Awesome weapons and war vehicles made in South Africa

The word "awesome" is the most misused word in the English language
 
Well we cant consider the troop as great fire power, because the SANDF is now unionised and you CANT fire these MK rejects.

Pity to put such great tech in the hands of such useless cadres.
 
G5 was designed by Gerald Bull, a Canadian. But it doesn't take away from the build quality and subsequent G6 masterpiece.
 
We also had a space program with the RSA-3 missile which you can see in the Airforce Museum.
 
They left out a number of our more impressive developments. The Milkor Grenade Launcher for one.
Fun fact. The weapons designer Tony Neophouhytou from Denel has had a hand in developing most of our modern light weapons. A number of them relatively unknown outside of Niel Blomkamp's movies.
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The design and ballistics technology for the G5/G6 artillery piece is not local. It is the work of the Canadian Gerald Bull, and was acquired by the SA government through some very shady deals. Bull himself was assassinated, probably by the Israelis, though some sources say the South Africans were also involved.
 
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:confused: The Badger isn't mentioned in the article whereas the Mbombe is mentioned.

If you perhaps meant to post "Why Mbombe and not Badger?", the Badger as a vehicle is not locally designed, although the various turrets are and those designs are very far from proven.

I meant, why did the SANDF go with the Badger? ;)
 
The design and ballistics technology for the G5/G6 artillery piece is not local. It is the work of the Canadian Gerald Bull, and was acquired by the SA government through some very shady deals. Bull himself was assassinated, probably by the Israelis, though some sources say the South Africans were also involved.

Bull was only assassinated when he tried building a "supergun" for the Iraqis

Had he succeded it would have made the world a very dangerous place.
 
The design and ballistics technology for the G5/G6 artillery piece is not local. It is the work of the Canadian Gerald Bull, and was acquired by the SA government through some very shady deals. Bull himself was assassinated, probably by the Israelis, though some sources say the South Africans were also involved.

Gerald Bull was warned to stop working for Sadam husain on 3 occasions he would not listen so the Israelis capped his ass .
 
Gerald Bull was warned to stop working for Sadam husain on 3 occasions he would not listen so the Israelis capped his ass .
As jy nie wil hoor nie dan moet jy voel.
 
Interestingly, Armscor was a supplier to Saddam Hussein at that time. And the Israelis were involved.

The Iraqis had their own version of the G5 designed by Bull. Following the long war with Iran, Saddam desperately needed to ramp up production of their homemade version of the G5 (I forget its name, starts with an M). Armscor supplied the highly specialized barrels and other key parts in a schlenter deal with the Israelis via an Austrian partner. Remember, Israel was rather keen to see Saddam continue the war with Iran as that kept two of her enemies preoccupied with their own conflict and thus off Israel's back.

Bull's Doomsday Gun was not aimed at Israel as almost all reports have it. The much smaller test gun was, and that is used in propaganda pics and in the doccie of that name.

Bull was a nerdy academic geek, and his dream was a gun that could fire a satellite into orbit. That's why his company was called Space Research Corporation. He'd spent a decade trying to get a supergun built in the West. He eventually persuaded Saddam to fund the space-capable supergun, which would be an immovable installation that could not be re-aimed.

Bull was assassinated before the gun could be built.

Anyway. Back to thread.

I'm still proud of the G5 and G6. The platform and integration engineering is superb. And local.
 
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So what if Julius Malema should ever get his grubby little paws on on of those nuclear weapons?
 
Denel was one of the pioneers for anti-landmine vehicles. They started with the Hippo, which was based on the Bedford, after which came the Buffel and the Caspir. Lately, the Marauder.
What about the Ratel? Was that not a South African design?
 
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