₦airaland Forum

FakeUnity:
nigeria should die a natural death to save the lives within it's borders.

If anybody preach 'one nigeria' to you, break his head with any object you see around you. He wants to you and your children to be slaves forever in the cursed contraption.

You are dumb and not educated. If you break Nigeria today, it is when the harvest of dead bodies will start. You guys cannot think at all. No imagination, no sense of reality and you like deceiving yourselves.
Most importantly you think your anger and frustration with Nigeria counts for anything.
You better join hands to save and progress what God has given you.
If you are hoping for a breakup you will waste opportunities.

It was always going to happen when you put a decent radar in a LIFT, add capability to fire AA missiles, two engines and ordnance capacity above 2500kg. I think M346 FA is more than just Alpha Jet replacement.
It's GRIFO346 radar can see > 90km

yarimo:
mteeeew that is not a political gathering but a wedding gathering everyone can attend

FFK's writings are deeper than politics as a game. He has called these guys terrorists, Jihadists and Fulani hegemonists. His rhetoric has inflamed passions beyond the usual limits of political discourse.
It is only in Nigeria that such a guy finds followership among the youths. Most Nigerian youths are intellectually lazy and reach for ethnic issues the way babies reach for milk.
It is a disgrace and I have to admit most PDP politicians have Nigerians' mumu buttons.

youghs:
If I may ask, what do we need these for? The A29s can perform the role of this aircraft.

Super Tucano is to loiter, do surveillance with accurate sensors, send / share data and then engage with precision weapons.

We also need supersonic platforms for quick reaction in more distant places, for instance an attack at remote border towns.
M346 FA is also coming with Air To Air capability to challenge fighter jets.

Actually need both M346 FA and JF17.
JF17 can carry anti ship missiles, already identified as a threat in the Gulf of Guinea area even before decision was made to acquire the aircraft.

kabe1:
Africa Intelligence is still running with this story despite the denials from Leonardo


Pakistani option has Italy scrambling to defend sale of Leonardo combat aircraft

The Italian government has embarked on a diplomatic campaign to strengthen military cooperation with Abuja as a means to lock in the sale of 24 combat aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force. But it is facing a circumspect air force command and competition from Pakistan.

https://www.africaintelligence.com/central-and-west-africa_business/2021/08/19/pakistani-option-has-italy-scrambling-to-defend-sale-of-leonardo-combat-aircraft,109685910-art

Who has noticed that a significant but not majority of retired and serving NAF pilots and technical crew don't trust JF17 Block 2.
I am almost certain they go for Block 3 in 2025 but I would be surprised if Block 2 holdings go beyond six (6) examples.

It's radar is not better than M346 FA master and M346 has more proven reliability and cost effectiveness as a fighter/trainer.
The weapons on board also probably have better integration.

I am beginning to come round to the view that the NN acquired them as FPBs but decided on the FCS design to permit the operation of rotary wing UAVs.

I read somewhere that 40 UAVs are on order by the Navy. They must be going on OPVs and purpose built FPBs that can take rotor craft UAVs

kabe1:
This is what is obtainable in the Nigerian Navy, don't know what @riceproducers is arguing over.

Does not really matter I think. These are not fast patrol craft but FCSs. The boats are designed for security and carrying civillian personnel and cargo. May be the Navy asked for that particular spec for their ops, I don't know but they are FCSs.

kabe1:
It's hard to say if it's the same.

However contractor patrol vessels do not bear a Nigerian navy pennant.

This depends on agreement reached with the Navy on these assets that are dedicated to their operations. They may have been 'bought, transfered and leased from the Navy' and dedicated to their operations 100%.
This strategy will free the oil company from crewing and maintenance which is expensive and not their core business.

They will also have their own logistics crew on board with the Navy to load and offload supplies for the rigs and platforms.

Therefore, in one acquisition the company has gotten a security guard boat, supply ship and cew transport all rolled into one. Pirates have a lot of work to do if not an impossible task.

