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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]
South Africa. Utility vehicle 435: Used for border patrol. R500 million will be spent in 2024/25 to replace these vehicles with new mine-resistant APCs. Gecko 8×8 ATV [60] South Africa Canada: All-terrain utility vehicle 100: Used by the Parachute Regiment and Special Forces. SAMIL 20 [61] [62] South Africa: 4×4 logistics truck Several thousands
Denel Land Systems is a division of the Denel group.. It was formerly Lyttelton Engineering Works (LIW—from Afrikaans: Lyttelton Ingenieurswerke), a subsidiary part of the commercial network from Armscor.
Category: Rolling stock of South Africa. 5 languages. ... Electric multiple units of South Africa (4 P) L. Locomotives of South Africa (11 C, 4 P) R.
The SKS was also used in large quantities by uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa. [49] Between 1963 and 1990, the Soviet Union shipped 3,362 SKS carbines to MK through the guerrillas' external sanctuaries in Angola and Tanzania.
The military as it exists today was created in 1994, [5] [6] following South Africa's first nonracial election in April of that year and the adoption of a new constitution. It replaced the South African Defence Force and also integrated uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), and the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) guerilla forces.
On November 27-28 1987, a South African Airways Boeing 747-244BM Combi operating as Flight 295 was flying from Taipei, Taiwan to Johannesburg, South Africa with a stopover in Mauritius carrying 140 passengers, 14 flight attendants, 3 pilots, and 2 flight engineers along with 6 pallets of cargo in the rear when an in-flight fire lead to the ...
The Vektor R4 is a South African variant of the Galil ARM assault rifle [28] [29] with several modifications; notably, both the stock and magazine are made of a high-strength polymer and the stock was lengthened, adapting the weapon for the average-sized South African soldier. [28]