The super star of 2021, especially in the latter stages was without a doubt the A-29 Super Tucano...i mean, they ushered insurgents into 2022 by wiping out two notorious commanders on New Years Day.
But there will be a hostile takeover in 2022.
The CH-4 and Wing Loong II UAVs will be the stars of 2022 due to their numerous battlefield advantages over manned systems.
They will be the most valuable asset of the NAF in achieving a variety of strategic and tactical objectives, including ISR and kinetic strike operations.
The capabity to hover above an area for 30+ hours is helpful in gathering more data or attacking enemy targets more efficiently on a scale no other platform in the NAF can hope to replicate.
Twenty four M346-FA will join the party. The NAF will be fielding two complete Squadrons of a fixed wing strike platform for the first time since the Jaguars were retired in the early 90s.
The drones will be employed primarily as an intelligence collection asset and secondarily against dynamic execution targets. Given its significant loiter time of over 24 hours, wide range sensors, multi mode communications suite, and precision weapons.
it provides a unique capability to perform strike, coordination, and reconnaissance against high value and time sensitive targets 24 hours a day. They can also perform close air support, combat search and rescue, convoy and raid overwatch, route clearance.
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Came across a piece by weekly magazine - The Economist. A British based Magazine that claims to be insightful and fair minded. We all know that western media focuses on negative coverage of Africa. The presentation of African news by Western media convinces the audiences in
the West that the entire continent of Africa is hopeless, poverty and disease stricken.
They focus on human interest and emotional stories rather than presenting the larger social or economic issues involved. The Economist is an embodiment of this bias.
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When violence erupts, the Nigerian government does nothing or cracks heads almost indiscriminately. The Nigerian military is demoralized. Its soldiers afraid to fight. Insecurity is at it's worse since the insurgency began in 2009 "
For those wondering what the movement is all about,
We are making a big leap into the digital battlefield. We are at war. An information war, with persistent negative media narrative aimed at discrediting the Nigerian government and create antagonism among Nigerians by preying
So someone is asking why we are against Emmanual Macrons proposal for a Franco-Nigeria security framework in the Lake Chad basin and greater Sahel region. The question is, WHERE these threats are emanating from?
Terrorist groups do not operate in a vacuum. Neither do they materialize out of thin air. How in the world are terrorist groups proliferating in the most militarized region of the continent with 17 military installations spread among the two most powerful nations in the west?
December 23, 2019.
France carried out a drone strike killing 40 terrorists in central Mali. The drones were launched from Niamey Niger, where France has three drones and a Squadron of Mirage fighters.
Few countries in the world can legitimately lay claim to be a Bastion of Democracy than Nigeria.
Even when Nigeria was under a military junta, Nigeria still used its military power in reinstating the ousted civilian government of Sierra leone and restore democracy.
As the premier and principal military power in West Africa, Nigeria is the only country eligible and capable of doing so without a hidden agenda compared to others.
When compared with French military intervention in the region the difference is like night and day.
Every country Nigeria have intervened in militarily ( Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Gambia) are all free, functioning and thriving democracies today.
Compare that with French intervention in francophone West Africa. Mali for example was a democracy when the French intervened.
The Lagos Agreement of August 1979. An accord demanding the withdrawal of French troops in Chad, be replaced by a multinational African peacekeeping force. This accord was dead on arrival.
The Golden Age of Nigerian diplomacy. Chad was of primodial importance in Nigeria's foreign policy consideration all through the 70s and 80s. Nigeria considered the worsening civil war in Chad may sooner or later affect Nigeria's political and security interest.
Nigeria was put in a position where she had to monitor and react to day situation of the Chadian crises. The Nigerian government did not favour the presence of foreign troops on African soil in general and around Nigeria in particular, as a way of ending all forms of colonialism
The lead agency in internal security, which is the Nigeria Police Force must UP their game, especially in intelligence gathering. They are the primary agency of government. The military is more or less to offer supplementary services when it comes to internal security.
Funding should be made available for military equipment for use by local, state, and federal law enforcement for policing purposes. This includes everything from light tanks, MRAPS, drones, night-vision goggles... they should be equipped with tactics to take on the appearance,
armament, and behavior of soldiers at war. As police officers drape themselves in the trappings of a military force, like members of an army prepared to go to war, insurgents will find themselves trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea...