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S400:
chef ! i want pics of all military rank in nigerian army from simple recruit to the higher rank .

pic , algerian military ranks

Unfortunately I can't help you. I don't have it.

joshingjosh:
Please shed more light on the bolded

Cost and threat assessment.

S400:
why dont you try to put on your comments more facts and less empty words and wishes ?

the fact is now days nigerian navy dont have any SSM capacity ,
the fact is even when they bought the in 2012-2013 the P18N OPV NNS Centenary, unity , they choose a downgraded version for 42 millions dollars each , the benguladesh navy bought the same year , versions of the same ship, the BNS Shadhinota with C802 SSM , FL-3000N air defense system. lack of money , lack of will ?

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New-Zealand doesn't have a fighter aircraft fleet, do you know why?

If you know why, relate it to Nigeria.

Toju200:
4569 for real to do what exactly...

Apart from the number purchased, what I also find surprising is that the UAE is the largest manufacturer of armoured vehicles in the middle east.

Why do they still need to import from the US?

jln115:
personally I prefer the ARA 2 over the Maxxpro

Like, what do you mean?

The ARA 2 is one the most beautiful MRAPs available in the market today.

US #DSCA announces possible excess defence article sale of 4,569 #MRAPs to the #UAE in a sale worth up to $556 million, package consists of MaxxPro and Caimans.


Why would the UAE need such numbers of MRAPs?

Can some I.D this vehicle, I don't think I've seen it before.

Toju200:
Kabe1 have u heard of TUWASCO company they build Gunboats too

Like epenal

I know them, they are based in Warri. We have so many of them but we need them to up their game, build large vessels 30 - 60 meters patrol vessels at least.

Toju200:
keep em coming it's my SDB I'm waiting for o..
I'm still not satisfied

Oya take, cool your temper.

You go dey alright.

When completed Nigerian Navy ships would be able to spend months at sea

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Locally built seagoing barges that would be used to replenish Nigerian navy ships at sea.

Toju200:
F-35B SVTOL
F-35C carrier type...
But I get your point though..
But what about the Issue involving US, Russia and Turkey concerning the F-35 and The Russkies S-400 air defense system offered to Turkey

That's what I'm saying. It won't be possible for now. The F-35 is still a very new plane, but give it 10 years, Turkey should be able to purchase it.

Also remember after the US, Turkey has the largest military in NATO.

Toju200:
Actually F-35C are the Carrier based Types and I think Turkey Has dropped the F-35 deal with The US I dunno Sha

F-35B, not F-35C. The B version operates off smaller sized aircraft carriers like the Queen Elizabeth type, Cavour type from Italy, Izumo from Japan and the LHD Anadolu from Turkey.

It's just the politics of now, Ship like the LHD Anadolu can serve up to 60 years. So there's a possibility that Turkey will get the F-35B in the future.

Turkish made LHD TCG Anadolu L-400 amphibious assault ship.

She would be able to carry F-35B aircrafts and Helicopters.

Faithful007:
are these guys officers or enlisted?

I can't say, I don't know those things.

BOKO HARAM: NIGERIA’S FEMALE COMBAT PILOTS GO TO WAR
by globalsentinelnews

Flight Lieutenant Kafayat Sanni and her peers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), are living their dreams as Nigeria’s first female fighter pilots; even as she readies to go and kick asses of some Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) terrorists in the North East.

The essence of this epochal assignment should not be lost on us; because this mission is a policy milestone that took years of sacrifice, especially on the part of their predecessors, whose unfulfilled professional goals were galvanised to break the hitherto ironclad gender barrier against female officers in the Nigerian military. She and her pioneering colleagues will forever be remembered with nostalgia that once upon a time in the nation’s history, Nigerian military female Pilots delivered payloads of hellfire missiles against the insurgents who have degraded women as a sex object to be kidnapped and held in captivity. But with these female pilots joining the battlefield, is it not time to turn the tables on the insurgents.

