Arn Durand’s #Koevoet team in hostile territory, stopping to helping a young elephant calf back to it’s mother, Kavango, Southwest Africa circa. 1980s

Durand survived 127 enemy contacts with SWAPO during his 6 year career with Koevoet in Southwest Africa, including three separate landmine explosions. He has written two books about his com…Read More

#Koevoet personnel inspect a captured #SA-7 after a contact with SWAPO PLAN insurgents in southern Angola 1984.

Made in Russia. The 9K32 Strela-2 (Russian: C?????, “arrow”; NATO reporting name SA-7 Grail) is a man-portable, shoulder-fired, low-altitude surface-to-air missile system with a high explosive warhead and passive infrared homing gui…Read More

#Koevoet patrol taken near #Rundu in the Kavango region of South West Africa/Namibia 30/08/1988.

A highly effective but highly controversial paramilitary Police force, Koevoet (meaning “crow bar”) abbreviated Operation K or SWAPOL- COIN (South West African Police Counter Insurgency) was a major paramilitary organisation under South Afr…Read More

#Koevoet in Ovamboland #Casspir

#Koevoet aka Crowbar, South Africa’s former CT and border police unit. Team Zulu Foxtrot achieved 100 kills for no loss in 1981 #Casspir

#Koevoet #Casspir

Ian Richardson (RIP) A #Koevoet legend in his own right. Being treated by his team, ZN ops medic.

A #Koevoet #Casspir falls victim to a SWAPO/PLAN land mine in SW Africa

#Canberra B2 no RRAF173 at RAF Akrotiri (AKT / LCRA), Cyprus 1959