donem:

brothers in arms we are.

Wow espirit de corp nice to meet you,I once loved to join the army but when I did NMS exam at the Ikeja military cantonment sometime around 1994 and I passed the exams but God knows why I wasn't picked...I was so devastated

Light78:


Why are you people saying they were flying so low?

They were not. Missiles are locked on its target when fired into the air. That pic you saw was take off pic.

Which missles are you talking about..
Oga it was an rpg that shot it down and in reality it should have never happened

Raph82:
Something is fishy here, how can a fighter jet, (not a slow-moving helicopter) be shot down like that with ease? Isn't it that there are moles in the military who gave details about the coordinate of the flying jet? How did BH suddenly acquire anti-aircraft missiles with high visual sensors that can shoot down fighter jet flying with low altitude? There are more to this, I am beginning to suspect many things right now.

Have you heard about STINGER (MANPADS)? I really do not think the Nigerian operated Alpha Jets have sophisticated avionics.

just2endowed:


I was wondering how a missile could bring down a fighter jet. Is it that the fighter jet doesn't have defense mechanism to alert the pilot of incoming missiles? What kind of jet do we have in sky self

Why do you guys keep mentioning missle

OROSUNBOLB:
Interesting ! They are now capable of knocking off Nigeria military jets out of the sky !

Buhari is a very good and competent President and Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces. Boko Haram are just getting stronger under his administration. Well done sir !

They've been shooting down military jets since the days of GEJ and Yaradua. Why do you think PMB recently ordered for tucano jets? Infact when Buhari became president the airforce had no jet. The president had to give them some of the president's jets

marvin906:





You really are highly misinformed

Inform me...Sir.

DoubleBliss:
Which way Nigeria?

This way girl. :::»
Just follow the leader.

Foolishbuhari:


I'm the one losing patience with you mate but let us leave it at that. Have a nice evening

Oga he's correct..
In no scenario will an rpg hit a Jet even an anti aircraft gun is even difficult unless the pilot makes it easy

gaddafe:


They've been shooting down military jets since the days of GEJ and Yaradua. Why do you think PMB recently ordered for tucano jets? Infact when Buhari became president the airforce had no jet. The president had to give them some of the president's jets

Dude shut your mouth.
What type of stupid lie is this

nograv:
Mechanical failure nothing more..

Boko boys went to the crash site and claim they downed it...

Calm down everyone

Highly unlikely. The jet must have reported to the comm tower if they had engine issues.

It suddenly lost contact and these terrorists have video 'evidence' of when they actually downed the ill-fated jet. It's almost like they were actually prepared to shoot it down.

KnightsTemplar:

Inform me...Sir.

The military has alot of ucav in its inventory

OROSUNBOLB:


That guy's case is pathetic my brother. Me,I ignore him like he doesn't exist and does he,in actual sense ? No !

He doesn't

And u know what?

He pays the mods to shield him, if u counter him with facts, he would quote mention u, and report u to the moderators, next thing u'll see, they'd shield him. And we say Nigeria go better

According to Lai Moh'd, Boko Haram can only attack soft targets

I guess this is one of the soft target APC is talking about. Soft target, Soft target until they blow Lai's sagged balls into pieces.

APC=Terrorism

Buhari is a terrorist!!!

vioment:


Facts.

The incompetence is alarming.

incompetence breeds incompetence

World War 2 jets are better than those

OROSUNBOLB:
Interesting ! They are now capable of knocking off Nigeria military jets out of the sky !

Buhari is a very good and competent President and Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces. Boko Haram are just getting stronger under his administration. Well done sir !

If u have the right strategy and weapons getting rid of bokoharam is very easy bt we are doing trial and error. I mean u even have idea of where they are it’s not mountains bt bushes And trees.

C’mon

Eriokanmi:
How they managed to move into the country all these sophisticated weapons is still baffling. I pray Hausa fulani don't destroy this country las las. They're the terrorist, bandits, killer herders , militiamen, jihadists, armed militia, just name it. And some stupid fools say we shouldn't leave this union. On oduduwa we stand.

This type of comment make me feel most Nigerians do not know the hell that goes in Nigeria. Bro there is no n=border between Niger, Chad and Nigeria. Nigerian border in the north is as porous as sandy soil. You simply drive Republic of Niger in and out of Nigeria through the border in the north. I had wished the southern borders are as open as the northern borders. Nigeria operates two countries, one for the northerners and another for the southerners.

joey150:


Highly unlikely. The jet must have reported to the comm tower if they had engine issues.

It suddenly lost contact and these terrorists have video 'evidence' of when they actually downed the ill-fated jet. It's almost like they were actually prepared to shoot it down.

Mechanical failure in a complex machine like a jet can occur very suddenly that the pilot has little time to react. The idea of effective real time communication in Nigeria is laughable.

Please read my post that mentions the downing of a Jordanian jet over Syria. The exact same scenario played out.

Look I was educated in England and wanted to be a Tornado pilot. I studied heavily, but failed on account of bad eyesight and a poor spot test performance.

The likelihood of the jet having been downed by Boko Haram is virtually zero..

Northerners have finished us

Any mistake the country divide


Mexico wall go learn work for the can one we go build to barricade those barbarians

nograv:


They were merely filming it and attempting to shoot it down, which unless they had surface to air missiles would have been unsuccessful. As they were filming the plane suffered mechanical failure.

