₦airaland Forum

marvin906:
Your next to insane if you compare a Tejas and fa 50 to gripen and JF-17..
A gripen is a light attack aircraft you must be trolling

They are all in the same class, but the Yak-130 is not.

It is a trainer aircraft.

giles14:
but the yak is almost on pair with the JF-17.

How is a trainer jet almost on par with a frontline multi-role 4th gen combat aircraft?

Nigerian army Streit Panther LAV

Here’s Nigerian Army troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO who engaged BokoHaram fighters in an ambush in Gudjba, Yobe on Saturday. Our troops tactically out-manouevered them & engaged infidels with superior fire power as 20 Bokoharam now confirmed killed.

Nigerian made Ezugwu 6x6 MRAP

Whyem15:
So na to sell the vehicle for scrap market remain?
Thanks.

War fighting vehicle destroyed in war, the vehicle served it's purpose.

Whyem15:
Is there any possibility that the steel used in building this APC is still intact? Could it be reused?

It's not possible, that's gone.

bidex111:
The 1st picture looks like those newly procured MRAP(striet vehicles).
R.I.P gallant soldier

You're correct.

The second vehicle looks like a Proforce PF2 military version vehicle.

RIP our gallant forces.

Troops yesterday Sunday engaged BokoHaram armed with 2 VBIED around Kafa axis, #Borno. 6 insurgents killed & several escaped with gunshot wounds. Troop captured 1 guntruck & some weapons, destroyed 2 VBIED & 2 guntrucks, while 5 soldiers paid supreme price & some injured.

Stephandesward:
Most countries, just have enough stockpile, to not be overrun in the intial stage of a major conflict, after that, they transform to what is called a war economy, whereby everything in the country goes into overdrive especially industrially to cater for the prosecution of a major conflict.
The manufacturer of mrap, buying of drone and vt4 is a small scale example of my point, albeit our little overdrive came too late and too little, if we were to fight Cameroon and Chad together, you will be surprised at what a war economy can do

Apart from the civil war, Nigeria has not been in a total war situation.

Stephandesward:
Exactly, no country has enough stockpile to fight a peer or near peer, there's just always enough to defend themselves for a calculated period of times, pending when the war economy kicks in.

This is so much of an exaggeration.

War there a sign of war economy when the fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia kicked off?

Tobiloba2407:
"World war grade"...... even in the golf wars, the USA expended stock of certain ammunition they had.

There were two world wars remember, the second one lasted for 5 years.

Total war means that the entire economic output of a country would be geared towards the war effort.

Manpower would be geared towards military industrial capacity.

Stephandesward:
Truth is that no country has enough ammunition in stock,to last 6 months in a world war grade battle

Lol, what sort of a comment is this?

Any proof?

Look at Amernia-Azerbaijan war as an example.

slimthugchimee2:
Ara is what beauty is

Obviously ARA is a gold standard for aesthetics, but the Ezugwu is not bad looking especially the new 4x4 variant.

slimthugchimee2:
Rugged? yes
Beautiful? Fvk no

That's a beautiful MRAP.

Nigerian made Ezugwu MRAP in 6x6 configuration.


DICON recently signed a fresh contract to supply 52 units to the Nigerian army.

Raaven:
video of the localy building of the last produced egyptian corvette class Gowind 2500 .

102 m, 2500 tons



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1nisIANHTE

This is beautiful, I love this.

Whyem15:
I honestly feel Proforce isn't getting as much support as they should be getting from the military. There should be enough orders for Ara II to make sure the company is busy throughout the year. The company won't grow as fast as it should if they don't get this kind of support.

The army has bought 50 vehicles from them, when you compare to Chad that has purchased 100 MRAPs, you'll see that the army's purchase is not good enough.

Whyem15:
It is under the finance ministry's budget

Which can be lumped into the defence budget.

Similar to the arrangements for the Super Tucanos.

shadowprimezero:
VT-4 tanks on site

NA also getting $2 billion dollars this year for arms procurement!!!!!!

https://m.guardian.ng/news/fg-votes-n675-billion-for-arms-training-of-soldiers/

This means Nigeria's Defence budget for 2021 is nearly 5 billion dollars.

That's not bad if very well utilized.

I hope the government only does deals.

shadowprimezero:
VT-4 tanks on site

NA also getting $2 billion dollars this year for arms procurement!!!!!!

https://m.guardian.ng/news/fg-votes-n675-billion-for-arms-training-of-soldiers/

I just hope Nigerian companies benefit from this. It would be a shame if they are not fully carried along.

We know DICON has been given a contract for 52 vehicles, what about Proforce, NMT, EPAIL and Innoson?

NTA News Report on the deployment




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIjZeFMbQkw

Nigerian army LAV

shadowprimezero:
VT-4 tanks on site

NA also getting $2 billion dollars this year for arms procurement!!!!!!

https://m.guardian.ng/news/fg-votes-n675-billion-for-arms-training-of-soldiers/

What is Nigeria's Defence Budget?

marvin906:
Quick question does landing ship have offensive capabilites

A Landing Ship is an offensive weapon, but if you mean if it has missiles and bombs, no it doesn't.

Nigerian army operation

Exclusive pictures


Nigerian army has launched a massive military operation in the North East area of operations.

VT4 Tanks, ST-1 Tank Destroyer, SH-5 artillery, MRAPs and Gun trucks have all been deployed

bidex111:
Proforce should really step up is game!
Maj Gen Victor Ezugwu is really driving the Military industrial revolution, No wonder his not been transfered or moved to other military commission, which is not common in the military.
For me they should concentrate on military grade vehicle. If by the next one or two years proforce can't give us MRAPs with RCWS or something new, they would have to find major client in the continent.

Again I agree with this.

There is another Nigerian company coming with MRAPs, they might launch this year.

There's going to be considerable competition in the military vehicles sector.

I just hope we see advances in the area of IFVs and ammunition.

DICON DG is saying they would concentrate on ammunition development from small caliber to large calibre rounds.

bidex111:
@kabe1. "Are you thinking what am thinking "

We sure are thinking the same thing. RWCS for ARA MRAP.

Proforce Defence CEO and staff have launch after meeting with Aselsan in Turkey.


Aselsan is Turkey's largest supplier of EW systems and Remote Weapons Station

Delegates from the Republic of Chad visit Proforce Defence

bidex111:
This is goods to hear but the Army can do better. With this little numbers that means procurement has to be on regular/yearly basis.
Now Proforce has to offer something different or new that will keep the NA in doing business with them, has they remain there biggest client.
Proforce should be thinking of introducing MRAPs with RCWS, or something new that will keep them in the game.

Any lead that Proforce had over DICON has now been eroded by a resurgent DICON.

The finishing from the first Ezugwu MRAP to this latest version, you can see this latest product is export quality.