SADF troops in Puma

#SAAF #MirageF1AZ refueling

Cuban soldiers pose with Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola soldiers near Cuito Cuanavale.

SADF Troop SWA 1980s

SADF joint army and air force operations in South West Africa (now Namibia). 1988 #Oshivelo, here is a great photo capturing a reaction force on the move, here seen walking past a SAAF Alouette III under general maintenance on the apron. Photo copyright Outapi War Museum.

SADF Troops on a Unimog at Rundu 1976.

Perfect formation flight by 2 Squadron South African Air Force’ in their then ‘new’ Mirage III’s in 1968 – still in their colour scheme of silver metal and red lightning flash, before changing to their bush war camouflage scheme.

SADF leaflet distributed to warn the local population in South West Africa/Namibia and neighbouring states not to join SWAPO

Ops #Protea, SADF Crossing at #Xangongo with Captured Enemy 23mm AA Guns.

‘Mopping up’ in #Cassinga the paratroopers recovered a relatively small number of mainly Soviet weapons, these included a B-10 Recoilless Rifle, AK-47, AKM and SKS Assault rifles and carbines, boxes of RGD-5, RG-42 and F1 Hand Grenades, some TM-57 Anti-Tank Mines, RPG-7 Anti-Tank Rockets and 82mm B-10 recoilless Rockets still in their tin tra…Read More

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

Major Nortman and the crew, Johan Jacobs, Neels Claasen, Darren Nelson, 32 Battalion September 1987