lionel4power: you people should stop taking your opinion as fact, most arguments usually starts with someone stating an opinion as fact.
. The alpha jet is nowhere as good as other regular trainer/attack plane, heck its not even near the top ten in its trainer class. with a bomb load of 2,500Kg and a combat radius of just 600+ km its not really a spectacular aircraft.
How can you argue without giving your opinion, and it is not because its an opinion that what is being said is false. And also I gave no fact, but here is one : Alpha jet is still in use by many countries including Egypt, Morocco, Portugal, Qatar, Thailand, a super power France. This jet it is not build for dog fight but for training, and can be coverted in light attack so it is normal that the range that the combat range is small ... Compare to other jet of the same age and same type the Alpha is the best. It is cost effective, efficient, and it work... Dont judge the ability of the Alpha to fight, keep in mind is an trainer and as a trainer I have no problem with the that jet and since It is not bad in light attack and killed more boko than any other jet. I am satisfied with. We need a true ground attack jet yes I no. But say that alpha jet hasnt been a good boy I am not ok with that
DEATHMACHINE: All these innovations must not go to waste , I feel NAF should try and work corporations to produce this aircraft and perform their main role as trainers while dedicated attack platforms are sourced.
Yes since they like it why not, a trainer light attack under licence for a start this is very good
Katyusha: Lack of vision..these people should leave this aircraft alone.. Haba!
For the training role this aircraft is good, its a trainer. NAF choose it for this role training, and this aircraft saved our lives after being militarise. For the role of ground attack im ok with it is not appropriate. But for advance training & light attack the only jet better than alpha jet is the Yak-130
Henry240: Okay, Infantry Mobility Vehicles or Small MRAP or whatever classification they are, we also need them. I n the absence of a locally built variant, I think the Proforce PF2 LAV is good enough.
The PF2 have a good disign but I see it more for law enforcement. For me the best thing is to have the Tigr M chassis and do our own disign... But for sure you are right on this we need this type of vehicle, and give Otocar to mopol. But im not ok with PF2 for the army.
Henry240: I see were you're coming from, and I don't completely disagree with you. However, our respective conclusions are based on photos only. We don't have the data to draw a comprehensive conclusion from.
The Army ordered the Ara mrap. If 3 units are currently been built, it might mean that the first unit for trials must have been handed to the army. Proforce did say the army currently has an order for 9 examples. Way below our preferred estimates.
We are in an active combat zone in the Northeast. There is enough opportunity for trials.
In my opinion, I say we go for 1000. MRAP tech isn't new that it would require much testing like it's a new invention. That's not required.
jakeporeshenko: I found some pictures, work remain plenty... if I had my way I'll get DSS to kidnap some of those REVA, Denel or paramount engineers. Just to speed things up you know
Not DSS, NIA is the one responsible for foreign intel. Lol Something heavy is coming !! ARA !
Police Special Forces, led by the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have killed notorious kidnap kingpin and armed robbery suspect, Henry Chibueze, also known as ‘Vampire’.
chkil: It's only a political maneuver, Morocco made a request officialy to join the European union several times but was refused, in exchange it became a privileged partner and has been recognised an advanced status, opening up to high levels of political cooperation. of the European union and sign agreements of economic exchange and facilitations
But lately Moroccan products were blocked by europeen justice because they came from the colonized Western Sahara territory and this created a diplomatic problem between Morocco and the European Union, so the demand to join Ecowas is a diplomatic poker bluff to negotiate better with the European Union specialy by using the europeen fear about immigration (west african Immigrant wave in the case morocco join ecowas )
Yes this is from Morocco eyes... They want a position is ok. For me in geo politics the only thing im concern about is Nigeria. Morocco in Ecowas+ the gas pipeline, it will ve more dificult now to support Western Sahara. If Morocco is in ecowas I dont think that Western Sahara storie will continue because it is in fact the african countries who are for western sahara. 90% of the world phosphat in the hand of Morocco thats what im afraid of... In terms of power in the Region Nigeria will still be the powerful but Morocco will be very disturbing... If Morocco is not afraid of France it is not Nigeria that will make them think twice ... The futur will tell us ...
Video shows ISIS shooting at US Helicopter. Now its the Helicopters turn to return fire
military hardware is advancing quicker than we can afford...no matter how many new hardwares we buy the rest of the world we still be more advanced,if we dont start building stuffs ourselves,then,good night...
