olapluto: Deep punch punching deep. If they keep this pace, BHT might become almost totally insignificant by the end of the year.
All i am seeing is abandoned apc and hilux....that they couldnt repair or drive away........am not seeing weapons, Or destroyed vehicles with weapons on them,am not seeing dead bodies, am not seeing hmg ,am not seeing aks, or mortars or surrendering bht.......so am not happy or glad
Seened: Talk about coming to the prom prepared @ the Cameroonian gear
They coming to learn our tactics, stratrgies, equipments and so on......on the job, i will advice the use them as their own fighting team and reduce the amount of know how about us, they are been exposed to
Why is a single gun truck moving....are we sure its not a decoy? I advise we wait for mass grouping.....and place an AR1 in between the vehicles, that way you can destroy more weapons , vehicles and BHT......i think 1 missile for 1 gun truck is expensive
How can we make all this find.....and no bh killed and only weapon recovered was 1 ak47...... by the way, the guys in the ops are the guys in konguda i know a couple of officers, even saw 1 in the pic. ......the guys that have never lost to BH, also the guys that tend to loose most times to BH are tge guys from the armoured corps,thats why we have lost so much armoured vehicles. ..... . I wonder why, lets discuss
The shilka could have wiped them from a far distance.
Here's the problem. The guys on ground do not even know what's going on around them. They only know we have approaching bokoharam. No idea of the type of weapons they field or the direction they're coming from.
Bokoharam got so close up to 50M and launched the 73mm on their position and to me, their main target was the shilka and once it was destroyed, the military had no other option.
For bokoharam to have assembled in that huge number then the guys performing ISR are missing something.
Here is it
Bokoharam will only attack villages or military post. Now, ISR should be conducted on own troops locations 20km within and then trust me you'll find these guys hideout. Don't just go flying around looking for bokoharam. You can get them in their large numbers around troops locations.
Bh started shooting from at least 1km away....they only used tge 73mm from about 500 to 400m......and the accuracy of that 73mm on that hilux is very bad....rate of fire is what, 2 rounds a minutes?
s The men on ground messed up....they heard boom and panicked ,they didnt want to fight, they just wanted to pick survivors and move....but am thinking also the burnt ewuipment were from another engagement.....one major reason the camo scheme on the shilka
The only saviour that day could have been a proper IFV /AFV dusting out a huge fire power.
The issue is bokoharam had situation awareness. To me, their first target was the shilka and once it was destroyed morale went down. Not even the US SF or Russian SOS would have made a difference with MRAPS
Moreover, the terrain is an open environment. There was no where to take cover.
The shilka and the 73mm gun....which has more potential? A single sweep from the shilka would have done a lot....the troops didnt even manouver,they just left equipment, i think the crash site was bombed by our jets....
We dont arm our mraps with gpmgs again in the north east,we use HMGs..
They should have divided the bh...into sections, distrubted weapons and men so each section can engage the section carved out
Looking at BH body language....initially they were jittery, the lack of resistance emboldened them.
This is what I hate about cartalk. Some so called pro think they know it all, and they are very quick to critisize others. Honda power steering whine at cold start doesn't necessarily mean the pump is bad, it can simply mean the o ring is bad and need to be replaced. This is even published in Honda bulletin. I use an accord I have encountered the same problem and a simple o ring change fixed it. I didn't even spend up to 500 naira. Try to make research before criticizing.
I use a honda accord 2009.....mine use to whine at cold start, but i started using dexron 3 atf.....and even at cold start it doesnt whine and thr steering is softer
CaptainStephen: These monkeys must have stolen this from one our neighbors of recent, I have never seen them with a Recoilless rifle in all my engagements with them.
Taken from the 76mm low velocity mounted on the contraption called bmp 1, that dasuki and co bought, why they didnt go for the 30mm bmp3 or the better contraption bmp 2 is behind me.....that 76mm for stop a swarn attack to me is useless....
SSGN: Since the first suicide bombing attack on Nigerian soil in 2009, Boko Haram, the hitherto deadliest terrorist group known to man has snuffed the life out of 30,00 Nigerians, killed hundreds of Cameroonian and Chadian civilians, captured territories the size of Costa Rica and for seven years in the main, held one of Africa's largest and most powerful army to a virtual standstill? But how is this possible? How can a bunch of an estimated 15,000 (some estimates puts it at between 7,000 to 30,000. Nobody really knows) drug addicted untrained fighters hold its own against the combined armies of the three most powerful armies in West and Central Africa.
For answers, we go back in time. To the beginning.
Nations States have no permanent allies, only interests. This oft repeated statement is what the Nigerian government should have considered before opening itsself up for manipulations and sabotage.
The only countries which have lined up to support Nigeria in its fight against radical Islamic extremists are two of Nigeria's past (or present) enemies, the Republic of Chad and Cameroon. All francophone States, and not a single Anglophone country. While Cameroon has to a degree been transparent in its military activities near the border with her giant Nigeria, it has in recent times gone a step further beyond and but been cautionary about launching incursions into Nigerian territory without authorization from the Nigerian government.
