#Cuban #MiG-21PFM serial “C-50” after crash landing, in #Angola. (Photo credit: Luis Domínguez.)

#MiG-21 of the #Angolan Air Force #FAPA-DAA with #Cuban Pilot

#MiG-23ML of the #Angolan Air Force #FAPA-DAA

#Eland-90

South African missile crew with French-designed #Crotale missile battery. It is known as the #Cactus missile in South Africa. One of the missiles had been fired at an attacking #Mig-23 without success.

Captain John Mortimer in a #Casspir attached to an SADF/ #UNITA liaison team; he stood in for Les Rudman’s team during their home leave.

South African 155-mm #G5 artillery on the outskirts of Cuito Cuanavale pounding Cuban and Angolan positions. The guns were carefully camouflaged against enemy air attacks

Commander of 20 SA Brigade. Colonel P. S. Fouché with two #M-46 Russian artillery pieces taken by the SADF during the Operation #Hooper attack on 21 Brigade.

Buffalo Military Base (Former #32Bn SADF) Map – Abandoned camp

#32Bn recce wing troops in Angola, Ca. 1980s – (Left): Jaime Damiao

#32Bn Lt. Piet Van Zyl on patrol in Angola, 1980’s …Pattern 81 type 2 ( #SWATF / SWA SF) vests sometimes just called “SWA mesh vests”

#32Bn Sgt. Frans ‘FL’ Smit during a patrol in Angola, 1980’s