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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
8 July 1981, Lt Adriano Bomba, decides to defect to South Africa in his ageing Mozambican Mig 17 (serial number 21) and is intercepted and escorted by two SAAF F1AZ Mirage fighter jets from Hoedspruit.
The Mozambique government asked for their Mig fighter jet to be given back, and once it was inspected the South African Air Force it was handed…Read More
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
07 June 1980. The South African Air Force Mirage F1AZ 237 of Captain Isak C. du Plessis on the runway at Ruacana, after making an emergency landing after sustaining battle damage.
His SAAF Mirage was part of a 16 ship F1AZ force attacking a SWAPO base near Lubango, it was damaged by two SA-3 ground to air missiles. Losing hydraulic pressure,…Read More
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
This is a SADF patrol final inspection (thought to be 5 SAI), this was usually performed by the section leaders before the platoon moves out. His job was to check that every man’s kit is in full order. Here he checks the ammunition and kit of the man allocated the 40 mm multiple grenade launcher. Photo courtesy of the Outapi War Museum. Story for…Read More
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Greg McEwan-Marriott posted in the group South African Border War
October 31, 1987 South Africa’s Angolan ally in the Border War – The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, known by its Portuguese acronym UNITA, captured two Cubans after shooting down their MIG-23 jet over Angola’s eastern province of Moxico. Cuba, in an unprecedented public admission, confirmed the incident identifying the Cubans…Read More
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Cuban tank crew in Angola,
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Regular CMV correspondent James Kinnear earlier this year met
with members of the Union of Veterans of Angola during a trip to Russia to find
out more about the war in Angola from the Soviet perspective
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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
President and Supreme Commander of UNITA
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi - 3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). #UNITA waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974, then confronted the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan Civil War. Savimbi was killed in a clash with government troops in 2002.
Not sure the names are correct!
Should be: Lt. Cdr. Manuel Rojas and Capt. Ramon Quesada Aguilar. 28 October 1987: MiG-21UM. Shot down by anti-aircraft fire from UNITA. Captured