Lurker4Long:
GreenandGold, air shows is the one of the few things where you inland people have an advantage!

GreenandGold:


If well-planned and well-attended, they can make your weekend worth remembering... like the last one I attended

Lurker4Long:

The Swartkop Museum has some really great aircraft! I find their chopper section interesting.
And look what fell off a Soviet truck in Angola!

GreenandGold:

However, if I was aware of it, I was definitely going to stay longer for it.

Flanker:



The mi 24 A in last pic was donated by algerian air force to Swartkop Museum

c/n 4202034 , former SU 97 on algerian AF

Lurker4Long:

Thanks for that. The info, that is.
We Saffers see anything Soviet in our possession and we can't help feeling all warm and fuzzy about how their trucks kept losing things!

Your last pic, is that what it looked like when it arrived? If so, Swartkop Museum has done a great job restoring her.

Lurker4Long:

Looking at all the photos and videos, looks like you should have stayed longer...

Lurker4Long:

Thanks for that. The info, that is.
We Saffers see anything Soviet in our possession and we can't help feeling all warm and fuzzy about how their trucks kept losing things!

Lurker4Long:

The Swartkop Museum has some really great aircraft! I find their chopper section interesting.
And look what fell off a Soviet truck in Angola!

Stormtrooper11:


What's the third chopper name, please? It looks familiar

GreenandGold:


I think we need to add to our Soviet inventory, the SADC region has been awfully quiet, too civilised

Stormtrooper11:


What's the third chopper name, please? It looks familiar

Flanker:


SA 321L super frelon

Lurker4Long:

What Flanker said. An Airbus heavy chopper we had for a while, which didn't perform in our high and hot environment. And we had too few to be worthwhile adapting to suit our needs.
At the end of her service, she was assigned to coastal squadrons, mostly for fire-fighting.

jteku:
NAF Day Celebrations.

Lurker4Long:

A few months since the EAC deployment and failure is proclaimed? Bunkum.
Take a look at a map and take in the size of eastern DRC. Plus the fact you have over 40 different armed groups there; most of whom are civilians by day and pillaging marauders by night. Coupled with some working with and for the DRC govt, and therefore can't be disarmed by external actors like the EAC or Monusco.
Then there's Rwanda, sponsoring M23 whilst a member of the EAC. Chadian and Central African Republic rebels have also been known to raid whenever the whim takes them.

The problems in the Kivus are complex and require a DRC govt with complete impartiality with no favourites. Anybody expecting quick resolution is naive at best and dissembling at worst.

Should the EAC not report its successes somewhere because there are attacks elsewhere?
This article is superficial BS by a parachuted journo driven more by an agenda, than enlightening his readers.

cutievik:

@Shaytun, Where's the link to this documentary? Kindly post it on our telegram forum.