SAAF Mirage F1AZ

7 June 1980 Border War, Operation Sceptic. Capt IC Du Plessis landed his badly damaged Mirage F1AZ at Ruacana. The aircraft was damaged by shrapnel from an SAM Missile fired at the aircraft during the bombing of a target. He barely made it to Ruacana with the assistance of Budgie Burgers who was flying a Telstar Imp and guided him in to Ruacana.…Read More

Selous Scouts on patrol during the Bush War, 1970’s.

Selous Scouts tracking guerrillas in the bush

Rhodesian Selous Scout operators in the bush

Selous Scout operators goofing about

Rhodesian Selous Scout operators, circa. 1977. If you want to fight in the bush, you have to smell like the bush.

Rhodesian Security Forces preparing to conduct a patrol along the Mozambican border, 1979.

Rhodesian Selous Scouts during a cross border raid, late 1970s

32 Battalion troops before Ops Alpha Centauri, 1986

Angolan Mil Mi-8 during the war