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National War Museum, Umuahia
The Nigerian National War Museum in Umuahia showcases the military history of Nigeria with relics form the Biafra-Nigerian Civil War. It has a collection of tanks, armored vehicles, ships, and aircraft all from Nigeria or the defunct Republic of Biafra. Almost all tanks and AFLs are Biafran and all aircraft are Nigerian. It holds in it the evidence of the internal war in Nigeria from 1967 to 1970. The museum is considered a heritage site. History Ideas to create a national war museum began after an official visit by Lt. General Theophilous Danjuma's official visit to Yugoslavia in 1977. The plans were approved that year by the Supreme Military Council of Lt. General Olusegun Obasanjo's administration. Exploratory studies for the museum's establishment began, and the project was launched in 1985. The museum is located at Ebite Amafor in Isingwu Autonomous Community in the Umuahia North Local Government Area, the same place where the bunker for the Voice of Biafra was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National War Museum Umuahia Nigeria
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Torpedo NNS Nigeria
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such a device was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo; colloquially a ''fish''. The term ''torpedo'' originally applied to a variety of devices, most of which would today be called mines. From about 1900, ''torpedo'' has been used strictly to designate a self-propelled underwater explosive device. While the 19th-century battleship had evolved primarily with a view to engagements between armored warships with large-caliber guns, the invention and refinement of torpedoes from the 1860s onwards allowed small torpedo boats and other lighter surface vessels, submarines/submersibles, even improvised fishing boats or frogmen, and later light aircraft, to destroy large ships without the need of large guns, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
