The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosun, has said the Nigerian Air Force had incorporated some new systems and ammunition aimed at the continuous fight against insurgency in the country.He made this known to the public while speaking with journalists at the National Air Defence Corps in Ikeja yesterday February 16 .
“We are incorporating some new systems and some new ammunition to the platforms we have.We also need to intensify the day and night operations and we are here essentially to flag off the operations.We have been notifying the public that there is an ongoing operation to recalibrate our weapon system and to fine tune our tactics.We have some new ammunitions to test and the range here in Owode, Lagos, is the most ideal for this operations, so, we have to make use of the facility.Everything that the nation has in terms of land space, equipment and capabilities, must be brought to fight insurgency, terrorism and to take care of emergening threat all over the country,” he said.
Amosun also noted that the Air Force are working with the Nigerian Navy and the Amy in the operations
“All the various leadership of the forces are here to ensure that these operations are carried out successfully.Although, we are aware of the variables which may not be disclosed, that could prevent an operation from being completed in a spade of time.
“But we are satisfied with the period allocated to us now and we should be able to carry out the exercise within the period.I am optimistic that capability wise, we are good to go and the six weeks is more than adequate.Don’t forget that we have capable armed forces that should do the fighting but then, these days, worldwide, you hardly fight alone,” he said.
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“We have biscraft aircraft when it comes to some maritime areas and some difficult areas to penetrate.We have also deployed our soldiers to mount the unmanned airfields so that they can have materials and prevent the bad ones attempting to bring in bad materials to mess up the election,” he said.
Amosun thanked the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Goodluck Jonathan, for his support because he is the reason why we can achieve all these.
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