(Luft) Textron AirLand Scorpion

[Quintus Fabius]

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The most vocal and interesting launch customer is Nigeria, a country that hasn’t even bothered to conceal its interest in obtaining the Scorpion to assist in its ongoing fight against Boko Haram. “We are really handicapped in attacking the enemy where we want,” Air Vice Marshal R.A. Ojuawo, the director of operations for the Nigerian Air Force, said at an international defense confab last month. “We want this, we need this,” he said, specifically referring to the Scorpion. (The Nigerian Air Force has yet to make a formal request to purchase the aircraft.)

If even one country ordered a squadron’s worth of Scorpion jets from Textron Airland, it would be a significant step forward for a program that for now is stuck in prototype mode.

Und Nigeria hat dank seiner Ölverkäufe definitiv das Geld für dieses Flugzeug, und wird aufgrund Gier der Regierenden dort weder Drohnen noch moderne Mehrzweckkampfflugzeuge kaufen.