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

SAAF #Cheetah C

SAAF #Mirage F1AZ in ‘Le Spectre’ low-visibility color scheme with a Matra R530 slung underneath

1 Sqn #Mirage F1AZ was taken from the back seat of a 24 Sqn #Buccaneer whilst flying on a combat sortie over Angola during Ops #Modular in 1987

24 Squadron Buccaneer demonstrating exactly that as it thunders along at low level over Southern Angola en-route to an enemy target during Operation Modular, sometime between August – December 1987. Image courtesy to Graham Du Toit.

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,