AFB Grootfontein was a major air field used as a staging area for many SAAF operations into Angola - especially with the Buccaneers and Canberras
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AFB Rundu
Air Force Base Rundu was established at Rundu in the Kavango as one of a number of operational air force bases in Sector 20 of the then South West Africa Command. Originally known as AFB Runtu, the spelling was later changed to Rundu. 70 Mobile Radar Group deployed a...
AFB Mpacha
Air Force Base Mpacha was established near Katima Mulilo in the eastern Caprivi as one of a number of operational air force bases in Sector 70 of the then South West Africa Command. It became a permanent base for a flight of Impala Mk II fighters and Alouette and Puma...
AFB Ondangwa
Air Force Base Ondangwa was initially established at the Ondangwa Airfield on 2 February 1972, under the name "Playboy". The only military presence at that time in the area was at Oshakati, which fell under 1 Military Area in northern SWA. It soon became the most...
War of Intervention in Angola: Volume 2
Angolan and Cuban Forces, 1976-1983 As of mid-1976, the civil war in Angola was seemingly decided: supported by a large contingent of Cuban forces, the MPLA established itself in power in Luanda. Its native competitors, the US-French-Zaire-supported FNLA, and UNITA,...
From Tailhooker to Mudmover
An Aviation Career in the Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm, United States Navy, and South African Air Force This book traces an extraordinary career through nearly four decades of military aviation. Dick Lord, well known as an aviation raconteur, tells a tale of military...
Vlamgat
The Story of the Mirage F1 in the South African Air Force The original Vlamgat book has all but been sold out and the publisher no longer longer exists. As there was still a strong demand for the book, the author got together with combat360 Productions and decided to...
Operation Firewood
Operation Firewood was a 1987 cross-border military operation conducted by the South African Defence Force (SADF) against the armed wing of SWAPO, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), during the later phases of the South African Border War. he PLAN Northern...
Operation Moduler
The southern element of the FAPLA offensive was launched from the area of Cuito Cuanavale on 14 August 1987. The brigades involved here were 25 Brigade, already deployed east of the Cuito River at Tumpo, and 16, 21, 47, 59, 66, 8, and 13 Brigades, which were deployed...
Operation Karton
Operation Karton (Operation Cardboard) was a secret military operation during August 1983 by the South African Defence Force (SADF) during the South African Border War and Angolan Civil War. UNITA attacked on 1 August with between 3000 and 6000 soldiers with the SADF...
Operation Uric
OP URIC is the controversial operation of The Rhodesian War. Though it resulted in over 300 enemy dead for the loss of 15 of their own (the highest of the war) the Rhodesians, with their very high operational standards, did not regard it as a success. There was...
Operation Motel I
Rhodesian military operation in Zambia with clandestine assistance from the South African Air Force (SAAF) during the Rhodesian Bush War. The Rhodesian Air Force planned raids against a ZIPRA camp in Northern Zambia. The operation consisted of two raids on a ZIPRA...