Lurker4Long:


The guys at Southern African Shipyards are making good progress.
More photos and videos here:

https://www.facebook.com/SouthernAfricanShipyards/

Pic: the current hydrographic vessel, SAS Protea.

I didn't think South-Africa had the capacity to build such big ships locally.

The current boat looks very old. How old is she?

S400:
reports of egyptian AF getting the sukhoi 35




waiting confimation of the deal

Egyptian military procurement seems so confused.

Rafale, MIG-29M, SU-35 all in one air force for front line fighter jets.

Egyptian Navy procurement is also no different from their air force.

It's a nightmare.

NAF

Nigerian Air Force Isolation center

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NAF GRADUATES NEW BATCH OF SPECIAL FORCES, CSAR OPERATIVES AS CAS INSPECTS ISOLATION WARD, COMMISSIONS TRAINING POOL FOR REGIMENT PERSONNEL IN BAUCHI

In furtherance of its aggressive capacity building efforts to tackle various internal security challenges in the Country, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has graduated another batch of Special Forces (SF) and Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) personnel. The combined graduation ceremony, which took place today, 15 May 2020, at the Regiment Training Centre (RTC) Annex in Bauchi comprised 94 trainees of the SF Course 6/2020 and 32 trainees of CSAR Course 2/2020. The graduating SF Course is the eighth set to be trained by the NAF as SF in the last 5 years, having conducted 5 SF Courses and 2 SF Instructors’ Courses while the graduating CSAR Course is the second batch, following the graduation of the first set in December 2018.

The day’s activities also featured the inspection of a 20-bed Isolation Ward at the 261 NAF Reference Hospital as well as the commissioning of an Olympic Size Swimming Pool for training of Regiment/SF personnel. The Isolation Ward would ensure that the Hospital is equipped to face the contemporary challenges of medical practice in today’s world, especially in response to emerging infectious disease threats like COVID-19, while the Pool was constructed to ensure that SF trainees receive robust, well-rounded training, including watermanship skills, to enable them operate effectively in marine and riverine terrains.

Speaking at the Graduation Ceremony, the Special Guest of Honour, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, noted that the SF and CSAR personnel were graduating at a time when the Nation was in dire need of their skills to add impetus to operations being conducted to restore normalcy in restive parts of the Country. He urged them to imbibe the attributes of honesty, courage, perseverance and adaptability as they would be required to operate in hostile environments to ensure that the NAF achieved its objectives. He also charged them to endeavour to justify the huge investment in their training by ensuring greater commitment to the security of Nigeria and Nigerians. Air Marshal Abubakar stated that the capability gap in SF and CSAR operations informed the decision to establish the Special Operations Command (SOC) in Bauchi along with its complement of Quick Response Groups and Wings in Gusau, Owerri, Ipetu-Ijesha, Katsina, Birnin-Gwari, Agatu, Nguoroje and Doma as well as the CSAR Group in Kerang, Plateau State. The NAF, he remarked, has subsequently trained over 1,060 personnel both overseas and locally in its bid to generate SF and CSAR teams to man the established units.

The consideration to train CSAR operatives locally, the CAS revealed, was as a result of insufficient training slots and high cost of overseas training. He further disclosed that the Directorate of Regiment was therefore tasked to develop a local training curriculum with the objective of ensuring that the NAF had personnel capable of rescuing downed aircrew in all terrains and weather conditions anywhere in Nigeria. “I am happy to note that our SF personnel have performed commendably well when deployed for operations in conjunction with other security agencies in various areas of operation, thus, returning sanctity to distressed areas in the North West, North East and North Central. This shows that enhancing the capacity and capability of our personnel is the best way of ensuring the attainment of our operational goals”, the CAS said

