jakeporeshenko:
Nigerian navy to acquire 14 naval patrol boats from SA, chief of naval staff just confirmed this channels television news in an interview while on a visit to South Africa. he met with the both SA navy and air force chiefs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwqOYZpQow

giles14:
dem don try
but wot of the specs

frumentius:


I knew he was here but I thought it was just a diplomatic visit to coincide with the Navy Festival. I wonder who the company is, though I suspect it's Paramount.

jakeporeshenko:

Seems like he also took a tour of at least one of your frigates and a submarine, only if he led a team of crack commandos to commandeer both vessels and sail back to Nigeria

jakeporeshenko:


paramount has some good options but personally I feel NN will go for those Damen patrol boats, a private company in Nigeria already operates several and they take part in joint exercises with NN.

frumentius:


So does Paramount (have products in Nigeria, I mean). And a base in Port Harcourt and another office up the coast in Ghana.

jakeporeshenko:

Paramount has a base in Port Harcourt??

frumentius:

Yep. Nautic Africa, which built the Nigerian Guardians I posted, established the base for vessel life-cycle support and servicing. When Paramount acquired Nautic, there was even talk of expansion so that the remaining 4 of the 7 Guardians could be fitted there.

jakeporeshenko:


I am afraid you might have confused me or yourself, the Guardians 1, 2 and 3 were designed and constructed by Damen

http://www.damen.com/en/news/2017/03/additional_fcs_3307_patrol_vessel_ordered_by_homeland

Cape Town-based shipbuilding and maritime solutions company Nautic Africa will be building seven of its new 35-metre Fast Multi Role Patrol Vessels for West African clients, at a total value in excess of R600 million. The vessels will be the first in their class to be designed and built in South Africa.

Nautic Africa has already laid keels on two of the vessels, with three to follow in July. It expects to make its first deliveries next year and to complete the contract early in 2015.

The orders resulted from the company’s collaboration with West African navies, as well as oil and gas companies, to develop an effective way of counteracting illegal fishing, piracy and other illicit offshore activities.

James Fisher, Nautic Africa CEO, said, “The orders reflect our customers’ confidence in our ability to deliver solutions-based products, coupled with unparalleled on-the-ground service and support.” They have also cemented plans for the expansion of Nautic Africa’s second West African base, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, which will focus exclusively on vessel life-cycle support and servicing. The company already has a base in Takoradi, Ghana.
They will utilise the South African-developed Nautic ‘Super Shield’ Ballistic Protection system and will be sold with a multitude of role capabilities, key being the Nautic Fast Deployable Interceptors (FDI), vessels known as Guardians.
http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31267&Itemid=106

frumentius:

And now I pile on the confusion:

jakeporeshenko:
so Nautic Africa is Paramount, but you can agree with me that Damen built 3 of 4 guardian patrol vessels for HIOSL, "Damen’s Local Service Hub in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, will ensure that maintenance, repairs and any additional support is handled by Damen engineers."
so Damen also has its own base in Port Harcourt.

frumentius:


Yes. Incidentally, yet more reason I suspect it's Paramount who'll supply the 14 NN vessels. Damen SA had no involvement with Homeland's Guardians; they come out of Singapore. And seeing the boats are to be acquired in SA, I imagine the NN would go to a SA company with direct experience in Nigeria.

jakeporeshenko:
Nigerian navy to acquire 14 naval patrol boats from SA, chief of naval staff just confirmed this channels television news in an interview while on a visit to South Africa. he met with the both SA navy and air force chiefs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwqOYZpQow

chkil0:


As I am addict to the internet and this forum , I wanted to decrease a little since I have a difficult examination to prepare , with huge montain of difficult studies but as you can see impossible to resist

jakeporeshenko:
look st the pictures, I see Damen, i see homeland and I see Guardian.

Henry240:


It's a good thing that the boats would be mostly built in Nigeria. I was about going ballistic until I got to that part.

Nice to see that the SAAF brought out jets for him, this should give the SAAF a much needed flying time.

In all, I'm Okay with the visit, but the SA navy chief though, talking about budget first, instead of a shared maritime goal to see security in African waters....... SMH!

Henry240:


It's a good thing that the boats would be mostly built in Nigeria. I was about going ballistic until I got to that part.

Nice to see that the SAAF brought out jets for him, this should give the SAAF a much needed flying time.

In all, I'm Okay with the visit, but the SA navy chief though, talking about budget first, instead of a shared maritime goal to see security in African waters....... SMH!

frumentius:


You really are quite pathetic. No jets were brought out for him; that was file footage. And the SA naval chief was asked what similar challenges did they discuss facing the SA & Nigerian navies. Our naval operational environments are dissimilar and the most common challenge remains fulfilling objectives with ever-diminishing budgets.

Oh well, dogs bark while the caravan moves on.

jakeporeshenko:

What size vessels do you think we are looking st here ??

MikeCZA:
We are getting JF-17 multi-role fighters.

MikeCZA:
We are getting JF-17 multi-role fighters.