Thread by @beegeaglesblog

SPECIFICS on the NEW ASSETS COMMISSIONED this week for the Nigerian Navy

- one Made-in-Nigeria 43 metre Seaward Defence Boat,NNS OJI

- one OCEA 60 metre Hydrographic Survey Vessel,NNS LANA

- two DAMEN 40 metre Offshore Tug/Supply Vessels

- two OCEA 35 metre Fast Patrol Craft

111 units of inshore patrol craft/river gunboats viz

* Made-in-Nigeria EPENAL river gunboats (the majority of these 111 boats)

* Singaporean SUNCRAFT 17m Manta ASD littoral interceptors

* 17mAresa 1700 inshore patrol craft

- one Agusta A109 helicopter for the Naval Air Arm

Important to add that the NN are commendably escalating the pace of local shipbuilding efforts with the simultaneous construction of Seaward Defence Boats IV and V for which keels have now been laid.

Kudos to our Nigerian naval engineers and architects.

Capital Ships Known To Be Currently Slated For Delivery 2022-24 (with other possibilities emerging)

- a 100 metre landing ship (tank)

- two 1,100 ton Oceanic Patrol Corvettes from Turkey

- a 45 metre Fast Patrol Craft from China

- a 35 metre OCEA Hydrographic Survey Vessel

FOOTAGE from the event

Three units of 17 metre MANTA Mk.II ASD littoral interceptors in the shade of two 35 metre OCEA Fast Patrol Craft

In the foreground (tinted windows) are 17 metre ARESA inshore patrol craft

L-R: Three units of Manta Mk.II ASD littoral interceptors, an OCEA FPB 110 Fast Patrol Craft and NNS Oji P275 - crafted with pride in the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Locally manufactured river gunboats - nowadays the mainstay patrol and littoral warfare platforms in Nigeria's inshore maritime precincts.

*Addendum*

NNS Osun P191, a 24 metre OCEA FPB 72 Mk.II Fast Patrol Craft was also commissioned in this cycle of inductions.

Forgot to add that. Was concerned with "capital ships" and IPCs/river gunboats

L-R: two 17m ARESA 1700 inshore patrol craft, NNS Osun P191 - a 24m OCEA fast patrol craft and NNS Kano P270, a 40m Damen offshore tug/supply vessel