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Nigeria Acquires 12 Pre-Owned Alpha Jets From France

By Toyibat AjoseDecember 6, 2024

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Nigeria purchased 12 pre-owned Alpha Jets from the French Air Force.

Olusegun Dada, Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Social Media, said that the jets were purchased through SOFEMA, a French military and aeronautics corporation.

“All 12 aircraft are ready for shipping,” Dada wrote on X Thursday.

“As of 2023, the Nigerian Air Force has 11 Alpha Jets in service.”

The Alpha Jet, created through a collaboration between France and Germany, is a multipurpose military aircraft intended primarily as a light attack jet and advanced trainer. The aircraft may carry a variety of weaponry, such as bombs, rockets, and missiles. It is also outfitted with a gun pod for close air support operations.

Dada further stated that the Nigerian Air Force is expecting the delivery of 24 M-346FA light attack aircraft, which were ordered by the previous administration of former President Muhammad Buhari. These planes are slated to arrive in early next year.

Hasan Abubakar, Chief of Air Staff (COAS), noted that with President Tinubu’s assistance, the Nigerian Air Force has witnessed major advances, including the renewal of its aircraft fleet and increased operational preparedness.

The announcement of the French aircraft procurement comes shortly after President Tinubu’s three-day state visit to France, which lasted from November 27 to November 30, with the president departing on December 1. The visit occurred at President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation.

Meanwhile, in October, Abubakar stated that Nigeria was anticipating 24 Leonardo M-346FA aircraft from Italy, with six already in production. The first batch of three aircraft is slated to arrive in early 2025, with the final delivery scheduled for 2026.

Abubakar emphasised the importance of establishing a repair facility in Nigeria to assure the aircraft’s long-term availability.

President Tinubu has consistently promised his support for the military services’ efforts to confront instability.

Source: https://newscentral.africa/nigeria-acquires-12-pre-owned-alpha-jets-from-france

Good, good, good.

We need "12 pre-owned Alpha Jets from the French Air Force" to fight hunger and tribalism and boko haram and bandits and corrupt politicians and Lagos traffic and NEPA.

God bless Nigeria.

Like North Korea like Nigeria... buying weapons of war while masses are hungry, starving and at the mercy of state sponsored terrorists who destroy farmlands and kill farmers. One already knows for which these weapons were bought. They'll eventually fail though and the evil contraption disintegrated.

Alpha Jets are good jets that can be easily localy upgraded....

good idea....
naf was capable to adjust them very fast to fight boko haram back then with the help of innoson....

Good one

guys....the next big move is drone swarms now....china has already started testin it....many cheap drones to destroy expensive maschines....
better dont fall behind in drones technology either....

Tinubu's state visit to France was very beneficial to Nigeria, not like Buhari that toured the whole world with nothing to show for it.

Softmirror:
Good, good, good.

Good for accidental bombing the remnants of southern Kaduna villages and their neighbouring Katsina villages by the clueless air force under empty Tinupoo??


APC is a curse to Nigeria

Cindypresh:
Good for accidental bombing the remnants of southern Kaduna villages and their neighbouring Katsina villages by the clueless air force under empty Tinupoo??


APC is a curse to Nigeria

go ask amelika how many mistakes they did with bombins globaly....

you can google this subject....

darkwan:
go ask amelika how many mistakes they did with bombins globaly....

you can google this subject....

Those guys dont dwell on facts,bro

That assignment wey you give her na like Space Physics to them...E too hard for them

We need it to bomb terrorists

darkwan:
go ask amelika how many mistakes they did with bombins globaly....

you can google this subject....

Aaaaaaaaaaw, so they should keep bombing southern Kaduna villages and many more b4 we can eventually get there??

Wow.

Cindypresh:
Aaaaaaaaaaw, so they should keep bombing southern Kaduna villages and many more b4 we can eventually get there??

Wow.

what do you want me to say....??

stop fightin back completly....??
if you ask me i would have evacuated the whole north and fight this people fire for fire....

but fightin when civilians are around is very difficult and dangerous....

Another jet to bomb Christian areas in the North.. Islamization continues.

Eliminating Christian communities in the North is their goal.


Jets to be used for genocide.

Good move. Bomb anything!

They keep acquiring military aircrafts with little or no effective operation rather than bombing its citizens with it . Tomorrow, we're coming to read about how some villagers in the north have been bombarded by mistake ...

Finish work

DaddyJapan:
Source: https://newscentral.africa/nigeria-acquires-12-pre-owned-alpha-jets-from-france

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this sudden romance between Nigeria and France

Ipob and other cannibalize go hear am soon 😂

powerkey:
Another jet to bomb Christian areas in the North.. Islamization continues.

Eliminating Christian communities in the North is their goal.


Jets to be used for genocide.

Cindypresh:
Good for accidental bombing the remnants of southern Kaduna villages and their neighbouring Katsina villages by the clueless air force under empty Tinupoo??


APC is a curse to Nigeria

Must you guys wail about everything??
Most of the civilian bombardment took place in Muslim dominated northern regions no bombing in southern Kaduna that you claimed

hope not for collateral damages?

YeyeGbami:
Good move. Bomb anything!

here we go. dem go soon drop one payload for on top your roof (all in the name of 'bomb anything') calling it collateral damage.

allthingsgood:
You have problem for every solution. Welldone

why are you like this? how can I have problem for every solution? we had not one, two or three cases of innocent people bearing the brunts of insurgency.

all I'm saying is they should be clinical, if not surgical in their operation with these flying beasts. you don't go into a densely populated are using aerial bombing, rather you use covert ground assault.

Go and verify 12 jets we’re actually purchased because owing to the antecedent of this government. Take anything they tell you with a pinch of salt

Nigeria the only country in this world that buys weapon to bomb her citizens not for external enemies.

Hmmm. Tinubu.
I pray it all work well

Okay nah, make e no be like say Tinubu no give his boy Macron something

Tokunbo jets.

Ok

Preowned = Okrika

TINUBU is just going about BEGGING what a SHAME he is bringing upon the country.