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This is a list of equipment of the South African Army. It includes equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, artillery, air defence systems, as well as future equipment. Due to how large and secretive the South African Army is, it is currently almost impossible to calculate all equipment in the army.
List of equipment of the South African National Defence Force This is a list of the military equipment of South Africa, including the Army, Air force, and Navy .
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. History In the late 1970s, South Africa was involved in an international controversy over apartheid and the South African Border War in Angola.
Vektor R4. 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 ...
The G6, sometimes denoted as the G6 Rhino, [6] is a South African mine -protected self-propelled howitzer. [7] It was developed as a turreted, self-propelled variant of the G5 howitzer series, mating the gun to a six-wheeled armoured chassis. [8] Design work on the G6 began in the late 1970s to replace the obsolescent Sexton being retired from ...
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 ...
List of weapons of the Rhodesian Bush War 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 South African defence industry is the most advanced in Africa and one of the most advanced and ... military aircraft, navy ships and missiles. ... Machine guns ...