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SAAF Puma in support of Portuguese troops in Angola
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Angolan / South African Border War
Five of South Africa’s ‘Minister Class’ Strike Craft Photo, SAS Jan Smuts (P1561), SAS Jim Fouche (P1564), SAS Frans Erusmus (P1565), SAS Hendrick Mentz (P1567) and SAS Magnus Malan (P1569). Photo courtesy Frank Lima
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Angolan / South African Border War
Major Nortman and the crew, Johan Jacobs, Neels Claasen, Darren Nelson, 32 Battalion September 1987
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Angolan / South African Border War
#Ratel combat during the Battle of the Lomba
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Observation Post Officer (OPO)’s 25A view over enemy territory in the Cuito River area south of Cuito Cuanavale. [Original Photo from Andrew Paterson]
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The mine-incident #Ratel (callsign 0) after the Tiffies had replaced the front axle. [Photo from Gerard C Van Rooyen] 11 Jun 1980 Operation Sceptic mine incident when the command Ratel detonated a double TMA3 mine
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Angolan / South African Border War
Dragon #Dak (Puff the magic Dragon) at AFB #Grootfontein 1985
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Angolan / South African Border War
Baptism of fire of Ratel ZT3 missile system. 3 Enemy tanks that were destroyed are still burning. All 3 tanks were destroyed at distances of between 800m and 1200m. (Photo from Hannes Lombaard
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XO BBHQ posted in the group Angolan / South African Border War
Angolan SA-13 at Cuito Cuanavale, 1987/88
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View of the amazing Angolan landscape from an Mi-helicopter…
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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
President and Supreme Commander of UNITA
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi - 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA). # UNITA waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974, then confronted the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan Civil War. Savimbi was killed in a clash with government troops in 2002.