Covert1:
Nigeria is a failed state.

I’m since done with this sh.it. What a fake life. Until there is justice, equity and fairness in the system it’s a waste of time for everybody. Nigeria will never succeed when the worst rule the best, where there is wealth without enterprise, where tribalists, ethnic jingoists and “religious” irredentists hold sway for narrow, primordial, archaic agendas.

This is the bitter truth and until we accept that truth no one will ever take us serious, ever! Take the green passport and go to Kenya or any average African country or Turkey etc and let us see how you will be treated whether as the citizen of the supposedly giant of Africa or a reject of the earth.

Faithful007:
The IDF debunked it. Also the daughter of the man captured in the video spoke to Israeli TV.

BTW the surrounding doesn't look like where a senior officer would be living. A Major General would have bodyguards as well and wouldn't be easily captured.

bidexiii:
BREAKING: Israel has confirmed the capture of IDF General Nimrod Eloni

MiddleDimension:
@all

Please tell me what you think about this uniform. I think they call it No 4.

I actually find it ugly and unbefitting of our service men. Also, the very fact I have not seen it on officers in other parts of the world, makes me wonder why our men and officers in all the military and paramilitary services wear it.

What's worse, it appears to be so common among our officers.

@SouthAfricans

Do your officers wear this? Can you show me pictures of officers in other part of the world wearing the same thing?

I think the worst of them all is the army's because of the colour.

Aside this particular uniform, all the others are fine, in my opinion.

kabe1:
Nigeria acquiring Russian-made T-90 main battle tanks
These acquisitions signify Nigeria's strategic approach to assembling a versatile and capable military force.

https://www.military.africa/2023/08/nigeria-acquiring-russian-made-t-90-main-bbattle-tanks/?amp=1

kabe1:


We only need the support of the Americans and military intervention in Niger will commence.

The main threat Nigerian troops will face will come from Wagner, however I don't see Wagner commiting major forces in Niger either. They are mainly preoccupied in Belarus, military intervention in Niger is not necessarily a geopolitical struggle, although it has some of the ingredients needed to make it one between the US and Russia.

For deployment, I suspect the Nigerian Air Force will deploy the following assets.

- 2 x JF-17

- 4 x F-7NI.

These aircrafts will mainly carry out the bulk of Air Interdiction missions & CAP.

I don't think Nigeria will deploy combat helicopters because of threats of the aircrafts been shot down, that's if Wagner are in the area. If there's no threat of Wagner, Attack Helicopters will be deployed in my opinion.

Nigeria plans to carry out many of the bombing missions using UCAVs. UCAV losses I think would be more bearable.

The army composition is much harder to predict. Nigerian army has enough firepower to press on this intervention, who knows we might see that more Heavy weaponry might have been purchased than what has been reported or visually sighted.

In my opinion, I don't think we should allow this coup in Niger to stand, it presents a major national security risk for Nigeria.

Bacteria8:


Lol
No brother, I'm sorry little minds like you can't think about a world where Africa and Africans determine their own affairs without Russia or the West.

Moving away from the West doesn't automatically means we're moving towards Russia or China or whatever.
Fvck all of them imperialist pricks!!!

I know that small minds like you are so used to being dependent on the international community that your entire thinking is now limited to such.

So it is not about REPLACING France or the West.
Its about ending a parasitic relationship that has perpetually made subsaharan Africa a receiver of aides while the same people who are robbing us dry during the night are the same givers of aides in the morning.

We don't have to replace a devil with another devil... We can simply just end the reing of demons.

Bacteria8:


I'm all for anything and everything that would break the francophone dominance at our doorstep.

Who democracy help ??

Shaytun:
The Aradu Modernization program

bidexiii:
Breaking: Tinubu sacks Service Chiefs, IGP, Customs CG


..

President Tinubu also approved the following appointments: Col. Adebisi Onasanya, Commander, Brigade of Guards; Lt. Col. Moshood Abiodun Yusuf, 7 Guards Battalion, Asokoro, Abuja; Lt. Col. Auwalu Baba Inuwa 177, Guards Battalion, Keffi, Nasarawa State; Lt. Col. Mohammed J. Abdulkarim, 102 Guards Battalion, Suleja, Niger state; and, Lt. Col. Olumide A. Akingbesote, 176 Guards Battalion, Gwagwalada, Abuja.

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https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/breaking-tinubu-sacks-service-chiefs-igp-customs-cg/

Faithful007:


Always insecure, confrontational and overly competitive. You correct them and they turn it into a personal attack.

Tinfoil:
www.adzuna.co.uk

https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/4095390986

The EU is asking for people of N.African and M.E decent to go fight in Ukraine in exchange for citizenship and €20k

Lurker4Long:
Milkor selling 4 000+ grenade launchers amid strengthened market presence

Mass
3 kg unloaded
10 kg loaded with 105 mm rocket
6 kg loaded with 72 mm rocket

Length
1,200 mm (complete with 105 mm launch container)
900 mm (complete with 72 mm launch container)

Shell
PG-32V tandem HEAT
TBG-32V thermobaric

Caliber
105 mm barrel
72/105 mm warheads
Muzzle velocity 140 m/s
Effective firing range 350 m
Maximum firing range 700 m

Sights
Collimator sight

Blast yield
750 mm (30 in) RHA
650 mm (26 in) RHA after ERA with 105 mm PG-32V tandem HEAT rocket

Shaytun:
Can anyone identity this MANPAD with the Chadians?

