Standard combat helmet of the South African Army Paratrooper Brigade.
It is Belt fed and generally fitted to armoured and infantry vehicles as well as certain helicopters as a secondary or tertiary armament.
The weapon fires .50 calibre rounds at a rate of 485-635 rounds-per-minute out to an effective range of 2,000 metres.
(+ 228 on order) Under the Project Hoefyster contract valued at over R20 million ($1.084 billion) Originally 264 vehicles were ordered, of which 22 pre-production vehicles have been delivered from Finland while the rest are set to be manufactured locally in South Africa by Denel Land Systems.
Armament: Due to budget cuts and the financial situation at Denel, there have been numerous delays in completing the project.
Armament: Around 100 Mamba APCs in reserve were refurbished and brought back into service at the end of 2023 and were assigned to the light modern brigade.
[49] 1,800 (Reserve) More than 2,800 Casspirs were manufactured in South Africa in Mk2 and Mk3 variants, around 600 of these were sold to foreign countries.
Armament: At the end of 2023 an unspecified number of the Casspirs in reserve were added into the active inventory.
The latest version of the Husky, the 2G, has high sensitivity low metal content detectors, ground penetrating radar, powerful air blowers and a robotic arm.
Japan Initially 153 were in service, at the end of the Cold War 110 units were sold to other countries bringing the total down to 43.
All the remaining 43 G6 Rhino's were upgraded to the latest G6-52 variant in 2024 improving the range and accuracy making it one of the most accurate artillery systems in the world.
[80] An estimate of 102 M6 long-range mortars were successfully delivered to the South African Army Infantry Corps in 2011.