It is often said that whatever a man can do, a woman can even do better. Nevertheless, this axiom remained elusive in the combat history of the Nigerian Armed Forces until President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 authorised for the training of female officers on combat missions through admission into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA). Expectedly, this helped to produce a set of 20 female cadets nicknamed ‘Jonathan Queens’ who were admitted into Nigeria’s premier military training institution.

Unfortunately, this huge career leap for female officers and personnel was almost ruined in 2017 when President Muhammadu Buhari in a policy reversal reportedly gave a nod to end the admission of female cadets into the combatant course of the NDA. Buhari and Nigerian military authorities, allegedly came under pressure from some vested interests in the Northern part of Nigeria who were opposed to the idea of female combatants, and ratified the in the National Defence Policy 2017 (Revised); Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service Officers 2017. Consequently, the recommendation 19 of that revised policy was to phase out the training of female combatants in the NDA.

Even though some military sources cited the unacceptable danger and casualties of the female combatants, especially the ground forces, may incur at the hands of the insurgents in the Northeast as the reason for halting the programme, it was however, a major career blow.

Fortunately, there were other routes through which this all important mission for gender equality in the military could be achieved as there were various types of commissions in the Armed Forces namely: Regular Combatant Commission, Short Service Combatant Commission, Direct Regular Commission, Direct Short Service and Executive Commission. It was these veritable loopholes that have enabled the NAF to encourage the training and eventual winging of female pilot combatants that have passed with flying colours.

Therefore, as Sanni and other combat female Pilots have embarked on this national assignment against the terrorists in the North East and any other part of the country as the need arises, they have indeed pioneered a patriotic professional revolution for gender parity in the Armed Forces of Nigeria for generations to come. This is all thanks to the former President Jonathan as well as the gender sensitivity of the incumbent Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar.

Since assumption of office, the Air Chief Abubakar, has made it a point of legacy mission to upgrade the professionalism and career of female officers in the Nigerian Air Force including churning out of well trained, able and capable combat pilots. To this end, his mission is being accomplished as well as commendably remarkable.

In line with this policy trend, Abubakar had on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, winged another female combat pilot as part of his mission to improve the operational capacity of the Air Force, adding that the 12 pilots winged had their flying training both in Nigeria and abroad having completed the nine months comprehensive flying training programme.

“I am happy that we have among the 12 winged was the second ever female helicopter pilot”, he added, before disclosing that another 26 student pilots are currently undergoing or scheduled to begin basic flying training abroad, out of which two are female officers.

“Upon completion of their training, one would become the second ever female fixed-wing fighter pilot in the NAF, while the other would graduate as the first ever female Qualified Flight Instructor (QFI) in the 56 years history of the Service. We have equally increased capacity for in-country flying training. At the moment, there are also 39 student pilots undergoing various stages of training in NAF flying schools”, he stress.

It will be apt to recall that the NAF on October 15, 2019, made history by decorating Flying Officer Kafayat Sanni, as the first female combat helicopter pilot as well as Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, and others also known as the “NAF Female Pilots of War’. They are among the six outstanding female fighter pilots who are at the moment, proving their worth in the destruction of a strongholds of the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists in the North East part of the country.

According to reports by PRNigeria and Global Sentinel, some of them are actively involved in degrading the enclaves of terrorists and bandits, especially in North-Eastern Nigeria. While flying Officer Genevieve Nwaogwugwu, Flight Lieutenant Chika Ani, and Flying Officer Olubunmi Ijelu are Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) pilots, Flying Officer Sanni and Flying Officer Arotile are fighter pilots currently serving to restore peace in the region ravaged by insurgency. Flight Lieutenant Blessing Liman is a respected Pilot in the Presidential Air Wing.

Commending this feat, the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI), Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, saluted all the women for what he described as their unique resilience, industry, productivity and commitment to humanity.

According to Daramola, the well trained and adequately equipped Women-of-War are proving their combat bravery and professional gallantry in complementing the efforts of troops in counter-insurgency campaigns and other crisis zones in the country.

