean much. Hind E is just NATO trying to track the maturity of the original MI 24 design

If I write your actual name and put WARTHUNDER after it, it should not be done in a way that suggests there are other people answering to your name

Omenka ran to Brazil

WARTHUNDER:
Anybody calling that NAF fleet list a cook up is totally militarily illiterate. Its open source published figures, if you cant find them like I did, it shows u dont know dis biz at all. Be a bit humble n learn, it helps. Am done giving u free tutorial.

You are close.
You even left out militarized 2 BELL helicopters, one AW1XX from Presidential fleet with capacity to deploy countermeasures, a number of A109LUH ...but what is MI 35Hind E?

Odunayaw:
How'd I be able to do that based on pictures?

But I'd complain on what I perceive; The turning radius.
It seems they've reduced the height of the vehicle.

Please no one should get me wrong. I have no problem with the vehicle! Why should I be unpleased after yelling for 3 years that we should be producing these classes of vehicles ourselves. My problem is with the "manufacturer".
I fear they'd not think commercial, which may hamper the future of the Ezugwu.

Proforce can always push for sales outside Nigeria to stay afloat, can NAVMC do same. Or will they sink once the NA doesn't procure?

NAVMC will soon be a company. When the army says they are seeking "alternative means of funding ", what did you think?.

NA pls put a mix of turret systems on this beast. Like Shturm turret from our friends in the Ukraine OR the new DENEL turrets that fire 12.5mm machine guns and rapid fire grenade launchers at the same time

RTSC:
It would be very unfortunate if this beast falls into boko hands.
I hope to see massive assembly of this from DICON.

If they can't create the volume, they can just contract it to innoson and give them the design and specification.

God bless Igbo ingenuity. Quality human capital.

What Igbo ingenuity?
Gen Ezugwu is NOT an engineer. He performed very well in operations against Boko Haram and he organized defence industry well BUT he did not participate in the technical aspects of this. He was honoured for his performance as a soldier by naming this vehicle after him

Thank God for Buhari. Thank God for the ruin that is come upon all economic saboteurs and smugglers.

From Abakaliki to Nnewi to Mowe(Ofada) to Kano to Yagba (Kogi State) to Lagis, farmers are smilling to the Bank.

Let Russians come with improved wheat seedlings for Kano, Nasarawa, Borno and Kebbi wheat fields and Nigeria will save another $4bn in FOREX on reduced wheat and flour importation.

festacman:
I have a strong feeling that somebody somewhere paid FFK handsomely to utilize the abundance of his DARK HEART to demarket VP Osinbajo by persistent verbal attacks. FFK is simply on a mission but the good news is that God has the final say.

FFK is either working for Tinubu or Abba Kyari who was his colleague and mate at the same law chambers many years ago.

The problem is dunce youths who wont keep their mouths shut but join in power games they dont understand.
FFK should be in prison but his contacts in Aso Rock keep ensuring that EFFC is frustrated and friendly judges hear the cases that keep going know where.

All these are happening but once the guy snaps pics with Kanu or says something supporting IPOB/Igbo cause, inferiority complex afflicted youths are just happy.

Stop being stupid. Everyone is playing a game. There is no tribalism in.business or power.

kabe1:
NIGERIAN ARMY TO LAUNCH INDIGENOUS MINE RESISTANT AMBUSH PROTECTED VEHICLE

The Nigerian Army is set to launch its first indigenous Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle designed and built by Command Engineering Depot in collaboration with the Defence Indhustries Corporation of Nigeria. It is named ‘EZUGWU MRAP’

The 4x4 Armoured Vehicle is designed to carry out transportation in smooth and rough terrain. It has capability to assault with high volume of fire.

The primary armament includes a 12.7 mm Anti-Aircraft Gun and a 7.62 mm Light Machine Gun. It is good for counter-terrorism, maintenance of stability and also a perfect vehicle for urban warfare.

The vehicle is characterized by good protection performance, strong cross-country capability, high reliability, easy maintenance, and can operate in severe cold as well as sweltering desert areas.

