Whyem15: Small players in the market should meet with the big players like proforce and Innoson to organize defense expo, to increase collaborations with other players in the market to improve products and to also help link some of these startups with their target customers.
The primary local defense partner of the military will definitely be proforce and as such the military will prefer to buy whatever UAV proforce has to offer than what these startups are offering but the startups can partner with the likes of proforce or sell their systems and subsystems to proforce to incorporate into Proforce's systems. This is the only way many of them will survive and expand. At the height of the mass school kidnappings, a startup came up with a UAV system that can map out CO2 emmisions and detect large gatherings of people in a large area based on their CO2 expiration. It would have been a very useful search and rescue tool for the military but then...... If they had probably met with proforce or INNOSON, they might have helped them reach the military.
Whyem15: Saw tweets on how we lost several troops to yellow buckets in years past and was almost moved to tears. The widely known offensive led by Gen. Adeniyi in 2018 was blunted due to the destruction of two of the yellow buckets in his column, at the end of the day a whole Battalion and more perished. It was also reported that Adeniyi also made a lot of errors in the planning stage and during the ambush that led to more losses
We lost alot of men in that Gen. Adeniyi lead offensive but it's not close to 10% of a battalion. That guy on twitter provides alot of credible information but he also exaggerate alot on the side of the military and also BH.
EricBraven: Just thinking, is it that journalist or news reporters are not willing to dig deep for information or they just say as they see fit abi nah hearsay.
It is mostly intentional. Sensational journalism is the mainstream here. Sensation=More clicks, more clicks=more money
ChuksTalking: Am enjoying this thread show with my mouth shut not saying a word, but am missing Bidexiii, so we pray he is well and not banned.
For that man's long tori like WAEC essay or NECO, some sense is in it but maybe his land cruiser Toyota 1,000 pick up is not NA soft skined 4 WD his own idea may be up armoured type like our own Proforce armoured land cruiser Toyota so he may be right, NA needs it for special forces or rapid deployment, hot pursuit and soft soil too weak for heavy apc, ifv, mraps. Please buy 1,000 from us we deliver on time, call our head prodn dept Ayo @ tel 08023890712
Please do you know the unit cost of these vehicles
Only a matter of time before this is replicated on land too, it is a far cheaper than any sort of fence. The damages that the porosity of our borders has done is enormous.
Fantastic. I don't know why this is hard to replicate on land especially our northern border.
The terrain of the northern border is very friendly to systems like this cos they are majorly Flatlands.
The only place these systems might find it hard to function is our border with Cameroon which is made up of so many hills and mountains which would cause obstruction with regards to covering long distances.
ecomog1990: Call it pull down whatever if you wish, but only a joker will celebrate 100 Dongfeng unarmed vehicles as solution to this endless war and PKM + RPG Tuaregs on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway that in 1980s Nigerians travel midnight without fear of killers. Its senseless to roll out drums and dance every 6 months that 100 vehicles are procured by FGN.
If FGN takes delivery of 1,000 LandCruiser with KPV 14.5mm & 1,000 VN22 IFV & 1,000 ZBD-03 & 1,000 REVA MKIII then we all know dis war will end in 6 months with saturation of security presence in all our 774 LGA. That is the one and ONLY way to secure a Nigeria that has unprotected porous borders open to poverty hungry bloodthirsty machine gun and rocket grenade armed fearless killers.
Shout those 4,000 vehicles are expensive billions of dollars, but what is the life of 200 million Nigerians worth? If we are Europeans with smart brain of White men will we celebrate 100 Dongfengs unarmed, as if we got 1,000 Boxer IFVs ?
We don't need to dance for every ineffective procurement, we need to dance for what will make us Nigerians able to travel from Lagos tru Kaduna to Maiduguri in 16 hours without armed escort and arrive home alive without fear in the 1990s.
Maybe you are too young to know the safe Nigeria we know, your generation grew up to know Niger Delta Militants, Boko Haram, and killer Fulani Herdsmen plus Bandit with RPG
What the heck is this bro Komekn has hacked this account
The dongfeng APC has a nice mobility but it's protection is kinda wack. Armour protection of 7.62mm ball at 100metres is pretty much worthless in the advent of an ambush. It's better than our soft skin Hilux tho and it will be very useful for the special forces.
Oga how does that terrain resemble that of Borno. The guy that mentioned bandits is even closer than you cos the terrain looks like that of North west. The dressing, the looks everything is more similar to North west than Borno.
