Uncommon to see aerial operational photographs like this one of The Border War in South West Africa/Namibia. Here a South African Air Force #Impala MK II is on bush patrol – and demonstrating exactly what it entailed – low and fast flight – seen here performing a low level, high speed tight turn over the flat terrain of Ovamboland.

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Operation #Modular October 5 1987. When the SADF captured this Soviet #SA-8 missile launcher it caused an international stir with the “Western Powers” and the USA in particular taking a very keen interest to know its capability and secrets.

At the height of the cold war nobody in the “west” had been close to one of these, it was a Soviet “Top…Read More

#Cessna 185D Serial No. 745 (c/no 0964), ex N1585F and later ZS-EGH, was delivered to the South African Air Force on 08 December 1965.

On 19 February 1988, 65km North East of Opuwa in the Kaokaveld, all was not going well for the Pilot Lieutenant N.J. Ras from 84 Light Aircraft Flying School when the aircraft engine failed and he was left with…Read More

South African Special Forces with #UNITA solider in Angola #Recce

Soldiers with the pro-Western Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( #UNITA) on patrol during the Bush War. A communist push into southeastern Angola in 1897 triggered a major ground response from South Africa

View of a burned-out enemy tank from the turret of a #Ratel 90 of the South African #61Mech Battalion. Although lightly armored, the Ratels were fast and mobile and able to take on Soviet #T-55 tanks with their 90mm guns.

Jonas #Savimbi led the #UNITA forces.

#Cuban soldiers pose with Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola soldiers near Cuito Cuanavale. The struggle between pro-Western and pro-Soviet military factions in Angola was a major front in the Cold War, resulting in the participation of 40,000 Cuban troops.