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Pages in category "Armoured fighting vehicles of South Africa" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
South Africa employed armoured cars as early as 1915 during its invasion of the then-German South West Africa (now Namibia).. After the end of the First World War a single Medium Mark A Whippet light tank was purchased for the Union Defence Force and was operationally employed during the 1922 Rand revolt.
Zaamurets armoured train [119] South Africa. South African Engineer Corps armoured train [120] The LNWR built two armoured trains for the defence of the east coast of England United Kingdom. GNR(I) armoured train [120] LNWR armoured train ("Norma" and "Alice") [121] Royal Navy armoured train [121] Simplex armoured train [121] Uganda Railway ...
The Ratel was designed in response to a South African Army specification for a light armoured vehicle suited to the demands of rapid offensives, providing maximum firepower and strategic mobility to mechanised infantry units intended to operate across the vast distances of Southern Africa. [1]
South Africa's participation in the First World War occurred automatically when the British Government declared war on Germany in August 1914. Due to her status as a Dominion within the British Empire, South Africa, whilst having significant levels of self-autonomy, did not have the legal power to exercise an independent foreign policy and was tied to the British declaration.
Daimler DZVR 21 / Sd.Kfz. 3 – interwar 4 wheel armoured car; Ehrhardt E-V/4 – World War I vehicle; Kfz 13 – interwar 4 wheel light armoured car; Leichter Panzerspähwagen – a series of light 4x4 armoured cars from Nazi Germany; Schwerer Panzerspähwagen – a family of 6x6 and 8x8 heavy armoured cars deployed by Nazi Germany
South Africa: Armoured recovery vehicle: 18: Olifant Armour Bridge Layer [48] No image available South Africa: Armoured vehicle-launched bridge: 2: Toyota Land Cruiser Utility [49] No image available Japan South Africa. Utility vehicle 435: Used for border patrol. R500 million will be spent in 2024/25 to replace these vehicles with new mine ...
South African/British armoured vehicles such as the Comet tank, the Centurion tank, the Crusader tank and the Churchill tank; Captured Angolan/Cuban/Soviet vehicles such as the T-34/85 tank, the T-54/55 tank and the PT-76 amphibious tank; Captured Italian/German vehicles such as the Carro Veloce CV-35 tank and the Sd.Kfz. 251 half-track