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Zimbabwe National Army. The Zimbabwe National Army ( ZNA) is the primary branch of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces responsible for land-oriented military operations. It is the largest service branch under the Zimbabwean Joint Operations Command (JOC). The modern army has its roots in the Rhodesian Army, which was raised between 1963 and 1964 after ...
Zimbabwe Defence Forces. The Zimbabwe Defence Forces ( ZDF) are the military forces responsible for the defence of Zimbabwe against external threats from other countries, and also to suppress internal armed factions. It is composed of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ). (As a landlocked country Zimbabwe does ...
Transport. Ilyushin Il-76, Antonov An-12, CASA C212 Aviocar, Britten-Norman Islander, Bell 412. The Air Force of Zimbabwe ( AFZ) is the air force of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. It was known as the Rhodesian Air Force until 1980. The Air Force of Zimbabwe saw service in the Mozambican Civil War in 1985 and the Second Congo War of 1998–2001.
2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état. In November 2017, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as president and party leader of ZANU–PF and was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa . On the evening of 14 November 2017, elements of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) gathered around Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, and seized control of the Zimbabwe ...
The military history of Zimbabwe chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time. It covers invasions of native peoples of Africa ( Shona and Ndebele ), encroachment by Europeans ( Portuguese, Boer and British settlers), and civil conflict.
Ariel School UFO incident. On 16 September 1994, there was a UFO sighting outside Ruwa, Zimbabwe. [ 1] Sixty-two pupils at the Ariel School aged between six and twelve [ 1][ 2] said that they saw one or more silver craft descend from the sky and land on a field near their school. [ 1][ 2] Some of the children claimed that one creature or more ...
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was welcomed in Zimbabwe on Thursday by people singing songs criticizing the West as he made his last stop on a three-nation Africa trip aimed at finding new trade ...
Senior Military Commander. Philip Valerio Sibanda (born 24 December 1954 [ 1]) is a decorated Zimbabwe general who has served as commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces since December 2017. He was promoted from lieutenant general to full general at that time. As lieutenant general he had served as commander of the Zimbabwe National Army. [ 2][ 3]