Thank you. Please make the last paragraph bold. The contract was executed for an oil company not the Nigerian Navy

Hennynitan:
DAMEN COMPLETES SEA TRIALS OF 40M PATROL VESSEL PAIR FOR NIGERIA
By Baird Maritime - November 20, 2019


Damen Shipyards Group has completed sea trials of two patrol vessels in a series ordered by Nigerian maritime security company SR Platforms.

The two vessels each have a length of 40 metres, a maximum speed of 29 knots, a range of 2,000 nautical miles, and a 140-square-metre aft deck for transporting personnel and cargo as well as for accommodating equipment for firefighting and oil spill recovery.

Both vessels were readily available in stock at Damen Song Cam Shipyard in Vietnam. Upon delivery, these will be deployed by SR Platforms as fast support intervention vessels on a contract with a major international oil company.


Is this the same contract or a separate one?
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/maritime-security-world/non-naval/damen-completes-sea-trials-of-40m-patrol-vessel-pair-for-nigeria/

So these are FBPs to you?. Well they are not. These two are field crew supply vessels for the oil industry. They will be slighty armoured but won't carry offensive weapons. Pls show me the budget item no. from 2018 or 2019 where it shows procurement of FBP from Damen.

kabe1:
You have a habit of arguing pointlessly without any evidence.


Nigerian Navy expecting more platforms before end of 2020Published 2 years ago on December 18, 2019


The Nigerian Navy says it is expecting the delivery of more platforms before the end of 2020 to join her fleet to further boost the Services’ maritime security operations.


Rear Admiral Tariworio Dick, the Chief of Training and Operations, Naval Headquarters, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, while giving the Nigerian Navy score card for 2019.

He explained that the Service was expecting these platforms from various manufacturers from within and outside the country.

“In 2019 the Nigerian Navy acquired some platform to boost her maritime security operations among which are 20 x Riverine Patrol Boats, 20 x Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIBs) and 2 x 25 Man House Boats,” he said.

Dick listed the platforms expected to join the Services’ fleet in 2020 to include, ​1 x 60m Hydrographic Survey Ship from Ocea France, 2 x 40m FPBs from Damen Shipyard Vietnam, and 1 x 43m SDB III from Naval Dockyard Limited Lagos.

https://newsverge.com/2019/12/18/maritime-security-nigerian-navy-expecting-more-platforms-before-end-of-2020/

Coolliot:
Is that planks of wood?

These ships are guarding oil installations and moving oil field logistics. They are not paid for by the Navy. They are privately owned and to be partially crewed by Naval ratings

kabe1:
These ships have been delivered to the Nigerian navy.

These went to a private company.

amc:
You guys just refuse to get knowledge but continue to peddle the same lie. The 30% of profits is for all “Frontier Basins” and not all are in the North. Please get some knowledge and stop arguing blindly.

There is a list attached of frontier basins to the bill. All of them were in the North. That was why some of us are speaking out. Ultra deep offshore blocks were not even in that list.
It was as if PIB said; "don't look for oil anywhere else aside Gongola basin and some other Northern Nigeria basins

Arnold1:
I agree. Ibadan definitely needs an upgraded airport. If approved, the money must be well spent as you have stated.

Ibadan Airport is just the size of Aberdeen Airport or Ikeja Airport many years ago. It is appropriate to the volume of passengers.
Maybe only instrument upgrade required.

Aderewah:
Lol. No state human development. No agricultural investment. No women program. No schools revamp. No inner roads project. Circular road and airport that 99% of oyo people will never use.

I think agricultural investments are policy supported by PPP arrangements under OYASDA. OYSG should stop running farms

Schools are being revamped and teachers arrears cleared.

Circular road is linked to agricultural and Agro industrial investments coming.
Please do your research before posting non facts.

I agree that the outlay for refurbishing the existing airport is too much.

The context of this speech was Hilary Clinton accusing Republicans (administration of Ronald Reagan) of being the creators of Taliban. It is not entirely true though.
The US did not create the Taliban but they funded it and used it to destroy the Soviet Union. They almost used Chenchen Republic to destroy Russia itself.

