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Henry240:
No, MI-35p rockets.

This is what the man is talking about...
Why will NAF be using mop stick in such manner

Give me No. 5 any day any time!

Vulture UAV system. SA Army


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JZZbTtLAIc

Nigerian Air Force soldier with an LMG

It seems to be really light.

Ratel Enhanced Artillery Observation System. 30 metre mast.

Once upon a time. Denel 155mm ramjet concept to hit at 70 km+. Stole pics from djolivier.

NIGERIAN AIR FORCE RECORDS NEW FEATS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, BOOSTS AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE CAPABILITY

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has recorded new breakthroughs in its Research and Development (R&D) efforts, leading to further enhancement of its aircraft maintenance capability. This became apparent when the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, in company of the Chairman House Committee on Air Force, Honourable Samson Okwu, visited various NAF units in Makurdi on 23 June 2018. The R&D feats included the reactivation of the Communications Control Unit (CCU) of the trainer version of the F-7Ni fighter aircraft. The CCU, which enables instructor pilots and trainees to communicate with each other and the control tower while on training missions, had resulted in the grounding of the aircraft thereby hindering training of fighter pilots. Ordinarily, the CCU costs about two hundred thousand dollars (about 80 Million Naira) and would require a minimum of 10 months for delivery to the NAF. However, through the ingenuity and resourcefulness of NAF engineers and technicians at the recently established NAF Central Avionics Overhaul Calibration Centre (CAOCC), the faulty CCU was repaired locally in a record time of just one week. The Commander NAF CAOCC, Group Captain Osichinaka Ubadike, while briefing Honourable Okwu, the CAS and senior officers, stated that the Centre was able to repair 3 units of CCU at the cost of three hundred and fifty thousand naira.

A similar feat was recorded by the Engineering Wing of 101 Air Defence Group (ADG), where the old, unserviceable Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Rear Cockpit Head-Up-Display (HUD) of the F-7Ni aircraft was replaced with a modern Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) HUD at a cost of One Hundred Thousand Naira, as against about Two Hundred Thousand Dollars (about 80 Million Naira) that would have been required to procure the same unit from abroad. Group Captain Precious Amadi, Commander of 101 ADG, accompanied by one of his officers, subsequently conducted a test flight and performed some aerobatics with the FT-7Ni aircraft to demonstrate the efficacy of the repairs/modification on the two aircraft systems. At the 131 Engineering Group (Engr Gp), the Commander, Air Commodore Pius Oahimire, revealed that the Unit’s recently reactivated Machine Tools Workshop had helped to modify the Battery Cart for the F-7Ni fighter aircraft. Hitherto, the cart always broke down after about a year of use thus requiring significant lead time to replace the batteries from overseas vendors. However, the Unit was able to modify the cart by fabricating accessories that would enable the use of local and readily available batteries, thereby reducing cost and downtime. The 131 Engr Gp had also designed and constructed a Foreign Objects Debris (FOD) Picker that would help to clear all ferrous FODs from the apron for enhanced safety.

While in Makurdi, the Guest of Honour, Honourable Okwu, seized the opportunity to commission two recently completed projects. The first was a newly constructed and furnished block of 10 x single room flats for single officers, which was named after the immediate past Chief of Training and Operations (CTOPs) at NAF Headquarters, retired AVM Ahmed Iya, who was also present at the event. The second project was the newly constructed and equipped Cancer Screening Centre at 161 NAF Hospital. The Centre, which was named after a deceased former Director of Medical Services (DMS), late Air Commodore Emmanuel Nkanor, is equipped with modern diagnostic equipment and support infrastructure. In his remarks during the commissioning, Honourable Okwu stated that the two projects were testimonies of the sensitivity and responsiveness of the NAF’s leadership to the welfare needs of its personnel. He urged the benefitting officers of the SOQ to ensure they maintained the accommodation and charged them to rededicate themselves to accomplishing assigned tasks. He said he was excited that the services provided by the Cancer Screening Centre would not only impact positively on the health of NAF personnel but would also be accessed by the citizens of Benue State. He also expressed great satisfaction with the level of results achieved by the NAF in R&D.

Earlier, the CAS had commended the Air Officer Commanding Tactical Air Command (AOC TAC) and the various Commanders for the R&D feats, which he noted had further enhanced NAF’s aircraft maintenance capability. He stated that these were evidences that the Nation had the necessary capacity to provide innovative solutions to most of its challenges, if we all are, individually and collectively, committed and motivated. Air Marshal Abubakar further stated that his desire was to enhance professionalism by meeting the welfare needs of NAF personnel, being cognizant that the human being was the most critical element in any working system. He disclosed that Cancer Screening Centres were being established in NAF Hospitals across the country to provide effective and affordable avenues for early diagnosis, screening, treatment and palliative care to reduce the scourge of the disease. He stated that two more Centres would soon be established at the NAF Hospitals in Benin and Port Harcourt. The CAS restated his commitment to ensuring that Benue State, and the country at large, is liberated of all forms of criminality, which adversely affect our economic, social and cultural wellbeing.

