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Ronaldo does not do philosophy at the goal mouth like Martial or Rashford. Just score

MAN1960:
Please guys any info on this aircraft, I have search the entire Nigerian air force but active and none active helicopters through the help of Google but still can't find anything on this aircraft

Apparently we once owned Chinooks but they were not actually inducted

MAN1960:
I think this Is the reason why the Nigerian navy has gone for two different submarine training, the most recent training was in turkey.
OMG I think you are correct

There are many mini but safe submarine designs that are now available.
Small submarines would be affordable and make the Gulf of Guinea very dangerous to an adversary. They would be very silent and can pop up to firing positions quickly and then hide.

Xbee007:
The FV-103 Scorpions were really great! The speed on them too is unbelievable.

Good British engineering. Speedy but quiet.

EricBraven:
This current VAT issue how will it affect our procurement procedures and security architecture as a whole?

Nope

This is the most sensible anthropological explanation for what most of us have been observing about Nigerian ethnic nationalities for decades.
Unfortunately, the idiots, the psychologically inferior and half literate ethnic nationalists contine to invent stories to create division. Apart from Fulanis, Ogonis and some Borno/Adamawa people, Nigerian tribes share common ancestory

Saltybear:
China should stop making noise after all they flew their planes into Taiwanese airspace recently, so now their mate has done the same thing they should not complain.

Anyways I believe they just want to test sleepy Joe's resolve to see if indeed he is a coward...

China won't have tried half of these things when Trump was the POTUS

China started its belligerence with Trump in power. All these amateurish over personalizations are not the stuff of discourse in international relations. Trump admirers are notoriously afflicted with soap opera, hero worship and when you look deeper, serious intellectual gaps appear.

Nemesis4you:
Simple answer incomplete combustion due to maybe shortcomings in the engine combustion section

I have no idea about engines so best take my answer with a pinch of salt

Also dont think all russian engines r smokey , few dont but many do

Either of 1.Combustor design, 2. bad quality fuel, 3. fuel Injector quality
No.1 is my chief suspect

Tobiloba24072:
What school did you attend?

İ could tell you and the year but alas, I am sure you were not born yet then.... talking drag force in the design of a bush motorbike.

Xbee007:
See one of the bikes before the contraption was added. It was perfect and great for recce.

How do you recce in the Savannah with 7ft high shrubs without some elevation?. Everyone discussing these as if field requirements did not dictate this retrofit. It is annoying the idea that a few army welders would just join up steel bars together without engaging anyone

mekussa:
So, in your book, the center of gravity is just about weight (and if for some weird reason it is, the ballistic protection weighs as much as a full grown man)?
Well, if high speed isnt a consideration for bikes in a combat zone for you, I concede to your high intellect.

No be engineering class be this sha.
I drop my pen.

İ am a mech eng. Pls don't tell me about c.g.

mekussa:
Physics101 the ballistic protection in front will sooo produce drag on the motorcycle that it will be impossible to go at full throttle.

The elevated shooters seat will change the bikes center of gravity and there's obviously no measures to counter this.

Let's look at a scenario where the bike has to high tail from a dangerous situation. How do you think it will handle at turns with this changed center of gravity.

The intention is good oooo but..... The product is lacking.

Elevated shooters don't change c. g because the bike is also weighted at the lower front by the ballistic protection of the rider.

This other stuff about drag is irrelevant. The speeds we are talking about are too low for drag to be a design consideration. Drag is not a design consideration for tricycles for instance.

ocelot2006:
Why do I have this feeling that the Czechs are trying to push the L-159 Alca on us?

We already bought M346FA. They will push a few pieces of L-39NG. This company is a small company that Nigeria should invest in.

JOSCOFELIX:
Some procurement was approve in today security meeting with the president. 2*2+2*2 if you know you know

Pls tell us. We don't know. Is it new aircraft, new choppers or Army equipment?

Lurker4Long:
How is this contraption supposed to work? I'm not an engineer, but my high school physics tells me this won't work.
Effort has to be acknowledged, I guess.
As someone said on the other thread, best to stick with the proven in the last photo.

Won't work how?. You need to know the use case first. The motorcycles are not fighting platforms. They are silent engine 2-wheelers for recce and assault. Using them in the field might involve frequent stops for observation with field glasses or NV scopes.
They are ideally for minimizing effect of ambushes and IEDs on the platoon.

I don't think the men shoot in the mounted position on the bikes

jl115:
Armed A109s of NAF and SAAF

Thank you Leonardo

bidexiii:

Agree. You should do some analysis using mathematics of potential paths of incoming bullets before determining where to attach armoring plates.

NTSA:
What helicopters was Nigeria set to acquire.?

AH1F or AH1W.
They would have taken choppers from preservation, carried out age life extensions and upgrades and equipped them with modern avionics and precision weapons

There are too many badly educated and un intelligent people starting threads on Nairaland.

Dunce thread. China is not taking over parts of Montenegro. The original article itself was written by an ignoramus and the thread creator is not different. They don't take over sovereign countries over debt especially one in the heart of Europe for a $1b loan default that the EU could easily cover.

If you want to be posting threads to reinforce your narrow world view, at least do research.

Salatavor:
Imagine the very small strike squad that was equipped and managed by a South African war lord. How much impact they made back during GEJ. Now compare that to the whole frigging south African military. Bunch of evolution favored bad asses whose balls where never meant to be left dangling cus of the sheer weight of it.