It carries a crew of 12: commander, driver, two gunners and eight soldiers.

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

ABDULRASHEED AHMED
Capt
for Coordinator
Nigerian Army Operations Media

25 October 2019

1. If you are carrying 12 passengers, a 6x6 chassis/driveline is better than 4x4 otherwise too much sway and bad structural dynamics

2. Put double redundancy on the ventilation /airconditioning system and we need a plant that can produce more than ten Ezugwu MRAPS a day.

Who posted this nonsense?
The border closure is not only for rice. It is also affecting smuggled in cars, smuggled out petroleum products.
Thank God for PMB. Nigeria has not banned import and export. Pay correct duty. Thank you PMB

WARTHUNDER:
Bruz you dont know? Its not exaggeration, NAF has 70 helos 30 jets fleet. 50 Mi-24 n 35, 20 Puma, Agusta, Eurocopter, 30 Alpha, F-7, L-39, let's say 100 NAF combat aircraft to use on BH ISW.

The real helicopter gunships are not up to 70. Nigeria had about 12 to 34 A109s doing nothing but utility for many years.
MI 24/35P/35M not all in active service.
I agree we should be using a lot of L-39s in the daytime. F7NI is useless on the battle field only good for destroying bases

WRONG INFORMATION

This order for 12 MI 35M helicopters is for Niger Republic . Nigeria ordered a first batch of 12 helicopters years ago and six have been delivered.

Buhari is asking for more choppers but we are not sure yet if they are an incremental order, a more advanced version like MI 28NE or Kamov.

However the remain six MI 35Ms must be delivered first.

This story is about Nigerien order as the name of their foreign minister clearly shows. Boko Haram is in trouble.

This order might be for Niger Republic.

Blackvic1:
oga the 1trillion isn’t spent immediately it’s span stretches for a period of years and it doesn’t have to do with Rwanda GDP , please how much is our gdp that we keep borrowing up and down to fund projects that never gets to be completed for years ? it’s true Rwanda is setting up a nuclear power plant....the deal is an exchange deal it’s all over foreign newspapers

Pls stop this. Social media is open but you guys need to develop some intellect and power of discrimination. Dont just open your minds to mis-information. How could $1 trillion nuclear plant make sense? . The most annoying thing is Nigeria had an agreement on nuclear power with Russia even before Rwanda.

Before this Rwandan President (Paul Kayaked) cane to power, Nigeria had established a road map to nuclear power. We started during the military era.
Stop loathing your country out if ignorance or politics. Get some education before spewing trash.

Gideoniteprime4:
am not understanding?
there is no ammunition in the inventory
and there are going to purchase jets
una never fight 4 ground finish na air una dey go fight
boko-haram right now is like

The Nigerian Army has ammunition in inventory. They have spent more than $200m from Excess Crude Account to order ammunition, base security equipment, surveillance equipment, about 35 tanks MBTs, about 30.MRAPs and many IFVs. Some have arrived, some will take six months and some will take two years.
How do I know?
I know because the former minister of defence said it clearly and openly but most Nigerians are either too dumb or too lazy to follow things only to display ignorance on social media.

Nigeria is being even very very clever with armoured vehicles. We are making 75% of all vehicles that NA will use while importing only turret and guns

It is sad shall. The brains of Nigerians have depreciated badly. So thoughtless consumption was ENJOYMENT and temporary correction of an anomaly is now SUFFERING.
What a people?. No wonder the country is like this.

So the hard working final year student preparing for his exams is suffering but his colleague in the night club is enjoying?
What a youth?
Keep it up

Gokoyer0:
You must be one of this dirty and shithole APC politicians!

Do you think that all the folks criticizing the present government are really in severe pain? There are massive number of people that are well to do in society that are clamoring for a better country.

Why is it that you always flex your muscles when there are positive news about this country but hide your dandruff-invested head inside your dead ram meat BBQ shop when there are unpleasant news. The manner at which you are even quoting people here on NL depicts that you have alot of free-time or jobless.