Nemesis4you:
First tell me what is plasma physics vis a vis traditional rocketry ?

Hot fast charged particles instead of hot fast combustion products

FarahAideed:
It still shows the oil Producing areas will be getting similar amount with the dry north ... Besides these northerners can never be trusted

The North is not dry. Oil was found in the SS because that was where Nigeria looked for oil. Oil has been found in Niger, Chad and Sudan so saying there is no oil in the North of Nigeria is a puerile and necessarily sentimental statement. I agree that 30% of profits dedicated to looking for oil in the North is excessive. The tools, rigs and personnel costs of exploration in the North are much lower than Niger Delta. In any case, oil is winding down as a primary energy source so Nigeria should be following the trend and diversifying

Nonsense.

Daveambition:
So, host communities will stil have to accept the 2.5%..? Meanwhile the Northern region gets roughly 30%... Buhari na Cankerworm Bastard

3% of opex. It is actually not bad when you consider the previous 13% derivation, NDDC, oil companies CSR..
30% is for oil exploration in frontier basins. This is just to look for oil. Communities will benefit because expiration rigs will be working there employing people and buying services.

Coolliot:
This is what happens when you fighting technique is based on airpower alone, the moment you can't always call air power, the fighting becomes bloody, and it's something training doesn't prepare you for.
I bet you, remove air power and let the USA face the Taliban squarely they would flee too.

Only if one side uses civilians as human shields. Air power is very effective. Israel uses it with cruel effectiveness

Nemesis4you:
How do u know that ?

Dont u see the obvious flaws in ur claims

Who tries to secure portions of a city with 2500 troops when entire city is vulnerable and a potential trap for the 2500 soldiers wherever they might be in the city especially when the evacuations have still not started , also considering large no of incognito taliban inside the city itself

You are forgetting there was a government. An army. I agree that the US is achieving its objectives by letting Taliban take power in an atmosphere of anarchy.

The ignorance of calling animists, idol worshippers Christians. Irigwe is not Christian. You need education before you post stuff

Chasegb:
To save this country we would need the person of Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as president and someone(Preferably Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state) from the north as vice president.

Tambuwal?. Just say you want PDP. Buhari will not hand over to PDP. Buhari won't hand over to any body running with Tambuwal.

Splitting Nigeria "peacefully".
You can see most IQs are low and idiots are free ranging because social media has democratized access to propagating hairbrained ideas.

The idea of peaceful splitting.. and that the splitted countries dwell in peace and happiness after can only arise in the minds of desperate, hateful and neurotic people.

If you start splitting now please resign yourself to mob sense, modern warlordism, ethnic cleansing, killings, slavery, rape and a thousand points of conflicts not only in Nigeria but the entire West Africa spreading southwards.

Actually I think it is time the FG starts monitoring social media and arresting people for all types of ideas that could break up the country.

It is getting too much that any social misfit can wake up and post incendiary stuff

You want to explain infrastructure to young PDP supporters?. Good luck with that. These guys need lobotomy first.

They would drive a brand new US jeep into slums happy that they are better than many.
They had 16 years of being shown that Nigerians don't deserve the lifestyle of Europe, US and the Middle East and their unemancipated minds have accepted it.

Tell them the loan to GDP ratio is healthy, they won't understand because vision is not there.

Tell them the age demographics of Nigeria supports the loans, they still dont understand.

The most indebted countries in the world are UK, US, Italy, France, China.
They are also destinations of first choice in the world. They attract the most FDIs and their tourism incomes are in the hundreds of billions but Nigerian youth with their black skins, inferiority complex and darkened visions want to live 21st century with jankara market trader mentality.

Infrastructure is a job creator, a business incubator, FDI magnet, revenue generator and for Nigeria with a large young population it is a no Brainerd that we should borrow to do it really fast.

How is it that people can post ignorance so easily.

Trump did not replace ObamaCare. [/b]He tried countless times but the courts did not allow him. Posting it like he did not replace Obama Care out of civic sense of responsibility. Most Trump supporters are rank amateurs. Either too young or largely uneducated.

