members of executive outcomes in Sierra Leone

members of executive outcome

#Nigeria has drafted “hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa” in its fight against Boko Haram. South Africans have a long-standing reputation as being among the best mercenaries in the world, and have been present in one form or another in most African conflicts for the past two decades.

Mercenaries in the #Angola civil war

Executive Outcomes operatives at work in Angola, 1993

Executive Outcomes is capable of rapidly deploying a battalion-strength force almost anywhere in the world with impressive asset support. EO owns a slew of armored fighting vehicles: two Boeing 727s and a C-47, attack aircraft such as Mi-24 gunships and two MiG-23/27 fighter planes and all manner of light and medium artillery.

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South African Special Forces with #UNITA solider in Angola #Recce

Soldiers with the pro-Western Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( #UNITA) on patrol during the Bush War. A communist push into southeastern Angola in 1897 triggered a major ground response from South Africa

View of a burned-out enemy tank from the turret of a #Ratel 90 of the South African #61Mech Battalion. Although lightly armored, the Ratels were fast and mobile and able to take on Soviet #T-55 tanks with their 90mm guns.