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by defenceWeb, 19 Apr, 11:28 AM
Centurion-headquartered trade union Solidarity claims Denel top management received a 60% salary increase last year.
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by defenceWeb, 19 Apr, 10:07 AM
The 2017/18 financial year saw 29 Armscor personnel “granted severance or special packages” compared to two in 2016/17 and zero the previous financial year.
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by defenceWeb, 17 Apr, 11:08 AM
Denel maintains allegations around a bursary awarded to the son of North West premier Supra Mohamapelo are false.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved the extension of the anti-piracy Operation Copper in the Mozambique Channel for another year.
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by Reuters, 18 Apr, 10:54 AM
RMS St. Helena Britain’s last working postal ship was for almost three decades the main source of contact between one of humanity’s remotest islands and the outside world.
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by Hein van den Ende, 17 Apr, 10:44 AM
With sea trade being one of Africa’s largest sources of income, a wave of new port infrastructure and upgrades along African coasts are set to make ports even more attractive to an influx of trade. In fact, a PricewaterhouseCoopers report on port development...
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by Reuters/defenceWeb, 18 Apr, 11:01 AM
Nigeria’s upper chamber of parliament on Tuesday said it would invite the central bank governor and the ministers of finance and defence to explain the release of $462 million to buy helicopters, a lawmaker said.
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by defenceWeb, 29 Mar, 10:05 AM
A Zimbabwean delegation has visited the Ulan-Ude Aviation Factory, part of the Russian Helicopters group, to view the VIP modification of Mi-171E helicopters.
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by Reuters, 26 Mar, 11:30 AM
Ukraine signed a preliminary agreement on Friday with France to buy 55 helicopters from a division of Airbus to be used by the police, border guards and emergency services.
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A telling question has been asked by Congress of the People (COPE) chief whip, Deidre Carter, after her party was told the SA Air Force’s (SAAF) VIP squadron – 21 – is grounded because of delays in processing and awarding maintenance contracts for aircraft....
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by defenceWeb/SANews, 20 Apr, 10:58 AM
Science and Technology Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said the latest South African cube satellite, which has been sent off to India for launch, will help gather data to unlock economic growth in the oceans economy.
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by defenceWeb, 18 Apr, 09:42 AM
The Nigerian Air Force has finished training two Liberian pilots, the first since the end of that country’s civil war in 2003, and who will now return to Liberia to help establish the Liberia Air Wing.
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by Guy Martin, 23 Apr, 10:06 AM
The South African National Defence Force has indicated it is serious about eliminating sexual exploitation and abuse by its deployed soldiers and has come up with numerous interventions after a three-day conference on the subject.
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by defenceWeb, 23 Apr, 10:02 AM
Elements of the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) moved into the government hospital in the North West provincial capital, Mafikeng, in the early hours of Saturday to take over provision of medical and other healthcare facilities.
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by defenceWeb, 17 Apr, 10:03 AM
The maritime defence component of the Department of Defence’s (DoD) performance plan for the current year is – again – symptomatic of the malaise the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) finds itself it.
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by ADIT - The Bulletin, 23 Apr, 11:47 AM
Aircraft carriers are “100,000 tons of diplomacy”, as Henry Kissinger once said. They provide great political strength as mobile air bases since they allow for maritime supremacy and even strikes deep inside an enemy’s territory. And despite growing criticism...
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by Guy Martin, 19 Apr, 10:04 AM
Milkor, diversifying from its history as a supplier of 40 mm grenade launchers, is promoting its MN Centurion patrol boat at DSA 2018 in Malaysia as well as its new 4x4 armoured vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
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by defenceWeb, 10 Apr, 02:42 PM
South Africa will play a leading role in a major international scientific expedition next year to survey the underside of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea.
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by Reuters, 20 Apr, 10:55 AM
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa cut short his visit to Britain by a day to return home to deal with protests in the country’s North West province, his office said.
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by Reuters, 20 Apr, 10:53 AM
South Sudan army chief General James Ajongo died in Cairo following a short illness, government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth said.
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by Reuters, 20 Apr, 10:48 AM
Nigeria’s police recovered a ceremonial mace stolen from the country’s parliament when at least three men burst onto the Senate floor and grabbed it while lawmakers looked on, police said.
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by Reuters, 23 Apr, 11:20 AM
Homemade rockets shook the northern Mali city of Timbuktu near UN and French military bases where Islamist militants launched a deadly suicide raid last weekend, France’s army said.
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by Reuters, 23 Apr, 11:12 AM
A Libyan crude pipeline owned by the al-Waha oil company, feeding the port of Es Sider, was attacked by a “terrorist group”, a company source said.
