₦airaland Forum

jl115:
The $40 mil price tag everybody likes quoting is not the actual price but rather the entire R& D cost..... And since only 12 were built the cost per unit is very bloated.

Secondly how is it sanction vulnerable?

seankafor:
I think the jf-17 will be more ideal and suitable in checkmating to our west African neighbouring countries incase they misbehave

Jimi24:
For those of us who really know, Super Tucanoes would be the breakthrough capability in internal security.
Also it will be a cheap workhorse ISR/precision strike platform in one package.

The JF 17 is for regional power projection BUT it will fly too high, too fast and too blind to be useful against Boko Haram or bandits

bidexiii:
12 super tucano
3 jf thunder
1 MI-171

The rest mi35m are not inclusive

LTGEN:
another MI171E
When?

LTGEN:
another MI171E
When?

jteku:
Any image of the MI-17 cockpit

kabe1:
Nigerian police conduct special operation.

250 terrorists, members of Ansaru, killed.

Police Helicopter shot at with heavy machine guns.

Pilot and Co-pilot evacuated to Hospital.

Police Helicopter lands safely, with heavy bullet marks.

nemesis8u:
A-109K Max no of rockets = 14 rockets

7 rockets each in 2 pods

Incase nobody noticed

There is also the gun pod with integrated 3 rockets

So if using the same ,

2 gun pods + 6 rockets

President getting a tour of one of the Agusta109 P attack helicopters. It’s Rocket launcher can carry 40 rockets, with effective range of 3,500m and max range of 6,000m. pic.twitter.com/LynSvYSgKQ

— Tolu Ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) February 6, 2020

nemesis8u:
Seriously doubt Egypt spends that low even though they get funding from other countries.

Jimi24:
So keep telling me $10bn arms procurement budget every year is a good idea.

jteku:
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Jimi24:
Super camp not working eh?
Was it the small camp strategy that was working?
You keep 100 lightly armed men 400 km from Maiduguri. To do what exactly?

This talk about "Intelligence ". That's just book talk BS. Boko Haram actually wrote some small camps that they were coming. You saw them on motorbikes surveying your perimeter. Its the realization that you are a small camp, far from major installations and observation that frequency of low flying air patrols have reduced hence Ops Lafiya Role aircraft probably temporarily out of action that does it. They also know Alpha Jets can be weather limited and if they attack the base at closer quarters the jets dont come in to avoid blue on blue.

A lot of commentators have not run operations before in civilian life and are talking about military. Suppose you are just 100 in the camp and your scouts tell you a Captain or Major that the frequency of sighting BHT spotters is increasing. You calculate that you need more mortars and about ten snipers and they should come today by chopper ..what happens?
Lafiya Dole will tell you that chopper flights are once in two weeks by the backbone schedule, otherwise talk to your battalion commander who will call the General in charge. What do you do?

Super Camps puts more authority right in the field. You can do more extensive aggressive patrols backed by chopper and dominate the area. Let Boko Haram attempt to ambush a patrol party that has an eye in the sky. The field will be painted red...real fast.