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In 1990, Smart Parts produced their first in-house marker. Called the Boss, the Smart Parts pump marker featured a spiral ported barrel and a 'shoebox' style body (which would be mirrored in their first electronic gun design); The Boss was targeted at high-end woodsball tournament players but was not well-received, being considered to be too heavy and too large (when compared to offerings such ...
A paintball marker is the primary piece of equipment used in paintball to tag an opposing player. An expanding gas (usually carbon dioxide or high-pressure air) forces a paintball through the barrel at a muzzle velocity of approximately 90 m/s (300 ft/s).
Since 2009 the largest national speedball league in South Africa is the South African Regional Paintball League (SARPL) [105] having over 500 members during 2014 and hosting both a three-man and five-man series events at one stage in 5 provinces (including Gauteng, Kwazulu Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and the Free State). The league hosted ...
The Angel paintball marker was designed by engineer John Rice, as an HPA-only marker. Despite its ubiquitous use in the sport at the time, Rice considered CO 2 a dirty gas , so the Angel used miniaturized components that could not withstand impurities in the air or the cooling effects of CO 2 . [ 3 ]
Birkin Cars, Ltd. is a South African-based car manufacturer. The company's specialty and only currently-produced vehicle is the S3 Roadster , a kit-car copy of the Lotus Super 7 . The founder and owner of the company is John Watson, a descendant of pioneering race car driver Tim Birkin .
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]
A speedball game in progress. Speedball is one of the three distinct game variants in the sport of paintball, along with woodsball and scenario paintball.. It is a general term for a game in which the playing field is composed of bunkers, of the same location and number on each side of the field, that provide an equal playing field for each team competing.
The Ion is an electropneumatic paintball marker manufactured by Smart Parts. At the time of its release, the Ion was the first fully electropneumatic marker aimed at entry-level players, at a price point similar to Spyders and other mechanical blowbacks. The Ion has generally been credited with making high-rate-of-fire electropneumatic markers ...