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Nigeria, a repeat defence exporter.

Who would have thought, exporting world class defence products.

DICON bulletproof vests issued to front line troops

Odunayaw:
The Ara just gets more beautiful every time!

Top quality stuff, they are always improving their product.

Nigerian army needs to explain why they had to go to China to get additional CS/VP3 MRAPs.

Proforce PF2 used by CBN

Nigerian made Proforce ARA MRAPs exported to Chad

iblawi:
There are rumors of NN getting a ship from Germany but the funny thing is that no one as ever mentioned the type/class of the ship �.

Well I like the way you discard rumors until something concrete shows up. But to be sincere with ourselves, Nigerian lawmakers can't go to Germany and US for site visit even if they are supplying parts for the LST because that contract is not between NN and the suppliers.

Let's assume Germany is supplying engine for the LST what will US be supplying?

My major challenge with these rumours is, how do you hide a purchase of a ship, Frigate or Corvette?

The only new ships apart from the confirmed LST and NNS Lana I know are a brief mention of an OPV purchase by Thisday newspapers and a possible new order for a new ship from Navy monthly.

Now for the statement from the lawmaker, we cannot afford US ships, they will also not sell to us, except in the event they are transferring a decommissioned ship, Nigeria has never bought a ship from America before, so why now all of a sudden?

This rules out America.

Germany is also out of it for me because when you place an order for military equipment from Germany, 90% of the time that contract is made public. Germany is not Israel.

It's easy to do those hide, hide deals in many countries apart from Germany, and the US.

All the same, I'll be very delighted if we get new ships from either Germany or the US, but I find it unlikely.

iblawi:
A replacement for Aradu (although smaller but more effective).

Beegeagle likes to speculate, and most of the time his speculations are wrong.

I don't think anybody knows what we are getting from Germany, it could be engines for the LST, it could also be a new vessel, it could also still be nothing.


But Beegeagle sourced his comment from this statement.


GAGDI ON FOREIGN OVERSIGHT DUTY, INSPECTS LST 100 WARSHIP OF THE NIGERIAN NAVY IN AJMAN STATE OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATE.

In pursuance of his legislative function to oversee activities of the Nigerian Navy, and his innate desire for a robust Navy and improved security of Nigerian waterways, the Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Navy, Rt Hon. Yusuf Adamu Gagdi was in Ajman State of United Arab Emirate to inspect a Warship of the Nigerian Navy under construction by Albwarsdy Damen, a reputable warship Construction Company in the UAE.

The lawmaker, who inspected the multimillion dollar project, was taken round the facilities of the company in order to further appreciate the technical competence of the company to deliver the project.

Tagged LST 100 Warship, the project is expected to be completed on the 18th May, 2021 and be delivered to the Nigerian Navy on 9th March, 2022. The project was at 75 percent completion when the parliamentarian inspected the Warship. Meanwhile, the company has assured of a timely delivery of the Warship in accordance with the terms of the contract without let or hindrance of any kind.

The essence of the foreign oversight inspection of the facility was to ensure finances appropriated for the Nigerian Navy are expended as provided in the budgetary allocation of the armed force.

Expressing delight with the quality of the project, the lawmaker maintains that Nigerian Navy has been one of the most vibrant armed forces in Nigeria, with a near excellent performance record; hence the need to encourage them with the required facilities for optimal discharge of their responsibilities.

The lawmaker had earlier in 2020, led his committee members to oversight visit of all Naval formations across Nigeria in order to be fully abreast with the successes, challenges and future projections of the Nigerian Navy, thereby capping the oversight duty with visits to various ongoing projects of the armed force outside the shores of Nigeria.

Foreign oversight visits to other projects of the Nigerian Navy in the US, Germany, South Africa and UK are in the offing.

Gagdi is expected to be back in the country on Friday, 8th January 2021.

Signed:
Gagdi Media Team

Odunayaw:
I am of the opinion the Tucs could complement the L39s even in the fighter training pipelines. Remember there is a modernization project for them (L39s)


With the coming of these M346, any JF that is not the block 3 is redundant

I completely agree with your post in bold.

Odunayaw:
I'm still trying to place my hand on the role it will serve in the NAF.

I thought the Tucs would be the heirs of the Alpha

If the deal does go ahead, we might not see any additional purchase of JF-17 aircrafts aside the 3 units procured.

NAF has at least 50 units of Alpha Jets & L-39s to retire, I don't see how the Super Tucanos, 12 units would be able to fill that gap.

Apparently we would get 6 units first of the M-346.

Raeblack:
why not purchase the l15 or the yak 130 like other african countries

The Yak-130 and the M-346 are the same only difference is one is Russian while the other is Italian.

Both companies, YAK and Augusta(Leonardo) combined to make the aircraft.

bidexiii:
Long time, knee when you surface it has to be a good news that comes with it.
Another hardware for the NAF inventory.

Yea bro, very strategic hardware for NAF.

Africa Intelligence is the most reliable defence news source in Africa, their articles cost a fortune to read.

If this news turns out to be through, the purchase of the M-346 would be the most significant facelift for the Nigerian Air Force since the arrival of the Alpha Jets 44 years ago.

According to Africa Intelligence Nigeria is due to receive 6 units soon.

The M-346 is a direct replace for the Alpha Jet which have served Nigeria for 44 years and counting.

It is currently Europe's best performing Lead-in Fighter Trainer aircraft.

Some good news for the Nigerian Air Force.



The Italian defence contractor Leonardo is poised to deliver as many as 24 Aermacchi M-346 training aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force. These planes are part of a drive to modernise the NAF, headed by Isiaka Oladayo Amao

https://www.africaintelligence.com/central-and-west-africa_business/2021/03/11/leonardo-gives-nigerian-air-force-a-lift-with-its-m-346-training-jets,109649600-ar1

Wike was/is an Employee of the state, an employee of Rivers state so were you.

