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jakeporeshenko:
Nigerian Navy NNS OHUE

In active service?

Xbee007:
Which country did u see that?

China.

Beautiful aircraft.

I saw some Shenyang J-11 fighters flying around today.
I'll post some pictures.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/10/19/11/397B2DCF00000578-3851044-image-a-37_1476872064956.jpg
The Russians have also sent a submarine, pictured, to protect the aircraft carrier fleet

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The Admiral Kuznetsov is carrying Sukhoi SU-27-K Flanker fighter bombers

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The French Navy has the nuclear powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the Mediterranean already conducting combat operations against ISIS targets in Syria.

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The Charles De Gaulle is the only non-American nuclear powered aircraft carrier in service

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The Charles De Gaulle is been protected by the guided missile destroyer USS Ross, pictured here in the Combat Information Centre where its Tomahawk cruise missiles are controlled.

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The USS Ross was tasked to support the Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean.

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A Royal Navy seaman onboard the HMS Richmond today keeps watch on the Russian carrier fleet as it conducts training flight operations off the coast of the Orkney Islands

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The Norwegian Air Force shadowed the Admiral Kuznetsov heading south on Monday.

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The HMS Richmond is observing the Admiral Kuznetsov conduct flight training operations off the coast of the Orkneys as the Russian carrier fleet prepares to deploy to the Mediterranean.

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The Russian fleet is being shadowed by the Type 23 Frigate HMS Richmond.

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The aircraft carrier is supported by the nuclear-powered battleship Pyotr Velikiy, pictured on Monday passing the Norwegian coast by a Lockheed P3-Orion surveillance aircraft.

jakeporeshenko:
Russian navy

jakeporeshenko:
Russian navy

Admiral Kuznetsov. She is an offensive platform on her own. She should be in Syria soon.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Air Force F14 and Mig29 fighters as well as Falcon 50 jets exercised combat operations and electronic warfare tactics on the second day of the massive wargames in the Central province of Isfahan on Tuesday.
"At this stage, the operations to jam simulated enemy radar waves were successfully carried out using electronic-warfare special Falcon 50 jets under a research project named Sayeh (shadow)," Spokesman of the Fadaeeyan-e Harim-e Velayat-6 wargames Brigadier General Massoud Rouzkhosh said Tuesday.

"Also, the F14 and Mig29 fighter jets successfully exercised combat situations in a real-like battle scene in the operations," he added.

The Iranian Air Force kicked off 3 days of military drills in Central Iran on Monday.

A variety of Air Force fighter jets, fighter bombers, transport planes, reconnaissance aircraft, drones and refueling planes took part in the military exercises today.

The drills started at the order of Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Air Force Brigadier General Alireza Barkhor.

In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in the defense sector and gained self-sufficiency in manufacturing essential military hardware and defense systems.

Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country.

The Iranian Air Force displayed several squadrons of its operational fleet in an air show on the national Army Day in April.

Different types of fighter jets and fighter bombers took part in the air show staged over the mausoleum of the Founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Imam Khomeini, South of the capital Tehran.

The home-made 'Saeqeh' (Thunderbolt) fighter jets as well as F4, F5, F7, F14 and Mig 29 fighter jets in several squadrons flew over the sky of Southern Tehran.

Aerial refueling operation was also conducted by a Boeing 707 refueling tanker aircraft to an F4 and two F14 fighter jets during the air show.

Also, different helicopters, including Chinook, Cobra 206 and Cobra 214 flew over the military parade zone.

jln115:
SIGMA Corvette Damen is offering for Project Biro:

Have we stopped designing non stealthy ships?

snowsnow:
good question this should be directed to that governor

Classes are in English and there are over 200+ Nigerians at SMC already. You can easily get a Chinese that speak English at average so no problem.

upko1:
My good friend patch is a South African

Cool. My post will remain

upko1:
I noticed as well, taking pictures while slaying Boko Haram and getting the job done is all we know
Ghanaian grunts just couldn't keep out of the fun

You mean patches is Ghanian? It yes kindly let me know so I'll know how to direct my previous post at Ghana instead of SA.

patches689:
Because Nigerians take the best pictures

I present to you Nairaland Netizen of the year. You're fond of criticizing without facts..

Nigerians take the best pictures and we were able to hold our grounds during the battle of mammy Yoko?
The same Nigeria military had an officer that served as the head of another country Armed forces?


What a joker you're.
Take off your damn Gripen and tell me how your Airforce is more better than ours.
Tell me how Nigerian navy is lacking? Your excuse no frigate etc? I don't blame you, I blame our military chief.
Your ground troops , how better are they than ours?

