Denel Dynamics, formerly Kentron, is a division of Denel SOC Ltd, a South African armaments development and manufacturing company wholly owned by the South African Government.

Kentron sold the designs to Israel Aerospace Industries which used them to develop the IAI Harpy which was first tested in 1989.

[1] Four South Africans working for Kentron were arrested in March 1984 in Coventry and charged with violation of the UN arms embargo – which outlawed the export of arms and military equipment to apartheid South Africa.

They were allowed to return to South Africa on condition that they appeared at their trial in England in August 1984.

In the event, South African foreign minister, Pik Botha, refused to allow them to return for their trial.