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Akwamkpuruamu:
Buhari till 2056

U are a living testimony of buhari handwork

All nairaland moderators love buhari

Sai Baba the most educated man in the world

Sai Baba is all I think of

I am a sai Baba zombie ooooo

Buhari ooooo Ur wish is my command

Everybody dey Chop belleful for Baba regime

Non of sai Baba associates can steal a Lobo!!!

I can sell my brain because of buhari

All yorubas love baba

Sai Baba 1

Sai baba too much

Sai baba

Akwamkpuruamu:
Buhari till 2056

Too much enjoyment everywhere

Sai baba

Buhari is the most honest nigerian president since 1959

Exactly,I love the APC because there is no corrupt person in the party,that's why I love them.

I envy the hardworking capacity of buhari

Jostoman:
Exactly my

Do you know buhari government through the ministry of technology is currently installing free WiFi accross Nigeria

The man buhari is too good,PDP are devils

Buhari is the best president in the whole world,he is more intelligent and educated than even the best scientists and leaders accross the world.

Hello my fellow brothers,
This is the end of month broadcast to all we the good supporters of Muhammadu buhari and all APC fans across nigeria.

I most say we are doing a great job the likes of simpleyleo Mannabbgrills ivolt okeyglm and so many other APC fans are doing a very good job,I must say buhari has done well,infact Nigeria is an envy to the whole world.USA want to be like Nigeria,Germany want to be like Nigeria,infact every nation are copying the Nigerian model due to the undisputed and world class rulership of Muhammadu buhari.

In Nigeria today there is peace,u can go out 3AM and anytime in the day without been afraid,Nigeria security situation is the best in the whole world no country is as secured as Nigeria.u can forget a briefcase of money in a taxi and get it back because Nigeria is made up of honest people like you my fellow APC Supporters,even the Nigerian police respond with uttermost patriotism and speed when a distress call is made to them,some foreign thiefs from Libya where disturbing a friend along the road unknown to them that a police drone was overhead and the a bulletproof BMW NPF police car and 4 NPF policemen on powerbikes showed up at the scene in less than five minutes and the hoodlums where apprehended and charged to court,all these are the handwork of buhari government we are supporting.

Poverty is no more in Nigeria,there is suplus food everywhere everybody is happy even the yorubas,Igbos,tivs,Niger Delta deltans are very happy because buhari government had brought enough food for everybody,the price of things are very very cheap,yesterday I bought a bag of rice for 8,000 naira and a liter of fuel now cost 45 naira,buhari government had really tried in the aspect of food,too much food and stew everywhere,even my neighbours wake up every chanting sai baba with all joy and happiness.

Education sector in Nigeria had improved,since our abled bodied president Muhammadu buhari became president there is no more strike in Nigerian institutions,in the previous PDP government there was always strikes,but under buhari no strikes,all fedral schools and universities across Nigeria are well equipped and the lecturers are handsomely paid,now a lecturer earns 900,000 nairaand other bonus allowances this is one of buhari achievement in the education sector ,Americans Germans all now come to school in Nigeria.

Electricity had become standard 24/7 since buhari became president electricity had never went off,in less than Six months capable buhari solved Nigerian electricity problems and everybody is enjoying now.

I can go on and on to list buhari and APC achievements even nairaland won't be enough to list all the good achievement of our great president general prof, Muhammadu buhari,PDP totally quenched the future of Nigeria and with APC government Nigerians had become the best place to live in the world.

Lets us keep up the support of our president Muhammadu buhari

Thank you

Biafrannuke:
Just shut up and Bleep off!

U don't do things with sentiments,a wise man listens and make observations,but a foolish man charge in rage without reasoning

Proverb

maasoap:
In order words, you support the breeding of terrorists in the south east? These people are killing security agents and setting security facilities ablaze but you're concerned about the infiltration of ESN! Wow

I am an analyst and expert and I give raw facts as they are on ground,I can't say for sure if ESN killed security operatives because they didn't claim responsibility for the attacks

Silverpurple:
You even mentioned Al Shabab as the gold standard for militia group.

I'm not sure why young men will allow themselves be brainwashed.

If you are not the owner of the ESN, Al shabab, etc. You are just wasting your time fighting another man's war.

We humans don't know how unimportant most of us are.

U understand what I mean is that a millitia group fighting for justice just like ESN for example shouldn't let their guards down and recruit anyhow with thorough checks,their logistics and operational commands ought to be kept in uttermost secrecy that even the members won't know how they operate,that's how millitia groups survives government onslaught but the MNK of a man,he just talk too much.

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Biafrannuke:
16 ESN indeed. Some of those guys killed wore face cap and face mask and presumably had one pump action rifle and two machetes, riding on regular motorcycles. No squad on a mission will go with those. They are most probably a community vigilante members on routine patrol, that's how they normally appear.

as much as I don't believe anything this useless govt tells let's be truthful to ourselves, I strongly believe ESN had been infiltrated,the recruitment process wasn't that thorough,how would ESN go and recruit Nigerian Soldiers,isn't that stupid let me tell out of 100 Nigerian Soldiers that join ESN 10 might be spies,a well organized millitia group operate in uttermost complexity that if the members were arrested they won't even have detailed information about key management and logistics of the group,that why you see all qualda Al Shaban and other groups function because the fighters don't even know the source of their weapons and key information,they only know those in their locality and fighters suppose not to even know the house of their fellow fighters in the area once arrested fresh member joins and the cycle continues.all these are complex logistics ESN organisers ought to consider before launching the outfit.

Nnamdi Kanu talks too much no be everything person dey talk

I think ESN is compromised and that's very disheartening embarassed

Nigeriabiafra82:
Another
Face saving strategies

In as much as I don't believe anything this useless govt tells I strongly believe ESN had been infiltrated,the recruitment process wasn't that thorough,how would ESN go and recruit Nigerian Soldiers,isn't that stupid let me tell out of 100 Nigerian Soldiers that join ESN 10 might be spies,a well organized millitia group operate in uttermost complexity that if the members were arrested they won't even have detailed information about key management and logistics of the group,that why you see all qualda Al Shaban and other groups function because the fighters don't even know the source of their weapons and key information,they only know those in their locality and fighters suppose not to even know the house of their fellow fighters in the area once arrested fresh member joins and the cycle continues.all these are complex logistics ESN organisers ought to consider before launching the outfit.

Nnamdi Kanu talks too much no be everything person dey talk

I think ESN is compromised and that's very disheartening

iokpebholo:
stop displaying ur foolishness Mr man...So where did d AK47 riffles come from if they are d same?

Why haven't they stormed ESN camps and show us

Imagine naija delta millitants and ESN with weapons like this.

Most government thinks that buying advanced fighter jets and hardware can suppress agitating voices and millitia groups but it only lead to a gruel competition and counters by the millitia involved.



