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3) Aspide missile system.

One of the reasons that NNS Aradu was so good was because it was a large multi-purpose frigate.

It had torpedos, depth charges and a helicopter for anti-submarine warfare, it had anti-ship missiles and multiple guns for surface warfare and it had this for anti-aircraft duties.

These were also on our fast missile crafts.

Aspide missiles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaTGPZec31U?si=L4KSL9I7nuw7FAFq

It had Plessey AWS 5 air/surface search radar and Signaal STIR fire control radar.

2) Shilka Air Defence System.

This is an armoured vehicle with integrated radar and anti-aircraft cannons.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hIhANtU-rs?si=7fp2fxCtSZRbc9gB



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq9ZEpuZsBc?si=wZIvwhJqIVV0RpZX

1) Roland Air Defence System.

Nigeria bought these in the 1980s and they were deployed to protect the Kainji Dam and other national assets. It is an armoured vehicle that uses missiles and has an integrated radar system.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv9idx9FDVQ?si=2YLrgBkAmgCdwWCi



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSosDM8yG4?si=LvUBFrDISp1RaS3n



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZTsf2tc6RM?si=YkIpN1rVC6IVMlj_

Nigeria bought a lot of military equipment when I was a kid. This was especially so in the period between 1975 and 1985 (when most of the orders were made).

The military governments of that era made it seem as if Nigeria was under threat of imminent attack. Therefore they took steps to protect our national assets. I knew all these facilities that the military governments were trying to protect and I knew which unit was responsible for protecting what.

For example, the Kainji Dam was Nigeria's biggest powet plant at the time (it was later surpassed by the Egbin Power Plant). The Federal Military Government built an air force base at Kainji (with its own runway), it built an army base and it deployed air defence systems to protect the dam. Air defence systems were also deployed to protect the international airports in Lagos and Kano.

I became interested in these things when someone that was in the navy told me that the Nigerian Navy's sea to air missiles were kept at a particular location in Apapa. This was in the early 1980s.

In fact, back then, critics of the Federal Military Government accused the government of spending more on weapons than on education and healthcare.

Nigeria suffered an economic crisis that began in 1982. Military spending reduced after that. Things became worse after the June 12, 1993 elections were annulled. Many countries subsequently imposed sanctions on the Nigerian Military. The supply of military equipment dried up (apart from the 1988 Vickers Main Battle Tank contract).


In more recent times Chinese and European companies have been competiting for contracts to upgrade Nigeria's air defence systems. The Federal Government wants to replace those air defence systems of my childhood and the Chinese and European companies are presenting a range of medium and long range missiles and radar systems. (I have previously created threads about Nigerian officials inspecting these systems in Europe and China).

The military is also working on a total military radar coverage of Nigeria (MTRACON) and these new systems will be used to achieve the objective.

This thread will contain photos and videos of the air defence systems from my childhood and of the new air defence systems that the Nigerian military is considering.

AlphaTaikun:
So, she got 10,000 USD from 'Seyi Tinubu who commended her for what she did despite violating the environmental laws?!

She definitely needs proper monitoring and advice on how charitable organizations work around the world. She seems to me like someone who just jumped on the band wagon and would eat up parts of that 10,000 USD by diverting it into other personal needs of hers.

She just has to STOP cooking along a place like Admiralty Way in Lekki Phase 1. Period.

Seyi Tinubu immediately clarified that he did not give her any money. What happened was that some friends of his got together and gave her money without his knowledge (you can hear the person that gave her the money saying that Seyi Tinubu was not in the country at the time). He said that they might have meant well, but he does not support anything that violates the environmental laws of Lagos. I posted a screenshot of his statement on this thread.

