₦airaland Forum

kabe1:
12 x units of JF-17 Block 3.

That's what I think Nigeria needs. However I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Faithful007:
Israel has solid F16s on sale. I don't know why I don't fancy that JF17 aircraft. It looks too old to be a new aircraft for me.

Instead of buying more units, I will make orders for Chinese J-31.

The F-7s are an unnecessary weight. They should be sold off now they are fresh from overhaul.

Odunayaw:
Yes that's what I was telling you! All LPDs have well decks!

You were the one saying they don't and making it as a difference between a LHD & LPD

Lurker4Long:
Meanwhile, in Mozambique.

Odunayaw:
The D- Dock in LPD should tell you something about them having well decks man

LHD prime focus is moving & support for air assets, and that's not something any LPD can do conveniently and consistently

One is called an amphibious assault ship and the other an amphibious transport ship for a reason.

Personally I wanted the Makassar LPD but the LSTs will have to suffice.

Their job is just to deliver cargo and whatever air assets that is embarked on it can at best serve in logistics role.

History has shown that NAFs activities in expeditionary role is logistics, ISR and Air Interdiction. That's why he mentioned Jets & UAVs

Odunayaw:
Oh really now

kabe1:
Helicopters and Jets were based in Senegal during the Gambia deployment.

Helicopters and Jets were based in Niger during the Mali deployment.

Helicopters like we've seen in Ukraine and Yemen are easily shot down, infact if the helicopter doesn't redeem it's image soon, it would go extinct from the attack role in 3 decades time.

Jets and UCAVs are proving to be better than the Attack Helicopter for CAS.

Point of correction, Nigeria is an African Superpower.

......and NO!! LHD would provide no advantage to Nigeria that the LST is not currently providing.

Odunayaw:
Fixed.

LHDs are on overkill for regional deployment in my opinion. LPDs on the other hand is perfect

kabe1:
What is air support? The ability to use Commercially available drones in combat zone is air support, besides we had no problems deploying fighter jets, helicopters and transport aircrafts to Gambia, but we could not deploy armour on time.

kabe1:
Nigeria has no requirement for an LHD. Buying such a ship would be an infinitely waste of resources.

What Nigeria needs is another LST, same size and displacement as NNS Kada.

If we look at our deployment to Gambia, Nigeria could not move armour to Gambia during the early stages of the intervention.

However because of during this year's deployment to Guinea Bissau men, armour and light skin vehicles were all moved at once.

While an LHD provides same sealift and more, Nigeria does not have any expeditionary ambitions, nor the budget to support and sustain the operations of an LHD.

What Nigeria needs at the moment is to quickly get in the second LST to support NNS Kada, also investments in Medium Utility Helicopter like the MI-17.

The recent flooding has exposed Nigeria's lack of adequate air mobility in peace time.

We have used frontline MI-35M Attack Helicopters and EC-135 helicopters for roles that the MI-17s should carry out.

Lurker4Long:
Looking at a map, I struggle to see where Nigeria would need an LHD to deploy air support. The whole Gulf of Guinea AO is a flight away.
The 2 LSTs make infinitely more sense.

kabe1:
Really?

Kindly explain further.

kabe1:
This is ridiculous, the United States is a global superpower with bases all across the world, hence the requirement for super carriers and LHDs.

The US also spends over 800 billion USD on defence, that's nearly 2 times of Nigeria's entire GDP.

A Nation that it's security seriously spends in areas that are most needed, not in LHDs.

Shma2022:
Yes.

Shma2022:
I said my figures were guesswork. Cos I was dealing with a twer-p

Shma2022:
Forget it. Those figures are total bs. I was counter measuring with the bs I was receiving from your egocentric bitter man.

Shma2022:
Noo... [b]South Africa's population is hitting 90m[/b]illion soon. You black moff0s are breeding children to replace the aging community working for Boers.

gallivant:
We choose not to post South African slums.

Shma2022:
70% translates to 54million people. Out of it, 60% are blacks. From the 60%, which is more or less 33million.
So, from a black perspective, you are the biggest slum dwellers on the continent. If it were not for minerals, your zoo would be a Mozambique-like.

Shma2022:
That means you're the third larget economy, and not 2nd, right?

Shma2022:
@jl115, I thought your GDP is $440B going upwards. What happened?

Odunayaw:
General elections are almost here. It doesn't take time before posts like that attracts the devils on Nairaland

Odunayaw:
This is the wrong thread to post this Covert1

Let's take it to Bidexiii's thread and have a good discussion there

GreenandGold:
Honestly, this is what a man should wear everyday to work

dreamxhaser:
I don't know if it's just me but don't you all think Dar es salaam beats all Kenyan cities.

Beef apart, let's be honest

QuietMynd:
Which type of boot/shoe is this.
Someone should enlighten me.

ItooWorWor:
You are actually describing you bro, and you know that.

ItooWorWor:
which of the base did Boko haram raid

Fourpockets:
Why are you so hostile towards my comments
I meant it's only one or two that they operate in, am I wrong for saying that?

GreenandGold:
Don't give him an audience... He's having his monthly period.

kabe1:
Boko Haram controls no part of Nigeria you clown, what is obvious, and has been widely reported is The KDF's determination to clean up the incompetence of the SANDF in the Eastern DRC.

Odunayaw:
What are you blabbing about now?