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.
The SAAF’s Options for Tactical Airlift
Regardless of procurement choices, there will remain a need for a smaller and cheaper types.
South Africa’s Airlift Crisis
The South African Air Force (SAAF) faces an airlift crisis. While the demands on its fleet continue to increase, including larger and riskier missions thousands of kilometres from South Africa, its aged transport aircraft are unable to keep up and the stopgap chartering of Illyushins and Antonovs has proven to be unreliable when it mattered.
Casualties in APCLS attack on MONUSCO/FARDC positions
Six killed, five wounded from MONUSCO and the FARDC in APCLS attack on 30 April.
‘This time it’s over’ – MONUSCO shows its teeth
Senior correspondent DARREN OLIVIER talks with Lt General Carlos do Santos Cruz about MONUSCO’s recent successes, and future challenges.