Tag: Exercise Oxide
Bravo Zulu for Ex Oxide
Exercise Oxide 2022 has run its course with satisfaction expressed on the serials, ranging from Casevac to VBSS (visit, board, search and seizure), executed...
Navy keeping cards close to chest on Ibsamar platform deployment
With a month go to before the SA Navy (SAN) takes part in its first major real time exercise with foreign fleets in over...
Ex Oxide 2022 will be west coast based
With COVID-19 no longer deemed a danger, it’s full steam ahead for Exercise Oxide, which is set down for 14 to 30 November.
The joint...
No Exercise Oxide this year
The coronavirus pandemic has put paid to one of the SA Navy’s regular exercises for this year following last year’s Exercise Oxide “postponed by...
Regular SAN exercises postponed by mutual consent
Two of the regular international exercises the SA Navy (SAN) is part of have been postponed by mutual agreement.
The exercises are Oxide with the...
Ex Oxide wraps up
The joint Franco/South African naval exercise Oxide off La Reunion has finished with both training and live exercise phases going according to...
Combating drug trafficking the main focus of Ex Oxide 2017
Countering drug trafficking is the main theme of Exercise Oxide 2017 taking place in Reunion between the French and South African navies,...
Ex Oxide 2017 starts off La Reunion at month-end
Friday week sees the official start of the 2017 Exercise Oxide, a joint French-South African naval exercise.
Oxide this year will take place...
Airbus provided satellite imagery for Exercise Oxide
Airbus Defence and Space supplied geo-intelligence maritime security support to the South African Maritime Safety Agency (Samsa) for Exercise Oxide between the...
Exercise Oxide ticked all the right boxes
The just completed Exercise Oxide off South Africa's east coast in the Richards Bay area saw in excess of 230 activities successfully...
Exercise Oxide capability demonstration
Exercise Oxide, the combined French/South African maritime exercise, moved into top gear at the weekend with a capability demonstration in the Richards...
Exercise Oxide forces arrive in Richards Bay
The South African Navy is holding an Inter-departmental and International Maritime exercise in Richards Bay under the auspices of Chief of Joint...
Three SA Navy platforms assigned to Exercise Oxide
SAS Protea (A324), the South African Navy's hydrographic vessel, will be the lead South African platform in the upcoming Exercise Oxide later...
Exercise Oxide starts on September 21
Preparations for the 2015 iteration of Exercise Oxide, the biennial French/South African maritime co-operation event, are in place and ready for the...
Exercise Oxide search and rescue paradrop meets all requirements
A successful paradrop, including a rigid inflatable boat (RIB), from a SA Air Force (SAAF) C-130 during a simulated submarine search and...
Exercise Oxide held off Pemba
The Mozambique news agency Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (AIM) reports that France and South Africa last week held a joint military...