By BASHIR ADEFAKA
Report reaching us has it that six of the twelve A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft ordered by the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government from United States of America will arrive Nigeria July 2021.
According to a hunt by Aso Rock Villa Update, the six war planes, which will add to fleet of the “Nigerian Air Force, are scheduled to arrive in the country in July 2021, while the remaining six are expected to be delivered before the end of October 2021.”
The DEFENDER reports that the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Ishaq Oladayo Amao, at the 64th Anniversary of the Nigeria Air Force, while inaugurating three JF-17 Jet Fighters in Makurdi, Benue State, which made its fleet 26 since President Muhammadu Buhari came to office in 2015, had announced that the 12 Tucano war planes were being expected from America.
The inaugurated planes, handed over to the Nigeria Air Force immediately, were supplierld by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in fulfilment of Buhari’s promise to boost operations of the Armed Forces of Nigeria with modern equipment.