You'll come here and be spilling one shiit about Angola who cares?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3Tq477dhw

Nice post @nemesis .

I was like brilliant write up. More of this Should be posted and not some unnecessary argument.

ssaengine:
That's why the likes of Blackwater and others actively poach Nigerian SF's, and not South African SF's and Police Special Task Force. Aha

Maybe this video can lull certain sulking people to sleep.

You type the greatest bullshiit on this forum.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/b14da84361917fb30c93fc0852f3eed5/tumblr_n9y7jhd7PN1skaxu8o1_500.jpg
If money is the problem, go for Visby.

DaudaAbu:
How much did the US gov't gave bill gates again when he was starting microsoft?

Or mark zuckerberg?

Guy you start something, find the business part of it and make money. Afterall it only tax you are going to be paying gov't after 5-7yrs tax break, the bulk of the money goes in to your pocket.

Nice point but let me ask you a question.
How many people has Nigerian government funded or how many Nigerian projects has been invested in by the Nigerian government?

fredoricko:
I'm not one to dis-credit another's work, but there's nothing innovative about this. This work has been done over and over again by foreign engineering students and graduates alike. One may not see the generic make-up of the drone because of the video quality, but I'm sure all can clearly see the control module. The encapsulation shows that it was probably designed in China. He probably bought it and did little or no modification.
The programming involved in making unmanned Aerial Vehicle or drones is very complex, more so we do not yet have the technology to fabricate any of its parts.
Kudos to the young man if he acquired the parts individually and then assembled them.
Boo to him if he acquired an already assembled drone for public show off.

At least someone who can analyse well.
What you said about frabicating the parts seems wrong to me. It should be possible in Nigeria. Me and my project group have been involved in quadcopter and fixed wings UAV and I'll say we can build a quadcopter in Nigeria but cost will be very high. The only issue is we'll need Nigerians who are experiences in Aerospace Engineering. I don't know about the capability of AFIT students but they did a very good job on gulma and amebo drone even though it's really obvious some parts were bought so that's why I'll have to say fixed wing UAV is what I don't think is possible.

Kaydeexotic:
Switch to worldremit bro

How does it work?

tolexy123:
this is crap and junkie, please fuucck off or invent something you truly can. mtcheeeew. disappointed

Tell me what you have invented. That's obviously not an invention but it's very unethical to call someone else work crap just like they tried to discredit Thomas Edison.

See people bashing that guy. Bash your government first.
Tell me how much the government paid him? No financial assistance and he managed to do that. You all should learn to appreciate. Obviously he didn't develop that himself but he made some body changes.

Other countries have research agency. USA - Darpa etc.

It's when It comes to politics that NIGERIANS will be yawning Bullshit and forming keyboard warriors. Visit twitter and see our ministers saying rubbish . They don't care about the development and future of the future of the country
They online come online to spew rubbish to earn support from the masses.
Nigerians are busy putting their mind on the wrong things.

ATM-Blocked
money gram - Working rate and possibility to send 10%
Western Union - very high exchange rate and really difficult to find a bank willing to send.

Everything is just messed up.

Royal Navy set to intercept Russian warship in English Channel as it heads to Mediterranean – media

British admirals are drawing up plans to escort an approaching Russian aircraft carrier together with seven more vessels, which will pass by the UK’s shores en-route to the Mediterranean, according to reports in the British press.
Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, left the port of Severomorsk at 3:00pm Moscow time (12pm GMT) on Saturday for the eastern Mediterranean. The carrier will be escorted by the battle cruiser Peter the Great, the anti-submarine vessel Severomorsk, and five other vessels of Russia’s Northern fleet.

They will “ensure a naval presence in operationally significant areas of the world’s oceans,” according to an official press release.
On the way, the ships may pass through the English Channel, which has put the Royal Navy on alert.

“It’s not catching us by surprise, we are working up what to do and we are all over it. The most likely thing is that they will go through the North Sea, down the Dover Strait, and through the Channel,” a NATO naval source told the Telegraph.

The Kuznetsov may stop to carry out practice drills while in the North Sea, the source added, and the seven ships could split up to make themselves harder to follow. The British Navy has readied the HMS Duncan, a Type 45 destroyer, and HMS Richmond, a Type 23 frigate, to intercept the Russian vessels should they approach British waters, a defense source told The Times. An RAF Rivet Joint spy plane, C130 Hercules and Typhoon jets will also reportedly be on standby.

“UK and NATO assets routinely monitor warships from other nations when they enter our area of interest and this will be no different,” a Ministry of Defense spokesperson said in an official statement.

