₦airaland Forum

LTGEN:
The CNS should also be considered for the post of the CDS
under his tenure NIGERIA is posting 1.9MBPD + Condensate =2 MBPD of production
there have been some piracy issues and kidnappings but it does not take away from his notable achievements which will also include
* SECOND INDIGENOUS Ship BUILT
* Multiple Epenal

Last year i heard from someone who spoke with a captain ( commercial ) that Nigerian waters are relatively safe but when a ship passes into neighbouring waters that's when pirates strike.

Covert1:
And did you see where I mentioned "acting our size"!. How much deposit of crude oil did Yoweri Kaguta Museveni find before he started buying Su-30 jets. Serious countries or sorry serious leaders don't joke with their national sovereignty, people and natural resources. If you took the pains to tell us the high value resources in the Chad basin couldn't you also imagine that without commensurate defence spending in training of men and purchase of equipment hostile forces may seek to mine it for revenues. This has been the way of the world from time immemorial -- men fight wars for land and resources even water. Today they fight it in more sophisticated ways. Do you think ISWAP is fighting only for religious gains. No one goes to war for nothing or start a revolution in a non-viable economic space. In formulating defence policies geo-strategic countries commonly adopt a policy of deterrence by arming adequately, funding R & D and churning out highly trained forces that makes any would be aggressor or proxy think twice of upsetting the status quo. Why won't minion countries or BHT challenge the state. They know you have the resources but not the muscle in terms of modern armaments to stop them. Right now what Nigeria is doing is a joke for country its size. BHTs resurgence clearly shows it is again an existential threat to the fatherland and by now we shouldn't be talking of 1 billion dollars but a minimum start-up of 5 billion dollars a year to have a modern military. Could you imagine France is faced with this threat and they would be spending peanuts to prosecute it. Right now we are to a large degree an anaemic fighting force tasked to fight a modern war. Look at us running around in soft skinned technicals.

BHT knows how many planes you have and types and what times they are up in the air therefore exploiting existing gaps. You think it's strange they effectively overrun bases. We should have right now a 24 hour RECCE overflight covering every square inch of the north-east, Chad, Niger & Cameroon and calling in airstrikes. ISWAP couldn't even lift a finger when you do that. Alas! We can't. And without exporting this war to Chad up into southern Libya we should stop talking of ending this war. If Nigeria is truly the giant it claims it is it should be able and rightly so to pacify Libya the conduit and source of all our woes today. Take the fight to the enemy which is the best form of defence. And the core benefit of franchising this war is that Nigerian citizens cease being the casualties of this war which is the first and major responsibility of any power.

The enemy also has a say you know.The moment we "take the fight" to Libya the hidden nails planted in the NW will show themselves .What we can try for are cross border raids to destroy their camps and 1. we don't have enough helicopters 2. the French have obstructed nearly every effort by NAF to strike bh camps in Chad.I agree we dont act our size,always trying to match our neighbours instead of peers like SA and Algeria.

Henry240:
60-meters OSV 190 hydrographic vessel (based on the two-vessel same design for the Indonesian Navy) to be delivered by the end of 2019 for the Nigerian navy.

The NN are quitely doing things right,one benefit of having short to long term plans.To cement his legacy the current CAS should do same so that future air chiefs would know what to do.

Covert1:
...this might seem far-fetched but following on that though might seem unfair (the world ain't a fair place anyways) as I've insinuated before the war should be expanded by exporting it elsewhere. Commanders and the intelligence community in Nigeria should devise means and strategies and take steps to export this war elsewhere. That is what big nations do as wars of this nature hardly go away easily. Except for Niger and to some extent lately Cameroon, Chad has not been helpful enough. It's time to call it quits on the big brother mantra and do the needful to protect the national integrity. We know BHT sees Maiduguri as its spiritual home and right now is dictating the nature of combat on sovereign turf but except we franchise this war and have them lose momentum we will be in a forever war whoever is in power in Abuja. It is time to start acting our size first with military spending that is at the moment a joke for the kind of threats we face.

Exporting elsewhere? won't work,just ask yourself why they (malians,nigeriens,camerounians & Chadians) are trooping into Borno to fight.What is in it for them ( fighters and their foriegn sponsors ),why should they leave Nigeria alone? .Note that Borno has both Uranium and Crude Oil (lake Chad Area) and it's one of the most important markets to the Central African region.

komekn:
We could eat our shame and pride and call the Chadeans to help clear our mess.

Chad - The hand of Jacob and the voice of Esau.

Happy New Year!

Litmus:
Are you the teary sort?

No i am not,but hearing stories of women being raped almost daily and bearing the children of bandits just because they are tired of running .Yari needs to be impeached,the CP sacked/retired its a disgrace.

While you all are focused on Baga don't forget Zamfara,the stories from that state almost made me cry.

Merry Christmas!

abiodunalasa:
Those vehicles were being fired with 7.62 ak rounds

What if Armed robbers or would be assailants brings 12mm or go full evil by bringing AA guns...?

Just wondering sha!

How many APC's manufactured today can resist .50 caliber MG rounds.For that level of protection your best bet will be IFV's.

bidex111:
More

Next step is to procure better APC's for them and light MRAP's for use in the N.E. .

Fidha254:
I like how each episode starts with a narration from the actual vet who was there in WW2 to remind you that sh!t is being acted just like it happened (with a bit of dramatisation of course). And at the end of each episode they tell you the death count by then...

There is one part that goes like,
S1: "you know why you couldn't shoot, you know what's your problem? "
S2: " I was scared.. I'm a coward"
S1: " No, You couldn't shoot cause you still have hope, that you'll get out this alive, you need to accept that your already dead to be able to do what a solder is supposed to do..be ruthless, no mercy..."

