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This has to be a joke!!!


U.S. Lawmakers Hold Up Major Proposed Arms Sale to Nigeria Senators quietly press U.S. President Joe Biden to reassess U.S.-Nigeria relations amid human rights concerns.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/27/nigeria-us-arms-sale-lawmakers/

Lurker4Long:
Special Forces and paratroopers. I wouldn't call Paras regular troops.
It's Phase 1 of the SADC mission which is supposed to be reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, surveillance and setting up the C2 structures for the rest of the SADC brigade.

So the Paras are meant as QRF/backup should the SF teams run into trouble.

Unconfirmed reports have it that SA has also deployed additional troops as support to SF, most likely also Paras.

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/thousand-plus-sa-soldiers-in-mozambique-da-claims/

Oh.... That's fantastic.

Can you also confirm if the Mwari has been deployed there?

I think I read an article saying the aircraft is deployed along with the Rwandan contingent.

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VISIT OF NIGERIAN CHIEF OF THE NAVAL STAFF, VICE ADMIRAL AWWAL GAMBO TO RUSSIA FOR THE RUSSIAN NAVY DAY 2021 CELEBRATIONS

Lurker4Long:
Additional Botswana Defence Force troops deploying to Mozambique, this morning (monday, 26 july).

Are these Botswana Special Forces mixed in with regular troops?

FOC Tejas of the No.18 Squadron 'Flying Bullets'

Nigerian Air Force A-29 Super Tucano Light Attack and Counter-Insurgency Aircraft

SA Special forces in Mozambique

Nigerian Air Force A-29 Super Tucano

shadowprimezero:
Two Antonovs landed in Yola, Nigeria today from China. Probably bearing Wing Loong II drones and other goodies.

Sweet!!!

Botswana Special Forces on the other hand use the Jankel LRPV


The FOX LRPV has been designed for reliability and performance over long-range missions.

The LRPV is built for manoeuvrability, making it ideal for a number of roles including surveillance, reconnaissance, fire support, force protection, convoy support and urban operations.

The FOX LRPV has been engineered to undertake military missions of up to 10 days or 1,500km, making it the ideal choice for missions where additional or unanticipated action is required.

With South African and Botswana Special Forces deployed to Mozambique, I think it's pertinent we look at their unique special forces vehicles starting with South-Africa.

Unlike Nigerian special forces units which are used primarily in attack roles, the main task of South-African special forces remains reconnaissance.

Other tasks undertaken by the unit included support of state departments, VIP protection or actions associated with external deployments; support of external operations; training teams and protection elements; and anti-rhino poaching.

The Hornet RDRV is a vehicle supplied to Special Forces for airborne use. It's a modular concept with removable platform.

There are three seats in the front, for a driver, a gunner and commander. The left-hand window can be lowered to carry a light machine gun (LMG) and the Hornet can carry a .50 calibre (12.7mm) heavy machine gun.

The top-mounted gun could vary anywhere between a 7.62 machine gun, all the way up to a 20 mm cannon.

bidexiii:
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@kabe1 do you know it might not be even the Airforce deliveries, it might be the NA.
If it's the Airforce, then it's like two side to a coin. It's either the wing loong or the FN-7, fingers are crossed.
There are some speculations that the NAF has received some UAV drones earlier this year, either ways this is good news for us.
[/b]But from some info I have it's likely the UAVs.
Yola will most likely host the new UAVs before the completion of 109 Combat Reconnaissance Group base in Gombe[b]

Yea, I agree though.

Roan77:
Could it be the F7n jets that went to china for upgrades?

F-7NI would go to Makurdi not Yola.

The only aircrafts that I'm sure would be imported directly to Nigeria through Yola are Drones.

RiceProducers:
İnsecurity being high during Buhari administration is typical Nigerian stupidity. The Niger Delta was like that during Jonathan's administration. Someone should write a book on explaining sub regional restiveness as a function of the ethnicity of whomever is Nigeria's President.

I also agree with this, but I'll add, the President's utterances, actions especially with regards to implementation of federal character and in actions have exacerbated some of the security challenges we face.

RiceProducers:
Very poor recruits. Very bad training. Poor regimental discipline due to loss of RSM cadre.

I agree with this.

Whyem15:
Just imagine where the military will be if that dasuki $2.1 billion was actually used to purchase arms, imagine where the military will be when the items the recently released $1.7 billion will be spent on start getting delivered.

The navy is also receiving modern ships and other equipments, they will receive frigates in the next few years.
The only weak link is the army and even they have really come a long way from what they used to be.




