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South Africa: Semi-automatic pistol: 9×19mm Parabellum: 15-round magazine. License-built Beretta 92F. Standard issue side arm since 1989 alongside the SP1. Vektor SP1 South Africa: Semi-automatic pistol: 9×19mm Parabellum: 15-round magazine. Standard issue side arm alongside the Z88 since 1992. Submachine guns Milkor BXP [8] South Africa ...
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 ...
Entered service in 2024. The largest UAV designed in South Africa and in Africa, it has an endurance of up to 35 hours of flight time and a payload capacity of 210 kg. [99] Production for the Milkor 380 is currently set at 8 drones per year, in 2026 this is set to be doubled by up to 16 drones produced a year. [100] [101]
Opposite Robben Island ferry departure. The battery was one of the coastal fortifications of the Cape Peninsula linked to the Castle of Good Hope. [1] It was built in 1714–1725 by the Dutch East India Company, [2] and named after its originator, Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes, who was the governor of the Cape Colony.
PetroSA (The Petroleum, Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa Ltd.) is the national oil and gas company (NOC) of South Africa. Its main activities are the extraction of natural gas from offshore fields about 89 km from Mossel Bay, the production of synthetic fuels from this gas through a gas to liquids (GTL) process, and the extraction of crude oil from oil fields off the South Coast of ...
Israel design, stopgap until the G5 cannon entered service: G5 Gun/Howitzer: 155mm, high explosive, Samil 100 Gun tractor South Africa design: G6 Gun/Howitzer: 155mm, high explosive, Self driven South Africa design: Vulture UAV: Vulture Forward Observation South Africa design. Used for target acquisition, fall-of-shot detection and fire ...
The memorial, which forms part of the Delville Wood Memorial, is located in the Company's Garden, Cape Town, and was strategically established to commemorate South Africa's artillery soldiers who fell in battle. [1] Of those who volunteered to fight during the war, 5800 were white South African, amongst whom 15% were Dutch and 85% English.
The fairly large suburb of Plumstead, just south of Wynberg, divided into two by the Main Road and the railway line, could easily be mistaken for the English village after which it is named. Regarded as the ‘Cinderella' of Wynberg and Diep River, Plumstead is filled with homes built during the 1940s and 1950s.