What’s Going on in Lesotho?
Might it be a coup? Might it not? KRISTEN VAN SCHIE and DARREN OLIVIER discuss what is known, and how far the situation resembles 1998.
Airbus A400M successfully demonstrates tanker capability
The Airbus A400M new generation airlifter has performed successfully air-to-air refuelling tests with a F/A-18 Hornet fighter. The tanker test campaign was developed in five flights in which the A400M performed 33 dry contacts and dispensed 18.6 tonnes of fuel to an F/A-18 Hornet in 35 wet contacts.
Southern Somalia: Still a way to go
The war in Somalia is far from over. ADRIANE OHANESIAN talks about AMISOM’s fight in lower Shabelle.
Paramount Group’s AHRLAC Makes First Public Flight
Paramount Group’s AHRLAC performed its first flight in front of the media today. The light attack and reconnaissance aircraft is the first all-new fixed-wing combat aircraft to have been designed and developed in South Africa and is already attracting interest from around the world.
Paramount Group and Boeing Make a Deal
JOHN STUPART and DARREN OLIVIER discuss the consequences of the Boeing-Paramount deal announced at the Farnborough air show.
Understanding Operation Barkhane
Operation Barkhane is recognition that West African security requires regional thinking.
Gripen closes in on operational Meteor capability
Defence and security company Saab and FMV have concluded missile integration firings with Gripen and the MBDA Meteor BVRAAM (Beyond Visual-Range Air-to-Air Missile). The latest firings, conducted earlier this year, verified missile integration with Gripen and...
South Africa’s Defence Budget Speech – The important bits
The now-2014 Defence Review is coming into legislation and it had better be financed. JOHN STUPART sees grounds for optimism.
The SAAF’s Options for Strategic Airlift
The list of requirements for any new heavy transport aircraft is a dizzying array of competing needs from all arms of service, each one as important as the next.
Minewolf at EUROSATORY 2014
African Defence Review’s CONWAY WADDINGTON talks to Minewolf CEO Philipp von Michaelis at EUROSATORY 2014.