This is arguably the greatest invention of Igbo land, made by the Biafran Research and Production Group (RAP) headed Dr. Felix Oragwu a nuclear physicist during the war.
Inititially, it was designed to be a surface to air rocket to combat Mig 16’s. In a retreat Biafran soldiers ran out of ammunition and used the rockets. The results were amazing. They then became surface to surface.
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| Biafran war machines |
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| The air force was in an equally bad state, having a single B-26, with this the Biafraian air force quickly started to launch air attacks on Nigerian targets |
Major Uchendu led 700 men armed with Ogbunigwe rockets and killed up to 6000 federal troops of the 2nd division commanded by Murtala Muhammad at Abagana along the Onitsha-Enugu highway– March 31, 1968.
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