The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Thursday took delivery of the first batch of six A-29 Super Tucano aircraft from the United States of America.
The Director of Public Relations and Information (NAF) Headquarters, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet, announced this in a statement in Abuja.
According to Gabkwet, the aircrafts arrived Kano at about 12.34 p.m.
He added that the officials that received the aircraft included the Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (Rtd), Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lietenant General Faruk Yahaya, and Chief of Air Staf (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, according to a statement by the Nigeria Air Force.
Similarly, a statement from the Ministry of Defence also announced the arrival of the wr planes received by Minister of Defence Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (Rtd), who took delivery of the Brazilian turboprop light attack aircraft, supported by Army and Air Force chiefs.
The statement issued by Mohammad Abdulkadri, Special Assistant to the Minister of Defence on Media and Publicity, said the aircraft is designed and built by Embraer as a development of the Embraer EMB 312 Tucano which he said has inbuilt precision-guided Munitions capabilities to be a low-cost system operated in low threat environments
‘’The new addition to the fleets of the Nigerian Air Force is one of the six Aircraft being expected to boost the capabilities of the Service in the theatres of combats,” said the statement.
This came as President Muhammadu Buhari’s activated new order of Language understood by insecurity agents across Nigeria continued to gain grounds, especially against Boko Haram and IPOB terrorists in North East and South East, respectively.
The administrationa’s zero tolerance for bandits in the North West, secessionist groups with pool of violence in the South West and militants of South South, have been boosted with the military equipment arriving especially the Tucano war planes
