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Centurion headquartered trade union Solidarity maintains five practical tests must be passed before the ammunition ...

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) heard – virtually – from a Transversal Ministerial Task Team (TMTT) on its plans to ...

Modern operations involve more sensors, more platforms, and more information than ever before. The challenge is no longer ...

Armscor and the South African Navy have set the new date for the completion of the SAS Isandlwana’s refit as October 2027, nearly 19 months later than its ...

South Africa is approaching a strategic inflection point in its national security trajectory. The continued decline of the defence budget, despite mounting regional instability and repeated political ...

Small and lightly equipped, the Beninese Armed Forces (FAB) are facing an increasingly challenging security environment as rising insecurity spills over from the Sahel to West Africa’s coastal states.

South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile told a Parliamentary questioner “a range of strategic adjustments to deal with gang-related and organised crime” was in the SA Police Service (SAPS) ...

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Durban’s King Shaka International Airport (KSIA) has become one of only two airports on the African continent to operate purpose-built bird detection radar, in order to reduce the risk of aircraft ...

Angola’s President João Lourenço has approved a financing agreement worth €132.8 million for the acquisition of 14 AW119 helicopters from Italy. This is according to Angolan media reports, which quote ...

The largest representative military labour organisation in South Africa has – again – bloodied the collective SA National Defence Force (SANDF) human resources nose, this time in a dispute involving ...