Chad on the other hand is a different kettle of fish. It has been implicated in the growth of the Boko Haram factions, especially the faction led by Abubakar Shekau, and only decided to cut off support from the insurgents and stop them from using its territory as a rear base area only after the opposing faction to Shekau known as Harakut-Muslimiin and thr Bukar Faction of Jamma'atu Ahlis Sunbah overran much of Northern Cameroon and threaned to cut off Chad's ligistocs route from the Cameroonian port of Douala, as well as the possibility if having to deal with his wartime enemy president Muhammadu Buhari
GONE ROGUE ?
The drying up of the money and supplies the Shekau faction received from Idris Derby coincided with the secret delivery of CH-3 Rainbow attack drones from China and Russian Mi-35 helicopters from Russia and 50 T-72 M tanks from the Ukraine. The Nigerian army formed a tight encirclememt of known Boko Haram positions, cutting off all route for resupplies and reinforcements with the hope of starving the group into surrender, while Nigerian Air Force intensified its air campaigne against Boko Haram. Within two weeks the NAF decimated the ranks of Boko Haram, killing a third of its commanders. Those who tried to break through the army blockade were mowed down by waiting troops.
A final offensive to finnish off the weakened Jihadi group was being planned.
At this point Chad found itself on the brink of outright hostility with the Shekau led faction of Boko Haram. Chad’s President Idris Derby tried to avoid going to war against the Shekau led faction of Boko Haram by holding off the much publicised final offensive to finnish off the grouo by buying time.
How does he achieve this ?
By seeking to broker a "scam of a cease fire agreement" between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government.
It worked.
The nearly four weeks of negotiations gave Boko Haram the time it needed to lick its wounds and reinforce its ranks. Then on the 10th of October 2014, Boko Haram insurgents attacked two villages in Borno with new vigour and the ferocity of a lion, killing dozens. Before the dust settled they launched another assault on the village of Dzur, killing a quarter of its inhabitants. The lucky few escaped with their lives by fleeing into the snake infested bush in the dead of night. And so it was that the group hitherto on the verge of defeat a month earlier with mass desertion in its ranks, broke the cease-fire agreement and captured a dozen villages across two north eastern states. Boko Haram denied a cease-fire existed and continued its bloodlust as north east Nigeria descended into chaos.
The Goodluck Jonathan administration had been scammed into a position of weakness and looked stupid. With the Presidential Elections just around the corner this was a death blow, especially against an opponent running on the banner of security. The Presidential aspirant for the AC (Action Congress), former Army General and military head of state, Muhammadu Buhari called the involvement of Nigerein, Chadian and Cameroonian troops in the fight a National Disgrace, and promised to crush Boko Haram within twelve months if elected president.
As Goodluck Jonathan's popularity plummeted, that of his opponent, former army General Muhammadu Buhari increased exponentially. Chadian strongman Idris Derby, realizing, that it had to prevent being in a position of being Nigeria's antagonist and facilitator of Boko Haram by a new Buhari administration, jumped ship and went to war against Boko Haram.
But why has, starting from late 2010 Chad being supplying weapons and cash to Boko Haram, and specifically the Shekau led faction.
Currently, the Lake Chad region has become oil producing with Chad extracting as much as a two hundred thousand barrels of crude a day from its part. The Republic of Niger which also shares the lake shore extracts around 100,000-150,000 barrels of crude of oil from the Lake Chad region each day.
Nigeria’s territory has been under explored because it can afford to, but it holds the potential to also add a similar amount of crude to the world market. Nigeria is currently the 6th largest exporter of crude in OPEC and holds the worlds 10th largest proven oil reserve with 39 billion barrels, clearly Nigeria can afford to leave its part unexplored.
Now, the amount of crude produced by Nigeria's francophone neighbours (100,000-200,000 barrels per day) is negligible compared to Nigeria’s current production of 2,2 million barrels per day but it is a doubling of whatever Chad is currently producing, and what is more, a significant portion of it lie under the island's Chad disputed with Nigeria over.
But we all know that Francophone countries all share a similar trait with France- GREED. The mere thought of such amount of crude and dollars probably just lying there is enough to warrant the area a closer look from N’djadmena and Idriss Deby. But this should hardly come as a surprise.
The Nigerian government has from the begining being warned about the plot by the Franco alliance to destabilize Nigeria, possibly fracture it and swoop in for the spoils. Strangely enough our government seem either bewitched, complicit or both. It is hard to understand how a wealthy and powerful sovereign nation like Nigeria will tolerate and accomodate these destabilising activities in Nigeria.
Several officials of Nigeria's Directorate of State Security, the DSS have for some time alleged that Chadian weapons and support was flowing across the border. A captured former member of the Shekau led faction of Boko Haram revealed that from 2010 Chad supplied weapons and cash to the group, and in some cases Chadian intelligence services provided them with planning and mission logistics including information.
The same source revealed that before Chad launched its operation against Boko Haram in Nigeria, it sent a message to Shekau through prominent politician from Borno state, who also happens to be an ex governor, informing him that Chad was going to have to fight Shekau so as to create the nececesary cover to go after anti-Shekau insurgent factions threatening its transportation link to the sea via Northern Cameroon.