Wike was also a local government chairman, minister and now a two term governor.

Both Ameachi and Wike have the same Résumé.

Salatavor:
You are a Dullard... How there you compare a conventional war that was big enough to be called a world War to this bunch of militants brandishing arms in the desert? The war in Eastern Ukraine how can you compare an invasion of Russian equipped, trained and supported special forces to this animal skin wearing band of banana farm invaders?

OH my, those were the good old days (Algerian War) of desert warfare, I can still see the greats of that time launching a sun down ambush with a convoy of Toyota trucks, cloud of dusts behind them, those were the days of great fighters. Not all this so called Special Forces men that cannot take a straight piss.

Making excuses I see.

Didn't expect any less.

You ended up contradicting yourself, bravo!!

bidex111:
Really..
We don't have fixed wing all day & weather capability and aircraft's that cab deliver PGM, and that's a big difference.

MI-35M helicopters are able to deliver PGM

Same as the CH-3A

When the Super Tucanos comes they would be able to deploy

Whyem15:
JF-17 is just status update, nothing more, there is no new capability they will bring to this war that we don't already have. Except maybe the targeting pods. They will be largely used for interdiction operations which the Alpha jets, F7-NI and the trainers are already performing. What's worse, the small number we brought means at least one will be on standby at all times, one may be under going maintenance while 1-2 will be deployed for operations most times. The drones and the tucanos are a different topic entirely. They will boost the war efforts.

I agree with this completely, that's why I'm of the opinion that we stop at 3 JF-17s Block 2's, while we wait for the Block 3 to mature and go for those instead.

We need to get at least 18 JF-17 Block 3s.

12 additional MI-35M and minimum 6 more MI-17 helicopters.

bidex111:
I bet to differ with you on these ?
The targeting Pods it self will bring more devastating effect, plus the all day & weather capabilities. The drones and Super Tucanos means no hiding place for BHT.
All of these incoming assets if properly utilized with check BHT text move.

The JF-17 doesn't really bring any new capability with don't currently posses, I also agree that they would be used mainly for interdiction.


The Tucanos, MI-35M and Drones are the real game changers.

Salatavor:
you know why? Because French soldiers are not Malians Estonians are not Malians. This will not happen in France or Estonia... Mali can only defend Mali... So do not use this to justify the outright anarchy and chaos going on in Nigeria.

World war II

World war 1

The war in Eastern Ukraine

The Algerian war of Independence.

You guys don't read.

Toju200:
it's a pakistani project jointly produced by Pak/China. China has more capable facilities for aerospace tech that's why they head the project.
Go and do your research bro

Inculcate the habit of educating yourself.



As a substitute to Super-7, China started the FC-1 project. In February 1992, CATIC (China Aero Technology Import and Export Corporation) invited the Pakistan to invest in the project in return for huge Transfer of Technology and participation in R& of the project. Pakistan Accepted.

https://jf-17.com/history/

Lurker4Long:
For the sanity of this pictures thread, can we all just agree that any item procured by Nigeria is the best of its class and best in Africa?

Now can we move on? FFS!

Chasing shadows.

Toju200:
china aided the jf-17 program
It's a pakistan concept not china

You have a habit of jumping into discussions without doing any research. I implore do some research first.

Toju200:
china aided the jf-17 program
It's a pakistan concept not china

The JF-17 is a Chinese plane, Pakistan provided financial assistance for the program.

That's why all prototypes and eventual production models fly out from CAC Chengdu.

JF17Thunder:
It's the other way around.

China offered the J-10A to Pakistan around 2002 but Pakistan Air Force rejected it.

The JF-17 Thunder was built purely with the mindset that the Pakistani 300 light-weight fighter fleet needed to be replaced by a light-weight fighter that was based on F-16 in technology, avionics and design terms.

The Americans repeatedly warned Pakistan not to use the Pakistani F-16s for the JF-17 Thunder project.

Pakistan is a poor country.

Pakistan could only afford one aircraft at a time, hence the J-10A was rejected in favour of the JF-17 which is still a Chinese plane.

The JF-17 has similar capabilities with the J-10A.

Pakistan is now interested in the J-10C.

Pakistan needed to replace all legacy 3rd Generation jets, China built the JF-17 light multirole aircraft for Pakistan.

The JF-17 is similar to the Gripen in capabilities, it is not in any way, similar to the F-16.

Nemesis2you:
@kabe1

Regarding ur query on deals in aeroindia

Thank you Sir, much appreciated.

Mali Al Qeada attacks and overruns base.

This is a country that has more than 4,000 French soldiers, nearly 30 Fighter jets including, Rafale, Mirage 2000Ds and Reaper Drones.

Those Estonian photo-ops special forces serve in this country, yet this sort of brazen attack occurs there.

Russian winter soldier

Fynline:
They were trying to hide under the trees...alas!

These are direct hits....People should fear the airforce oh

They got smoked good!!!

Xbee007:
There is video too showing dozens of dead terrorists. Not for the faint of heart.

Yeah, I've seen the video, please don't post such a gory image here.

I could count at least 25-30 dead ISWAP members.

More victories for the Nigerian army

Success story pictures of Operation Tura Takaibango victory against insurgents yesterday Wednesday in Askira Uba, Borno State.

Toju200:
fresh from a soldier of 159 battalion, active in TURA TAKAIBANGO

He's currently not in the frontline. He's on leave.

Besides he recently shared an old video of another soldier calling out BHT.

Until official sources release visual evidence, I'll take this news with some skepticism.