Speaking further, the CAS stated that the Nation and the entire world were currently embroiled in the COVID-19 pandemic, which, he noted, has affected all aspects of national lives with attendant high rate of morbidity. Accordingly, he said, the NAF, in living up to its constitutional role, had built adequate capacity for flight nurses to enable them serve as first responders in cases of medical emergencies. He equally highlighted that the NAF had hitherto embarked on mass production of face masks and Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) as well as the provision of Liquid Oxygen to designated Hospitals and Isolation Centres across the country. He further disclosed that the NAF has also continued to provide airlift for personnel of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as well as medical equipment and supplies, whenever its services were required. He noted that the NAF had so far flown over 300 hours of airlift missions in support of the Presidential Task Force for COVID-19. All these efforts as well as several other initiatives, he said, were aimed at adequately providing Military Aid to Civil Authority as enshrined in the Constitution. According to him, appropriate protective measures had also been emplaced within NAF bases, while aggressive enlightenment campaigns to educate NAF personnel and their families on the dangers of the virus and how to prevent its spread had equally been undertaken. He therefore enjoined personnel to continue to stay safe and maintain physical distancing at all times.

Air Marshal Abubakar expressed his gratitude to the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Muhammadu Buhari, for the priority attention given to training and operational needs of the NAF. The support provided by the Federal Government, according to him, has positively impacted on the overall performance of the NAF, especially in the areas of training, which has substantially enhanced operational efficiency, as well as improved provision of welfare and other services. The CAS also commended the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) Ground Training Command (GTC), Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Idi-Amin, as well as the Commander Regiment Training Centre Annex and his team of instructors for working tirelessly to transform the personnel into SF and CSAR operatives, respectively. He encouraged them to continue with the excellent work, while promising that the Service would continue to provide them with the required support to position the NAF Regiment as an elite fighting force.

Earlier in his welcome remarks, the AOC GTC stated that the curriculum of the SF Course entailed intensive training in shooting skills, unarmed combat, navigation, field tactics, communications, endurance and combat swimming, amongst others. He disclosed that the trainees were also taught to operate the Ruchnaya Granata Distantsionnaya (RGD-5) grenade, PKM gun and the Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG 7) launcher which were recently acquired by the present NAF Administration. According to him, the courses were intentionally tailored to ensure that the SF and CSAR operatives could withstand the grueling physical conditions of ground operations. He disclosed that, of the 275 personnel screened for SF Course 6/2020, only 117 were inaugurated to start the course, while 94 personnel, comprising 5 officers and 89 airmen and airwomen graduated, indicating a success rate of about 50 per cent. Similarly, the AOC remarked that 35 personnel, comprising 5 officers and 30 airmen, were initially nominated for the CSAR Course 2/2020 and only 32 students completed the requirements to be CSAR operators. “Hence, only the fittest trainees equipped with the right attitude were able to complete the course to qualify as SF (Panthers) and CSAR operators of the NAF”, he said.

Highlights of the graduation ceremony were tactical demonstrations by the graduating students and other SF personnel. These included a maritime assault demonstration at the newly commissioned Pool; an obstacle crossing demonstration by NAF SF personnel as well as a KRAV MAGA (unarmed combat drill) demonstration. There was also an air-ground assault simulation exercise, which featured the rappelling of a joint SF and CSAR Team from an Mi-171E Helicopter into a hostile environment to rescue a downed pilot, which was executed with precision to the delight of all present. Awards were also presented to graduating students who had distinguished themselves on the 2 Courses.

Also present at the ceremony were the host, the AOC SOC, along with Branch Chiefs from Headquarters NAF as well as Commanders and Commandants of Nigerian Army and NAF Formations in Bauchi.

IBIKUNLE DARAMOLA
Air Commodore
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force
15 May 2020

Nigerian Air Force recently aired documentary..




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT6ilz96Hao

Nigerian Air Force recently aired documentary.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT6ilz96Hao

jln115:
Yeah...................can't help the dude totally decided to u turn on his original argument

Buhahahahhahahaha

nemesis8u:


U aiming to play ringa ringa roses with me

Bro when u r clear about the difference between a dedicated attack helicopter and a attack helicopter u can come back to me

Jln115, this didn't end well.

