Flechas on parade – Angola

Óscar Cardoso providing training on the handling of a 7.62mm FN MAG light machine gun to a Flecha Bushman

Awarding of decorations to the Flechas of the province of Uíge, wearing the famous camouflage beret instituted by PIDE inspector Alves Cardoso

Member of the Rhodesian Grey’s Scouts during the Rhodesian Bush War

Soviet specialist of the FAPLA anti-aircraft missile brigade “Kvadrat” Vladimir Volodin in Cuito Cuanavale. 1984

From right to left: N. V. Kurushkin, Sam NuJoma, Peter Nanyemba
and SWAPO functionaries observe the training of PLAN fighters, 1982, Lubango. Photo from the archive of N. V. Kurushkin

SWAPO leadership and Soviet military advisers watch a PLAN special forces team training. In the center Sam Nujoma and the SAF team leader at SVS at SWAPO Colonel Boris Dmitrievich Perebillo. On the right is Captain Valery Nikolaevich Skvortsov, who was engaged in training special forces, on the left is a specialist in the tactics of partisan…Read More

Review of the PLAN motorized infantry brigade at the T. Haineko Training Center. 1985. Photo from the archive of V. Stryukov

Training of a PLAN reconnaissance group. In the center F.M. Zulkarneev, Jumbo training ground, Lubango, 1985 Photo from F. Zulkarneev’s archive

Advisor and his sub-adviser. Senior of the SAF group of the SWAPO training center named after Tobias Haineko Colonel Ivan Grigorievich Zherlitsyn and the head of this training center, PLAN commander Joshua. Lubango, 1979. Photo from the archive of I. Zherlitsyn

M. I. Konovalenko with his subordinates in the ANC MK “Kakulama” camp. From left to right: military topography specialist, mine and explosives specialist, group senior, air defense specialist (Strela-2M), artillery systems specialist (Grad-P, mortars), hand-to-hand combat instructor. Angola, 1987. Photo from M. Konovalenko’s archive