Looks like Zelensky has adopted the "if i go down you go down with me" approach. He is basically asking for World War 3. I just stumbled upon a clip of Zelenskys railing against what he calls "NATO's weakness", it's "disunity" its "cowardice" over its refusal to institute
..A No Fly Zone in Ukraine, which will entail NATO jets shooting down Russian planes. What's worse, he said World War 3 has already started and tries the emotionally blackmail NATO into a nuclear war. He calls the recent NATO summit a "Weak summit".
A "confused summit". NATO, he said "deliberately decided not to close the sky over Ukraine"
The scariest part was this remark
QUOTE
All the people who will die starting from today will die because of you. Because of your weakness and disunity. All the alliance managed to do
...So far is to carry 50 tons of diesel fuel for Ukraine
END QUOTE.
Ukraine has a standing army of 200,000 men. It has received over a billion dollars worth of equipment from NATO nations. Hundreds of Javelin ATGMs, the deadliest in the world. Ukraine is not a NATO member
member hence the article 5 of the NATO chatter thay says "an attack on one is an attack on all" cannot be executed. Asking NATO to intervene in a non NATO member state, knowing fully well it will go nuclear has to be the most irresponsible demand so far. The Russian military has
..been demystified in the Ukraine. Putin had intended the invasion to be swift, with troops quickly taking Kyiv and deposing President Zelenskyy’s government.
But his troops were met with stiff resistance from Ukraine’s armed forces thanks to weapons supplied by NATO members,
especially the U.S and UK. Russia does not have complete control of Ukrainian airspace after two weeks of fighting. Russia's conventional forces is no match for NATO. A NATO no fly zone over Ukraine will see the Russian Air force decimated.
For Vladimir Putin, the decision to invade Ukraine could be his crowning legacy or the nail in the coffin of his two decade domination of Russia. Putin will without hesitation resort to using nuclear weapons that suffer a humiliating defeat at a hands of NATO.
NATO expansion into former Soviet Republics and the possibility of Ukraine becoming a NATO member state is part of the reason behind Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Imagine NATO jets actually shooting down Russian jets to enforce a No Fly Zone over Ukraine.
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So this has been a huge shock. Our $596 million Super Tucano did not come with the full package. The NAF is yet to receive precision strike equipment for the A-29. So it took over 8 years to take delivery of the A-29, yet the most critical component is yet to be delivered.
The NAF made a conscious decision to aquire some of the most advanced precision guided munitions money can buy. The Philipines, Mali, Burkina Faso etc all operate Super Tucanos, aquired from the parent company Embrae in Brazil. But at a far more affordable cost.
Mali aquired 12 Super Tucanos for $180 million. Nigeria could have done the same if it wanted to, afterall airframe is basically the same. But Nigeria wanted advanced precision strike capability for its Super Tucano.
The war in Ukraine has proven that the concept of using land based rocket artillery against seaborne targets might be practical under certain circumstances.
Rememeber this Russian warship Vasily Bykov?
This is the Russian warship that ordered Ukranian soldiers manning a Black sea outpost on Ukraine's Snake Island to surrender.
The soldiers reply " Go f**k yourself" was heard round the world.
The guided missile corvette Vasily Bykov have been destroyed by Ukranian troops. They used a smaller vessel to lure the Russian ship closer to shore where a hidden rocket artillery could open fire. As it came within range the MLRS systems unloaded on the Russian warship.
In 2015 Nigeria turned to Russia and Belarus following what Abuja called "snubish and nonchalant attitude of the U.S and UK towards Nigeria in its fight against Boko Haram. For perspective on the reason behind
The following events took place between 2014 and 2015 month period.
1. The U.S blocks a Nigeria-Israeli deal for the sale of AH-1 Viper attack helicopters to Nigeria.
2. Nigeria accuses the United States of not providing sufficient support for its fight against Boko Haram.
3. President Goodluck Jonathan terminates a training program that involves the U.S training a Nigerian army battalion.
700 soldiers of the Armed Forces Special Force (AFSF) are sent to Belarus and Russia for 4 months of training as snipers, chosen after a rigorous screening.
I've avoided tweeted on this for days because the comment section will devolve into a mini world war 3..but what the hell.
So India launched the fastest supersonic cruise missile in the world into Pakistan on Wednesday and blamed it on a technical malfunction.
This is a missile that travels at Mach 3. Making it near impossible to defend against. It travelled 120km into Pakistan before crashing. What are the odds this was a malfunction?..No Comment 🤐.
India has a healthy respect for the Pakistani air force. The one leverage India has
over Pakistan is in missiles. This could have been to test how Pakistan responds to a missile attack...who knows. This is a highly militarized area with three nuclear powers India, Pakistan and China...it's almost as militarized
March 13 2003, Nigeria officially became a space faring nation when it launched its first satellite launched into orbit. Ushering Nigeria into the space age. Nigeria never looked back ever since.
On May 13 2007, Nigeria launched Africa’sfirst communications satellite, NigComsat-1.
Now here is a fact some Nigerians are having a hard time coming to grips with: August 17 2007. Built by Nigerian engineers, NigeriaSat-2, the most powerful imaging satellite ever sent into orbit was launched at the Yasny military base in Russia.
With the Proforce deal stamped, Belarus is set to become the first country in Europe to aquire defence products from Nigeria.
This is not the first time Belarus will be a prominent feature in Nigeria's ground breaking or historic event.
In 2015 Nigeria became the first African nation to compete at the international stage as a major player in space technology after edgeing out stiff competition from NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency)
to emerge winner in a bidding process to manage Belarus sattelite Belintersat-1 for 15 years in a $600 million deal. Besides transponder leasing, NigComSat will be providing broadband services and secured communications and solutions for 35 for African countries.