Shaytun:
Baba buhari

bidexiii:
APS Nig. Ltd presenting its Tube launched kamikaze drone to Nigerian Defence research development bureau (DRDB).

Source;@jake

GreenandGold:
There's always that guy who instantly creates a Wiki page of such events, puts in all the proper citations... respect to such guys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Sudanese_Armed_Forces-Rapid_Support_Forces_confrontation 👌

Al-Shabab Has Lost Third of its Territory, US Ambassador Says

The U.S. ambassador to Somalia said the Somali government's military operations against al-Shabab have cost the militants one third of their territory.

"Somali-led offensives have restored Somalia's sovereignty to 1/3 of the territory formerly misruled by al-Shabaab," Larry André told VOA Somali in an email. "Ending al-Shabab's oppression is one step further toward Somalia's full revival."

Since January, the United States donated weapons to the Somali national forces to support operations against al-Shabab. The U.S. also trains an elite Somali army unit known as Danab, which means "lightning" and has been leading the offensive against al-Shabab.

The Somali government this week reported that the military operations have inflicted heavy losses on the militant group during the past six months.

In a statement on March 25, Ministry of Information said that 3,000 al-Shabab militants were killed and 3,700 more were injured in the first phase of military operations between August of last year and January. The government also said 70 towns and villages have been liberated from al-Shabab.

Meanwhile, the militant group has claimed that the first phase of military operations by the Somali government and local fighters has failed.

In an interview with al-Shabab-affiliated radio, the militant group's spokesman, Ali Mohamoud Rage, who is also known as Ali Dhere, accused the U.S. of mobilizing forces against the group.

He said the original plan was to eliminate al-Shabab within six months.

"The first phase of the operation concocted by the infidels has turned futile," he said.


Contacted by VOA about the remarks by the al-Shabab spokesman, a senior Somali security official dismissed Ali Dhere's claims.

The "definition of failure has to be revisited if liberating Middle Shabelle, Hiran, South Mudug and parts of Galgadud is a failure," said Kamal Dahir Hassan Gutale, national security adviser to Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre.

The "Somali people and their government made possible all those successes reached by our security forces in a very short time," he said.

Gutale said Ali Dhere's claim that the U.S. mobilized the Somali military offensive is baseless.

"He is facing young Somali soldiers who are well-trained, battle-hardened, who took the battle towards the front lines," he said. "Let him face them — they have liberated over 500 KMs from al-Shabab, and still they are after him."


Criticism

Government officials said the second phase of military operations will start during Ramadan. But preparations for the second phase have faced criticism before it officially launches.

Abdullahi Mohamed Ali Sanbalolshe, the former director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency, says preparations for the second offensive focus more on the role of the government and less on the participation of local fighters who have been integral to the relative success of the first phase.

Sanbalolshe told VOA the local fighters have a low awareness about the new offensive. He alleges that the government is lowering the importance of the clans, locals and states.

"All Somalis were interested and were part of the first one [offensive] – the members of the parliament, clan elders, business community, the civil society, the diaspora," he said.

"The participation of the clans [in the 2nd offensive] is low; it appears it's confined to the government," he said.
FILE - Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, in Somalia on Dec. 8, 2008.


Defense Minister Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur has rejected the criticism that the government is not valuing the role of the locals.

"This fight belongs to the Somali people, and it is true that the successes were achieved with the collaboration of the people," he said.

"Every area that is going to be liberated, its people will be consulted with and informed."

Nur said most of the locals do not need the government to inform them about military offensives because they approach and ask for support.

Mohamed Abdurahman contributed to this report.

https://www.voanews.com/a/al-shabab-has-lost-third-of-its-territory-us-ambassador-says/7026624.html

bidexiii:
I.D for this compact riffles ?

Faithful007:
Off topic

Queens on camo

Stormtrooper11:


Fun fact: The legendary John Boyd and the Fighter mafia were part of the program which developed the F-16 and he was really adamant in integrating his energy principles and making a strict dogfighting machine. Man was kinda annoyed with the fact that the Pentagon wanted a multi role cuz to the Air superiority F 15.

Idk why anyone would think an aircraft with a very successful operational history is inferior to an aircraft which isn't confident of the avionics of its manufacturing country.

Ogaslot:



Sometimes I wonder where some of u guys get ur trash informations from that Russians are illiterate they cant and won't change their doctrines in battle

CNN BBC AJ news broadcasters blind loyalist better wake up.

GreenandGold:

Despite tech advancement issues.... there are big doctrinal problems here...

1. The Ukrainian tank is using a well-established path, which you never do;
a) For it could be mined
b) There could be ambushes waiting

2. It is operating solo, not in any armored formation, it could have been easily outnumbered by the rest of the Russian tanks even if it was superior.

3. If it was on some recon mission, then this was the wrong vehicle for it. You always use wheeled vehicles (eg AMX-10, Rooikat, etc) for recon because you need speed to get out of situations like these.