[b]Guy, wake up, Nigeria is in mess, and in a sane environment, there must be opposition. [/b]Hunger and poverty are in the land. Stop cursing those that are criticizing the Buhari govt because they have the right to do so.

Most folks cricizing the current government are definitely in severe pains. Pain does not know how many.millions you have in.the bank, its about the number of opportunities to rip off Nigeria that the current economic policies has destroyed.

Look at the idxot talking about the President speaking what he called "accented English " at a high level bilateral meeting with Russians? Presidential remarks that pass through interpreters before getting to the Russian side of the table. Is that an educated guy making that statement or some low IQ, insecure, local breed?. So if this cretin were to be President, he would be affecting his accent and faking his English instead of getting his points across in a context where security issues, power, steel and self sufficienxy in wheat production are big need areas requiring mutually beneficial relationship.

I have also noticed a lot senseless snd downright unpatriotic comments related to border closure, taxation revamp and so on.that confirms that most PDP supporters are locally bred products of Nigerias defective educational system combined with destructive fake, urban culture derived from attempts to mix the worst of the west with the worst of Nigerian. Yet they dont even realize they are dealing with negative strongholds that will destroy their future.

You grew up as a toddler under Abacha regime, started knowing the world under OBJ administration and became socially conscious under Yardaua and GEJ and you think you are normal. You are NOT.

You have not seen best practices. Abacha was evil, OBJ was a corrupt bully and Yaradua/GEJ were weaklinga installed by a corrupt bully. GEJ even more so.
Sp what do you know?. Go and live in a developed country for one year.
Not visit, live.
After that go write an essay about what Nigeria needs to be doing to see if it will detract markedly from what Buhari is trying to do

WARTHUNDER:
No, methinks it is wrong. As a career lecturer in a Think Tank Strategic Studies Institute I believe more helicopters for NA or NAF, will not end Boko Haram war. Nigeria spent a whopping $ 1 billion to buy 70 combat helicopters now deployed by NAF, as in 50 heavy armour heavy firepower Mi-24 & 35 Hinds, 20 armed Puma, EC 135, Agusta 109. If 70 helos cannot finish BHT in 10 years, it proves limitation of air power in a land war. If NA cannot beat BHT on land, something's wrong with NA fighting capability and thats what Senate must spend money to correct by getting long range night vision equipment, land based ISR, HESCO base walls, capable cheap AFV like 23mm x 2 MT-LB or fast agile light tanks e.g. VT-5 high speed, long range night vision combat enabled mini-tanks.

ISWAP BHT attacks mostly at night, armed helicopters cannot I.D. own troops from terrorists, the Black Hawk Down real life movie shows US Army helicopters pilots kept saying no target I.D, it's very hard to identify own troops from enemies at night.

NA is boldly repeating it`s army aviation helicopters will be parked beside tanks, Jeeps, troops, all together inside a trench! Wow! Never seen such anywhere. Black Hawk down proves armed helicopters are not solution to defeat land based insurgency. Watch that real life movie again in full as the war happened in Somalia, estimating numbers, 20 well armed helicopters gave close air support for 24 hours to 100 elite US Army troops, best soldiers worldwide, 2 helicopters were shot down without any SAM missile. 20 helos could not save two platoons size 100 soldiers, until the US Army General begged the Pakistani army to send in 15 AFV of 2 tanks, 13 APCs and what 20 great combat helicopters failed to do for 24 hours air support, the 15 armoured vehicles completed the job in 2 hours saving all soldiers back to base. Somali insurgents wasted ammo, no AFVs was lost while 2 helicopters were shot down and other 27 helicopters ran away when the US General said "I cannot risk another loss of helicopter. Tell the Pakistani General to help us send AFV or else 100 American soldiers will be dead in body bags soon." I am just saying this in the best interest of our army.

You are getting this very wrong. First of all, as said before and someone also repeated, "in the trench with us " merely means something like "the choppers would be parked inside the Super Camp under NA control.

