Weeks ago, bandits shot down a fighter jet in northern Nigeria. This comes amid questions over the Nigerian Air Force’s readiness to curb insecurity and a slew of deals by the Nigerian government to ...
It was a sad day for the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in particular, and Nigerians generally, when on March 31, an Air Force fighter jet lost contact with the radar in Borno State while on a mission to ...
Less than two decades after World War II, former enemies France and Germany embarked on an unlikely military partnership during the height of the Cold War. The result became the Dassault Dornier Alpha ...
In the late 1960s and early 70s, France needed a new training aircraft to replace the aging fleet of Lockheed T-33 Shooting Stars, a plane that was originally developed in the 1940s, during the very ...
An Alpha Jet was shot down by criminals on 18 July, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) confirmed the following day. NAF spokesman Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet said the aircraft had carried out a successful ...
A NIGERIAN Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jet, serial number NAF-466, went missing on September 12 in the far northeast of the country. It was not until two days later on September 14 that the NAF revealed the ...