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The western Northern Cape and Western Cape differ, however. Everywhere on land west of 22°30′ E effectively experiences year-round daylight saving time because of its location in true UTC+01:00 but still being in South African Standard Time. Sunrise and sunset are thus relatively late in Cape Town, compared to the rest of the country.
The Fajr-3 (rarely Fadjr-3 [5]) (Persian: فجر-۳) is an Iranian heavy 240 mm intermediate-range [6] multiple-launch artillery rocket (MLRS). [4] The Fajr-3 is a license-built copy, with slight modifications, of a North Korean MLRS called the M-1985. [7] The Fajr-3 was introduced in the 1990s and has since been exported to Syria, Hamas and ...
A short history of the Noon Guns posted at the Lion Battery Video of the Noon Gun being fired in Cape Town, South Africa. The gun is fired at precisely 12:00 every day from Signal Hill. The Noon Gun has been a historic time signal in Cape Town, South Africa since 1806. It consists of a pair of black powder Dutch naval guns, fired alternatingly ...
Fajr-3 may refer to: Fajr-3 (artillery rocket), a multiple-launch artillery rocket, a third-generation Katyusha rocket; Fajr-3 (missile), a medium-range ballistic missile with an unknown range; Fajr-3 (aircraft), an Iranian four-seat aircraft; Operation Dawn 3 (a.k.a. Operation Valfajr-3), an Iranian offensive in the 8-year long Iran-Iraq War
The Fajr-5 launcher fires four 6.48 meter long, 333 millimeter-calibre Fajr-5 artillery rockets, with a range of 75 kilometers (50 mi), weighing 915 kilograms each and carrying 175-kg fragmentation warheads with 90 kg of high explosive (HE). Most Fajr-5 rockets are unguided; in 2017 Iran introduced a variant, the Fajr-5C, which adds GPS guidance.
Fajr F.3 (Persian: فجر اف.۳) is an Iranian full composite four-seat training/touring aircraft built by Fajr Aviation & Composites Industry. First flown in 1995, production commenced in 2001 after the aircraft was certified to JAR-23 standard. It has been speculated that it is a copy/modification of the Cirrus SR-20. [1]
The Fajr-4 (Persian: فجر-۴) is an Iranian air-to-surface guided rocket that was first unveiled on 9 May 2020 through a video released by the IRGC Aerospace Force. In the video, the missile is seen undergoing a drop test from a Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber .
As a result of their work on these batteries the Cape Town Volunteer Artillery (CVA) was born on 26 August 1857 at the old Town house in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town. The regiment is one of the oldest volunteer artillery regiments in the world still in existence today, after it celebrated its 160th anniversary on 26 August 2017. [ 1 ]