On April 19, 2019, Yemen rebels shot down a Chinese-built medium-altitude and long-endurance Wing Loong drone with a surface-to-air missile. The drone, operated by Saudi Arabia, was reportedly on a surveillance mission over Bani Muadh area in the Sahar district of Saada province and was armed with air-to-surface weapons. The Houthis later released a video that shows the drone being hit by an unidentified surface-to-air missile and falling to the ground. With the repeated SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defence) missions by the Saudi led coalition and the drying up of arms supplies, the use of a surface-to-air missile against the Saudi drone raises the question – which missile was used to down the drone?
When the Saudi air operations began in 2015, it was assumed that the air defence forces of the Houthi rebels would play a critical factor and would affect the outcome of the ongoing conflict. This was based on the fact that the Houthis had been seized the weapon systems earlier operated by the Yemeni air defence forces. These included most of the ex-Soviet SA-2, SA-3, SA-6 and SA-9 SAMsas also the large inventory of the man-portable air-defence systems.
The Houthis were not able to pose a serious threat to the Saudi led air coalition air forces as most of the air defence systems had become unserviceable and non-operable due to years of poor maintenance and shortage of spares. Moreover, a large number of the fixed sites missile systems were targeted and destroyed by the coalition in the initial air strikes during early days of the war in April 2015. As a result, the coalition air forces did not face any serious opposition from the Houthis air defence systems; and the same was reflected in the low level of attrition faced by them during the year.
The Houthis manged to shoot down only four manned aircraft in 2015, the first of which was a Moroccan F-16 shot down by anti-aircraft guns over in the remote Wadi Nashour area in the north-western province of Saada, a Houthi stronghold bordering Saudi Arabia.The other ‘kills’ by Houthi air defences during the year were two Saudi AH-64 Apache helicopters and up to a dozen reconnaissance drones. The next year, Houthi air defences did not achieve much of success against the coalition air forces and managed to bring down only one helicopter and one drone ;though the Houthi claimed that they had destroyed an F-16, four helicopters, and sixteen drones.
This failure to cause any viable attrition on to the Saudi coalition spurred the Houthis to innovate and develop air defence weapons, using the Russian-made heat-seeking air-to-air missiles. Using the AA-10 Alamo-B, AA-11, AA-8 and probably the AA-7, the Houthis developedtruck mounted antiaircraft surface -to-air-missiles; the first of which was photographed in February, 2017 by a coalition drone in the al-Salif region. Though these missiles did not have radar guidance or cuing facility, the Houthis used them for carrying out SAM-ambushes and claimed to have downed two F-16s in Saudi Arabia’s Najran province on February 24, 2017.The same month, a United States MQ-9 Reaper UAV was also shot down by the Houthis with their innovative SAM. Another successful kill, of a Saudi AH-64 Apache, was claimed over the Red Sea port of Hudaydah by the rebels in March.
The use of air-to-air missiles(AAM) in an air defence role by the Houthis was not something new- the Serbs had earlier tried out the concept in 1999 during the Balkan conflict though the reasons of developing and using improvised SAMs were different.
Serbia had a reasonably well equipped air defence force with a large number of radar guided SAMS, mainly used at the strategic level. At the divisional level, air defence was provided by 113 SA-9 and 17 SA-13 SAMs. As the associated SA-9 missile was being manufactured in Yugoslavia before the war, adequate reserves of the SA-9 were available. To beef up its air defence of its air bases, Serbia had developed improvised air-defence missiles using IR guided air-to-air missiles. Pracka, the simpler of the systems, mounted an R-60 (AA-8 ‘Aphid’) missile on an improvised launcher based on the mounting of the towed M55 20 mm anti-aircraft gun. The other systems were mounted on the chassis of the Czechoslovak M53/59 30 mm self-propelled twin-barrelled anti-aircraft gun. The twin rail RL-2 used the R-60MK missile while the single rail RL-4 was based on the R-73 Air-to-Air Missile(AAM). more than 100 of which were in local service.
The use of heat-seeking missiles to develop the improvised air defences was due to two reasons. Having learnt the lessons of the Gulf War , the Serbs were well aware that use of radar guided SAMs would invite a swift and deadly retaliation. This left the IR SAMs as the only viable option to be used to ensure survivability in an intense SEAD environment. Secondly, AAMs were more readily available than others and could be used with relatively less changes.
During the Balkan conflict, the IR-SAMs, including the improvised missiles, were the most prolific air defence weapons to be used by the Serbs and brought to fore an important lesson – that for low-technology armies, the IR-guided SAMs is the most cost-effective solution for tactical air defence which gives them a tremendous capability to harass and deter even the most advanced air forces.
They were effective in countering the UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) threat also; which were used extensively in Kosovo by NATO for reconnaissance. Of the 25 to 27 UAVs lost in operations, a significant number were downed by IR-guided SAMs. The details of aircraft/ drones shot down or hit by the improvised SAMs are however not available to make a realistic assessment of their efficacy during the Balkan conflict.
Another form of improvised air defence system tried out earlier was the so called the “aerial improvised explosive devices” used by Iraqi insurgents. In 2006, faced with a shortage of anti-aircraft weapons, insurgents tried improvised explosives to target coalition helicopters. The home-made “Aerial IEDS” were placed along known flight paths and triggered when a low-flying helicopter approached- fired into the air to a height of about 50ft before a proximity fuse detonated the explosivemaking it explode close to passing aircraft and filling the air with thousands of metal shards. As these devices were based on old anti-aircraft or artillery shells, the bombs would have a devastating effect if detonated close to a thin-skinned helicopter; used on numerous occasions, they clamed ‘ more than one” helicopter.
Coming back to Yemen. A Jordanian F-16AM crashed over southern Saudi Arabia on February 24, 2017while returning from a combat sortie over Yemen. The Houthi-dominated coalition was quick to take credit for the same; claiming that it had been downed by an air defence missile that had been improvised and developed by its Missile Development & Research Command (MDRC) using abandoned Soviet era Surface-to-Air Missiles. No independent verification could be obtained to back the claim though the loss of the F-16M was duly acknowledged by Jordan.
Having achieved some success with their innovations, the Houthis warned of a “new, highly accurate air-defence system” and reportedly improved the SAMs by incorporating FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red) Systems with ULTRA 8500 turrets to develop fire control system for their new R-27T based SAMs. The Houthis claimed more success in shooting down coalition aircraft, including a Saudi F-15 on January 7, 2018,with the “new” weapons system though no details could be ascertained and only the firing of the R-27T could be confirmed. The new SAMs had in fact missed the F-15 though videos posted online showed a ball of fire as the missile supposedly ‘hit’ the aircraft.
The failure to bring down an aircraft by the converted SAMs was repeated in another incident on March 21 when a second Saudi F-15 suffered minimal damage only from the R-27T (AA-10) SAM fired at it. Later that month, on the 26th, two Emirati F-16s were unsuccessfully targeted in an apparent missile attack. The Houthi air defences were increasingly looking impotent against the coalition air forces, not capable of causing any serious damage. The failure was also raised doubts about the capabilities of passive target tracking systems acquired by the Houthis from Iran. The Houthis had been supplied a transponder interrogator system (a virtual radar receiver, or VRR) by Iran which could have posed a serious threat to Saudi led coalition forces though the failure to hit any aircraft raised doubts about the efficacy of the VRR and the improvised SAMS. has been confirmation of their use by the Houthis.
The improvised weapons used by the Houthis till date have been based on AAM only and the recent shooting down of a Saudi drone does suggest that the threat from improvised SAMs is far from over and cannot be considered as only of nuisance value.