If you want something done slowly, expensively, and over budget, you go to the Nigerians. While Nigeria is the economic and energy superpower with a GDP of $1 trillion (ppp) and 40 billion barrels in oil reserve, it also has a wealth of dangerous, disgraceful and diabolical airforce.

This is the aircraft that defends 200 million Nigerians and 937,000 sqr kilometres of territory. In defining a diabolical airforce we take into account the following :

Conceptual mistakes

Being extremely dangerous

and hopelessly obsolete

Grab your popcorn, and prepare to get pissed, as you read about the multibillion dollar machines they want young Nigerians to fly to war to defend 937,000 sq kilometres of Nigerian territory.

Take an aircraft so dangerous, that statistically it is more likely than not, to crash, and arm it with missiles. In one example, in 2012 at: am, a missile was accidentally fired from an airforce jet on routine maintenance at the Airforce mechanic hangar in Port Harcourt, hitting an uncompleted building three kilometres away from the scene, sending panic-stricken residents fleeing for their dear lives.

That same year it kills two a commanding officers when it crashed on a training mission.

....and there you have the Chengdu F-7Ni Airguard. The guardian of the sky.

The F-7N is a Chinese clone of the ex Soviet MiG-21. The MiG-21 was built in the mid 50's, barely five years after the Second World War. Yet 60 years later, this 1950 designed aircraft, replacing the Jaguar fighter jet as the best tactical fighter in the Nigerian airforce. And the Jaguars? it only exists in the form of museum pieces, standing in the cold in some village nearby.

The F-7N was acquired in 2005 as a stop-gap measure while the airforce searched for a suitable fighter to replace the Jaguar fighter jets and the MiG-21 as Nigeria's primary frontline fighter jets.

Nigeria must have been swimming in a ridiculous amount of cash in the beginning of the decade, so much so that the government threw vast resources, spending $360 million on 15 aircrafts, that were at best mediocre, and which played an important part, in teaching the world that Nigeria does not take her national defense seriously.


Its been 26 years since the Jaguars were locked up in some Warehouse after a spat with BAE, 13 years since the MiG -21 was retired. In that 13 years Nigeria has spent nearly $22 billion cumulatively, yet despite the up tempo of the Nigerian airforce in nearly a decade the nation is still unable or unwilling to take the defense of the nations airspace and strategic national assets seriously. Last week the government spent $500 million for 12 turboprop aeroplanes. Before that it was the Super Mushank trainer aircrafts. Before that it was two VIP Helicopters.

It is irresponsible and borders on criminal the amount of money spent on junk while the airforce is stretched near breaking point carry out operations on multiple fronts.

https://defensenigeria.com/2018/02/12/will-the-f-7ni-fighter-remain-in-service-till-2030/

You, Mr OP is among the few reasonable Nigerian who is thinking far. But the question is, how many Nigerians think like you? The answer is a hand full.
How can a handful of us elect into office prospectful people? Never!!. The foolish Nigerians outweigh the reasonable ones.

Go to airforce base makurdi hanger where I grew up and see a lot of all this Alpha jets,mig 21 jets....its unfortunate that airforce can't pay one retired airman by name Gofun Micah Bonga to fix this jets for us.......

The Govt of Nigeria is Useless, has always been useless, will remain useless.
So yes those cheap Chinese MiG21 clones would continue flying till they all fall from the skies.

Strategic national security planning, budgeting and acquisitioning is non existent in Nigeria. Just give up on Nigeria already and save yourself from heart attack.

that was how buhari and his cows were making mouth. now he is president.


he spent a huge chunk of his presidency globethrothing whoever wants to stand with him should go and wait for him in daura. 2019 gbam bubu will and his herd will go to Daura

iamvictorbassey:
You, Mr OP is among the few reasonable Nigerian who is thinking far. But the question is, how many Nigerians think like you? The answer is a hand full.
How can a handful of us elect into office prospectful people? Never!!. The foolish Nigerians outweigh the reasonable ones.

It's an African thing. Black people are just more dumb and stupid than other races.