₦airaland Forum

SamuelAnyawu:
Armed Forces Remembrance Day.

Today we remember and salute our fallen Heroes. If no be una I for no fit enter Borno.

Reporting live 100meters from a Special Brigade in the Northeast.

Kudos Gallant Soldiers

komekn:
Considering future threats and the adventurism going on within our vicinity.

I think this is something the NAF should look at.

komekn:
Please pay attention to detail.

Having immediate access to NVG when and if required is different from NVG being standard issue for all combatants.

What I did say " don't misquote " is that for most modern armies optic sights is standard for most assault rifles.

komekn:
Expensive is relative.

In this regard they are not expensive.

What may be expensive to Nigeria will not be expensive to USA, NATO, Russia, etc

All modern armies will have optic sights as standard for nearly all of thier combatants as well as body armour. Access to NVG is available to all combatants if required.

I have watched a few videos of NA in a fire fight situation and l noticed not all of them had basic body armour.

Xbee007:
Source, please?

kabe1:
OK, they are diplomatic security agents. Embassy security.

kabe1:
They look good, is this new?

LTGEN:
Is this something new ?

joshingjosh:
It's not a course sha, it's a task that you will be given, more like a tradition, but no longer obtainable..

It's called plooming 101.

Blueelf:
Toju200, bidexiii, samuelanyanwu et al

Please I have a question

There were allegations in the past that Nigerian troops were not provided with Night vision glasses for Night operations. And this was a huge disadvantage in night-time gunfights.

Has this issue been trctified? While it is good to buy tanks and other heavy arms and artillery, little equipments like Night vision goggles are equally very important Sir

What are you takes on this?

QuietMynd:
Don't mind me,
Toju is the real comedian, his comments do entetains me sometime, u will actually think he has taken army spokesman job from John enenche.
The truth is that toju really love the army reason why he is always siding with them.
The reality is that the average soldier u will meet in the street don't give a sliding fvck about his care for them.
If he had any small misunderstanding with them, they won't think twice b4 they deck am 2 hot slap with a very high velocity, I won't be surprised if toju eventually turns to baba Owen pro max on this thread by then.
Some of those soldiers that use to behave like a programmed robot.

Raaven:
morocco to buy two new OPV Avante from spain

1500 tons . 80 meters

SamuelAnyawu:
Nice one. Damaturu road must be safe again.

Military declared an indefinite Night curfew here and I forget to buy night food

#pressrelease #DHQUpdate

OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE: Air Task Force Destroys Boko Haram Terrorists’ Gun-Trucks, Neutralizes Several Insurgents at Mainok in Borno State pic.twitter.com/hPsYVgSdgx

— DEFENCE HQ NIGERIA (@DHQNigeria) January 13, 2021

kabe1:
Another brilliant Nigerian Air Force video, eliminating terrorist vehicles.

#pressrelease #DHQUpdate

OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE: Air Task Force Destroys Boko Haram Terrorists’ Gun-Trucks, Neutralizes Several Insurgents at Mainok in Borno State pic.twitter.com/hPsYVgSdgx

— DEFENCE HQ NIGERIA (@DHQNigeria) January 13, 2021

QuietMynd:
Mr toju,
Seriously, u deserve to be appointed as an ambassador of the army.
It will be better if u enlist into the army, u re jst wasting ur talent here.
Mr toju that knows the type of training that is been given to soldiers of the army.
Well done sir.
Do u even know intimidation is part of the army way of life.
There is even a course given to cadet in the DNA. Where they re taught to intimidate.
I have 4gotten the name of the course.
After completing it, they will be sent to intimidate civilian and record it to show it to their superior as evidence.
Failing to do it, they will be punished.
I was told this by a soldier friend.

lebuhsi:
If Mali can get theirs, why shouldn't we, with Bonny light and aqua iboe grades almost near $60/b with the benchmark of $40/b in the budget, we don't have any excuse. Even if na 3...

bidexiii:
Mali Airforce received more Mi-35 helicopters from Russia today, which were brought by a Russian military delegation.
Rosoboronexport signed a contract with Mali for 2 Mi-35M helicopters in 2016, which were delivered in Sep 2017. Mali previously procured 7 old Mi-24D helicopters from Bulgaria between 2007-2012. Not sure when the contract for the new Mi-35M was signed.

komekn:
It really depends on what you understand by professionalism. But I picked up this definition online to give us some context.

Commitment and confidence, responsibility and dependability, honesty and ethics, and appearance and professional presence are central professional characteristics.

"The key to quality and efficiency is professionalism"

Let me explain further, your own personal experiences,understanding and knowledge will shape your expectations.

