₦airaland Forum

Buschlaid:
Marauder: How is that relevant? Usually armies try to have some unification between branches and I would love to know what is your source for just 2 in service. All I could find is that there is unknown number in service. Either way, you still need to deliver parts for them, further stretching logistics.

Buschlaid:
REVA: They are better than majority of the MRAPs Nigeria has in service, phasing them out for being "obsolete" would be ridiculous. Do you have any support for your claim that they are phased out and obsolete? Also if REVAs lacked technical characteristics to operate in Nigerian service, why did army order 40 then?

Buschlaid:
Okay, so I looked into my files where I have pictures of Nigerian army. And I have these types:

South Africa: REVA MkIII, Marauder

Buschlaid:
USA: MAXXPRO, BAE Caiman

Buschlaid:
UAE: Isotrex Legion, Isotrex Phantom 2
China: CS/VP3 Bigfoot
Nigeria: Ezugwu, Proforce ARA

Buschlaid:
To add to this, Nigeria army also operates highly diverse armored personnel carriers like Mengshi CSK-131, KIA K152, VAB, KrAZ Spartan, Otokar Cobra... And no, all of this is still in service, none have been phased out. Also my list might not be complete, I was never really interested in Nigerian army as much as in other ones, so I only have a few photos downloaded. Anyway, this is a lot of types and I haven't even started writing list of
other vehicle types where Nigerian army is just as diverse. This is logistical nightmare in my opinion.

There is also this Nigerian MRAP that I have seen a couple of times, articles claim they entered service but I don't know their name or if that's true.

GreenandGold:
Bro, don't pretend these are the only vehicles you'll have. You already have half a dozen other types in large numbers in the country already that need maintenance.

GreenandGold:
The internet never forgets

kabe1:
Nigerian army does not use MRAPs from South-Africa.

GreenandGold:
China, UAE, South Africa, Nigeria.... this is too many countries supplying a vehicle that you are already making.

GreenandGold:
China, UAE, South Africa, Nigeria.... this is too many countries supplying a vehicle that you are already making.

GreenandGold:
I actually lost count on the number of MPRAPs you actually post over the years, its almost a dozen.

According to what I understand, for each vehicle that is deployed in battle, a dedicated support team has to be deployed as well.. Countries like the US who have a $700bn military budget can field half a dozen vehicles because they are swimming in cash, Russia tried the same thing and ended up ditching the vehicles on battle fields because they don't have the technical support for each and every vehicle they deployed.

Coming back to Africa, SA deployed only 2 MRAPs in Angola (the Baffel and Casspir), and you know we were the HQ of that tech in the 80s but logistic support instructs something else.

GreenandGold:
Nigeria is making MRAPs already, there's no need to buy them from a foreign supplier who could one day not give you spare parts should they get pressured by the West, unless your military bosses and politicians are currently getting kickbacks from overseas companies.

GreenandGold:
Nigeria is making MRAPs already, there's no need to buy them from a foreign supplier who could one day not give you spare parts should they get pressured by the West, unless your military bosses and politicians are currently getting kickbacks from overseas companies.

GreenandGold:
Buying is easy, maintenance is hard. I also noticed that you buy any MPRAP from anywhere and field it like that. I don't think you consider logistics support for these multiple vehicles during deployment, long term maintenance (spares, computer boxes, chips, sensors, etc) of these different types of vehicles.

QuietMynd:
I don't think that is the FLIR working,
Rather the live event was transmitted via a secured network link. Just like how drone broadcast live footage to the ground station, something like that

NTSA:
Queens jubilee

NTSA:
The 33 were the last batch to be delivered totaling around 110.

Stargate254:
They were meant for S.Sudan, Then the ship got hijacked by Somali Pirates back then, then the ships manifest was revealed to everyone by the pirates and it became an international incident...
With Kenya risking being exposed for breaking an amrs embargo that had been put in place by the US on Sudan for supporting Bin Laden and Alqaeda , Kenya had to save face by pretending publicly that the tanks were meant for Kenya and not S.Sudan...
So long story short, The tanks got stuck with us or is it we got stuck with the tanks ?

The funny thing though is that the CIA knew that we were secretely facilitating the arming of SPLM (the CIA even participated in the training of SPLM on how to use these weapons) to enebale them defend themselves against khatoum govt in the fight for self rule but when it was exposed by pirates, the US threw Kenya under the bus, their state department was even considering sanctions against Kenya and Ukraine... But the US Congress investigation is what revealed the truth about US involvement, and in the end they had no choice but to develop selective amnesia and forget the whole thing.

kabe1:
ACTIVITIES MARKING THE CONDUCT OF REGIONAL MARITIME EXERCISE AT SEA ON 31 MAY 22

Buschlaid:
These? They are definitely not owned by South Sudan.

Buschlaid:
Weird they didn't show KDF's T-72B1 tanks

Odunayaw:
My wallpaper for the month

Balogunodua:
What are their length sir?