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United States South Africa: Heavy machine gun.50 BMG: Belt fed machine gun mainly mounted on Tripods, armoured and infantry vehicles. The weapon fires .50 calibre rounds at a rate of 485-635 rounds-per-minute out to an effective range of 2,000 metres. Grenade launchers Milkor MGL South Africa: Grenade launcher: 40×46 mm
600–900 rounds/min. Feed system. Disintegrating R1M1 link belt. alternatively disintegrating M13 belt or non-disintegrating DM1 belt ( SS-77) Disintegrating M27 belt ( Mini-SS) The Vektor SS-77 is a general-purpose machine gun designed and manufactured by Denel Land Systems —formerly Lyttleton Engineering Works (LIW)—of South Africa.
Medium machine gun United States South Africa. M1919A4 N/A: M1919A4 Browning Medium Machine gun modified by Denel Land Systems, fires the 7.62×51mm round. M2 Browning: Heavy machine gun United States South Africa - N/A: Belt fed machine gun mainly mounted on Tripods, armoured and infantry vehicles. Grenade launchers; Milkor MGL: Grenade launcher
The South African Special Forces Brigade, colloquially known as the Recces, [5] is South Africa 's principal Tier 1 special operations forces, specialising in various types of operations, including counter-insurgency, long-range-reconnaissance, unconventional-warfare, special operations, hostage-rescue, and direct-action operations. [6]
The NTW-20 is a South African anti-materiel rifle, developed by Denel Mechem in the 1990s.It is intended for deployment against targets including parked aircraft, telecommunication masts, power lines, missile sites, radar installations, refineries, satellite dishes, gun emplacements, bunkers, and personnel, using a range of specialised projectiles.
The Vektor R4 is a South African 5.56×45mm assault rifle. [8] It entered service as the standard service rifle of the South African Defence Force (SADF) in 1980. [1] In South African service, the R4 replaced the R1, a variant of the 7.62×51mm FN FAL. [7] It was produced by Lyttelton Engineering Works (LIW, "Lyttelton Ingenieurswerke"), now ...
Two black soldiers of the Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR) manning a FN MAG General-purpose machine gun (GPMG) aboard a patrol boat on Lake Kariba, December 1976.. The Rhodesian Bush War, also referred to as the Rhodesian Civil War, Zimbabwe Independence War or Zimbabwean War of Liberation, as well as the Second Chimurenga, was a military conflict staged during the Decolonisation of Africa that ...
Sights. Armson OEG collimator sight in quadrant. The Milkor MGL (Multiple Grenade Launcher) is a lightweight 40 mm six-shot revolver -type grenade launcher (variations also fire 37/38mm) developed and manufactured in South Africa by Milkor (Pty) Ltd. The MGL was demonstrated as a concept to the South African Defence Force (SADF) in 1981.