The Taliban who managed to oust advanced soviet forces mainly managed to shot down hind helicopters and not jets. They were armed with shoulder fired surface to air missiles supplied by the CIA.

Al-shabab managed to knock out helicopters but never jet fighters with the use of RPGs.

As a kid I loved military technology so I am well versed in military history.

This sort of propaganda has form. Muath Safi Yousef al-Kasasbeh a Jordanian pilot whose plane crashed over the then islamic state was claimed by Isis. Again they had footage, but analysis showed the plane suffered mechanical failure.

The only successful downing of a advanced jet by a native insurgent army was in the former Yugoslavia, where an advanced F117A stealth jet was shot down. But in this case again, a soviet era SAM battery (Surface to Air missile array) was involved.

Lets be clear, there have been no recorded cases of a jet being downed by merely machine gun fire or RPGs in the modern era.

As a fellow Nigerian, we both know our people dont have a strong maintenance culture, which makes mechanical failure even more plausible..

So, let me get something straight, Bokoharam films every jet that flies over them for entertainment?

Then this jet that 'suddenly' lost Comms with the tower happened to go down without a single mayday call just as Bokoharam were shooting a season film in the forest?

fergie001:
NAF lost radar contact with an Alpha Jet conducting a routine mission on Wednesday evening in the Sambisa forest area of Northeast Nigeria. This is what happened to the jet...

A ball of explosion covers a Nigerian Air Force Alpha Jet. Screenshot from a propaganda video released April 2021



Alpha Jet spiralling to the ground.




Insurgents removing aircraft component


A Boko Haram fighter armed with a machine gun stands on the aircraft debris.


What appears to be a 105mm artillery system.


Fighter with an RPG-backed Boko Haram gun truck.


NAF Alpha jet armed with rocket pod


Humangle_

I am sure this idiots in the government will try and twist the narrative to the fighter jet developing engine troubles and exploding on its own, even in the face of contradicting evidence.

just2endowed:


I was wondering how a missile could bring down a fighter jet. Is it that the fighter jet doesn't have defense mechanism to alert the pilot of incoming missiles? What kind of jet do we have in sky self

It travels at 117 m/s. The jet must had developed a mechanical fault that made the RPG to get to it.

Light78:


It travels at 117 m/s. The jet must had developed a mechanical fault that made the RPG to get to it.

mechanical my ass it was downed

nograv:


Mechanical failure in a complex machine like a jet can occur very suddenly that the pilot has little time to react. The idea of effective real time communication in Nigeria is laughable.

Please read my post that mentions the downing of a Jordanian jet over Syria. The exact same scenario played out.

Look I was educated in England and wanted to be a Tornado pilot. I studied heavily, but failed on account of bad eyesight and a poor spot test performance.

The likelihood of the jet having been downed by Boko Haram is virtually zero..

Both scenarios are very probable.

But in light of the currently available evidence and facts now, it's much easier to believe that BH shot that plane down than it suffered a mechanical failure.
Real time communication? Aren't jets in constant communication with their base? Do they just hover blind?

I can't even figure out how a large economy like us don't get latest weapons

To me every northerner is a suspect
They all support terrorists

Supan:
Planned script by the fulani jihadist... How can an ordinary RPG shoot down a fast flying jet fighter, when it is not guided with signal or heat seeking device? Was it flying two feet above the ground to be gunned down easily when it isn't helicopter?

.

Even a drone will be shot down by an rpg if fired at the right angle

winterfell007:
Well it's obvious. The Nigerian Army is incapable of defeating a small ragtag insurgents. We have lost the war against insurgency. That means if we're at war with another standing army, we'll be wiped out to oblivion.
Shame to the Nigerian Army and government as a whole

fighting an enemy without borders is different.

justtoodark:
this is the issue with you nigerians....
you always underestimate everything till it gets too unbearable,then you start pointin fingers at each other....!!

extremly docile people....

Bro not only docile but ignorant.

Supan:
Planned script by the fulani jihadist... How can an ordinary RPG shoot down a fast flying jet fighter, when it is not guided with signal or heat seeking device? Was it flying two feet above the ground to be gunned down easily when it isn't helicopter?

I believe their flight path and height was leaked to BH by their brothers in the army, so they could position well to shoot it down.

They keep sending southerners in their compromised army to their early grave. keeping the south weakened militarily.

Well, if any southerner thinks serving together with BH sympathizers in a compromised army like Nigeria's is Patriotism and not foolishness, RiP in advance to him.

Buhari will never allow Boko Haram to be defeated.

Boko Haram is Buhari and also Fulani herdsmen.

Argue with next level change.

The educated Yorubas won't agree with you but me o am on your side

Foolishbuhari:


I'm the one losing patience with you mate but let us leave it at that. Have a nice evening

What facts have you provided beyond believing propaganda footage? Thats right none.

Have I provided examples from multiple military aircraft scenarios, yes.

Thats why I said at this point I have little interest in arguing with a man who displays little knowledge of jets or the type of technology required to down them.

Even the Me262 arguably one of the first military jets (aside from the British Gloster Meteor) was so fast, the only way to destroy it during WW2 (over 70 years ago) was when it was on the ground or either taking off or landing..

So the idea of a modern jet which is even faster and more advanced being downed by small arms fire is even more ridiculous to be honest.

Nurudeen06:


Even a drone will be shot down by an rpg if fired at the right angle

you dey mind am, those guys have weapons we don't have