Three days ago we dealt with a hypothetical missile attack against NASRDA from the sea. In a hypothetical scenario today, with the Nigerian Navy no more having anti-ship missile capability, how will Nigeria respond to French Destroyer lurking off the coast of the Gulf of Guinea?

Long range multiple launch rocket artillery could give the navy a seriously survivable, coastal-defense capability. Launchers could “shoot and scoot” to escape counter-fire. A maritime patrol plane can pass targeting data to a ground-based rocket. How does this work?

The navy could use the army's rocket system that can strike targets at up to 26 kilometres at distant enemy targets from the helicopter flight decks of navy ships. It will be chained down to the flight deck for stability

After the missile attack at NASRDA the Navy launches two ATR-42 maritime patrol planes on to patrol Nigeria's EEZ in the Gulf of Guinea.

An ATR-42 detects the destroyers and passes the GPS coordinates via radio datalink to one of the army's Multiple Rocket launch System.

A single launcher carriers 40 rockets. After firing each volley, the launchers would move to a new hide site and await orders to fire again

Long-range rockets require long-range targeting. When the target is a ship at sea, human forward observers aren’t an option. The ATR-42 becomes an indispensable tool in such scenarios