Roan77: What are you talking about? This is very confusing, I'm lost here at this point. I'm telling you about the conventional capabilities of Nigeria military, and you are saying something different entirely. How are the Chadian troops faring against Boko Haram/ISWAP? They are getting hit too by the terrorists, this is a country that also lost it Chief in command/president in the hand of rebels, stop overeating Chad, they are nothing without France. I think you are the inexperienced one here, when it comes to defense, if you can't use historic records as a judgement.
Don't stress yourself too far bro, komekn will never accept defeat. He will rather repeat his wrong assertions over and over again or drift you away from the topic.
jpphilips: A disturbed Ethiopia wont pose significant threat for Nigeria, Tigray guys are not terrorists but anti government rebels unlike Libya that was a beehive of Alqaeda, Daesh & other Takfiri fighters. Mali's Anzawad insurgency mirrowed Libya's situation more.
If the Tigray guys succeed (very unlikely) they will form a government that will keep Ethiopia stable, already, US has warned they shouldn't invade Addis Ababa but remain within their disputed territory, Abiy Ahmed is already talking to Turkey & other coalition partners, if fruitful, will replay Russia's assistance to Assad as FSA inched closer to Damascus.
The refugee crisis will overwhelm Eritrea, Djibouti and perhaps Kenya, they surely not coming west, perhaps south or accross the Gulf of Aden. Nigeria needs not worry about that.
A disturbed Ethiopia makes the government weak, a weak government will make a perfect ground for terrorism to thrive. It's now a matter of if they want to.
RiceProducers: This is nonsense. I know what RWS is. Soldiers don't want it in most countries. RWS are good as stand alone, unmanned guard emplacements. Part of electronic fencing. Maybe when autonomous robots start getting deployed, the systems would find widespread adoption.
Can you point me to where soldiers said they don't want it cos this is the first time I'm hearing this
RiceProducers: Final solution?. What does this mean exactly. I think we got the best equipment for the threat level and threat nature. We don't want think skin vehicles We want to be able to storm defences in all terrains We want decent fire support whilst disembarking This solution fits everything.
Nobody uses this mechanized infantry tool without IFVs, a few light tanks and even some eye in the skies providing back up.
RWS/RCWS are near useless and expensive to own. Nobody has actually talked about use case, operatability and reliability in the whole fog of was situation.
The only thing missing in this solution is an active protection system APS like GL5 but the MBTS and IFVs in convoy would have that and there are just too many other sensors active during an offensive to destroy any hostile with RPG or RCL quickly
komekn: Its possible I am raising this topic very late.
But a few days ago the MSC Lucia off the coast of Nigeria in our territorial water was boarded by Pirates (possibly Nigerian) the ship gave out a distress call. And the Russian Vice Admiral Kulakov, Russian warship sent a Kumov Ka-27PS helicopter with the combat-ready squad to liberate the vessel. The pirates on seeing that the Russians are not likely to engage in peaceful discussion decided to "Jakpa" and flee the scene and not rely on the efficacy of their "Odeshi"
This is worrying trend and a slight on national pride , because prior to the intervention of the international community pirates was getting way too high. We now need foreign navies to secure our territorial waters , hmmmm get as eee be.
A task force from the Russian Northern Fleet has been on an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Guinea over the past three weeks. It consists of the rescue tug Altai, the medium sea tanker Akademik Pashin and the large anti-submarine warfare (ASW) vessel Vice Admiral Kulakov. The Russian marines are providing security for shipping and monitoring the maritime situation using deck-based aviation. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russian-navy-confronts-pirates-africa%E2%80%99s-west-coast-195643
The way you spit ignorance with confidence is incredible. All stats released this year with regards to security status on Nigerian waters have stated that insecurity is at an all time low.
It's only in your own book that pirates are getting way too high.
JOSCOFELIX: The military are really trying. Offensive have not started but alot of success have being recorded. Iswap have release a memo asking all there foot solider to move toward border community to avert air strike and foot attack. From troop. Within three month over 25 high ranking commander of iswap are dead. Unconfirmed report has it that iswap new commander may have died from yesterday attack from DSOF. 3 three iswap field commander killed. Right now an operation is going on. Some island are make for clearance and strike operation. All thank to CDS for joint operation between the military.. but the military should strike iswap base in Niger republic 50-100km it is housing major equipment and foot solider . It is there training ground. It is believe that some international country are supplying equipment and money to that base which then move to their operational base in Nigeria. A well airstrike is recommended
Someone also claimed that the new leader has been eliminated but reliability of the source is low
Foreign Affairs › Re: Battle Field Discussion (picture/video) Of African Military . by youghs: 3:58pm On Nov 13, 2021
