In Angola during January 1986, Cuban intelligence services received reports from near the city of Huambo that many local village women were using parachute material to wrap their infants onto their backs. Rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and his National...

I was taking some time off of work at a shipyard in San Francisco and I had planned a trip to South Africa & Rhodesia for a couple of years. I was in contact with Al J. Venter from...

In the dramatic power struggle for Angola in 1987, South African Air Force Mirage F1s tackled MiG-23s in the skies above south-western Africa. Lionel Reid recounts the story Angola 1987. The Soviet and Angolan MPLA forces decided on an ambitious...

The sharp end of the SA Air Force (SAAF) is currently honing its skills by way of a weapons camp at Air Force Base (AFB) Overberg in the Western Cape. The camp started in the final week of October, the...

In Sudan, anti-government forces shot down an Il-76 carrying a Russian crew with a Chinese-made FK-2000 air defense system. The aircraft may have been on a highly unusual mission. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which had previously operated with...