In the context of the former Portuguese colonial empire, the territories of Guinea and Cape Verde played an important role in the maritime and air routes connecting Southern Africa, where Portugal had two important colonies: Angola and Mozambique. Furthermore, on the...
The POMZ-2M is a stake-mounted anti-personnel fragmentation mine made in the former Soviet Union. The body of the mine is a cast-iron thick-walled tube with five rows of cast fragmentation "chunks". This is usually mounted on a short wooden stake. Because the mine is...
The PMN is a bakelite-cased, pressure operated, anti-personnel blast mine (sometimes called the 'Black-widow'). Made in the former Soviet Union, it has been found in Afghanistan, Angola, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Chechnya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras,...
This is the short story of Fiat G.91R fighter bombers operated by the Força Aérea Portuguesa (FAP, Portuguese Air Force) in Angola [partially covered in War of Intervention in Angola Volume 1 published by Helion & Company]. None of the Fiat G.91R fighter bombers...
Colonial–Communist Clash, 1961–1974 When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of...
The world has witnessed several battles since the dawn of time. Whether ancient or recent, they all contain a wealth of data useful for life in several circumstances. These battles, which had a significant influence on the life of mankind and defined the course of...
Conflict in Southern Africa "The Zambesi Salient" refers to the 1974 book by Al J. Venter, a work of political and military analysis of the conflicts in Southern Africa during the 1970s. Venter, who had firsthand experience in the war zones, provided a realistic...
In the northeast of the Niassa district, near the Incala River in the Serra da Mecula, at the intersection of the Candulo to Marrupa trail, a Berliet from MVL CCS/CArt3558/BArt3887 detonates four booby traps interconnected by a detonating cord, planted by FRELIMO, two...
Operation Gordian Knot (Operação Nó Górdio) was the largest and most expensive Portuguese military campaign in the Portuguese overseas province of Mozambique, East Africa. The operation was carried out in 1970, during the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974). The...
Portuguese military unit 1st GC (Grupo de Combate) executed an operation (Operação Sagres 3) to destroy the Maniamba Base in the Lago District near the confluence of the Messinge and Nossi rivers, Niassa Province of northwestern Mozambique. During the deployment, a...
Maconde Plateau, northeastern Mozambique: on the route between the Muera River Bridge and Diaca, an ambush launched by a group of FRELIMO near the so-called "curve of death" against a platoon of the 2422nd Hunter Company / 17th Independent Infantry Battalion...
7 members of CCaç 2321 killed in an ambush in the Mapé mountains
Frelimo attack on an Engineering Company Camp 2393 - Three dead, thirty-five injured , with all the vehicles and machinery of the Engineering Company damaged, 13 x 82mm mortars landed inside the camp
The MPLA (Movimento Popular de Libertaçao de Angola) was formed in Luanda from amalgamation of radical nationalist movements (including the Angolan Communist Party) with IlÃdio Alves Machado as president.