Despite the routine nature of the potential encounter, coverage in the British press has been somewhat sensationalist. According to analyst Ammar Waqqaf, this has a lot to do with the political climate in the UK.

“We need to understand the environment here in Britain, which is about confronting Russia,” Waqqaf told RT. “This is not the official statement by the government, but actually by some hot-headed MPs who have gathered a few days ago and said that we should do something about Syria and Russia’s dominance over there, and if military confrontation is needed, so be it.”

“The media would probably jump at any passing military vessel coming from Russia or any drill nearby or whatever,” he continued. “They want to jump at this opportunity to increase the hype about what is going on ... there is an expectation from the public here in Britain about an imminent sort of confrontation with Russia in Syria"

you.

British admirals are drawing up plans to escort an approaching Russian aircraft carrier together with seven more vessels, which will pass by the UK’s shores en-route to the Mediterranean, according to reports in the British press.
Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, left the port of Severomorsk at 3:00pm Moscow time (12pm GMT) on Saturday for the eastern Mediterranean. The carrier will be escorted by the battle cruiser Peter the Great, the anti-submarine vessel Severomorsk, and five other vessels of Russia’s Northern fleet.

They will “ensure a naval presence in operationally significant areas of the world’s oceans,” according to an official press release.


“It’s not catching us by surprise, we are working up what to do and we are all over it. The most likely thing is that they will go through the North Sea, down the Dover Strait, and through the Channel,” a NATO naval source told the Telegraph.

The Kuznetsov may stop to carry out practice drills while in the North Sea, the source added, and the seven ships could split up to make themselves harder to follow. The British Navy has readied the HMS Duncan, a Type 45 destroyer, and HMS Richmond, a Type 23 frigate, to intercept the Russian vessels should they approach British waters, a defense source told The Times. An RAF Rivet Joint spy plane, C130 Hercules and Typhoon jets will also reportedly be on standby.

“UK and NATO assets routinely monitor warships from other nations when they enter our area of interest and this will be no different,” a Ministry of Defense spokesperson said in an official statement.

Despite the routine nature of the potential encounter, coverage in the British press has been somewhat sensationalist. According to analyst Ammar Waqqaf, this has a lot to do with the political climate in the UK.

“We need to understand the environment here in Britain, which is about confronting Russia,” Waqqaf told RT. “This is not the official statement by the government, but actually by some hot-headed MPs who have gathered a few days ago and said that we should do something about Syria and Russia’s dominance over there, and if military confrontation is needed, so be it.”

“The media would probably jump at any passing military vessel coming from Russia or any drill nearby or whatever,” he continued. “They want to jump at this opportunity to increase the hype about what is going on ... there is an expectation from the public here in Britain about an imminent sort of confrontation with Russia in Syria.”


The British media have speculated that the ships could take part in the Russian military operation in Syria. The Russian Navy has not confirmed this. It has noted that “particular attention will be paid to ensuring the safety of maritime navigation and other maritime economic activities of the Russian Federation, as well as respond to new types of modern threats such as piracy and international terrorism,” in a statement.

The decision to send the Admiral Kuznetsov on its latest mission was made late in September, and the tour of duty is expected to last four to five months. The Kuznetsov has previously carried out military operations in the eastern Mediterranean over the last few years. Russian forces are involved in the Syrian conflict, helping government forces against militants including the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and the Al-Qaeda off-shoot Al-Nusra Front.

Russian-British relations have been under strain in recent years as a result of the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts, during which time the Royal Air Force has periodically intercepted Russian planes which have flown close to British airspace.

The Admiral Kuznetsov was commissioned in 1990 and is so far Russia’s only aircraft carrier. Manned by a crew of 1,960, it has ‘Granit’ anti-ship cruise missiles and as well as ‘Blade’ and ‘Chestnut’ gun systems in its arsenal and can transport more than 50 aircraft.

Henry240:
Nigerian navy Ships docked.

I can spot,

NNS Prosperity.

NNS Ugwu,

A Mine-countermeasure ship,

And a Combatantte class ship.

Body maintenance should be done on our ships. I just love the fact that the navy has enough ships.
I'll be happy if the navy can operate her own ISR aircrafts such as the airforce ATR.

Stealth design SU-35 aircraft


Hostile radar range cut on Su-35s

Russian stealth researchers have developed materials and techniques that can reduce the head-on radar cross-section (RCS) of a Sukhoi Su-35 fighter by an order of magnitude, halving the range at which hostile radars can detect it. The research group - working with Sukhoi, but based at the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics (ITAE) at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow - has performed more than 100 hours of testing on a reduced-RCS Su-35 and has also experimented with the use of plasmas - ionized gases - to reduce RCS.

