At least nine people have been killed in an attack on a village in DR Congo that is controlled by military forces sent in by the East African Community (EAC) to curb violence in the country’s east, local sources...

The Angolan Navy has taken delivery of the first of two new tank landing craft built by France’s CMN, five months after launch in Cherbourg. CMN (Constructions Mecaniques de Normandie) launched the vessel RA 4 de Abril (ND15) at the...

An ECOWAS deadline for the junta in Niger to relinquish power and restore ousted President Mohamed Bazoum expired yesterday. Now, West Africa waits. The threat of war still looms and neither side has indicated it will back down. Over the...

Fighter pilot memoirs & accounts of Cuban, SAAF and Angolan air combat in Southern African skies Most books on the Angolan Bush War, especially those in English, present the South African perspective of events. Now a former MiG-23 Squadron Commander...

Luanda said the decision was taken after consultations with Kinshasa, adding other regional leaders as well as the United Nations had been informed. LUANDA - Angola said on Saturday it will send a military unit to the Democratic Republic of...

The inside story of a Recce's Special Forces training year The South African Special Forces, or Recces, has always been known for their gruelling selection course that pushes soldiers to the ends of their physical and mental limits. Many sign...

Chad will shortly become the second African user for Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) Hürkuş basic trainer aircraft, the manufacturer confirmed at the Farnborough International Airshow 2022. The deal – which will make Chad the second operator of the type in...

The Algerian Air Force has announced the crash of a MiG-29 ‘Fulcrum’ fighter plane near the air base in Posfer, in the northwestern part of the country, near the city of Oran. The Algerian Ministry of National Defense confirmed the...

Less than a quarter of the South African Air Force’s (SAAF’s) fleet of aircraft is serviceable as budget cuts, COVID-19 disruptions and problems at Denel erode its capabilities. This emerged during a Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV)...

SAAFOPS Modeling Tutorial Building the models   Each object (e.g. missile, APC, aircraft, building, pylon etc) in SAAFOPS is a 3D model generated in AutoCAD or 3D Studio. These models are then saved as .3ds files and imported with the LODEditor program...

The South African Air Force (SAAF) has temporarily grounded all of it’s Gripen multirole fighter fleet as none are serviceable.According to the Department of Defence (DoD), this is due to a lack of funding for maintenance, as support contracts...

The Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) appears to have began a comprehensive aerial campaign against the Tigray Defence Force (TDF), after bolstering its capacity, and also to prevent an overrun of Addis Ababa, its capital city. The air offensive includes bombardment...