5 South African Military Most Powerful Weapons 2021 / south african airforce / south african army.

South Africa military most powerful weapons 2021

Since 1912, South African National Defence Force has grown to become one of the best military force in the world. With a population of less than 100,000 it’s ranked among the top 40 mighty militaries. This tremendous growth has been linked to top-notch training, good leadership and powerful weapons. Talking of weapons, let’s look at South Africa armed forces most powerful weapons.

5. T5-52 self-propelled howitzer
As the name suggests, T5-52 is a 52 calibre 155mm truck mounted gun. It has a shooting range of over 40 kilometres while using base bleed projectiles which plays a major role in in increasing its range by 20-35%. This makes it one of the most advanced self-propelled artillery in the world.

4. Olifant mk.2
Olifant mk.2 is a predecessor of olifant mk1B which was formally used as the South African defence forces main battle tank. The tank is equivalent to a rank VI British medium tank with its design based on british challenger 2 and French’s Leclerc. According to classified military files, a total 26 mk2’s entered service between 2006 and 2008 but up to date these tanks have never seen battle fronts. However, a number of mk2’s are used for training purposes.

3. Saab gripen c and d.
It’s a multirole fighter jet that was engineered in Sweden. South Africa became the first country to procure 26 of these lethal jets in the late 90’s. According to records, more than 271 gripens were produced in 1987. Despite advancement in modern warfare, these jets are still in service but some countries like the United Kingdom use them strictly for training.

2. 209/T1400 submarines.
Between 2006 and 2008, three heroine class 209/T1400 submarines were commissioned to serve under the stewardship of South African navy. This led to shelving of old Daphné-class submarines which were made between 1964 and 1975. Out of 25 Daphne submarines that were build, only two were lost. 19 of them had retired as at 2010 while 4 were preserved.

1. denel rooivalk mk.1
it’s a world class attack helicopter that was built to cope with harsh
southern African battle ground a place termed as hot, humid and dusty.
Between 1990 and 2007, 12 mk.1 were made specifically for south African airforce but the helicopters didn’t enter service until 2011. Since then they have seen combat around the world with the most remarkable being when two rooivalks serving under the united nations force intervention brigade fired FZ 90 70mm FFAR rockets on M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This attack helicopter has been equated to to Russia’s Kamov Ka-50.

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[denverkruger]

This is true 30years ago. We have none of that functional now.

[krishorst]

Since 94 the military as with everything else in SA has gone to shit. Sorry bud.

[mdw]

Thumbnail are Dutch soldiers on exercise in Africa.

[jacoojacoo]

Population is closer to 100k x 5200, some research goes a long way

[zommellemmoz]

Uuuuum...there are definately more than a 100 000 people in SA. Try 50 million. Some of the weapons shown are not SA products. For all intends and purposes the SA arms industry has basically collapsed due to political / corruption reasons.

[nodaemanemashea]

Foreigners tell our military story falsely

[kobusvandyk]

It's a disgrace brings back memories but alas they broke 💔 everything

[dragoncrew]

"as of classified military documents" Not very classified if you know them tho

[zackmuller]

Yeah no, this video has some major faults. The G6 is our best howitzer with a range of over 70km and the G6-52 holds the record for the longest arty shot at 76km. The our modified Mirage F1 was our best aircraft sporting a mig turbine which made it faster and reduced fuel consumption. The gripen has an underpowered engine making it useless in modern combat. We don't have that strong of a military any more and when it comes to war, our private security companies are a lot more trained and has a lot more personal than our army as well as being the biggest private militia in the world and our farmers alone have more ammo than the army which make these to groups of people our best defense so far and increasing our military rank seeing that a lot more of our civilians are trained for fighting positions making it easier for us to bolster our numbers at times of war
I see what you where trying to do and appreciate it, but next time do a bit more research on the topic you are trying to cover. There is a lot of info out there that you can use for your videos and I can give you a couple of site links if you are interested.

[billyberserk]

Do we have soldiers to operate all of this equipment?or do you just buy a lisence like in civilian streets?

[warpigbacon]

Why isn't the g6 rhino used more? It's by far better self propelled artillery

[vincenthartzenberg]

The south african defense force consists of ntloko yeplangas. The Lesotho defense force will run circles around them.

[janungerer]

What did we build in the last 25 years

[ejswart]

yea nahh .. dink ni di ou was al ooit in sa ni

[karlprice]

Most of the armoured vehicles are 30 years old RATELS especially the tank force even older, the air force is a joke if it can field one squadron of gripens its lucky . The SANDF is a joke it couldnt even defend its own borders, whereas the SADF had modern equipment & alot of it aswel as an air force comparable to any nato country in numbers & training

[ethanheiden]

Oh Jesus is this a anc guy this is 100%wrong

[qwixx]

Did you spell the word gripen coz you couldn’t say it

[charlcoetzee]

Best military in the world. Good leadership 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 how high are you.... They can't even March instep.

[cobusjansen]

You took the words out of my mouth. What a shame

[bonganikhenisa]

Why would you make a clip about SAdf when you are not even a South African. You don't know if us