₦airaland Forum

Odunayaw:
actually the dogs will be on the soldier's side na.

Jokes on me then

Video: When the Russian military is called to put out an oil well fire in Siberia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U2YOPSNd4g

Odunayaw:
Imagine a soldier whistling during contact with boko and these run out dramatically from behind thickets of bush

The mental dissonance that soldier will immediately experience will cause a temporary freeze in brain activity and, after the initial shock begins to fade, the soldier starts to question if he is still on planet Earth or on another alternate reality/universe where Bokos are the Decepticons he saw in some syfy movie he'd seen

Pics: PT Pindad Antasena tank boat

Sighs

The kind of comments I read on this thread nowadays makes Augustine of yore look like a saint. My brain cells are literally aching.

kikuyu2:
Their story encapsulates the colonial experience. They served 4 years straight only going...

And most of these veterans have passed on. Sad.

Flashback (copy and paste)

Soldiers from the King's African Rifles practice their bayonet drill in Burma. They are a few of the 100,000 African soldiers who fought for Britain in the jungles of Burma against Imperial Japan during WWII - Picture was taken in 1944

nemesis8u:
***

You will have to suffer fools gladly. Since the time when posters like Jakeporoshenko, Henry, Frumentius, tdayof, Patches etc left the thread it has become a den of trolls. Missed those days, when no matter the meltdown, you get to learn something new.

By the way an appreciation shout out to Shadowprimezero. Thank you for your regular posts. Please keep it up.

And to Jln115; bro learn to ignore the trolls. I understand you need to set the records straight on some misinformed posts but most of them are actually trolls' bait made to drag you into a back-and-forth.

Lionel4power, I see you bro.

Nemesis8u I am getting information the lander is intact and that it landed on its side

@allexpensive

We greatly appreciate what you and the men do. Thank you.

nemesis8u:
I ain't arguing

The Victor's peace given with 30mm kisses

Someone's been peeking at the front page

Toju200:
Pls I would like to ask...... About the DEMFAS UAV/UCAV I was going through some post in d past and I saw it though not too clear cos it was like just paperwork and stuff... Is there any new information about it

Tdayof is in the best position to answer you on this Toju200 but he has been on "self-imposed" e-exile for some time now. Best get across to him on twitter.

Seened:
Volvo's electric powered attack truck for France.

Copy and paste:
"Designed by Arquus, the dual electric-diesel engine is capable of driving sideways, carrying two tons of equipment, airborne deployment and even being remotely-controlled.

Standing six feet tall and able to transport four people across the battlefield, the Scarabee’s engines allow it to reach 75 MPH and composite armor gives it resistance to a variety of threats."

More Scarabee pictures...

nemesis8u:
Sorry my mistake , I missed it.

Anyways once I read the cost of training and outfitting a Chinese recruit costs less than that of a iPhone

American expense for same will get u a BMW

Lol,

Interesting

nemesis8u:
China 1.9

Interesting but I highly doubt it

Exactly. Those of China and Saudi Arabia are estimations as can be seen by the asterisks

Biggest military budgets as a percentage of GDP in 2018

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Odunayaw:
How many vodkas did the designer drink!!

nemesis8u:
Proposed Soviet era SU41 fighter

It would have been a hell of a fighter

What in da...

bidexiii:
Our gallant troops kick BHT ass again.
Goniri village, was attacked yesterday evening by Boko Haram, our gallant Soldiers repelled the attack and neutralized some of them. Captured 5x guntrucks , arms and ammunition. KUDOS TO OUR TROOPS.

Kudos indeed to the Nigerian Army.
Bad day for Boko Haram/ ISWAP

Yobe seems to be a death zone for the terrorists. If I recall correctly there was a similar incident in Yobe some months ago where the attack was decimated.

Kudos again to NA.

Sizzorkay:
I'm gonna guess and say Ivory Coast

I believe you are accurate.
Those are Ivorian special forces with French special forces in a joint training exercise.

bidexiii:
Been the CDS is like talent wasting, you don't have a command/commission under you? The CDS office is more of administration work.
I wished he was the COAS

COAS??

bidexiii:
Concl..

Great posts Bidexiii. I wish Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar could be made the chief of defence staff. He comes across as a competent head.

Today is a good day to be on this thread. Bravo to the Nigerian armed forces

Volvo's electric powered attack truck for France.

Copy and paste:
"Designed by Arquus, the dual electric-diesel engine is capable of driving sideways, carrying two tons of equipment, airborne deployment and even being remotely-controlled.

Standing six feet tall and able to transport four people across the battlefield, the Scarabee’s engines allow it to reach 75 MPH and composite armor gives it resistance to a variety of threats."

It seems it was a US Navy MQ-4C Triton that was shot down over Hormozgan province, Iran (says Iran) or in international airspace over Strait of Hormuz (says a US official).

Still waiting for official confirmation from the Pentagon

"Kaplan saw the disorder and civil strife he observed in West Africa as representative of broader global trends. As environmental stress worsened, bringing with it widespread disease and resource conflict, social disharmony would increase as identities are redefined along cultural or tribal lines rather than the lines of often artificial political borders. Politics would become localized as states’ powers fade, with sub-national conflicts about self-defense, not ideology, becoming commonplace."

Note: Kaplan wrote the book in 1994

When faced with a situation created by a jumble of factors the human brain may feel overwhelmed in its attempt to analyze it and it conveniently chooses a simple way out to stop the uneasiness; which is to blame one,two or three factors.

In this context someone blamed the opposition.

Is the Nigerian opposition responsible for creating the Sahara sandwiched between the Maghreb, the Sahel and the Savannah?

Is it the opposition who made the Sahel a band of relatively passable geographic feature that stretches from the west coast of Africa right across to the north east of the continent?

Is the opposition responsible for making the Sahel a water stressed region?

Is the opposition the one that made most of the countries in the Sahel of West Africa fall to the firm grip of a parasitic colonial land power who, one way or another, stunts their economic growth?

I guess it's the opposition that created the nomads wrecking destruction about

We might as well blame the Nigerian opposition for the high birth rate in most of the poor countries in the Sahel vicinity.

I don't even want to go into the complex dynamics in the region and the country, coupled with the outdated Nigerian security structure.


Like Odunayaw said we have masturbated enough on these issues and it's advisable we all save what's left of our mental-cum 'cause these issues are not going away anytime soon.

MOVING ON!

Japan military spending.

1996: $40.5 billion
2016: $41.5 billion

India military spending.

1996: $19.7 billion
2016: $55.6 billion

China military spending.

1996: $27.8 billion
2016: $225 billion

Time to take cover before the sh*t hits the fan

Texman21:
nemesis what do you think about this

Operation codename Paperclip.

Popular example: Wernher von Braun

Zoharariel:
Nigeria needs 72 units of this machine, I swear.

I can only imagine how pleasant it would be if Nigeria acquires IFVs. But we know better than to expect steps like this from the NA

lionel4power:
wow.... my mind thoroughly blown.

As we say in the futurism circle: The best way to predict the future is to create it

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