Pls what is this one about comparing a single incident involving a company of US troops trapped inside a built up area inside a densely populated city in Somalia with Nigeria Army's current context of aggressive patrols from Super Camps, hunting and killing the enemy and denying them territory over wide sparsely populated areas.

Kindly understand our problem statement before distracting the authorities with poor advice who have been trying to bring the war to a quick close. Choppers have been fairly effective against BHT but the NA needs more stand off missiles.

You are correct about long range detection of attacks on camps but some of the recent haul of weapons Nigeria Army received recently were GROUND RADARS capable of more than 20km detection of hostiles and many other electro optical observation equipment.

Lets us not distract the NA. Aggressive patrols on land backed by choppers will destroy ISWAP. If we can keep just 10 choppers and 5 aircraft in the air for two months waoiling and kiling, ISWAP would be dead

Fynline:
https://www.armyrecognition.com/october_2019_global_defense_security_army_news_industry/cameroon_to_buy_russian_panstir-s1_air_defense_system.html

See our life

Yes. Cameroon would by Pantsir for just one reason although they lied by saying it was because of Boko Haram.
They are buying it because Nigeria is getting JF 17Block 2 and possibly SU 30s.

All Nigerian States are economically viable. Temporary fiscal problems dont equate to lack of viability.
Guys should stop being mentally lazy. Get your definitions right.
If you carry 500,000 Germans and dump them in Kogi, within one year Kogi will become fiscally viable. This means it was always economically viable but dumb politicians did not see how.

Bidphil:
Love your response, however, I believe it's not a bright idea. We could have allowed market competition to take place and invest more in Agriculture rather than an outright ban. The move is short-sighted. Let me break it down.

We currently do not have the capacity to meet the demand for rice. In marketing, the audience decides which products to consume or not but you can always tilt them to your side if you're wise. It's an open secret that most of our political leaders do not patronise our locally made products, you can't compel people to eat what they do not love, in the end, they'll become rebellious and you'll lose.
The quality of our rice is currently not a match to those imported ones.
Looking at the employment aspect, we're losing because so many people trade with landlock countries using the land borders. We definitely can't make unemployment become worse.

The fact that smugglers are using our porous land borders is a testament that our custom officers are incompetent.

If FG is passionate about improving local productivity, we would rather be creating an enabling environment for investors. But Herdsmen and kidnappers would chase them away.

Rice is just 4 MONTHS. Plant, fertilize, de-pest, scare birds and harvest.
Pls get real. The border should be locked tight. It is very disappointing the way Nigerians think. Who is talking of meeting local demand?.
Nigeria wants to be a RICE EXPORTER.
Dangote, Coscharis, about 25 state governments are going into it. Nigeria would be harvesting there times a year for every ha planted.

You dont know whats on ground.

Whoever posted this rubbish, know that you are exposing your self to a lot of ridicule

Win12345:
We live in animal kingdom where anything goes. The government cannot close border or ban importation of highly demanded good outrightly without putting measures in place to meet it's demand.
First, it was OBJ regime that first ban importation of rice, used cars and used clothes without providing alternatives for the teaming population of Nigeria.
What did we gain from that exercise, nothing, absolute nothing. Demand for these products made the importers to use Benin ports to import these goods and smuggle them back to Nigeria through our porous borders.
Yaradua took over and relaxed OBJ ban but the importers keep using Benin Port for their importation as is cheaper for them.
The truth is that Nigerian government is the problem not Benin or Niger you don't mess around with these countries policies but Nigerian government are never sincere in their policies especially when it concerns the citizens that's why most people flaunts government policies especially when it comes to the public.
All of you hailing this administration on border closure are jus being narrow minded, we should be demanding government commitment in helping to make the production of the banned goods possible, cheaper and affordable.

There is NO ban on imported rice through our ports. Always, always
.do your research before posting. Imported rice cannot land Nigeria below N15,500 per bag. That's why some guys are smuggling. If everyone imports rice through OFFICIAL and legal points of entry, Nigeria will make a minimum of N350bn in duties.

This word 'donation' is so irritating. Why tell low IQ lies?