In his welcome address, the AOC TAC, AVM Oladayo Amao, thanked the CAS for always attending to the needs of the Command and consistently taking action to address areas of infrastructural deficit in NAF Base Makurdi. The Air Commodore Nkanor Centre is the fourth of such Centres that had been established by the NAF in the past 3 years, the others being located at Abuja, Maiduguri and Bauchi.

OLATOKUNBO ADESANYA
Air Vice Marshal
Director of Public Relations and Information
Nigerian Air Force

Locally upgraded Nigerian Air Force F-7NI cockpit.

South Africa is pretty much self sufficient in the development of radar and electronic warfare systems, and exports many of these to Western nations. CSIR maintains constant research and design capabilities in this sphere.

Last pic is of CSIR Inundu pod fitted on a SAAF Hawk.

Nigeria continues to make considerable progress in defence technology. Over the years we have witnessed very considerable improvements across the Defence industry.

Today's news of installation of a locally made LCD with FLIR in one of our F-7NI aircraft is one of many commendable innovations.

I can with full authority claim that a possibility of a Nigerian made Light Utility Helicopter could soon be achieved.

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle by Institute of Maritime Technology, under the state owned Armscor. To be used for mine detection and surveying.

Copied......

The Rhino Rescue Project in South Africa uses GPS technology & Bell 407GT helicopters to combat Rhino poaching in Kruger National Park. Kenya is using drones to help stop elephant poaching at Kora National Park. Nigeria is still using Human beings on 4x4 Toyota Hilux to respond to herdsmen attacks.

Detection and then Reaction are the key to overhem your enemy. Air support are a morale booster, finding the enemy is the hardest part and having aerial power sure does help with that. It takes 3-5 hours to respond to Herdsmen attacks and in some instances a whole day due to the remoteness of the areas attacked. 1 Helicopter can effectively patrol 2 million hectares of farmland in 30 minutes.

Imagine having helicopters equipped with a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) night vision (NV) and FLIR/WESCAM thermal imaging and other advanced sensors that are capable of discerning and tracking personnel from extreme distance as well as analyzing and pinpointing possible hides and entrance, exit routes use.

Cheap helicopters like Aerospatiale Gazelle and Bell 407 can operate far beyond the visual range of these killers, they are camouflaged, fitted with low visibility, low-noise blades and equipped with reinforced under-carriages, designed to protect the crew from hostile action and most importantly, they can be fitted and armed with FN Minimi 5.56 mm light machine guns.

The carnage will probably continue until the realities on ground are rewritten to reflect the reality of modern war. Instead of reflecting on why the current strategies are not working, FFK, CAN and their associates have an opportunity to pour out the anti-Islamic venom on an issue that is purely criminal. Facebook online commentators will follow along the same path. If they are not abusing the ‘clueless’, ‘certificateless’, ‘boko haram sponsor’ etc. at the top they are attacking Islam for being a jihadist, blood-spilling religion.

On one hand we have the Miyetti Allah organization and their sympathizers who would always want us to equate human life with that of a cow and at the same time telling us how the Tivs, Agatu and Beroms are killing themselves disguised as Fulani herdsmen.

To move forward we have to be frank to ourselves, we have say the truth. Air supremacy and air superiority serves as a great deterrence. It is why am happy when NAF deployed EC-135 helicopter as part of efforts aimed at intensifying the fight against armed banditry in Zamfara and environs. I hope all flash points will soon have their own independent quick response unit.

Henry240:
Nigeria continues to make considerable progress in defence technology. Over the years we have witnessed very considerable improvements across the Defence industry.

Today's news of installation of a locally made LCD with FLIR in one of our F-7NI aircraft is one of many commendable innovations.

I can with full authority claim that a possibility of a Nigerian made Light Utility Helicopter could soon be achieved.

It is a disgrace that the F7NI was using CRT for HUDin the first place. This is why I always recommend buying western technology. This is why NAF would rather have a US or Eurozone platform over Russian or Chinese.

Also, sorry to burst ypur bubble but you need to be advised that Nigeria is far from a locally made LUH helicopter. Very far. We need at least ten years of work and the right technology management strategies to achieve it.

We need to shortlist about ten technological areas now and start prioritizing areas within those technologies that we will do local development and other areas we will do joint ventures and dome areas we will steal or copy technology.

Technology management is a field and there are suites of managemnent strategies involved that people study in university. It is not just wishing and going out to do. You set up a structure, you set up a policy and you do strategies and implement.
There is a need to set up a body to do all these things.