Nigerdeltaboi: How we manufacture our own weapons, by Nigerian ArmyShare0Tweet0Unknown to many, some of the weapons being used against insurgents in the Northeast by troops are made locally by military personnel. The Army says the weapons are made from locally-sourced materials. Assistant Editor Seun Akioye, who was at an exhibition organised to showcase some of the weapons, writes on the ingenuity of the military.Sam Nwafor, a Colonel and Deputy Director, Research & Development at theNigerian Army School of Artillery had a peculiar grin on his face anytime a superior officer stopped at his exhibition table. On display before him were several round metal pins, which on first observation, looked like ordinary pins.Soon, the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, stopped by. “This is the firing pin for 122 MMD30 Howitzer field gun; this is locally-made, using local materials,” Nwafor told him, a big grin crawling to his face.Gen. Usman paused and asked if the pins have been tested. “Yes, and they are working very well,” Nwafor replied, directing a corporal to show the General a video of the test.The video showed the gun in operation in what looked like a battlefield, the Col. suddenly yelled: “Fire,” the Corporal pulled a button and the gun boomed. The grin reappeared on Nwafor’s face. “This gun is one of the most accurate guns in battle. It is very critical to our operation, that is why making these firing pins locally is important,” he said.The 122 Howitzer field gun is one of the most important weapons in the fight against Boko Haram terrorism in the northeast. The Soviet Howitzer was designed in 1963 at the Artillery Plant 9 in Sverdlovsk by Fedor Fedorovich Petrov. It was instrumental to Russia’s plans in the Cold War. Till date, the D-30, being manufactured internationally, is still being used in more than 60 countries armed forces, including Nigeria’s. But as effective as the gun is, it has always come with its own peculiar problems.Nwafor explained: “The more you use the guns, you see that the pins which fire the gun keep wearing out very quickly and to import a replacement is always a hard thing. So, we sat down and decided to manufacture our own, which will be stronger and more durable than the imported ones.”Research, innovationas keys to self-dependenceWhen the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, mounted the podium at the first Nigerian Army Research and Innovation Summit in Abuja,he recounted a joke someone made about the Army, needing “Juju” to fight Boko Haram terrorists since the Army was not getting the needed weapons.The summit’s theme was: “Research and Innovation, Developing Synergy with Indigenous Institutions for Enhanced Capacity in the Nigeria Army”.Lt.-Gen. Buratai, who dismissed the Juju claim, agreed the military would have made faster progress with the required weapons at troops’ disposal. The Army chief admitted that over dependence on foreign equipment caused series of setbacks for the Army at the initial stages of the war on terror, saying the army has” learnt its lessons.”He said many of the key weapons used in turning the tide against Boko Haram were products of hard work and ingenuity of the Nigerian Army Corps of Engineers, who worked hard to refurbish armoured tanks that were hitherto unserviceable.The COAS said: “To this end, about 178 armoured fighting vehicles of various types were completely refurbished by the Nigerian Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers at the various Army workshops across the country.“These were the weapons and equipment operated by well-trained, dedicated and motivated officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army that turned the tide of operations in the Northeast in our favour.“Our experience in the Northeast and other theaters of operation has assisted us in drawing useful lessons which have shaped the ongoing transformation process of the Nigerian Army.“We also learnt the hard lessons of over reliance on foreign equipment and spares which was a huge setback in the initial stages of our operations.”The aim of the summit was to leverage government policies and programmes towards enhancing research and innovation for improved operational capacity of the Army in synergy with indigenous companies with a view to achieving self-dependency in weapons manufacturing. It created a platform for the Army to showcase the ingenuity of its engineers, inventors and the weapons they had made, that helped in the defeat of Boko Haram insurgency.The weapons of warThe men of 35 Battalion Nigerian Army in Kastina waited expectantly for Defence Minister Mansur Muhammed Dan-Ali, COAS and other dignitaries to inspect what they called “one of the greatest innovations,” in the military.Their innovation is the famous Combat Fighting Motorcycle (CFM), popularly known as the Jackal. In the Northwest, cattle rustling bas become a big security threat, with the perpetrators killing and maiming at will. These perpetrators of the crimes often use the motorcycles to get away on rough terrains. So, the engineers at the 35 Battalion remodeled some motorcycles,weaponised them and deployed them in the anti-terror battle.The CFM was redesigned in such a way that two soldiers could ride on it facing opposite directions with a gun attached.“The idea is that with these, we can move as fast into any terrain in pursuit of the criminals and terrorists. There are different types – one is fitted with machine gun at the back and others have Ak-47,” Warrant Officer (WO) identified as Salley, explained.“With these ones, we can follow the cattle rustlers to their villages. Is that that not innovation?”, the minister shouted in excitement.The COAS said the military has a plan to give at least a battalion of the machines for each Division.Dan-Ali, who was impressed, told the engineers: “We need to do another; theone with three tires; that one will have more stability.” The men agreed to take up the new challenge.The CFM, which has been deployed in Kastina and Kano states, has assumed a frightening reputation from criminals.