I hope they start getting recon drones too.

The army has received a lot of equipment, hundreds of MRAPs , however the problem with the army is the constant loss of equipment to attacks.

Whyem15:
Just imagine where the military will be if that dasuki $2.1 billion was actually used to purchase arms, imagine where the military will be when the items the recently released $1.7 billion will be spent on start getting delivered.

The navy is also receiving modern ships and other equipments, they will receive frigates in the next few years.
The only weak link is the army and even they have really come a long way from what they used to be.




I hope they start getting recon drones too.

Politics aside, Buhari has tried very well in terms of equipping the military.

I agree that security has been worse under this administration, but with regards to providing the tools the military needs, his government has provided all necessary tools within it's power.

willybaby:
thanks for the correction.. but is it Ukrainian or they inherited it from the USSR cause 4 me I don't see the yeye Ukraine of today producing anything good..

What Ukraine doesn't have is funds. However in-terms of military technology, they are second only behind Russia in Eastern Europe.

Also, USSR built aircraft carriers in Ukraine.

Xbee007:
It has to be something really significant.

Apparently it flew in from China. So there's speculation that it's carrying our UCAVs.

Which is a plausible explanation for Yola.

UCAVs have always been based there.

Xbee007:
It has to be something really significant.

Yea, I think so.

bidexiii:
Probably the aircraft brought the kits, munitions and other tools for the tucanos.

To Yola, I don't think so.

xterra2:
Antonov plane captured yesterday at Yola Airport

Any idea what it brought in?

willybaby:
Russia's sanction really got we wondering truly to what extend does America control the world, cause Russia is a super power on its own.. sha in life the strong survives

While sanctions do have an effect on countries like Nigeria it is negligible in countries like Russia and China.

Russia produces and pays for all her military equipment using the local Russian currency, hence they can add thousands of military equipment each year, same as China, so no effect of sanctions.

South-Africa under Apartheid is another good example where sanctions on their military had some effect but not as much as it should have since they produced military equipment locally.

Hence for a country like Nigeria, developing a strong local military industry is a matter of National security.

willybaby:
Russia's sanction really got we wondering truly to what extend does America control the world, cause Russia is a super power on its own.. sha in life the strong survives

America is a very powerful country, since most of the trades in US dollars and the banking system across countries is interconnected it is easy for America to sanction whom ever they want.

American sanctions on Russia mean Russia has placed priority on import substitution which is better for the Russian economy. Similar to our By Nigerian to grow the Naira.

How American sanctions on Russia affect countries like Nigeria. CAATSA sanctions are in place to deter countries from buying hardware from Russia which pose competition to similar American exports.

Those sanctions do not necessarily affect Nigeria since we are buying MI-35m helicopters, however it is enough to dissuade Indonesia from buying SU-35 Fighters.

However it hasn't prevented Egypt from buying SU-35s, or Algeria from getting MIG-29s & BMPT terminators.

So in essence it's more complicated than just calling sanctions.

RiceProducers:
Russia has to stop bad habits like swallowing Crimea, wanting to chop Ukraine and killing dissidents with radioactive pills.
Russia needs more self confidence to allow their people to vent. Americans invaded their own capitol, fight their internal contradictions in full glare and will become stronger for it. Russia is hiding behind the skirt of one man

You sound like you consume a lot of CNN and leftist propaganda.

There was a referendum in Crimea. The Crimeans voted to join Russia.

Russian black sea fleet is based in Sevastopol, so you expect Russia to just hand over their military assets in Crimea to the West?

Why did Britain go to war in the Falklands? A historically Argentine territory?


Russia has been in existence for over a thousand years, why you think Putin is responsible for holding Russia together shows your ridiculous ignorance of Russia.

South Africa has also sent Special Forces to Mozambique

RiceProducers:
A very stupid country. They now have combat jets than most advanced countries yet an home grown insurgency is festering more seriously in the Sinai

The Egyptian military deployment in the Sinai is regulated by Israel.

Still for the amount of military hardware Egypt has in the Sinai, it's a shame that the insurgency there is festering this long.

They have more armour in the Sinai than Nigeria has in all of Nigeria

Still messing up!!

willybaby:
The Yak 100 versus M364 which of this bad boys do you guys prefer to replace our iconic Alphas

You know they are the same aircrafts right?

Botswana Special Forces arriving in Mozambique


You can spot their unique special forces vehicle

Toju200:
Looks like w have some guys training in Belarus again

Yes, our soldiers have gone back for retraining.

Ghana Navy live firing exercise