SternProphet:
It is a disgrace that the F7NI was using CRT for HUDin the first place. This is why I always recommend buying western technology. This is why NAF would rather have a US or Eurozone platform over Russian or Chinese.

Also, sorry to burst ypur bubble but you need to be advised that Nigeria is far from a locally made LUH helicopter. Very far. We need at least ten years of work and the right technology management strategies to achieve it.

We need to shortlist about ten technological areas now and start prioritizing areas within those technologies that we will do local development and other areas we will do joint ventures and dome areas we will steal or copy technology.

Technology management is a field and there are suites of managemnent strategies involved that people study in university. It is not just wishing and going out to do. You set up a structure, you set up a policy and you do strategies and implement.
There is a need to set up a body to do all these things.

That's the thing I don't understand about Henry. One minute he is talking perfect sense, the next he makes a shocker of a statement like that. 10 years minimum before Nigeria could ever design & produce one. Rotary wing is an order of magnitude more complicated than fixed wing aircraft.

ssaengine:
That's the thing I don't understand about Henry. One minute he is talking perfect sense, the next he makes a shocker of a statement like that. 10 years minimum before Nigeria could ever design & produce one. Rotary wing is an order of magnitude more complicated than fixed wing aircraft.

Hes not making it up from nowhere though. It clearly says here that a prototype helicopter is supposedly in the works.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/265388-buratai-says-army-to-produce-own-helicopter-soon.html

SternProphet:
Nigeria and S.Africa at the only smart countries in hardware procurement on Africa. Oh sorry , add Senegal and Cameroon to that list. Egypt, Algeria, Chad, Uganda, Sudan don't know anything about relevant, fit for purpose arms buying. They are merely keeping Russian and French OEMs employees in employment

una go just open una mouth dey talk rubbish

More than 100 people were killed in plateau state alone on Sunday, you're here talking rubbish about buying smart.

With all this una "smart buying" Togo,Benin,Ghana,Senegal etc are more peaceful than this hell hole called nigeria

fufubear:
Hes not making it up from nowhere though. It clearly says here that a prototype helicopter is supposedly in the works.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/265388-buratai-says-army-to-produce-own-helicopter-soon.html

At some point you just have to sit back, calm down and look at basic facts. There is no shame in calling out B.S, even if it comes from your own leaders.

“This is one issue –prototype helicopter that we are very much concerned about and we hope to have it on the ground very soon,’’ Mr. Buratai said.

Look at that statement, analyse it. Assuming you follow global military news, compare it to what you know about the defence industry. Go to sites likes Jane's Defence, look at how they report step by step on projects.

"Bell Helicopters wins contract to develop.....Bell begins design of....Bell to start test flights in October....Bell to begin manufacturing year end." Step by step by step, over a number of years that it takes to produce such a complicated system.

Now 2 months ago your Army chief says you'll have a helicopter on the ground very soon. Is it 10th generation stealth that no one knew about it? Do you recall many years ago on this forum when "Nigeria was designing & testing guided missiles/rockets".... what happened to them? There was lots of noise, 6 years later...nothing.

Unless I don't know what a LUH is, don't just swallow information without filtering it.

ssaengine:
At some point you just have to sit back, calm down and look at basic facts. There is no shame in calling out B.S, even if it comes from your own leaders.

“This is one issue –prototype helicopter that we are very much concerned about and we hope to have it on the ground very soon,’’ Mr. Buratai said.

Look at that statement, analyse it. Assuming you follow global military news, compare it to what you know about the defence industry. Go to sites likes Jane's Defence, look at how they report step by step on projects.

"Bell Helicopters wins contract to develop.....Bell begins design of....Bell to start test flights in October....Bell to begin manufacturing year end." Step by step by step, over a number of years that it takes to produce such a complicated system.

Now 2 months ago your Army chief says you'll have a helicopter on the ground very soon. Is it 10th generation stealth that no one knew about it? Do you recall many years ago on this forum when "Nigeria was designing & testing guided missiles/rockets".... what happened to them? There was lots of noise, 6 years later...nothing.

Unless I don't know what a LUH is, don't just swallow information without filtering it.

You're reading way too much into what I said.

Henry said that a LUH could be produced in the future.

You said it's not close.

If you dont believe what was said in the article that's on you. I simply posted a news article to prove that Henry isnt simply just pulling this out of nowhere. Since that was essentially your claim.

With that said it's very possible that a helicopter prototype could be produced within the year and no news being reported on its developmental process. If the company producing it mentions nothing about it to the press it goes unheard of until its unveiled. Not everything is super publicized.

For example the f117 nighthawk was unheard of for a very long time and I remember hearing nothing about the Tsaigumi until it was unveiled.

fufubear:
You're reading way too much into what I said.

Henry said that a LUH could be produced in the future.

You said it's not close.

If you dont believe what was said in the article that's on you. I simply posted a news article to prove that Henry isnt simply just pulling this out of nowhere. Since that was essentially your claim.