“We have been very successful with it in Folgore forest in Kano. This is the latest machine all over the world, even the developed countries are praising us over this invention,” Salley boasted.The Infantry Patrol Vehicle (IPV) with off-road mobility and a crew of three was one of the star attractions at the summit. Weighing 650kg and powered by 150-200 Horse Power Engine, the IPV has a 130 kilometre per hour capacity.It provides force multiplier and the required flexibility to undertake all tasks across the entire spectrum of military operations, including range fighting, fast action mission, urban and border patrols.The IPV is fitted with two machine guns and have been deployed in all the theatres of operation.The Nigerian Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers have also been ingenious in the modification of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) for combat operations. One of such is the modification of 4 x4 Hilux Trucks with Peak Cap Turret.The Peak Cap is mounted on the Hilux and it has 18mm hardened steel and can be modified to carry any gun. It has a mechanical traverse of 360 degrees. The Peak Cap also offers protection up to 30 meters from small arms and 100 meters from machine guns.There is also the Buratai Overhead Manned Turret (BOMT) which is one of the ugliest weapons but which offers an “all round protection” according to the Army. Weighing one tone, it provides all round observation with the aid of periscopic sights and the plate thickness can give protection for up to 30 meters.The BOMT invention was necessitated by the delivery of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPVs) BOMT has been installed on the MRAPVs now being used in the Northeast.The Nigerian Army Institute of Technology (NAITE) in Markudi, has also invented the unmanned aerial vehicle with two transmitters which can survey human presence and an unmanned drone with transmission capacity up to 100 meters. Though the vehicle and drone have been tested, they are yet to be deployed to the theatre of operation.Brig.-Gen. Ayo Ibikunle of Nigerian Army Ordinance Corps was modest about his latest invention – the Hand Grenade ASI-17 Smoke (Smoke Grenade).According to him, the Army was importing the small but important weapon, which is used to give location of troops to the aircrafts and also useful in covering the movement and number of troops from enemy snipers.“I made these grenades using all local materials, this was what we used to import but they are available now,” Gen. Ibikunle said.However, one officer who was not ‘modest’ about his invention is Lt. Col. Muhammadu Buhari Gremt of the Nigerian Army 81 Division Abeokuta.The officer invented what he called Collapsible Ammunition Incinerator Device (CAID) which is used to dispose deteriorated ammunitions in a safe and environmental-friendly way. Gremt said the former method of ammunition disposal was dangerous and unfriendly to the environment but his CAID can dispose more ammunition in a safer manner.Gremt boasted: “The CAID destroys Pyrotechnics gunpowder and small quantity of high explosives, compared to open burning this is mobile and can be broken down by four men and assembled in two minutes and it has been tested and used in burning 375,000 rounds of ammunition.”There was also the Hydro electrical power plant which though crude in appearance has been used to generate three megawatts of electricity used to power a military check point. The officers and men of the Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering in Markudi promised that a bigger plant will be built to generate electricity to an entire street.The cadets of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), who came with 11 innovations, were, however, the stars at the exhibition. Among their innovations was the dehydrator, used to dehydrate vegetables, extracting the moistures and preserving the nutrient which is essential as food for troops.There was also the incubator, which according to the NDA Instructor, Captain Dike Garba (rtd), can incubate 3000 eggs in 21 days. Garba also showcased the Solar meat dryer which can dry one kilogramme of meat into Kilish in nine hours; the Eagle-Bot an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Detector and Disposal equipment; the Side Car for Perimeter Patrol which isalso cost-effective.Others are: the Star tilt-rotor unmanned aircraft which takes off vertically and can go up to five kilometers for aerial surveillance. It also has aerial bombardment capabilities. One of the novel inventions by Cadet Ebenezer Mojeed was the Automated Sniper Rifle (ASR) which is designed to be mounted on observational post or likely adversary route.According to Mojeed, the ASR has surveillance device with the monitor in the hands of an operator who is hidden from sight. The operator is able to view the enemy position and using the controls, can engage and repel the adversary.Mojeed operated the ASR which also has traverse capabilities and using theconsuls began to fire, but instead of bullets, water was sprayed all over the audience. “We are using water in place of bullets for the purpose of this demonstrations, he said.”
This is what im talking about. I want moreeeeee, some pictures ?
Let even assume they do, they don't have the political and financial clout to sideline Nigeria in Ecowas.
Ecowas is still functioning today because of Nigeria.
Remove Nigeria and everything will come down splattering.
In case of a reduction of Nigeria's dominance, it will simply make the Military "do something" to overcome that challenge.
Nigerians are unique set of people that most times wait for the "thing" to happen before finding solution to it.
If not for BH, the tri-service won't have the coordination and synergy rampant nowadays, which also lead to troops welfare and professionalism.
Same thing for the Navy, if the Militants aint active then, we won't be seeing the reform ongoing.
What i'm saying in essence is that, Nigeria shines its Finest during "hard/Difficult times" because that's when one knows they can Innovate....the ATV and Motorbike are two examples.