In this regard I do not expect to see trained combatants, abandoning a Vickers MBT in the face of a hostile engagement few rag tag gun trucks from Boko.

The incidents of dereliction of duty and outright cowardice over the years in the NE are too numerous to count.

I dont expect to see professional soldiers stripping women naked because they take exception to thier choice of attire.

Or decide to shave off the hair amidst horse whipping young men because they choose to have their hair in dread locks.

Or decide to drive against the flow of traffic because the military is exempt from traffic laws and run off anybody in their way.

Or decide as a means of entertainment to beat up people because they are army officer cadets in training and block the main road.

Burning down whole villages because a few militants are alleged or indeed come from that village in the Nigerian Delta.

Numerous incidents of the NA visiting murderous mayhem on other security department like the police when in dispute. That's not a professional approach.

I will not go into the corruption of the senior brass of the NA over many decades. Or in particular Burutai and his many million $ assets acquired as a public servant.

Finally, we saw the professional approach of the NA in shooting at defenceless citizens at Lekki tollgate.

The list is literally ENDLESS of deranged murderous violent behaviour and total lack of accountability by the NA.

That's not my PERSONAL experience of PROFESSIONALISM. We have very different EXPECTATIONS.

Nonetheless, l commend you for your optimism and hero worshiping of the NA, it's really. Misguided patriotism.

If you don't address the problem it continues, without admitting our FAILURES we cannot proceed to SUCCESS and VICTORY by wishful thinking.

komekn:
If l was to describe the Nigerian military some od the words I would not use are ; Highly professional, highly disciplined, modern and technologically superior, very effective, infrastructurally competent with the best up to date fit for purpose modern cutting edge equipment in Africa.

I would also not say they are tactically astute with superior battlefield field management and strategy.

I am making comparison with African nations by GDP.

Do you know why the Isreali Army is feared by all the Arab nations. Because they don't make noise with rhetoric, they take an eye for a tooth.

Actions speak louder than word's.

komekn:
Imagine a rag tag bunch of illiterate rudimentary drug addicted fanatics armed with improvised weaponry holding the whole of a nation to ransome. With its HARDENED SOLDIERS.

A situation where the Governor and elected representatives for years do not have full access to the state and all spatial infrastructure of government.

Keyboard warriors who are educated knowledgeable, innovative and informed have a lot more to offer than you may imagine or cannot imagine.

In modern warfare it is not brawn over brains. But Intelligence and Innovation.

JohnEagle96:
any unidentified cars x vehicles moving with out purpose should be dealt with .
or bidex111, xbee007,Toju200, is there any method for detecting VBIEDs for soldiers on patrol or air surveilance? just curious any unidentified cars x vehicles moving with out purpose should be dealt with .
or bidex111, xbee007,Toju200, is there any method for detecting VBIEDs for soldiers on patrol or air surveilance? just curious

komekn:
First of all the structural integrity of the vehicle remain and what we have is limited blast and fire damage.

I would expect combatants to come out with just superficial burns and light injuries. Particularly if they were properly attired.

Nonetheless, for this vehicle which seems to be the STREIT Spartan APC, this is a light armoured vehicle. It has limited protection and it's mine protection inadequate simply not fit for purpose. It is not a MRAP, IFV, and the term APC in its description open to debate.

My assumptive deductions are also that it is over priced, probably cost more than $ 350k per unit, does anybody know❓ Look at marketing strategy of STREIT and the are very open to sharp practises.My analyst where have thou been

It's not BEST VALUE and the best use of very scarce resources.

My criticism is based on better and far more cost effective alternatives as well as fit for purpose armoured vehicles. Our procurement lacks innovation and ingenuity.

Including our own locally sourced and manufactured MRAP's

kabe1:
Troops yesterday Sunday engaged BokoHaram armed with 2 VBIED around Kafa axis, #Borno. 6 insurgents killed & several escaped with gunshot wounds. Troop captured 1 guntruck & some weapons, destroyed 2 VBIED & 2 guntrucks, while 5 soldiers paid supreme price & some injured.

Xbee007:
If you read the original post released by DHQ, you will realise the army did suffer casualties in the initial ambush. "...and later reinforced by troops from 27 TF Bde Buni Gari and Special Forces Training School Buni Yadi..."

Now, I reckon you'd need more than one casualty to request for reinforcement. It was the reinforcement that dealt the heavy blow to ISWAP, probably because they weren't expecting it.

Anytime, I read of reinforcement in Nigerian Army post, I know something terrible must have happened. So the Vanguard report that quoted AFP is highly likely correct since AFP actually relied on the account of two Nigerian Military officers that claimed 13 lives were lost.

NewDelhi:
BH massacred some soldiers on the 9th, nobody is talking about it