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by Reuters, 20 Apr, 10:50 AM
Zambia opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema accused President Edgar Lungu’s government of political killings, rights abuses and rampant corruption, calling on South Africa to intervene to restore calm.
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by Reuters, 23 Apr, 11:23 AM
Zimbabwean nurses called off a strike against poor working conditions and returned to work on Monday, a nurses union said.
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by Reuters, 23 Apr, 11:15 AM
One person was killed when Madagascar police fired tear gas at opposition demonstrators protesting against new electoral laws they say are designed to lock out their candidate from a presidential election due this year.
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by Reuters, 20 Apr, 10:45 AM
Protests flared in Senegal’s capital and a parliamentary debate descended into pushing and shoving over a change to an election law critics say will make it impossible for minor candidates to run for president in 2019.
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by defenceWeb/Reuters, 20 Apr, 03:12 PM
The South African Military Heath Service (SAMHS) will move into the North West province to reinforce medical care at its provincial hospital following a strike by health sector workers.
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by defenceWeb, 19 Apr, 11:39 AM
Six farm attacks reported in 72 hours at the start of this week have again put the spotlight on rural security, or the lack of it.
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by ISS Africa, 19 Apr, 10:51 AM
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the strongman who is widely regarded as the most important player in the overcrowded cast of characters determining Libya’s uncertain future, has aptly been called the ‘divisive unifier’.
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by Reuters, 23 Apr, 11:18 AM
The Libyan coastguard recovered bodies of 11 migrants who died off Libya’s western shore during an attempted crossing to Italy, a spokesman said.
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by defenceWeb, 20 Apr, 09:37 AM
What started three years ago as a semi-localised anti-poaching initiative by four Southern African Development community (SADC) countries has grown to include 10 of the regional bloc’s 15 members.
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by SAPS, 19 Apr, 10:21 AM
The South African Police Service (SAPS) have once more intercepted motor vehicles, including a luxury SUV, from being smuggled out of the country at the northern border between South Africa and Zimbabwe and in the process, confiscated packs of illegal cigarettes...
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by Reuters, 23 Apr, 11:08 AM
France expelled an imam of Islam’s strict Salafi branch for giving radical sermons seen as a threat, sending him to Algeria a day after the European Court of Human Rights gave a green light for the move, a source close to the case said.
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by Reuters, 23 Apr, 11:06 AM
Kicking up clouds of Saharan dust, US military trainers impersonated militants, waved flags saying “death to outsiders” and threw smoke grenades toward approaching Nigerien commandos, as a surveillance drone hovered overhead.
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by Reuters, 23 Apr, 11:02 AM
Botswana’s new leader urged President Joseph Kabila not to stand for re-election in DR Congo’s long delayed presidential poll, saying he has been in power longer than expected.
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by defenceWeb, 20 Apr, 09:36 AM
Senegal has ordered Ground Master 400 air surveillance radars and SkyView command and control systems from Thales, which will deliver them next year.
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by UK MoD, 19 Apr, 10:48 AM
1 Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR) have conducted Exercise Askari Storm in Kenya. The Battlegroup consisted of 1 RGR and E Company, 15th Kenyan Rifles from the Kenya Defence Force plus attachments from across 16 Air Assault Brigade, who joined the demanding 6-week exercise....
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by Africom, 12 Apr, 11:56 AM
Exercise Flintlock 2018 officially kicked off during an opening ceremony on 11 April in Niamey, Niger.
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by Reuters, 18 Apr, 10:10 AM
In a telephone call with the emir of Kuwait in January, U.S. President Donald Trump pressed the Gulf monarch to move forward on a $10 billion fighter jet deal that had been stalled for more than a year.
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by Reuters, 17 Apr, 09:49 AM
U.S. senators announced long-awaited legislation on Monday to provide congressional authorization for campaigns against militant groups in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, as lawmakers push to take back authority over the military from the White House.
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by Reuters, 16 Apr, 10:49 AM
France’s Dassault Aviation aims to take the lead on the development of a new European fighter jet, its chief executive told a German magazine.
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by defenceWeb, 17 Apr, 10:31 AM
Boeing predicts that African carriers will need 1 220 new airliners to meet 5.9% annual commercial airline growth between 2017 and 2036. African airlines currently have a total of 74 Boeing aircraft on order at the moment and Boeing aircraft comprise nearly 70...
