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"I pledge to Nigeria My Country, To be faithful loyal and Honest To serve Nigeria with all my strength, To Defend her unity and uphold her Honour and Glory, SO HELP ME GOD" - THE ARMED FORCES OF NIGERIA
To Everyone Deployed Keep Fighting and Give em Hell.
#ForGodAndCountry
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Defence Headquarters SOF and Officers of Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) during counterterrorism operations. The IRT officer holds a FN M249 SAW, widely used by police tactical units.
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COUNTERTERRORISM: Troops of 101 Special Forces battalion thwarted a large scale attack on their position FOB kukawa. Supported by Air component, several terrorists were eliminated with 14 bodies counted so far.
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DICON-Gray insignia (DGI) new assault rifle review by one of our comrade 😌. DGI is a joint venture company that will see the production of new generation assault rifles for the military. They've also produced sniper rifles which has been field tested by the Nigeria army.
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Search and Recovery operation remains ongoing, the terrain remains quite difficult to access in order to resurface and evacuate the aircraft.
Locals have been really helpful and supportive since yesterday 🙏.
May the souls onboard NAF 931 rest in peace Amen 🕯️.
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Nigeria Air Force and Navy Helicopters hovering above the location of the crash site. Several debris have been seen including unidentified bodies and military uniforms.
Such a sad Monday💔🕯️
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SAD NEWS: A Nigeria Air Force ATR-42 (NAF931) crashed in Ondo state during a routine flight from Lagos to Benin. 25 person including 7 crew members were onboard the flight. Search and rescue operations are currently ongoing.
May the souls of the departed rest in peace 🕯️
Amen
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COUNTERTERRORISM: A joint operation by the Nigeria Army, Department of State service and Men from Amotekun has led to the elimination of a key ISWAP leader "Abdussamad Ohida" in Ondo state. this comes after series of intelligence gathering by the DSS.
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NASRDA has stated the acquisition of 6 new satellites is 95% complete. 2 for communications, 3 for Earth Observations and 1 synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for National security will be acquired.
Israeli Aerospace Industry (IAI) and Thales are partners for the project.
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There's an operator in the Navy. Few years ago during an Ops, he took a bullet to his jaw. Luckily he survived and was surgically worked on.
Now back online ... "I'm not done yet".
Men have been through some of the toughest situations and still willing to fight!
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Nigeria Air Force T129 ATAK helicopter cockpit, as it prepares to deploy for Night Ops against terrorists.
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Last night a cargo flight from Ostrava, Czech republic arrived Abuja and left quite early this morning.
Meanwhile in September, A high level Delegation from MoD visited Ostrava for defence related talks including ToT for production of weapons.
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Nigeria Air Force AW109 TrekkerM flight test after assembling at NAF base Ikeja.
3 AW109s were recently delivered bring total number to 5. Additional 7 will be delivered. The helicopter undertakes the role Armed reconnaissance and surveillance, Medevac, Special Operations.
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NCTC-ONSA Special Operations Gazelle helicopter. It's used to provide close air support, Rapid insertion and extraction of operators.
The unit also operate at least one H125, H120 and MD500 helicopter.
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Nigeria Air Force has now fully assembled the 2 H125 Airbus Helicopters. Recall I mentioned NSA and NAF lobbying for helicopters with the H125 been considered.
Moving forward, unconfirmed reports of another incoming acquisition. Stay tuned 🤝
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Nigeria navy Marine Commando during counterterrorism operations using a PKT Machine Gun.
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Nigeria Air Force Special Operations Command operators during counterterrorism operations in a rainy weather.
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Nigeria police Force (FHQ) Special intervention Squad (SIS) operator, with an unknown marksman/sniper rifle. Police special operations/Tactical teams uses various marksman/sniper rifles including SDV marksman rifle, CZ TSR High Precision Sniper Rifle.
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Nigeria navy Air Arm AR500B UAV Ground control Station (GCS). The navy uses the AR500B for ISR operations, over the Horizon targeting amongst others.
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Nigeria Air Force Pilot at 403 Flying Training school (FTS) Kano, which handles the combat and tactical training of NAF student pilots. The recent Gynesis upgrade on the L39ZA aircraft further improves training.
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