SamuelAnyawu:


The hardwares were stationed at Charlie One (The entrance to Monguno through Maiduguri) and Charlie Six (Entrance to Monguno through Marte).

After the last attack in January this year the Military increased more hardwares at these entrances. The first laxity of the Military was their inability to detect the intruding BH guys. The Military guarding the entrances were taken by surprise. The Soldiers at the entrance abandoned their position after BH started shooting sporadically at the entrance.
Some Soldiers were killed at both entrance, even some soldiers trying to run back to the barracks mistakenly ran into the BH guys.

The barracks is more than a Kilometer away from that entrance. The 1:00 minute section of that video was 500meters to the barracks.

The Army needs to start hunting these guys
Around lake the neighbouring LGAs surrounding Monguno town. If these guys can pull such a stunt for 2hours during the day I don't know what will happen if this attack was during their 5:30 pm attack time.

The Army needs to start a massive operation and take the war to them. I am basically tired how we always sit duck and await their attacks. Even Repelling such attacks now has become a great positive news for the Red necks/Federal without any one of them thinking why don't we take the attacks to them. If not for that Video the Military never disclosed we lost such hardwares.

We should take this war to their doorsteps!!!!!!!

EricBraven:

I don't think this apply to the COAS

Tobiloba2407:


Sam thanks for the update...and if those vehicles are serviceable, the most senior personnel on duty at that location should face a B.O.I....at the same time, I think those vehicles have the wrong equipments to stop or slow down a bht, fast advance....a rapid fire 30 mm, would have been the best equipment.

I swear the waiting down to be attacked is really annoying, I hope the new equipments were bought with the mindset that they would be more mechanically efficient, so they would spearhead the hunt of boko haram.

bidexiii:



Me president should improve the military budgets and we need to do some serious shopping for the army & airforce , Even if the current service chiefs gets sacks and new ones are appointed it will still be the same stories !
I’ll miss the CAS if he get sacked

SamuelAnyawu:


That Jet was the Major Impact. No member ISWAP died from a military bullet. The guys were marching close to the barracks before the jet showed up. I even heard their gun trucks we're shooting at the Jets.

Tobiloba2407:


Sam thanks for the update...and if those vehicles are serviceable, the most senior personnel on duty at that location should face a B.O.I....at the same time, I think those vehicles have the wrong equipments to stop or slow down a bht, fast advance....a rapid fire 30 mm, would have been the best equipment.

I swear the waiting down to be attacked is really annoying, I hope the new equipments were bought with the mindset that they would be more mechanically efficient, so they would spearhead the hunt of boko haram.

youghs:


COAS as well is doing a good job to be honest..no army chief has come close to what he has Achieved...He has done well as for the war against terror but there still more to be done..

Xbee007:

This man gets it.

Despite the reality that it was a probing attack, they would have done greater damage if they weren't stopped by the fighter jets that came several hours late.

Both NA and NAF need to do a lot more.

Toju200:
actually most of them where killed by bullets.
What the Alpha jet did was to take out the Guntrucks which the pilot did successfully taking out three that where on the run.
Majority of the dead bodies weren't shredded na so obviously soilders did well if u ask me. But it's not right to start waiting to be attacked. This new set of ISWAP are daring and will return.

Odunayaw:
Alarm - Brief - Pilot suit up - concurrent arming - fly to and arrive on target.

Not an excuse for coming "late". Just a different opinion on this late coming of NAF. How long do you think this chain of events last.

Meanwhile, why are some forgetting the offensive push(es) of April/May and making it seem NA has been sitting idle

Odunayaw:
Alarm - Brief - Pilot suit up - concurrent arming - fly to and arrive on target.

Not an excuse for coming "late". Just a different opinion on this late coming of NAF. How long do you think this chain of events last.

Meanwhile, why are some forgetting the offensive push(es) of April/May and making it seem NA has been sitting idle

SamuelAnyawu:



Nice one bro. But do the USAF and Russian Airforce have to spend much time as we mostly observe here in Naija? Tho the NAF responded earlier in Monguno attack. I will always say that Monguno has always received quick response from NAF. Some locations that are even before you arrive Monguno like Gajiram

SamuelAnyawu:



Nice one bro. But do the USAF and Russian Airforce have to spend much time as we mostly observe here in Naija? Tho the NAF responded earlier in Monguno attack. I will always say that Monguno has always received quick response from NAF. Some locations that are even before you arrive Monguno like Gajiram

bidexiii:



How many minutes did you think those guys used in burning down those vehicles, destroying properties and even trying to win the heart of the locals ?
The NAF his trying but they can do a lot more better by arriving earlier it would save a lot of lives, military equipment and properties.

youghs:


COAS as well is doing a good job to be honest..no army chief has come close to what he has Achieved...He has done well as for the war against terror but there still more to be done..