This explains why Chad invaded Nigeria to "supposedly" destroy Boko Haram, taking no permission from the Nigerian Government and not even informing the Nigeria until BBC and other news media broadcasted reports of its invasion. The actions of the Chadians is nothing short of declaration of war. The Chadians, with French complicity, have been skillfully manipulating whatever outreach the Nigeria have tried to make to the insurgents, and on the one occasion on which the Nigerian government began negotiating with a faction of the insurgents without Chadian help or involvement, Chad quickly ran to the media to sow discord between both parties.
In 2014 Channels Television broke a story that Chadian soldiers supposedly liberated Nigerian territory formerly held by Shekau’s group, prevented a its News Crew from entering into these areas until they had finished cleaning out the local headquarters of the insurgents and taken away all prisoners, thus preventing Nigerians from gaining access to these prisoners.
Asked where these captured prisoners who probably include some lower level commanders are, the Chadians have been unable to produce them for the Nigerian government to interrogate, rather they have used excuses and sleights of hand to keep the Nigerian government from knowing the real locations and states of these captured fighters.
From the onset the Chadians have been playing a game that is at odds with the spirit of the regional cooperation they portend to embrace. For six years Chad has carried out high intensity subversive operations against the Nigerian state. By aiding and abetting Boko Haram Chad has unwittingly waged war against the Nigerian state.
The actions of Chad has come with a heavy price - Over 25,000 Nigerians killed, hundreds (possibly thousands) of Nigerian soldiers killed. This is nothing short of an act of war.
Nothing encourages aggression more than cowardice. Will the Nigerian government hold Chad accountable? Or do we pretend it never happened. Is there a price to pay for a hostile enemy involved in the murder of 20,000 innocent Nigerians?
Seriously i think after this BH issue,the govt should get proof against chad and carry out a bit of strike on chad.......i will advise am ammunition dump and their airforce
A_jet dumb bomd air strike......or MRLS which do you all this is more effective?
As for me....i think the mrls is more effevtive, and for the mrls to be that close to the bh camp.....it means there was heavy presence of own ground troops; i think our soldiers are finally doing what we has been lacking.....immediate follow up, after bombardment.
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CaptainStephen, I salute you. I also have a cousin that just became a major and he is airborne too, currently serving in the NE. Coming from a military family where many of us have served in the army, police, sss... I salute you for your service to our dear country..
I've been itching to ask why the Nigerian army has refused to use personal defence weapons like the claymore, especially around their FOBs. As you can see from the destruction arc, a single blast can cover almost a 180 degree angle. You can imagine how Boko Haram will feel when they've like 6-7 claymores with more than a thousand ball bearings tearing through them and these babies are remote controlled, so you can pack them them up once you want to shift your base.
My question is this, is there any reason why the Nigerian army has decided not to use this defence weapons or are they tied down by the western policies??
Claymore is still basically a mine.....nigeria signed a un rubbish about not using mines again,i will advise....they buy thousands of those claymore
CaptainStephen: Thank you sir, well regarding your question about personal defence weapons, I will put it this way. personal defence weapons are key elements of our doctrine however going into specifics like the type of systems we use will get me court Marshalled. I hope you understand that. The nature of counter terrorism ala BH, ISIS and co has been an ever evolving one.
I remember talking about claymore mines, killing fields shaped by obstscles , bamboo pits, mortar zones.....after the whole zone has been charted for mortar and artillery strikes....... wire razor barb wire with empty tin containers tied on them.....flow channel for combustibles for burn zones in the killing field, i really dont know if it is lack of creativity , that when we can the advantage of holding the fort, we will be reduce to sparing with boko haram using the same weapons.......when all you need to do....is lure them into a well prepared field
Perhaps, it came all the way from Iraq. ISIS looted their armoury seizing a significant amount of American made weapons, enough to sustain an army for years.
I really don't believe it's from the mid east.......cash can come from there.....but I doubt equipment!!! It would not be worth the logistics and cash effort.....moving those stuff
Bad day to be a Boko. That M16 rifle pics just go to prove that BHT is indeed receiving significant support from terrorist organization in the Middle east.
Samething I wanted to say.....which destabilized country on the African continent use the m16.....amother thing is that this isn't Vietnam era m16...
Don't defend him abeg. He didn't sell the idea at all.
Am not defending him....i am saying he is a figure head,who isn't in the know of strategic happenings.....information is not really passed to him; until it has been executed.
[quote author=biacan post=63421532] Wow suddenly the truth has start coming out..... so this is what you do daily banging your dogs all in the name of pressure..... smh oxster....
listen well and listen carefully nobody in your generations can afford my bride price due to the stricken poverty that runs in your veins kiss the truth boy [/quote
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biacan: If a man can't spend lavishly on his girlfriend to keep up to her class then who will...... what's his use
I think you are igbo....... are you handicap or a welfare case......this is thecmajor reason you will get a high body count and cant be happy in a relationship.....you want to maintain class? Can't you work and maintain yourcpwn status in society? THIEF
Foreign Affairs / Re: African Militaries/ Security Services Strictly Photos Only And Videos Thread by Stephandeswardt: 7:14am On Feb 27, 2018 
