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Koevoet (SWAPOL TIN)

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  • #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

  • 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

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Koevoet was the counterinsurgency branch of the South West African Police. Its formations included white South African police officers, usually seconded from the South African Security Branch or Special Task Force, and black volunteers from Ovamboland.

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