Angolan SA-13 Strela-10 system in the bush

#Buffel and #Kwevoel after hitting a landmine near Chambinga

SADF troops moving past destroyed FAPLA vehicles

FN MAG Gunner during the bush war

1978, 2SAI troops training around Walvis Bay Area

Eland 90’s circa 1978 training outside Walvis Bay

SADF infantryman during the Border War, in the early 1980s.

Rare pic of a SADF Kudu MPV …probably late 1970s

Here is a never before published photograph taken from the cockpit of a SAAF Puma Helicopter airlifting Paratrooper Fire-Force troops into action during the Border War.

South African rapid response unit is debused from a South African Air Force Puma helicopter somewhere on the Angolan and South West African/Namibian Border. Great photo by Peter Marlow

Crew of an #Eland 90 armoured car at work freeing their vehicle, after it bogged down in a flooded shona (flood plain) during the annual rainy season in Ovamboland – South West Africa/Namiba.

Photo acknowledgement : Chris van der Walt,

On the 27th June 1988, a combined Angolan FAPLA-Cuban force launched an unexpected ground attack against the #Calueque Water Scheme SADF positions, close to the South West Africa/Namibia and Angola border. This was followed shortly thereafter by a treacherous air attack with MiG fighters.

The ground attack was halted by a combined SADF and…Read More