SamuelAnyawu:


I used a Gajiram attack where Soldiers fought over an hour and 30 minutes before withdrawing. Gajiram is 50Km away from Maiduguri on Monguno-Maiduguri road. Exactly the NAF should improve as it saves lives.

SamuelAnyawu:


I used a Gajiram attack where Soldiers fought over an hour and 30 minutes before withdrawing. Gajiram is 50Km away from Maiduguri on Monguno-Maiduguri road. Exactly the NAF should improve as it saves lives.

rka2:
You armchair Generals again speaking on operational matters you think you know about. Have you ever considered that there are nowhere near enough platforms in the air force's inventory to maintain a 24 hour coverage of the NE? And you have the platforms scattered over the country on different operations.
Then there is also downtime involving maintenance etc. Only 80% of not many platforms are available at any time. The Airforce needs a lot more close air support aircraft and attack helicopters than they currently have when you look at the size of the NE. There are also aircraft tasked on other missions and as such also not available at your beckon call.

More advanced countries are more successful in responding because they have aircraft available in the air near 24/7 as they have numbers as well as air to air refuelling to keep them airborne for long periods and available to attack when required with Forward Air Controllers always on the ground (I am sure a few people here think a pilot will just show up with his aircraft and immediately know friend from foe).

This is where the Tucano will be helpful with their loiter time as we don't have air to air refuelling to keep aircraft in the air longer. The pilots are getting trained, what we need now are the platforms in significant numbers.

You can post without calling anyone an Arm chair General. We are Nigerians and free to ask questions

ugo4u:

This is one of the reasons NA calling for their own aviation unit makes sense but reality on ground is that we're not ready to fund such gargantuan project. What the NA can do in the interim is to establish a drone unit stationed in the NE, then get very cheap drones CH-5 etc from China/Turkey within $1m to $3m with ability to drop payloads. I think 5 to 10units will be ok for a start, with $20m we could kickstart this unit get weapons, train technicians/pilots to operate them or at worst even borrow NAF personnel for the interim to run the new unit till NA finds their feet. The drone unit will have a hotline established with all frontline bases, camps, outposts etc they should be on standby 24hrs, meaning atleast one of the drones in their fleet should be ready to be launched at any given time. I think this option is quite realistic instead waiting to get Mi35s, Apaches etc
Yes, I think going for cheap drones isn't really a bad idea considering out financial state, Bokoharam for now don't have the sophistry to bring down high altitude aircrafts like rebels in Libya, so why are we not exploring that option.

SamuelAnyawu:


You can post without calling anyone an Arm chair General. We are Nigerians and free to ask questions

rka2:


What about when you have multiple attacks at different locations? What will that one drone do? We have not even talked about the expertise needed by the army to man them as well as the logistics, base & aircraft maintenance, trained soldiers that understand base defence etc.

You can't base aircraft near trenches as some have been advocating (even a general. Shows how much he understands about military aviation). You can have FOBs, but if anywhere near hostile territory, will need to be well protected or you will lose many helicopters.

What is needed are more aircraft as well as NAF FACs based at all bases. Some Army personnel can also be trained in co-ordinating air strikes.

ugo4u:

You didn't read my post with comprehension carefully go through it again.
I said atleast One drone amongst the fleet should be readily available 24/7 for emergencies, not that only one will be used for such operations. Moreover even if it is one available it can go a long way in ameliorating any emergency ground forces encounter. As for expertise I clearly stated that personnel from NAF can be drafted in the interim while the NA finds its feet expertise-wise.
Drones I'm talking about have a range of about 8000km with over 40hrs endurance. It doesn't need to be in the frontlines it can be operated from a very secured base in say Maiduguri or even within NAfs facilities.

Jimi24:


Finally, an educated person made a post on Naira land. Thank God. The ignorance in Nigeria is on another class especially when it comes to international affairs and history.

jpphilips:


Israelites of the Biblical era & today's Israelites aren't the same people.
the former were Hebrew descendants of Jacob while the later are product of Balfour agreement.
The only Biblical Israelites in the state of Israel are the Bnei Menashe returned from India in 2005.

So the state of Israel has been at war since the 50's not Biblical era.