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by Reuters, 12 Apr, 10:56 AM
Zimbabwe has bought two Boeing 777 aircraft and an Embraer plane from Malaysia, the finance minister said on Wednesday, adding the planes would be leased to a new local airline until national carrier Air Zimbabwe returned to profitability.
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by Guy Martin, 22 Mar, 10:17 AM
After a major decline over the last two years, the level of aviation activity in South Africa is starting to improve, according to the latest Aviation Activity Index released by the Commercial Aviation Association of Southern Africa (CAASA).
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by Reuters, 17 Apr, 09:52 AM
After Syrian forces bombed the town of Douma earlier this month in an attack the United States says involved chlorine gas, Washington and its allies launched missile strikes as punishment.
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by Reuters, 16 Apr, 10:40 AM
Air strikes carried out by the United States, France and Britain against Syrian military targets could give terrorism an opportunity to expand in the region, the Iraqi foreign ministry said on Saturday.
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by Thomas Mandrup, 12 Apr, 10:22 AM
The African Standby Force (ASF) has been declared to have reached full operational capability (FOC), in four out the five African regions. Full Operational Capability was the conclusion of the so-called Gambari validation report of December 2017, that followed...
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by Chris Szabo, 27 Mar, 12:23 PM
One of the interesting aspects of researching the fighting in southern Angola in 1987/88 was finding how different the recorded facts were to popular narratives, of which there are many. It would be worth discovering how some brigade-sized engagements near Cuito...
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by Chris and Janet Szabo, 9 Feb, 10:16 AM
There has been renewed interest in the final phase of South Africa’s involvement in Angola 30 years ago, but it has been mired in controversy and confusion.
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by SANSA, 20 Apr, 02:57 PM
The Department of Science and Technology has unveiled the upgraded Space Weather Regional Warning Centre in Hermanus, Western Cape.
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by US Army, 19 Apr, 10:33 AM
US Army-funded researchers at the University of California in Los Angles have found a proverbial smoking gun signature of the long sought-after Majorana particle, and the find, they say, could block intruders on sensitive communication networks.
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by ADIT - The Bulletin, 17 Apr, 12:53 PM
At least two technologies will prove critical in tomorrow’s aerospace industry. The first is ceramic-matrix composites technology (CMC or “ceramics”), which feature very high temperature-resistance. The second is additive manufacturing (AM or 3D printing),...
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by defenceWeb, 1 Apr, 08:09 AM
Speech by General Barney Hlatshwayo, SANDF Chief of Joint Operations, representing Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, at the opening of the Rand Show on 30 March 2018.
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by defenceWeb, 23 Aug, 08:56 AM
FF Plus leader, Dr Pieter Groenewald, said in a private member’s statement in parliament the wave of farm murders and attacks sweeping the country and particularly the cruelty of these attacks, makes it increasingly urgent for government and specifically the...
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by defenceWeb, 25 Jun, 12:33 PM
Introduction of the debate on the defence and military veterans budget vote 2017 in the National Assembly, by Hon Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, RSA Minister For Defence And Military Veterans, 25 May 2017, Parliament, Cape Town.
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by Africom, 19 Apr, 08:52 AM
Africa Logistics Symposium 2018, formerly known as Africa Logistics Forum, kicked off on 11 April at that African Union (AU) compound, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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by defenceWeb, 18 Apr, 08:34 AM
The US Army Corps of Engineers is looking to build a hangar for Uganda’s UH-1H Huey II helicopters in Soroti, Uganda.
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by defenceWeb, 12 Apr, 09:52 AM
Armscor efforts to generate revenue so it is not entirely dependent on government funding should see the State’s defence and security acquisition agency add “landlord” to its list of functions in the not too distant future.
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by defenceWeb, 23 Apr, 11:14 AM
Sensor solutions provider Hensoldt has unveiled its new compact and deployable Xpeller Rapid counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system.
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by Mark Thompson, 20 Apr, 03:24 PM
When it comes to technology, the Pentagon is always pushing for more—more reach, more destruction, more dollars. That’s what makes the Navy’s quest for its first-ever aircraft-carrier-based drone unusual: what started out as a push for an unmanned attack...
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by Reuters, 19 Apr, 10:55 AM
Incidents involving drones and commercial aircraft rose last year in Germany though less than expected given the popularity of the devices, air traffic authorities said on Wednesday.
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Denel welcomes new board, looks forward to new growth trajectory
by Denel Corporate, 11 April 2018
The interim board will provide oversight and help the Denel Group to find sustainable solutions to its current challenges.
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Designing scientific accountable training packages and technical manuals
by Walog Training Development, 6 April 2018
The ADDIE process has changed the way course design is performed for the defence environment, says Walog Training Development.