OK, they said she got ten or twenty thousand dollars from Seyi Tinubu so that she'll get a place where she can cook and she won't be cooking on the street anymore. So why is she still cooking on the street?

pic.twitter.com/nJ6u4WGNrj

Seyi Tinubu Dashes Nollywood Actress Sarah Martins $10,000 after her unfortunate encounter with Lagos task force officials, who har@ssed her for cooking on the street in Lekki for the less privileged.#SEYITINUBU #dollars #lagos #lekki #lekkilagos #Sarah…

— Adékúnlé Odérìndé (@AdekunleOderind) October 17, 2025

I wrote this on October 19th, 2025.

Now I am really very suspicious.

A woman did something that makes no sense at all. I didn't think it was very significant because there are many Nigerians that do things that make no sense, but more strange things have since occurred that make me now wonder if this was planned.

There are some dual carriageways in Lekki Phase 1 Estate and most of them lead to gates of the estate. There's Admiralty Way (which leads to the first gate), there's Freedom Way (which leads to the fourth gate), there's Adewunmi Adebimpe Street (which leads to the second gate) and there's Hakeem Dickson Street (which leads to the third gate).

These are dual carriageways. One carriageway has two lanes heading in one direction and the other carriageway has two lanes heading in the opposite direction. In other words, these are four-lane streets. The carriageways are separated by a median.

Some of the medians have grass, flowers and street lights on them.

So how can someone go to a median, set up a fireplace, pots and pans and start cooking there? Does it make sense?

This woman was cooking on the median, in the middle of busy traffic. She said that it was for charity. Sensible people cook elsewhere and bring the food to where ever they want to distribute it in food warmers (that's if you want to distribute it on the road), but this person was cooking on the median.

Thank God that the Kai and other government officials had started recording the scene as soon as they approached her. We won't have known what really happened if they hadn't done that.

We could see that they approached her and asked her what she was doing. They told her that she could not do that there and began removing the pot and pans that she put on the road.

Now, you see, one of the problems that we have in Nigeria is that there are people who believe that the government is wrong, no matter what happens. I think this wrong attitude developed because we were under military rule for a long time. Therefore these people will automatically support anybody against the government. Law breakers know this and they take full advantage of it.

So this woman began shouting that people should go live. She was shouting that her people should record what was happening. She began holding her hand, even though the officials did nothing to her (they didn't touch her).

I later saw the video that she released. She was crying and holding her hand as if the officials did something to her. All that show was simply so that she could gain sympathy from people that believe that government is always wrong. I heard that she's an actress. Well, she definitely put her acting skills to bad use.

But that was just the first scene in the drama.

The woman later recorded a video in which she was holding dollar notes. She claimed that Seyi Tinubu had given her twenty million naira because of what she claimed happened to her.

Seyi Tinubu later debunked the claim. He said that he discovered that some people that he knows raised some money for the woman without his knowledge. He said that the people wanted to help the woman to secure another space for her business (but I thought the woman said that she was cooking for charity and not for business). He said that, while their hearts might have been in the right place, he does not support any action that violates the laws of Lagos State. In fact, I think I'll post the screenshot.

View from inside the restaurant.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7614186516272762132?

Interviewing the victim.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7614223178046377237?

Remember when I told you about a troll farm? Do you remember that the BBC published a report on that same troll farm years later.

Well it looks to me that that same troll farm has been activated to support one of the sides in the US vs Iran War.

Bloomberg published an article yesterday, I created the thread this morning, but funny people are shouting, "Old news".

Doesn't that tell you all you need to know about the funny people?

ccollins:
another apc youth man has spoken and created a topic

This is the entertainment on this thread for me.

I have often written about people who behave like drones. They have no sense and can't reason for themselves. So everything to them is which party, which religion, which ethnic group, that's all that's in their heads. Common sense is absent.

Here's an example, what does this thread have to do with APC? Nothing. But the poster above is a drone, so he can only repeat what he has been programmed to post.

It's the same with all the drones that are desperately trying to link me with the article. This is simply entertainment for me, but I don't expect drones to be able to think that deeply. They can only shout religion, party and ethnic group.