[b]Trump withdrew from Kurdish territory.
Another lie. Trump abandoned Kurds to his 'friend' Erdoğan. Arming Kurds is what most administratiins from Bill Clinton have been doing. Again to carry your local Nigerian mentality into global politics.

Trump planned systematic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Why did he not implement it? The negotiations were completed with Taleban almost two years ago. He actually had started withdrawing forces and Taleban had started gaining grounds so why try to defend failure. Most Americans don't want their troops in Afghanistan. The strategic priorities are elsewhere. Afghanistan is easier to deal with from the outside. Occupying the country is death.

Obama alone did not overthrow Gadhaffi
The culprits are France, UK and Germany. Obama was a late convert to the decision to remove Gaddafi. The Europeans needed US power and they mounted lobbies. A key supporter of the move was Hilary Clinton and she made public statements against Obama reluctance to commit to the removal of Gaddafi. It was after that the final blows were struck

Nemesis4you:
Well my friend i did use 'reportedly' for a reason

And reportedly it is said to reach its target envelope in 12 seconds , and so i dont think there is much distinction left between boost / coast ( which i doubt exists ) / terminal stages

So its reported maximum speed of 15 mach can be for the sake of simplicity or rather ' wow ' factor be extrapolated to its launch speed for enthusiast like me - a concession of sorts

The US appears to be trying to achieve Mach 5 to 7 with pure rocketry alobe whereas in fact Russiah hypersonics success may owe more to plasma physics than traditional rocketry.

DubaiLandLord1:
Why will they be looking to Africa next?

I wonder o.
Taliban have never ever looked beyond Afghanistan. The only offensive thing they have ever done when they were first in power was use heavy artillery to blow up world heritage statutes. They said they were idols or demons then. They also gave Osama Bin Laden safe haven.
They have never tried to actively export their ideology

Faithful007:
Well, Taliban isn't equal to terrorism. They just have a very strong ideology that is sympathetic to terrorism.

Also, I don't think it's cowardice. You can't continue to police a place where you're hated and the enemy loved. It's like you don't really get that Taliban have the support of the public.
You'lll encounter so much traitory. You'll get frustrated over time.

Also, the US is now strategically tilted against Shiite Islam rather than Sunni so a Taliban regime works better for the US against Iran, China.. probably Russia.

Kaiser20:
A big lesson to some Nigerians who wanted the USA to have a base in Nigeria to fight Boko Haram.and tackle insecurity.
The USA and it's allies including NATO invaded Afghanistan in 2001 in "operation Enduring freedom".

Instead winning the war against Taliban and Al-Qaeda and restoring Democracy and freedom to the Afghans, the Taliban became stronger.

Well the Taliban were lied against and they have always been loved by the common people in spite of all propaganda to the contrary.
I still think everything happening is deliberate to achieve an objective we don't know.
By the way, the Indians are very close to the Afghan government so it might help to read what their news sources are saying

plainol:
Nigeria is being ridiculed by these clowns in power.

They will soon be served with the hottest scandal that will be too embarrassing for then to beg for.

Abba Kyari's own is just a tip of the iceberg.

Buhari never learns. His holy holy hypocrisy will soon be demystified.

Why?. #EndSARS no work again so na scandal. Okay

Agboriotejoye:
First of all, you lie!! Third mainland bridge, shiroro dam and port Harcourt 2 were all started and completed by IBB.
Secondly, Warri Itakpe was meant to service Ajokuta whose development Buhari truncated. You can ask yourself what benefit the rehabilitation has brought now. If ajaokuta is not working, that rail is as good as useless. So the reason why successive govts abandoned it was because it's a service rail not passenger rail as is being attempted now.
Thirdly, so many of the so-called "massive infrastructure" of your god were already planned or put in motion by previous admins too. So find something else to say.

Buhari truncated Ajaokuta? What school did you go sir?. As for planned infrastructure projects that were not done when oil price was $100 per barrel and financial flows out Of Nigeria rivaled FDI into Europe, only God will save Nigerians from moral cowardice and mortal fear of truth but the country is not going anywhere with cowards