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Senegalese Airforce among the first export customers of three units of the new L-39NG. Nigerian Airforce has also penned an MoU for acquisition.

olapluto:
BHts took out about 8 of our men. I am more worried about the isolation of the troops. No matter how good you are, if you find yourself isolated like these guys, then the enemy can pick them out one after the other. We are dancing backwards in this war.

https://www.facebook.com/tonmaharry/videos/2607358525969876/UzpfSTEyODI2Mjg0MTI6MTAyMjAyNjAzODIyODEzNzU/

First off, I'm just awestruck at how confident and extremely brave these soldiers are. Two things to point out which led to this is the total lack of armoured protection and poor situational awareness.

NA needs to seriously retrain on force protection and trauma first aid. Many soldiers have bled put and died from injuries even basic first aid could have prevented

NAF Regiment inducts additional units after training. The units now boasts over 1000 soldiers.

NN SBS

AskiaHarem:
Isn't that against the Geneva Conventions?

It's not an actual "flame thrower" but a 220mm MLRS launcher that fires high explosive rockets with incendiary warheads.

Snipers sighted at the Nigerian National Assembly, ahead of a presidential visit

Russian PMC Group "Wagner" Mi-8 delivering Mi-8 helo and operational equipment to insurgency-hit Mozambique

NN SBS training


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO24ODeV69Y

NAF AW-109 E in action

Blue on blue incident involving an NA T-72 and a Reva Mrap. The T-72 fired on the vehicle form a distance and due to a communications gap, mistook it for a BH vehicle. Two STTEP mercs KIA and a few NA soldiers injured. 2015

kabe1:
My reply to you was very clear.

You cannot treat the Reva purchase as the same as the rest of the Nigerian army weapon procurement process.

The Reva was not bought by the Nigerian army.

The unit that use the Reva is a stand alone unit, which is funded, trained and equipped by the Office of the National Security Adviser.

Although the men are from the Nigerian army, Navy and Air Force, they are not funded by the army.

It's a different agency.

I also told you maintenance contracts were signed with the manufacturer. Infact a South-African mechanic was even killed in Nigeria.

A South African mechanic was never killed in Nigeria. Those were two STTEP mercenaries that were killed in a blue on blue incident. An NA T-72 mistook them for BH from a distance and shot their REVA but that's beside the point. I'm not debating you on which agency or ministry purchased what, all I'm saying is that as a country, we lack an overall comprehensive procurement strategy. That's why we have so many derilict vehicles ASIDES from the REVA. It's not a debate on quality but on how well we can maintain so many different types of armored vehicles we have and all the associated logistical issues that entails.

kabe1:
First of all, we did not buy the Caiman and Navistar, they were donated to Nigeria as foreign aid from the US.

South-Africa sold Nigeria low quality MRAPs, this is a fact.

The Reva MRAP was bought for a particular Nigerian military unity to perform a special type of operation. It was used as was intended also.

On the 72 MSF was use the Reva MRAP in Nigeria. The unit was later transformed to the AFSF unit. The arms used by the 72 MSF was purchased by the NSA who continues to fund it's successor the AFSF unit. In addition to this purchase, the NSA made sure to purchase ambulances and mechanics.

This not an army funded unit, but an NSA funded unit.

45 units were purchased including ambulance and recovery vehicles, yet we can see that the vehicles have been cannibalized and could not stand the test of time.

Firstly on the source of the Navistaar and Caimans, I said Nigeria purchased and ACQUIRED, but that's irrelevant to the point I'm making.

Secondly, you didn't even attempt to offer a counter argument to any of the points I raised. The reason we've cannibalized REVA's for spare parts is due to our flawed procurement strategy. This is the same we we have cannibalized/derelict T-72's, Bigfoot MRAP's and Caimans. We buy in a rush and without thinking. The US uses only 3 MRAP classes; Caiman, Maxx-pro and Couger. Turkey uses only 1; The Kipri Mrap etc.

When our armored vehicles inevitably get damaged in combat, it's not unusual to see even basic ballistics glass not replaced, talk less of more complicated systems. The Engineering Corps simply doesn't have the spare parts for each of the many Vehicles we operate.

NAF armed AW-109 E in action

kabe1:
South-Africa sold very poor quality MRAPs to Nigeria.

Look at the state of the Reva MRAPs we purchased in 2015, brand new.

That's not true. This is a testament to the failed procurement strategy of the Nigerian Army. We purchased and acquired a large amount of different classes of MRAP's without any consideration to equipping the Nigerian Army Engineering Corps on maintainance and repair.
Bigfoot MRAP
Caiman MRAP
Navistaar MRAP
Streit Typhoon MRAP
Reva MRAP
ARA 1 MRAP
ARA 2 MRAP
And counting.....

The solution lies in standardisation which we lack, thereby making things difficult for the engineering corps even though they're trying their best at the Special Vehicles Plant in Bauchi.

Hopefully, with an ever improving local defence industry, we're starting to produce our own armored vehicles which would really help with maintenance and standardisation

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SuperSixSeven:
Love that image! Note the Tigerstripe Camo.

Yeah. Haven't seen that scheme since the civil war.

NAF C-130 crew review flight plans before takeoff

Operation Deep Punch. NA

NA Otomelara Palmaria 155mm artillery

NA. North East deployment

NAF Puma door gunner

NA shelling Boko Haram positions.

SANDF Peacekeepers on patrol in Northern Kivu, DRC. 2019

Somali Army lightning brigade

Rhodesian SAS in an operation against Mugabe's forces.

Denel Dynamics has successfully completed the missile qualification and certification for it’s 5th generation A-Darter IIR Short Range Air-to-Air Missile (SRAAM) System, with the Type Certificate issued in September 2019 by Brazil and South Africa.

Kenyan and Jordanian maritime reaction ship boarding exercise.

Nigerian Army AFSF

SANDF. Internal security deployments. Why do things seem to be escalating?

Nigeria. Independence Day celebrations

Looks like the SANDF is intensifying military internal security deployments. Isn't this a bit of an overkill or is the situation really that bad?

Cape Town - #DunoonProtest (Update): ARMY heading towards Dunoon #SANDF pic.twitter.com/S6kJF3nWHg

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Algerian1:
TOS-1 220mm Heavy Flamethrower System . algerian army .

This days pic

Woah! Algeria operates the TOS!? That's some serious firepower. How many units are in operation?