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The SAAF’s Options for Strategic Airlift
This article originally appeared in the April edition of SA Flyer and FlightCom magazine. It is republished here with minor edits. This week I’m exploring some of the […]
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The SAAF’s Options for Tactical Airlift
This article originally appeared in the May edition of SA Flyer and FlightCom magazine. It has received minor edits to bring it up to date. In my last post I described […]
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South Africa's Airlift Crisis
The South African Air Force (SAAF) faces an airlift crisis. While the demands on its fleet continue to increase, including larger and riskier missions thousands of […]
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Casualties in APCLS attack on MONUSCO/FARDC positions
Three South African National Defence Force (SANDF) troops were wounded yesterday morning (30 April) during an attack by the APCLS (Alliance of Patriots for a Free and […]
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Inside the South African Defence Review
The South African Defence Review is set for parliamentary debate in September this year. If adopted by government, it could see the defence budget increase from […]
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The future of air power in Southern Africa
This article originally appeared in the February edition of SA Flyer and FlightCom magazine. As the political, economic and technological aspects of countries in the […]
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SA's Military: Scrabbling for Petrol Money
In the 1990’s Deloitte and Touche were awarded a multi-million rand contract to restructure the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) into a more efficient […]
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Angola's New Su–30Ks
This article originally appeared in the January edition of SA Flyer and FlightCom magazine. The only change has been to revise the number of aircraft acquired from 18 to […]
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Structuring the African Military Beyond COIN
African conflicts should not be viewed in the same lens as Iraq and Afghanistan. A perfectly sensible statement, yet one that is ignored in a flood of attention paid […]
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Why the Congolese Government should be flexible
M23’s defeat following concerted FARDC and FIB attacks was a breath of fresh strategic air. The willingness by M23, or at least its political wing, to negotiate […]
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Rooivalk attack helicopters perform well in first combat action against M23
Yesterday, at approximately 17h00 Congolese time, two South African Air Force Rooivalk helicopters attached to the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade flew the […]
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How M23 was rolled back
In just four days, M23 has been dislodged from every one of the strongholds it once held. This surprisingly rapid reversal of fortunes for the group was unprecedented […]