They political stability its an monarchie ... Second for the money or goods they have almost 90 % of the world phosphate (if kick the ass of western sahara) so they are going to influence Nigerian politics ... They have an aggrement with western companies, Nigeria will loose because many product will enter the country without heavy taxes and we will have a situation were foreign product will compit effectvily against national product. 3) is a disgrace, in history this fckng monarchy was a slave master country they even had a black army ... 4) they want to go back AU - and enter Ecowas to pkick sahara oriental away 5) its a very offensive country the mess with ecerybody, Algeria they went to war against western sahara ... Boff I hate this country. They have a FREMM we dont have to be blind actualy Nigerians influence will decrease.
For sure you are right, with all those guns out there i am not that ok with the current situation let wait and see. We are still in the modernisation process
darknetcom: but its better to dont scrape the jaguars...
just try to maintain down on low cost..
you can never know when those socalled superpowers attack us in the future because we pissed them off they way they did with ghadaffi...
we will not have time to purchase whatever...
atleast we would have enough jets protecting our airspace..
loosing air supremacy today is a desaster for ground forces...
But still we need air supremacy but only within Nigeria territory. Jets are use for many other things, interception is one od the current requirment for the air force ... Because seriously an Air force need jets that can fight... Huge number of commercial planes fly accross within Nigeria. To defend Nigeria against terrorist act on/or using commercial planes we dont need something that will kill the defence budget JF-17 can do that job & i dont see the need for f-16 for that. Meanwill we are going to need something for foreign affairs, to do some "diplomacy" if required or protect our citizens, companies, ( Interest ) for that I see a ground attack jet (Su34 like that) since in Africa their are no air power, + some cargo C-130H can still do that job. but where we must focus now is on the Navy for sure we loose many billions due to piracy, so many weapons enter the country from there so if we dont want some Biafra II, or some Boko II, we must be ready over there. The only way we are going to go for real air supremacy will be if we remain on the side of sahara oriental ... And not maroc ( between the two we see a partner for agriculture they are rich in phosphat and must choose the good one to back our love for jollof can triger a war lol) at that moment we will have some problem because they are very well equip. I dont know the current position of Nigeria but GEJ & PMB all bavk sahara oriental cause. For me the next senario is if we want to continue what we started with Jammeh, at that moment we will hav many targets so we will need something to really scare dictators ( and I will be in support of it since those guys dont let our companies oparate and give everything to us, france etc... To mainten ther power). and in some country they are back by france like cameroun or gabon... All depends on our foreign policy, the only way to stay like this without air superiority is to be pacifist & accept everuthing western or easter countries will tell us, being pacifist means no Giant of Africa... But since we cant chill, history shows that, I think we should wait for 5 or 10 years before seing air superiority in our inventory. Whats for sure right now, we are going to have an interceptor, a baddes ground attack jet.
darknetcom: but its better to dont scrape the jaguars...
just try to maintain down on low cost..
you can never know when those socalled superpowers attack us in the future because we pissed them off they way they did with ghadaffi...
we will not have time to purchase whatever...
atleast we would have enough jets protecting our airspace..
loosing air supremacy today is a desaster for ground forces...
They will not attack us, the thing they can is a proxy war. Helping rebel group or secessionist group like in the past of the country or what is happening in Syria...
overhypedsteve: here lies our last attempt at building an expeditionary armed forces. look at them, imagine what they would have looked like in their better days. all 13 of them rusting away along with our hopes and dreams of seeing a greater Nigerian Airforce. to think we are now begging for Tucanos even after we have acquired these beauties in the past is to show you how corrupt and selfish some of our present civilian defense planners are. Rest in Peace Jaguar, you never had the chance to roar.
Is not the same thing every type of war, need the defferent types of weapons. I am not saying that against insurgent we dont need ground attack fighters the priority is to have first something like Tunaco then a ground attack fighter later
africaken254: so you want to tell me the countless of manned ISR platforms you claim you have were not available,when you bombed internally displaced people living in tents in the open(how can someone bomb a refugee camp with more than 1,000 people,killing more than 200 !?) i dont think boko haram shot that CH-3 down,that UCAV just loves gravity
Look Kenya is a bitch being bleeped in every single Hole by US. You have no dignity, your soldiers are actors for al shabab propaganda videos. NIGERIAN ARMED FORCES SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES, Killes thousand and thousand of muder Bleep, you guys are the GODS OF RETREAT, your top soldiers always being captured always crying they dont want to die ohhh some video almost make me cry, your armed forces cant even fight against Civilian Joint Task of Maiduguri. https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5DFaDg8KNhI
IbnSultaan: Nigeria Ag President signs Defence Space Administration Act which establishes the Defence Space Administration, to develop satellite technology and ensures security of the nation’s cyber activities.
Foreign Affairs › Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Nok234: 5:05am On Mar 09, 2017
