A Soviet An-12B transport (serial CCCP-11922) unloading one of the first P-12 radars to reach Angola, in 1982. (via Albert Grandolini)

Operation Askari (January 1984): A prominent loss occurred near Cuvelai when a Ratel-20 (Call sign 13B) was directly hit and destroyed by a FAPLA T-55 tank, resulting in 6 crew fatalities.

Operation Moduler

Operation Moduler

FAPA-DAA Mi-8 landing

Mig-21MF Fishbed-J in Angola 1976

Angolan FAPLA soldiers and Soviet military advisers with 30 mm AGS-17 automatic grenade launchers during the civil war.

Vehicle pics were taken at the Lomba River battle site

Cuban soldier in Angola photographed by Ernesto Fernandez Nogueras, 1982.

MiG-23 pilot Lino Vieras (left) and a Cuban intelligence officer next to a MiG-23ML at Huambo in April 1986. An R-24T missile is loaded on the jet’s left shoulder pylon

Impala flypast at AFB Mpacha

A group of Cuban pilots in Angola. Alberto Ley Rivas is crouching in the front row furthest right, wearing a t-shirt. Fourth from the right at the back is Danasio Valdés, shot down by SAAF Mirages in a MiG-21 in 1981