Watch close quarters combat footage.

Niger Army VS Boko-Haram


One of the fighters was seen attempting to flee and refused orders to stop, he was subdued by gunshots and run over by the wheels of an MRAP.


https://mobile.twitter.com/HumAngle_/status/1261316271087509509

Toju200:

Your blood too dey hot.

lebuhsi:

,thanks for the correction bro, maybe another time!

Yeah

We will get them next time.

Abohboy:


Interesting suggestion, I’ll see what I can do about that, but does Nigeria really ave the resource to pay for all that

Yes.

Juchii:


It is true but I think it is good strategy as well. Getting three at first and making it udergo regorous testing to scertain the true nature of the product within the perimeter of your environment before mass order is the best for me.
Following the marketing strategies of those Big companies, one could be deceive into thinking that a particular jet fighter could not be shot down.

This is very true.

lebuhsi:
I beat Kabe2 to this one
SDBIII, almost complete

You tried, but that's a privately owned security vessel. I think it is owned by OMS Security Consultants.

Nigerian made Naval Barges

Construction of SA Navy's Hydrographic Research Survey Vessel.

Today saw the erection of the H2A bow of the vessel.

A first for South Africa and the continent, the vessel would not only provide detailed mapping of the ocean floor and better geographical data for vessels such as submarines but would also have massive civilian benefits.

Juchii:


Kabe2 is over excited
And that is what it should be.
I want to ask oo about the paintings, is it the best camo/colour we can get? Because personal I prefer gray. Won't we be too expose by those shiny yellow?
Pardon my ignorant

Yes, you can say it's a 2 way thing. I'm excited we got a good 4th Generation Jet, but we're entering the game very late and the numbers are too small.

Thats an anticorrosive, not the actual paint job.

MiddleDimension:

provide links to the video for me, please.

Watch TVC online by 9pm today.

MiddleDimension:
how many are we expecting?

3 units with options for more.

MiddleDimension:

the 17s are a 4th Gen fighter, right?

Yea, 4th Generation fighters.

More photos of Nigerian air force JF-17 Aircrafts

Nigerian Air Force JF-17 Thunder Block 2 multi-role fighter aircraft.

dragon2:


Probably test pilot/engineer.

Bro, this is no laughing matter. This is a serious QA/QC violation.

It shows that QA/QC is lax in that facility.

He looks like he is posing in the plane.

How could he be a test pilot/engineer, do they wear civilian clothing on the site?

Where is there HSE officer?

You can't try this in a Nigerian oil facility for instance. This is why we should have bought these planes directly from China where there are strict quality control measures in place and are followed.

dragon2:
Yes indeed 2p60 is ours

Who is that in our plane, do they just allow random clowns to seat in customer aircrafts and snap pictures?

Aircrafts we paid $180 million for?

This is serious

It is the responsibility of the Nigerian government to make sure our soldiers, our Nigerian army is properly equipped with the best equipment we can afford.

If Boko-Haram Terrorists fire at our soldiers with an AK-47 the Nigerian army should respond with a 30mm mounted on an IFV.

If Boko-Haram Terrorists fire at our boys with RPGs, we should respond with a a VT4 Main Battle Tank.

If they fire at the Nigerian army with 23mm, we should respond with guided bombs with Fighter Jets.

Every action by the terrorists should be met with overwhelming military force.

No encounter should be a fair fight, if a terrorist touches the skin of a soldier with his filthy hands, we should respond with a sledge hammer.

Far too many good men are dying in this conflict.

Nigerian soldier armed with an IWI X-95 hunting Boko-Haram

BeforeJuly:
or this?
OK now I'm confused

This is a JF-17 block 1, what we bought is this, the block 2.

BeforeJuly:
pardon my ignorance but are these the same jf/17's Nigeria ordered?

This is not a real aircraft. It is CAD, doesn't exist.