With that said it's very possible that a helicopter prototype could be produced within the year and no news being reported on its developmental process. If the company producing it mentions nothing about it to the press it goes unheard of until its unveiled. Not everything is super publicized.

For example the f117 nighthawk was unheard of for a very long time and I remember hearing nothing about the Tsaigumi until it was unveiled.

"could soon be achieved"....what is soon? If by soon he means the year 2030+, then I humbly apologise to him. He is "pulling it out" of the work being done by the NAF currently, and getting over excited. Under estimating what it actually entails.


And the rest of your reply....a project is either well documented or it's a black project. You know full well that Nigeria or anyone on the African continent won't be designing anything close to the level of secrecy required for the F117. It will be a well documented program, so that example is irrelevant.

But no worries, I'm pretty sure I'll still be browsing this thread year end. I'll eagerly await the news that soon to come.

fufubear:
You're reading way too much into what I said.

Henry said that a LUH could be produced in the future.

You said it's not close.

If you dont believe what was said in the article that's on you. I simply posted a news article to prove that Henry isnt simply just pulling this out of nowhere. Since that was essentially your claim.

With that said it's very possible that a helicopter prototype could be produced within the year and no news being reported on its developmental process. If the company producing it mentions nothing about it to the press it goes unheard of until its unveiled. Not everything is super publicized.

For example the f117 nighthawk was unheard of for a very long time and I remember hearing nothing about the Tsaigumi until it was unveiled.

Thank you.

Wrong thread mistook it for bidexiii thread

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Why will NAF be using mop stick in such manner [/quote]Lol

OFF TOPIC
A US Navy A-29 Super Tucano crashed in New Mexico killing a pilot.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/24/politics/us-navy-pilot-killed-holloman/index.html

ssaengine:
"could soon be achieved"....what is soon? If by soon he means the year 2030+, then I humbly apologise to him. He is "pulling it out" of the work being done by the NAF currently, and e.

As is usual, you were making a mountain out of a mole hill. Except if you have an ulterior motive, my comment is pretty easy to understand.

Same doubts were expressed when Nigeria first ventured into the production of land systems only a few years back. Yet here we are today with proven land systems and foreign exports to 3 African countries.

Since the internet never forgets, here is the comment made by @Patches689 in 2016 while quoting my post.


That's why i don't take that clown(Patches689) seriously.

Henry240:
Since the internet never forgets, here is the comment made by @Patches689 in 2016 while quoting my post.


That's why i don't take that clown(Patches689) seriously.

bidexiii:

LMFAO!

Henry240:
LMFAO!

I try not to take sides but the technology for producing A LUH has not changed in 50 years neither have the basic structural components, it is
not like all of a sudden NIGERIAN AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS forgot how to design stuff.
Not to burst anyone's bubble but this will not even be the first prototype of a HELICOPTER to be either assembled/ manufactured in NIGERIA
someone has already done it the early 2000s.
The difference is this was done by a Nigerian with limited formal education and no help from the FGN.
The COAS has hinted very strongly that this is doable so what is there to sneer about ?
To either asemble/ manufacture a helicopter from scratch should not take 5 - 10 years unless the people doing the R& D don't know what the @#$%%% they are doing, they are not reinventing the wheel.
The NAF is already collaborating with at least one N. American Manufacturer and 6 Nigerian Universities it should not take 5 years

Henry240:
Since the internet never forgets, here is the comment made by @Patches689 in 2016 while quoting my post.


That's why i don't take that clown(Patches689) seriously.

1. Still obsessed with me

2. Still obsessed with the old thread

SAD!

The way you act about your defence industry is really very sad. You made an MRAP, good for you. No, you arent going to make a helicopter. India only just barely was able to afford to do it.

Henry240:
As is usual, you were making a mountain out of a mole hill. Except if you have an ulterior motive, my comment is pretty easy to understand.

Same doubts were expressed when Nigeria first ventured into the production of land systems only a few years back. Yet here we are today with proven land systems and foreign exports to 3 African countries.

"building a helicopter is as easy as building an MRAP"

Ok

Henry240:
As is usual, you were making a mountain out of a mole hill. Except if you have an ulterior motive, my comment is pretty easy to understand.

Same doubts were expressed when Nigeria first ventured into the production of land systems only a few years back. Yet here we are today with proven land systems and foreign exports to 3 African countries.

The fact that you'll compare MRAP's to LUH speaks volumes. It is a completely different sphere of engineering & technical know-how.

Did we not have this same conversation with the guided missiles story. Where are they? The secret guided missiles on that island.....remember them? The ones where i said you will develop no such thing within 10+ years. Sounds familiar?

Unless a foreign manufacturer is going to setup an assembly plant in Nigeria, it will take many many years before one is designed & built in your country. Not "soon". That's a simple fact.