South African Defence Force: Military Service
Military service was compulsory for every white male. There were 8 Infantry training battalions for white conscripts. 2 SAInfantry Battalion was situated in the South African enclave of Walvis Bay along the Namibian coast. The footage in the beginning of this clip shows the harsh training conditions among the sand dunes.
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61 MECH BN , SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE FORCE, LAST PARADE
61 Mech Bn was disbanded on the 17th of November 2005. This is a short video for those who could not attend and all those that died in the line of serving with the Unit. This unit was the real deal,the iron fist for conventional and semi-conventional warfare for the South African Defence Force. This was the only permanent Mechanised Batalion with all elements ranging from Artillery to Infantry and everything inbetween. As everybody that served in 61 will tell you....If you were in 61 you were there........ MOBILITATE VINCERE.
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South African Defence Force: Armoured assault
The SADF main battle tank was the "Olifant". Based on the British "Centurion", it carried a 105 mm gun, had improved mobility in addition to other modifications. While able to match any Soviet equivalent deployed in Sub-Saharan Africa at the time, it remained an improvisation. Also featured in this video is the G 6 155 mm self-propelled howitzer. While superior to anything that the Angolan side could put in the field, there were rather few actually deployed at the time. The backbone of the artillery during operations in Angola therefore continued to be the G 5. The last part of the video features mechanised infantry.
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