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Massmart Holdings Limited is a South African firm that owns local brands such as Game, Makro, Builder's Warehouse and CBW.It is the second-largest distributor of consumer goods in Africa, the largest retailer of general merchandise, liquor and home improvement equipment and wholesaler of basic foods. [4]
Machine guns Vektor SS-77 [17] South Africa: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO: Belt-fed GPMG in service since 1986 alongside the FN MAG. 100-round pear-shaped pouch in general use, 200-round rigid box. Can use both non-disintegrating DM1 and NATO M13 or R1M1 disintegrating link belts. FN MAG [18] Belgium: General-purpose machine gun ...
Makro expanded to Asia with its first store in Thailand in 1989. Operating as Siam Makro, the company is a joint venture between Charoen Pokphand and SHV Holdings. In 1994, Siam Makro planned to be listed in the Stock Exchange of Thailand to fund an expansion programme. [3] The South African stores were subsequently in 1990 exchanged for a ...
Medium machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO Army Navy; Spec ops; M1919A4 Browning Medium Machine gun modified by Denel Land Systems, fires the 7.62×51mm round. [21] M2 Browning: Heavy machine gun.50 BMG Army Navy; Spec ops; Belt fed machine gun mainly mounted on Tripods, armoured and infantry vehicles. [22] Kord: Heavy machine gun 12.7×108 mm: Spec ops
Spray paint being applied to a piece of equipment An LVLP system spray gun. Spray painting is a painting technique in which a device sprays coating material (paint, ink, varnish, etc.) through the air onto a surface. The most common types employ compressed gas—usually air—to atomize and direct the paint particles.
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In the late 1970s, South Africa was involved in an international controversy over apartheid and the South African Border War in Angola. As a result, it was subject to an international arms embargo and had to, out of necessity, design and manufacture its own weapons. [1] The SS-77 was developed to replace the FN MAG. It was designed in 1977 by ...
More fully automated ballast cleaners were developed in the early- to mid-20th century by several companies including Speno [7] and Pullman-Standard; [8] a version of Pullman-Standard's machine was demonstrated in 1949 that was estimated to save railroad companies about $1,000 per mile of track on their maintenance ($12,806 in 2023). [9]