He also revealed that the newly winged female helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Chinelo Nwokoye, “is expected to join other female pilots who are currently deployed in different theatres of operation in the country to contribute her quota in the defence of her fatherland”.

Accordingly, with female fighter pilots swelling their ranks with skills, finesse and new perspectives, it would be safe to say that the Nigerian women in General and NAF female officers in particular, have come of age.

This was also acknowledged by the Chief of Training and Operations (CTOP), Air Vice Marshal James Gwani, who noted that the winging of the 12 pilots including the female combat officers, was another milestone achievement by the current NAF administration.

This, he said, would further boost the aircrew disposition of the Service and contribute to fulfilling the constitutional roles of the NAF especially in the series of ongoing air operations across the country. There is no doubt about this because as the saying goes: “the female can even do better”.

Nigerian soldiers attacking a target.

Nigerian desert camouflage is so good, it's incredible.

Nigerian Navy SBS Commando training with a British Royal Marine Commando

Female DSS officer.

Nigerian DSS

Guinea army special forces

Nigerian Navy SBS

nemesis8u:
The Turks offer salary of more than 1 million dollars per year for top foreign recruits. That too tax free .

Although you won't pay everyone up to that. You're talking top quality talent. I'm sure it is the talent working with TAI and Rokestan they pay that much for.

For the guys in Land systems it cannot be that high.

There are so many quality talents available for 60,000 - 120,000 dollars a year salary.

We can improve our land, Drone, Ship and Surveillance systems production with that.

Jimmy17:
We should be doing this...but how many engineers will come to Nigeria?

Pay is a motivating factor. This is why the Nigerian Defence Industry needs to be private sector led.

This is what I think should be done. The Nigerian government should guarantee that a certain amount budgeted for procurement hardware yearly should go to Nigerian Defence contractors.

For example, the 1 billion dollars released for the procurement of hardware. The government can set aside 200 million dollars for Nigerian Defence Manufacturers.

That why companies can employ talent from abroad, knowing that a percentage of defence contracts will come to local companies.

Similar to the Local Content Law in Nigeria's oil and gas industry. Now you see that local Nigerian companies in the oil & gas industry can explore for oil, drill the oil, store the oil in FPSO, transport the oil to land, and sell. All these because of the local content law.


We can replicate this in the defence industry.

Abohboy:
Do you see Nigeria purchasing or manufacturing any submarines

With regards to Nigeria producing military equipment, we have made good progress, and their is a lot of private sector participation.

However, if we want to really progress, we need to copy the Turkey model. The Turks imported a lot of engineers from around the world from big companies like Boeing, Airbus, Raytheon, Lockheed martin, EADS, from South-Korea also. These engineers built in Turkey and passes on the knowledge to local Turkish engineers. This why you are still very competitive while passing transfer of knowledge.

Toju200:
Currently we don't know who's even Acquiring it Cos both Countries has shown interest in Proforce products.
I saw somewhere that it's Niger ....
We just assumed it's Chad that is acquiring it all the Same.. we'll find out this year, Delivery will certainly start this year

No, it's not an assumption. See below the link stating Chad is the first export customer.


https://www.janes.com/article/89877/nigeria-s-proforce-gets-first-mrap-export-order

Abohboy:
Do you see Nigeria purchasing or manufacturing any submarines

Well, Nigeria has plans to purchase at least 1 submarine. It is part of the recently approved 1.3 billion dollars maritime security plan by the National Assembly.

Some aspects of the plan have began, we are building Seaward Defence Boat 3, they Hydrographic Ship from France, Helicopters from Italy etc etc

However I don't think we would go ahead with the submarine for now, COVID-19, oil price fall, not a priority.

We cannot build submarines in Nigeria as we don't have the expertise to do that, we are just growing.

Toju200:
Top class..
Pls NA don't fall our hand..
I think it's Niger that is Acquiring the MRAP not Chad..

Why do you say so?

Jane's defence said Chad.

Niger Republic recently bought Mamba MK5 MRAPs from America recently.

Toju200:
Yeah I know this one....
... Beautiful boat.

Proforce ARA II MRAP

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