Reply With QuoteI just found this one about the SANDF with great shots of equipment upgrades! Excellent footage!
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Brilliant...baie dankie, bring more...
I just found this one about the SANDF with great shots of equipment upgrades! Excellent footage!
Great video Clint!
Wow...very nice!
Wow....those cheetah's are still damn fine looking.
Gentleman
Announcement last week in the media. Looks like the Hoefyster buy is going throught.
http://www.buanews.gov.za/view.php?I...&coll=buanew07
So it actually looks like we finally might be getting new toys!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now just to wait and see how they/we manage to make a mess of this deal as well!!!!
As picked up by Afrikaans media
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l3...l/DSCF7286.jpg
Ext70, can you scan/photograph a higher resolution version of the article? I would like to read what they have to say.
Pretty much the same as the english .gov reference posted.Originally Posted by Ironsight06
But will do.
I'm a techno-idiot. Higher resolution goes PDF, so can't post that through photobucket.
Send me a PM with your e-mail address and I will mail it to you. Even easier. Was front page of SAKE24 of Die Burger dated 18 May 2007. Volksblad, Beeld and Burger uses same business section, so should be able to get it there as well. Did however not see in on News24 website. Strange!
Is this a SADF soldier?
What cap is that, I thouth SADF has boonie hats?
I don't know if the guy is a SADF soldier as he is not wearing regular uniform!
Is this a SADF soldier?
What cap is that, I thouth SADF has boonie hats?
Some guys just used to fold the back and sides of the boonie hat into the boonie hat to make it look like a cap!
32 Battalion and some other units did have peak caps as issue!
http://groups.msn.com/SADFphotos/32b...to&PhotoID=332
Could be a Recce?? Taking the chance what happened with the Recces??
Best regards
Mirlo
Could be anyone. Recce. 32. Or any other Bn for that matter. May also be Rhodesian or any person anywhere in the bush. Picture does not give enough detail. Not even AR in background places the pic. Units like 32 and Recces were however more ****e to wear non-regulation battlejacket like the one the guy in the pic is wearing and some of the "battlejacket" predecessors/prototypes looked similar to what is shown in the pic, but it could be anything, anywhere. (32's stuff was however mostly in a commo pattern). Most deployed and actively "fighting" units used "better" non-regulation systems prior to the "battlejacket" replacing the old canvas style webbing. Soldiers do that everywhere, and probably have been doing it since people started fighting. Recces still wear what they like.
The Recce unit/s have changed name so often I have lost track. Much smaller today but still quite active in Africa. Not in position to make any further comments in this regard.
The Recces are now the South African Special Forces Brigade, consisting of 4 Special Forces Regiment in Langebaan and 5 Special Forces Regiment in Phalaborwa. 4 SFR is primarily a maritime unit, while 5 SFR is mostly an overland unit, though skills cross-training is encouraged and all members have advanced parachute training.
Rather interestingly, the SF Brigade is not part of the Army, but is actually an independent unit under the Joint Operations Division. This means they have their own budget of R200 million and get to buy whatever kit they want without the Army's bureaucrats interfering. In the last few years, 5 SFR bought 25 Hornet rapid-response vehicles (called the Wasp by Land Systems OMC) while 4 SFR has procured an unknown number of high-speed boats. The budget is set to increase to R250 million by 2010.
The Brigade is, as exT70 pointed out, much smaller than it was at the height of the Border War, though that is to be expected. More worryingly though the Brigade has not been immune to the golden lure of private sector work, with many operators quitting to become private security contractors. This is not unique to SA, the SAS recently had to up salaries by 50% to try stem losses to the private sector. The unit still is fairly active, mostly supporting our peacekeeping forces in their African missions. Details of deployments usually aren't made public though.
KROONSTAD
Base shooting: Colonel still critical
Wed, 30 May 2007
The commanding officer who was shot by another soldier at Kroonstad military base on Tuesday is still in a critical condition, the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) said.
Brigadier General Kwena Mangope said on Wednesday that Colonel JS Grobbelaar's condition had "not worsened and not improved."
"He is still critical and in the intensive care unit."
Mangope said Grobbelaar was in his early 50s and had a wife and children.
Grobbelaar is the Officer Commanding Group 24.
The suspect, a lance-corporal, allegedly went to Grobbelaar's office and shot him at around 7.30am on Tuesday.
Planned shooting
"It looks like it was a premeditated type of action," said Mangope.
He said the motive was not known and the matter was still being investigated.
Grobbelaar was flown by helicopter to 1 Military hospital in Pretoria.
The lance-corporal was arrested by the SA Police Service and detained at the Kroonstad police station.
He was expected to appear in the Kroonstad Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
Mangope said a military council held an urgent meeting to discuss the shooting on Tuesday, and decided that the suspect should be dishonourably discharged with immediate effect.
The man is believed to have used a pistol, but it was not known if this was military issue or privately-owned.
The criminal investigation into the matter continues.
Sapa
The Colonel has subsequently passes away in hospital...RIP
I am at a loss for words this is an indication of how far things has slipped.
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