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Reutech supplying weapons and radars for Biro, Hotel
Reutech is supplying Super Sea Rogue turrets, machinegun turrets and radars for the four vessels being acquired by the South African Navy under Projects...
Funding sufficient for Projects Hotel and Biro to be completed
The Department of Defence (DoD) has reprioritised funding to ensure sufficient money is available to honour the full acquisition of inshore patrol vessels and...
DoD updates cabinet on major acquisition projects
Project Hoefyster, for new Badger infantry fighting vehicles for the SA Army, is not feasible in its current form and there is concern Projects...
Veecraft launches third Hotel survey motor boat
Veecraft Marine has launched the third and final survey motor boat for the South African Navy’s Project Hotel hydrographic survey vessel.
The vessel was launched...
Death toll from attack on Mogadishu hotel rises to 16
At least 16 people were killed in an attack on Sunday by the Islamist group al Shabaab on a seaside hotel in Somalia’s capital...
Car bomb and siege kill 26 in Somalia
Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians were among 26 killed when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the Somali port city Kismayo, officials said,...
Somali militant siege over
Somali government troops shot and killed three Islamist militants holed up in a building in central Mogadishu, police said, ending a day-long bomb and...
Kenya ambulance Uber at heart of siege rescue
Minutes after militants attacked a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi the first ambulances roared up to collect wounded survivors.
Speedy medical help is taken for...
Kenya hotel siege over
Kenyan security forces killed all the Somali militants who stormed an upscale Nairobi hotel compound, taking at least 21 lives and forcing hundreds of...
Nairobi hotel attackers “eliminated”
Kenyan security forces "eliminated" militants who stormed an upscale hotel compound and killed at least 14 people in an attack claimed by Somali Islamist...
One dead in Mali hotel attack
Unidentified gunmen killed one person and wounded at least two others in an attack on a hotel in the central Mali town...
Armscor finally orders inshore patrol vessels for SA Navy
State defence acquisition agency Armscor has placed an order for three inshore patrol vessels (IPVs) from Damen Shipyards Cape Town (DSCT) under...
South Africa boosts naval capabilities but can it afford an expansion?
In February 2017, South Africa announced the preferred bidders for two of the largest naval programmes in Africa, with the South African...
What next for the local design capacity on Projects Biro and...
Armscor recently confirmed that it has awarded Project Hotel, for a new hydrographic survey ship for the SA Navy, to Durban-based Southern...
Mogadishu attacked again
An Islamist attack on a hotel in Mogadishu ended on Sunday after 29 people were killed during a 12 hour siege police...
DoD outlines equipment acquisition plans
The South African Department of Defence (DoD) aims to acquire medium and light transport aircraft, infantry combat vehicles, mobile water provisioning systems,...
Hotel attack in Mogadishu leaves at least 19 dead
At least 19 people were killed when Islamist attackers launched a car bomb and gun attack on a busy hotel and adjacent...
Southern African Shipyards using Vard design to meet SA Navy hydrographic...
Southern African Shipyards has been selected as the preferred bidder to supply a new hydrographic survey vessel to the South African Navy,...
Somali militants ram car bomb into hotel, killing 28
Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, jumped clear and stormed...
At least 13 killed in Somalia hotel attack
At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu when al Shabaab militants rammed a car bomb into the...
South Sudan detains 17 over July attack on Juba hotel
South Sudan said on Wednesday it had detained at least 17 people, most of them soldiers, suspected of committing rape and other...
UN peacekeepers failed to respond to South Sudan hotel attack –...
United Nations peacekeepers failed to respond to an attack on civilians by South Sudanese government troops at the Hotel Terrain in Juba...
Attackers kill 12 in hotel blast near Somali border
Attackers blew up part of a hotel in north-eastern Kenya, killing at least 12 people on Tuesday in a raid claimed by...
China’s Poly Defence partners with Denel
Denel and Poly Technologies, part of China's mammoth state owned Poly Defence group, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join forces...
UN to investigate peacekeepers’ response to South Sudan hotel attack
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched an investigation into accusations peacekeepers in South Sudan failed to respond properly to an attack...
SANDF projects
Given the overall lack of budget, there is little money available for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) for capital acquisition....
Tunisian tourism struggling a year after Islamist attacks
A year after 39 mostly British holidaymakers were gunned down on a beach in Sousse, Tunisia's tourist industry is still struggling to...
Al Shabaab attack Mogadishu hotel
Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group launched a suicide bomb attack on a hotel in the centre of Mogadishu on Saturday before fighters...
Al Qaeda gunmen drank in bar before unleashing Ivory Coast attack
Gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch drank beer at a beachside bar before launching a shooting rampage at an Ivory Coast...
CSTC will help SAS rejuvenate South African maritime industry
The China Shipbuilding and Trading Company (CSTC) will use its expertise to assist Southern African Shipyards (SAS) in the rebuilding of South...
Abeking & Rasmussen signs agreements with Cape companies for Project Biro
German ship builder Abeking & Rasmussen has partnered with a number of Cape-based companies, including DCD Marine, to bid for the supply...
Nine killed as gunmen storm luxury hotel in Libyan capital
Heavily armed gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Tripoli favored by Libyan officials and visiting delegations on Tuesday, killing at least nine...
Biro RfI issued: Jane’s
The South African Navy (SAN) has issued a request for information (RfI) for both offshore and inshore patrol vessels, Jane's understands from...
Biro, Hotel shows up in Navy SDA
The National Treasury has started funding the South African Navy's acquisition of a new survey ship and off-shore patrol vessels.
The Estimates of...
Navy needs survey ship, PVs by 2015
The SA Navy will need a replacement hydrographic survey vessel as well as new offshore as well as inshore patrol vessels (PV)...
Whereto for defence in 2010?
A happy and prosperous 2010 to all our readers.
Allow me the trite observation that this will be a busy year for us,...