I am not here to glorify another man's military I am here to say that we are not there yet. We have a lot to learn from the Southies. It is not a bad thing to accept that the Southies and the Algerians even the Ethiopians are a military power houses in Africa. While Nigeria struggles with managing small poorly equipped militias within its territory.


While Nigeria is buying Tucanos to chase around terrorist in a noisy and antiquated ww2 manner. Giving them more rooms to practice their plane downing skills. Algeria on the other hand is placing orders for 5th generation jet fighters that will defend its territory...

What nonsense?. What did Barlow achieve?. How many super Tucanoes have been downed since the aircraft was developed?.
Algeria's 5th Gen aircraft are not for terrorists. Only a dunce (and you may be one) chases insurgents with $10,000 per hour 5th Gen aircraft.

shadowprimezero:
I largely agree with this assessment. It is what it is. For all the nay sayers, how many missile armed vessels does the NN have. The NN has very limited Blue water capabilities. Its strategic growth plans and recapitalisation efforts would see it into a very formidable force in a few years, but in its current state, if we're being honest,its a glorified coast guard.

On the NAF, our Tucanos are strike aircraft and the deal didn't include any A2A missiles. The JF-17s are another case entirely. They can go toe to toe with any Gripen, but unfortunately we only have them in little numbers. With the M-346FA deal however, Nigeria will have a pretty good air deterrent. Their A2A weapons suite are the same as the Eurofighter Typhoon. We'll also have them in decent numbers

The JF 17 would be a strong deterrent against any hostile ship on Nigerian waters.
One of the things it was bought for was Gulf of Guinea threats.
Besides, the absence of mounted missiles on NN big ships is not an absence of capability. You need to show respect for Nigeria's frequently obtuse defense policy and its possible hiding of key elements of its orbat.

googlepikins:
99% of the fuel they use over there is from Nigeria.

Dangote refinery will really reduce pains across ECOWAS country.

I'm begging Dangote not to be in business with that evil curse call NNPC

Dangote's business is different. Refineries are a different industry from retail refined products selling.
NNPC downstream should establish petrol stations inside Benin Republic and keep them supplied always, that is the way to stop smuggling and also make lots of money for Nigeria.

Whyem15:
In the interview of the former group captain of the Nigerian airforce, he mentioned something about having eyes in the sky at all times, something like observation balloons that will enhance the effectiveness of other ISR platforms. The airforce first needs to know where they are right now and then continue to monitor their movement until it a suitable time to destroy them. The few ISR platforms we have can't stay in the air for so long.

He was talking about an old pet project that did not fly

Whyem15:
Abeg dey take pictures now

The IFV we were talking about earlier could have been a family of the ZBL-09 modular armoured wheeled vehicles on which many weapons were based on. It has an IFV/APC variant. And with this info JOSCOFELIX is giving right now, it could just be another shipment of the initial order of the VT-4s and ST-1 etc from Norinco.

Your 'IFV' could actually be the VN1 8x8 made by NORINCO.

This is a lie. Bandits and ISWAP are getting 90% of military fire power

shadowprimezero:
The FLIR ISR pod, or in this case the Elecro-optical targeting system EOTS, guides the GBU Paveways and APKWS to target using a laser designator to "paint" the target. In this configuration, having a FLIR pod in no way affects its mission statement as a strike aircraft nor does it hinder it from carrying munition but rather, increases its efficiency. Conducting ISR and strike missions is not mutually exclusive.

Additionally on the Tucano, the FLIR pod has its own dedicated hardpoint away from the weapons pylons.

All correct except that weight limitations and sizing/range/power of sensors for pure ISR make missions mutually exclusive.

If I put the same power of sensors / equipment used in a Beech craft ISR plane on the Super Tucano there may be just room for two rockets.

I believe the ISR dedicated super Tucanoes are carryng better than standard surveillance equipment used in all Super Tucanoes.

cutievik:
With the secrecy around this Tucanos, no pictures of our armaments I hope we weren't cheated from our good deal.
The CAS is goddam too secretive.

There were pictures of rockets, bombs and APKWS being offloaded recently.
Note that there is still money in the project budget. I don't think the entire $500m has been all spent. Training is ongoing, even some early PDMs may still be done from it

JackWolfskin:
Designators and rangefinders without munitions??
The crux of the matter is ISR and ATTACK configs.

My point is ISR configurations will still go in "armed".

Oga, stop being clever by half.

Of course the aircraft would stlll be armed. ISR aircraft would however sacrifice some offensive payload.

The aircraft has a constant rated maximum weight. When you don't see hardpoints, know that the aircraft is shedding (some) bombs and rockets for ISR equipment

shadowprimezero:
Actually, the Tucanos with the EO/IR turrets are the ones capable of precious bomb strikes with their GBU Paveways and APKWS. The FLIR cameras double as EPTS you see.

When you are doing ISR, you are measuring distances (ranging) , you are making a video of the battle space, you are transmitting data so there I expect signal processing computers onboard fusing data from many sensors and sending data. The planes would be primarily special mission aircraft with secondary strike capability but they would be sacrificing weapon payloads for ISR equipment.

JackWolfskin:
Just lol

Other devices?

Yes.
Laser illuminators/range-finders, special antennas

Toju200:
they all have 5 hard ports boss
They didn't mount the two you're not seeing

ISR dedicated aircraft won't have all hardpoints installed. Only mounting points for EO/IR cameras and other devices