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South Africa: 60mm light mortar: 2,300+ 2km Uses the M-61 series of bombs in High Explosive, Smoke, Illumination and Practice versions. In use with the Special Forces and Airborne Infantry. Upgraded in 2016 with improved range and accuracy. [73] M3/M8 Mortar [71] South Africa: 81 mm medium mortar: 1,890: 5km Based on the French LLR 81mm mortar.
8 M3 81mm mortars, 27 M4 60mm patrol mortars, 6 infantry antitank guns (M40A1 or Ratel 90), 6 antitank guided missile launchers (MBDA Milan ADT3 or Ratel ZT3), 4 Browning 12.7mm HMG and four Denel Y3 AGL (not in the mechanised infantry), 27 7.62mm GPMG and; 9 RPG7 rocket-propelled grenade launchers (one per rifle platoon).
8 South African Infantry Battalion is a mechanized infantry unit of the South African Army. [2] The battalion is equipped with Ratel Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV) used for fast transport and combat mobility across rough ground. Support weapons for mechanized infantry are also provided with motorized transport, or are built directly into ...
1 SAI is equipped with Ratel 20 Infantry Fighting Vehicles, [5] Ratel 60 mm (2.4 in) Mortar Platform Vehicles, Ratel Command Vehicles with mounted 12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns, Kwevoel 100 Armoured Trucks for IFV Recovery, field maintenance, fuel bunkers and water provision, [6] Samil 50 and 100 logistics trucks, Samil 20 trucks for its ...
The Denel Vektor M1 60mm Mortar is a mortar manufactured by the South African firm Denel Land Systems for use by the South African Army [1] and the Irish Defence Forces (since 2003). [2] Around 100 were also sold to the Forces Armées Rwandaises in 1992, during the Rwandan Civil War .
South Africa: A Country Study. U.S. Department of the Army Pamphlet. Vol. 550– 93. (also possibly is a 1971 edition) Siegfried, Stander (1985). Like the Wind, The Story of the SA Army. Cape Town: Saayman & Weber. Volker, W. Victor (2010). Army signals in South Africa: the story of the South African Corps of Signals and its antecedents ...
The South African Artillery re-organised itself into the South African Army Artillery Formation, directed by the SA Army Artillery Formation Headquarters. [1] [6] The South African Army Artillery Formation HQ was established in April 1999. [7]: 4–5 SAMIL 100 carrying a Vulture UAV.
4 Artillery was the successor to 4 Field Brigade, which had made a name for itself at Combolcia, Dessie and Amba Alagi in Ethiopia. The regiment served at El Alamein under its own name – as part of 1 SA Division – and in Italy as part of 6 SA Armoured Division, notably at Monte Stanco.