US and European aircraft manufacturers have used specially developed materials to reduce the RCS of basically non-stealthy aircraft for many years. Notable examples include the Have Glass and Have Glass II modifications to the F-16. However, Russian work in this area was undisclosed until ITAE researchers presented a paper to a conference on stealth in London in late October 2003, which was organized by the International Quality and Productivity Centre.

According to the ITAE presentation, Russian researchers have developed mathematical tools that can calculate scattering from complex configurations, such as an Su-35 carrying a full external missile load, by breaking them down into small facets and adding the effects of edge waves and surface currents. The antennas are modelled separately and then are added to the entire RCS picture.

"A problem of huge size" is how the researchers describe the Su-35 inlet, with a straight duct that provides direct visibility to the entire face of the engine compressor. The basic solution has been to apply ferro-magnetic radar absorbent material (RAM) to the compressor face and to the inlet duct walls, but this involves challenges. The researchers note: the material cannot be allowed to constrict airflow or impede the operation of anti-icing systems and must withstand high-speed airflows and temperatures up to 200°C. The ITAE team has developed and tested coating materials that meet these standards. A layer of RAM between 0.7mm and 1.4mm thick is applied to the ducts and a 0.5mm coating is applied to the front stages of the low-pressure compressor, using a robotic spray system. The result is a 10-15dB reduction in the RCS contribution from the inlets.


The modified Su-35 also has a treated cockpit canopy which reflects radar waves, concealing the high RCS contribution from metal components in the cockpit. ITAE has developed a plasma-deposition process to deposit alternating layers of metallic and polymer materials, creating a coating that blocks radio-frequency waves, is resistant to cracking and crazing and does not trap solar heat in the cockpit. The plasma-coating process is then carried out robotically in a 22 m3 vacuum chamber.

ITAE and its partners have also developed plasma-type technology for applying ceramic coatings to the exhaust and afterburner. The conference video also showed the use of hand-held sprays to apply RAM to R-27 air-to-air missiles.

ITAE has studied at least three techniques for reducing the RCS contribution of the radar antenna, in addition to the simplest method of deflecting the antenna upwards and treating or shrouding other components. One of these is to design a radome that can be switched from RF-transparent to RF-reflective. The interior of the radome would be coated with a cadmium sulphide or cadmium selenide thin-film semiconductor material which changes conductivity when illuminated with visible or ultra-violet light. However, the problem of making such a film has not been solved.

A second technique that is also described in Western literature is to place a frequency selective surface screen in front of the antenna. This is a foil-like metal screen etched with small apertures which allow RF energy to pass within a narrow waveband, corresponding to the radar's own operating frequency. This reduces RCS, according to ITAE, but at the expense of radar performance.

However, ITAE has flight-tested a more exotic technology: the use of a low-temperature plasma screen in front of the radar antenna. The screen hardware is mounted in front of the antenna and is transparent to the radar when switched off. When activated, the screen absorbs some incoming radar energy and reflects the rest in safe directions over all RF bands lower than the frequency of the plasma cloud. It switches on and off in tens of microseconds, according to ITAE.

In principle, this is the same as the 'plasma stealth system that was reportedly developed by the Keldysh Scientific Research Center (also part of the Academy) in 1999.

At the time, it was claimed that the system, using a 100kg generator, could reduce the RCS of any aircraft by two orders of magnitude, or 20dB. ITAE has not attempted to develop a whole-aircraft system, but researchers expressed the view that it would be difficult to apply except to a high-altitude, low-airspeed aircraft because the airstream would dissipate the plasma faster than it could be generated.

The ITAE paper also gave some indications of the direction of stealth technology for future stealth aircraft. Test facilities include large compact indoor RCS ranges for large-scale models and outdoor ground-level ranges with short pylons that can be used to test full-size aircraft (rather than the models used for US pylon tests).

In future designs, one emphasis is on large, complex skin panels, reducing the number of gaps and mechanical fasteners in the skin.

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giles14:
desame way dey though dere U2 to b invisible until it was shutdown, let dem keep deceiving themselves.

d only problem is dat if d Russians should shutdown a Western aircraft, its d Syrian military dat will bear d brunt of dere retaliation

F22 isn't F117.

Flames08:
Yeah rusty bucket

Aradu needs a goodbye kiss and a big torpedo to the side, other ships from her days are either decommissioned or in line. I reckon she would sit nicely at bottom of the sea, off the coast of Lagos, and make for an excellent artificial reef.

Story for the gods.

She rules the sky too.