An inaugural board meeting” saw two major components of the South African government’s defence industry architecture ...

Ysterplaat for the AFB Makhado – the Limpopo base regarded as “fighter town” in the SA Air Force (SAAF) - was no ...

In the wake of a Parliamentary presentation, the military veterans advocacy group Amalgamated Veterans of SA (AVSA) notes ...

Modern security operations seldom suffer from a shortage of information. A control room may receive drone video, fixed-camera ...

When Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) extremists launched four simultaneous deadly attacks against Nigerian military forces in late October 2025, ...

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The United States has formally handed over $1 million worth of C-130 Hercules spare parts to the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) ...

The South African Navy (SAN) has hosted a delegation from the Russian Navy for Naval Staff Talks. The SAN said the talks reaffirmed both navies’ ongoing ...

Landlocked Chad has seemingly added at least four Chinese Caihong-4 (CH-4) unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) to its air power inventory. Footage taken at the Chadian Abéché Air Base, in the ...

Landlocked Lesotho provides South African defence and law enforcement agencies tasked with border protection ongoing problems of which livestock theft is one. This was confirmed in response to a ...

South Africa’s national rollout of police body-worn cameras has no firm timeline after procurement delays, but existing legislation may allow Armscor to bypass the bottleneck that has held up the ...

Ahead of the August high-level SA Navy (SAN)/Russian Navy staff meeting another Russian contingent, this one from the St Petersburg government, was in South Africa to honour Russian sailors buried in ...