To improve the Artillery Corps’ operational capabilities, the Army Headquarters will keep updating its current equipment and acquiring new platforms, according to a statement made by Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS).
At the Exercise Vulcan Glow X, 2024, Firepower Demonstration ending ceremony, which took place at the Nigerian Army Military Training Range in Kachia LGA, Kaduna State, this was said. Every year, artillery formations and units participate in this exercise, which aims to use artillery resources in all stages of conventional, hybrid, and asymmetric warfare as well as non-combative military operations.
The topic for 2024 was “Integration of Emerging Technologies into Training for Enhanced Fire Support to Nigerian Army Operations in a Joint Environment.” In order to effectively provide fire support to manoeuvre forces, the COAS stressed the significance of improving the abilities, know-how, and proficiency of participating formations and units in the conduct of artillery tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Lagbaja praised the formations’ performance as well as the corps’s vision in incorporating cutting-edge technologies into training to improve fire support for operations carried out by the Nigerian Army. He underlined that in the current volatile, uncertain, complicated, and ambiguous operational environment, new training patterns, adaptations, and contingencies are needed.
Lagbaja commended the corps for maintaining impressive advancements through ongoing R&D projects and sporadic gun repairs. He called on all Nigerian Army Corps to focus more on enhancing domestic research and development initiatives and turning them into top-notch production, maintenance, and repair systems.
Maj.-Gen. Markus Kangye, the Commander of the Corps of Artillery, stressed the value of military operations training and the necessity of producing capable and skilled artillery soldiers. With the involvement of NA Space Command and the use of unmanned aerial vehicle systems for observation and fall of shot correction, this year’s exercise has built on the successes of the previous one.