When NCO bligthe finally gets courage to shoot some Germans , he volunteers to lead a scout to check out an abandoned house and gets shot in the kneck and never survives... And to imagine these events happened for real! The Americans were dying by the hundreds the Brits were dying by the thousands and they were no where close to invading Germany ..

On Bligh, his family came out to say he survived. He lived to be an old man, you can google it to crosscheck.

Fidha254:
I can't believe I had never watched Band of Brothers (TV series) once you get past episode 1, man that sh!it is smoking!!
I never liked world war movies but this thing is got me hooked!

The training arc is pretty interesting.

bidex111:
I doubt if the newly formed NA 8th DIV are part of operation Lafiya Dole. For the 3rd DIV (armored div) has been very much involved till date in operation Lafiya Dole.

The 8th were supposed to be operating along the lake chad axis. Thanks.

Odunayaw:
They both contribute to the campaign

Ok, thanks.

bidex111:
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Are the 8th and 3rd division still part of operation lafiya dole.

bidex111:
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Are the 8th and 3rd division still part of operation lafiya dole

This same Army routed BH in days/months of urban warfare from the NW to the NE. Not long ago we celebrated clearing sambisa forest of BH. It seemed peace was finally coming, what went wrong ?This same Army routed BH in days/months of urban warfare from the NW to the NE. Not long ago we celebrated clearing sambisa forest of BH. It seemed peace was finally coming, what went wrong ?This same Army routed BH in days/months of urban warfare from the NW to the NE. Not long ago we celebrated clearing sambisa forest of BH. It seemed peace was finally coming, what went wrong ?

Funding - Only 27 APC's procured in the past 3 years, a battalion of 800 men requires about 80 APC's. TTP - A simple Listening Post would have forewarned the base about the BH attack. Designate one of the Vickers MBT together with 2 guntrucks and 40 soldiers to act as a mobile reserve to repel any surprise attack. Bunkers crewed with HMG's for infantry to fall back on if the base is overrun. I am not an expert so pardon any mistake in my writeup.

Many on here are rightly blaming the FG for underfunding and under-equiping the NA. At the same time lets tell ourselves the truth this Govt. wont change thier policy towards the Army in the next one month.How many soldiers wont live to see the new year because of the FG. To those at the front improvise adapt you have families waiting for you back home.

bidex111:
Honestly the first person I'll blame for the looses for the past few months is Mr president. Being a former military man he should know better.

The army been the major punching force is not well funded and secondly if the army HQ are not doing there job well why not remove them and replace them.

Insanity is doing the same thing the way youve doing things and expecting a positive result.

The suggestions i wrote above can be done without spending much. Lives are being lost,we can't wait for the FG anymore.Measures have to be put in place to prevent this disaster from happening anymore.

1. The NA should set up a committee to investigate the consistent loss of FOB's to BHT. At the end of the investigation, preferably 3 months, procedures/suggestions for base defence should be drawn up with adequate input from CO's of unit's that have successfully repelled BH attacks on their bases. 2. A training team comprised of crack SF troop's/experienced infantry should be set up to train the various units deployed on the 'basics' of base defence. 3. The NAF should detail 2 of the L-39ZA and 1 DA42 Diamond sensing ISR aircraft to Maiduguri to form a Close Air Support force ( CASFOR 1 ) to better respond to emergencies like metele.

Odunayaw:
As at 2016 SBS used MGLs and even dogs, I don't know why it has reduced. They've gone more surgical maybe
Just look at the terrain in that picture, Nigeria get landscape o

Lemme annoy our Army boys here with a funfact

In 2014/2015 No GOC/High ranking NA officer went anywhere without requesting the SBS for special protection detail

And the Navy obliged them.

Henry240:
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Seems the F-7 has been withdrawn from ground attack duties.

Henry240:
Very beautiful i tell you. I can't wait to see our Special Forces and Base protection units rolling in them.

In 2018 the Army ordered 60 IPVs, i just hope we build a minimum 100 units of these.

I hope i get much more better photos.

Do you know the manufacturer ? .I think i have seen a CGI of a proposed proforce Fast Attack Vehicle called VIPER on the net.

Henry240:
Poor quality screenshot.

However it shows a side view and the central 360 degrees weapon station mount on the Wolf special forces vehicle.

What a nice vehicle,should be easily carried by our C-130's.

We have to admit to ourselves that to defeat BHT,we need to spend heavily.There is just no way we are escaping that. 30 APC's for each of the roughly 50 battalions at $100,000 per APC will cost us about $150 million; before we talk of MRAP's,IFV's,HESCO/JESCO,Trucks etc..

bidexiii:
These riffle are not upgraded ; I mean the wooden part been replaced by polymer parts but one can boldly tell they are of AK variants/derivatives.
They are new stalks in the NAF inventories, have just seen pictures of them been delivered to the NAF.

Don't asked for pictures, am not privileged to post them.

They are not satisfied with their Tavor rifles.

bidexiii:
These riffle are not upgraded ; I mean the wooden part been replaced by polymer parts but one can boldly tell they are of AK variants/derivatives.
They are new stalks in the NAF inventories, have just seen pictures of them been delivered to the NAF.

Don't asked for pictures, am not privileged to post them.

They are not satisfied with the Tavor rifles.

Henry240:
Nigerian police officers in Mali

These guy's are a class above the normal policemen deployed back home with few exceptions.If only we can use the UN training site to retrain most of our policemen.

Stephandeswardt:
I dont see the basis for these training , seems the radar systems were not used during the training

There are rumours the NAF want to purchase upgraded Shilka's from Ukraine.

Convince my fellow passengers to subdue one pilot,and then beg the other one to please fly the plane.