Photos Angolan Civil Wars, Rhodesian Bush Wars & South African Border Wars

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Rhodesian BSAP anti-terrorism unit

B.S.A.P Support Unit "Black Boots" Zulu Alpha Troop Section Commanders (1978)

 

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Rhodesia

Captured Soviet-made BTR

Selous Scouts

 

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Rhodesia:

Eland-90

MAP75 Armoured Personnel Carrier

Selous Scouts

Selous Scouts "Pig"

 

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Rhodesia

BSAP in the Bush War

Last march of the RLI (Rhodesian Light Infantry). Totsiens, Rhodesia

Independence Day Parade, Salisbury 1970

Selous Scouts flying a FRELIMO flag on a cross border raid

 

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Rhodesian SAS Sgt Andy Chait with a camouflaged FN FAL and Trilux optic, 1974-1975.

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[uktabber]

Excellent!! GREAT photos of the lads down south!! Thanks for posting BZ! ?

 

[RL64RL]

Excellent!! GREAT photos of the lads down south!! Thanks for posting BZ! ?

Right!!?? A+, BZ! Thank you!

 

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Rhodesian SAS

Selous Scout

Eland during Operation Miracle

 

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Grey's Scout

 

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C Squadron 22 Special Air Service (SAS) of the Rhodesian Security Forces, during the last years of the Bush War, c. 1978 - 1979

 

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Portuguese caçadores (paratroops) armed with AR-10 rifles during an exercise patrol. Portuguese Angola, c. 1970

 

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Rhodesian SAS operator with a RPD light machine gun and his backpack in a trench, Mapai, Gaza Province, Mozambique, Operation Uric against Zimbabwe insurgents and Mozambican troops, (September 1st - 8th) during the Rhodesian Bush War, 1979

 

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Angolan T-55 main battle tank from the People’s Armed Forces of the Liberation of Angola: destroyed after three HEAT (High Explosive Anti Tank) rounds fired by a Ratel 90 infantry fighting vehicle of the South African Defence Forces: during Operation Hooper, c. late 1987 - 1988.

 

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Hawker Hunter FGA9 R1258 of (No. 1 Squadron) from the Rhodesian Air Force, over bushland and Lake Kariba, during the Rhodesian Bush War against the Zimbabwean insurgency, c. 1970 - 1979

 

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Eland-90 armoured car (armed with a 90 mm cannon) of the Rhodesian Armoured Corps „Black Devils“, during a patrol against the Zimbabwe insurgency in the eastern bushland of Rhodesia, during the bush war, c. 1975 - 1979.

 

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South African Eland armoured car, flipped and burning after striking two mines on the road to Oshakati, modern Namibia - 1981

 

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Abandoned FAPLA T-34/85 tanks left abandoned somewhere in Angola

 

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Pookie armoured vehicle in the Rhodesian Bush War

The Pookie MRAP vehicle was created to deal with the constant mining of the roadways during the Rhodesian Bush War.

The Pookie was a small one-person vehicle named after the bush baby, and fitted with large Formula One tires bought second hand after the South African Grand Prix. The wide tyres prevented the detonation of buried mines by exerting less ground pressure than a human footprint and spanning the mines' circumference. The vehicle was made with readily available parts from the Volkswagen Kombi and resembles a small go-cart with an elevated cab to protect the driver. The bottom of the cab had a V-shaped reinforced hull to deflect the blast away from the operator. Sensor 'pans', resembling rectangular wings, were lowered and used parallel to the ground below the cab. When the vehicle was transported, the pans were raised at a 45 degree angle.

 

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Soviet special forces (Spetsnaz) in Angola, 1985.

 

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FNLA Comandos Especiais (Special Commandos) in a group photo at Morro dos Asfaltos, Angola, 1974. The man in black in the center is Colonel Santos e Castro, unit commander, and the one wearing red beret to his left is Brazilian adventurer and writer Pedro Marangoni

From left to right: Paiva, Lopes, Daniel, Pedro Marangoni (Red Beret), Nelson, Morteirete (South African hat), Simões Comprido and Captain Valdemar (blonde, black shirt). In the centre, Colonel Santos and Castro (black shirt and sideburns).

Morteirete means "little mortar". Born in Angola, he was orphaned during the colonial war and adopted by the Comandos Especiais. Simões Comprido was tall, therefore "Comprido" (Long). Pedro Marangoni is the author of the book A Opção pela Espada.