Combined Forces: Soldiers(in police flak jackets), seaman and MOPOL patrol in the Niger Delta
Niger Delta rebels
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Very bad patrolling skills, too close together, no one holding thier weapons properly.
How many pressups and leopard crawls should they get for that?
Ok, I’m sure this was taken in a safe area and they were not actually on a propr patrol but I’m in a bad mood and feel like criticising.
Yeah bros, a picture speaks a thousand words.There are many pics of our security forces out there, and more often than not, flaws abound.
I think it’s about attention not being paid to detail.
That gun is huge,what caliber is it
looks like a .50 to me
That is a .50 calibre – the venerable DShK 12.7mm HMG..in the perking order of HMGs, it is as hugely successful as the AK47 – same Soviet quality.
This is the mainstay fore-mounted HMG on militants’ boats in the creeks. For the JTF Niger Delta, it is standard issue on their dozens of Chinese gunboats (fore and aft) but is less widely deployed than the Singapore Technologies Kinetics CIS-50 12.7mm HMG which is mounted on Navy RBS Defender boats, is used as a CIWS on logistics ships and offshore patrol craft and is mounted by the hundreds (some gunboats carry 3 HMGs) on 250+ units of Stingray 10m, 12m and 17m gunboats and landing craft and on K38 combat catamarans.
Sometimes i wonder,nigeria has a pretty powerful armed force(including police and civil defence)so i wounder if as powerful as nigeria seems to be they are not 1 of the world powers,just wat weapons do the so called world powers have
its not the calibre of the weapon but how you use it thats important
Try nuclear, and inter continental missiles
if you fire am for ocean who go know?
@dondrago, you kidding me ?
Nigeria is a NMF factor (non mutha fcuking factor) on the global stage. For the following reasons.
(1) Airpower : NAF has not only become a shadow of it’s former self, It is failing to keep up with the caliber of acquisitions been made on the african continent, let alone the world.
Some progress has been made of recent, but the fact that NAF brass and our political leadership are over congratulating themselves for the barely significant progress made, SHOWS ZERO AWARENESS OF PROGRESS ELSEWHERE ON THE CONTINENT.
(2) Navy : NN cannot secure it’s territorial waters, NN has lost it’s limited power projection ability. NN has little to no anti-ship, anti-submarine prowess. We can’t even protect our oil reserves from an aggressive third world navy like south africa, morocco, algeria, egypt, brazil, etc.
(3) Army: Granted NA is refurbishing it’s long unserviceable armored and mechanized fleet, our peers on the continent are taking the leap to the next level.
Uganda and ethiopia have acquired or are in the process of acquiring T-90s main battle tanks. tanzania and sudan have acquired chinese upgrades that are superior to the T-72 tank. south sudan, DRC, Angola,ethiopia, all have versions of T-72 upgrades.
While NA’s artillery prowess, still ranks at the top, others are rapidly catching up.
Counter insurgency is the only area NA is making a globally respectable progress. And even at that, we are still lacking an attack & transport helicopter fleet capable of fully exploiting our new COIN outlook.
Our air defense SAMs are outdated, and lack the range to provide adequate coverage for nigeria’s prized civilian and military facilities.
Uganda, as the SIPRI data shows, acquired ex ukrainian SA-3/S-125 pechora missiles. While this missile system was recently decimated by nato in libya, and by the US in iraq. It is still sophisticated enough to protect uganda from the daily and national humiliating aerial bombardment that Sudan is visiting on newly independent south sudan.