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SAAF: From fighting force to flying farce

William Saunderson-Meyer by William Saunderson-Meyer 19 October 2013

South Africa is to deploy three Rooivalk (Afrikaans for kestrel) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in support of the United Nations Intervention Brigade. Three helicopters. That might not sound a big deal, but it’s a rare bit of good news for an air force nosediving towards catastrophe. Dating to the 1980s and the […]

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