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Peli-Hardigg unveils key to over 60 years of expertise in solutions for aerospace at ILA
by Pelican Products South Africa, 23 March 2018
The manufacturer describes its four-stage engineering process and innovations for the aerospace industry.
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Book Reviews
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Book review: Operation Relentless – The world’s Most Wanted Criminal; The Elite Forces Hunt to Catch Him Operation Relentless is the gripping story of the years-long effort to catch arms dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed ‘The Merchant of Death’ and 'The Lord of War'. Damien Lewis, author of the best-selling...
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Wings over Langebaanweg. Stories from a South African Air Force Base Hermanus-based Andrew Embleton’s third book on SA Air Force (SAAF) training looks set to be a winner with the military flying fraternity.
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Book Review: Harsh Lessons: Iraq, Afghanistan And the Changing Character of War The interventions by the US and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan were on a massive scale and came close to failure. In the thirteen years of fighting there were 250,000 civilian casualties (dead and...
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Apartheid Guns and Money - a tale of profit “Apartheid Guns and Money - a tale of profit” is the latest addition to the stable of South African non-fiction providing much-needed and valuable insight into the darker workings of government, both...
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Book Review: Firearms Developed and Manufactured in Southern Africa 1949-2000 This weighty tome is a definitive reference guide to firearms developed during the region’s golden age of gunmaking. It took seventeen contributors eight years to produce the book and in the process...
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“Composite Warfare” - a composite insight into conflict and war in Africa Eeben Barlow is a name well-known to those who are practitioners of military arts and skills, especially in Africa. He has now taken all his considerable experience and distilled it into a 500 plus...
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Book Review: China’s Cyber Power The cyber domain has become central to the struggle for strategic advantage between the US and the West on the one hand, and China and other authoritarian states on the other. If there is any outsider,...
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Book review: Recce: Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines Professional soldier Koos Stadler has written a remarkable book chronicling his experiences as a special forces small reconnaissance team member operating behind enemy lines during the Border War period...
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Book Review: Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency Much about the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram is shrouded in mystery. Last week the President of Chad, Idriss Deby, claimed Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, was no longer the group’s leader...
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Book Review: Raising The Bar: Hope and Renewal in South Africa Raising the Bar is Songezo Zibi’s first book and seeks to provide a thorough, accurate analysis on the different issues preventing South Africa from moving forward. Zibi’s writing explores aspects...
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Fact Files
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SANDF Medals and Decorations The medals and decorations list of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) currently numbers 66, of which 52 are for acts of bravery, valour and other meritorious deeds performed before April 2003. The remaining...
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Fact file: SANDF regular force levels by race & gender: April 30, 2011 The uniformed services of the South African National Defence Force mustered 64 431 personnel in April this year, of whom 77.3% (49 831) were male, 72.3% (46 590) were black, 11.6% were Coloured, 744 (1.2%)...
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Fact file: SA defence exports, 2010 The National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) in 2010 approved the following export permits:
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Fact file: G6 L45 self-propelled towed gun-howitzer The 2010 edition of the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Military Balance publication lists the South African Artillery as currently employing two G6 L45 and having an additional 41 in store....
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Fact file: Denel FV2 Bateleur Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) The FV2 Bateleur is the standard multiple launch rocket system (MLRS)of the South African Artillery. Development and production started after the end of the 1966-1989 Namibian “Border War” and the...
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Fact file: G5 L45 towed gun-howitzer The 2010 edition of the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Military Balance publication lists the South African Artillery as currently employing six (one battery) G5 L45 and having an additional...
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Fact file: Military rank The origin of military rank makes for interesting reading, both in terms of the hierarchy (if a major is senior to a lieutenant, why is a major general junior to a lieutenant general?) and in terms of...
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Fact file: Denel ZT3 Ingwe precision guided missile The Ingwe (Leopard) missile and associated launch systems were developed in the 1980s under Project Raleigh as a “long-range indigenous antitank guided missile.” Pre-production models were used in...
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Fact file: MBDA Milan precision guided misile The MBDA (formerly Euromissile) Milan (Missile d´infanterie léger antichar = light infantry antitank missile) started life in 1962 and the second-generation of antitank missiles to enter South African...
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Fact file: M40A1 recoilless rifle The M40 was developed in the 1950s as a lightweight, portable, crew-served 105mm antitank weapon. It has served the South African infantry for many years as a direct-fire weapon and is issued in units...
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African Militaries
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Tanzania People’s Defence Force Tanzania People’s Defence Force
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