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Pictures of South African National Defence Force (SANDF), past and present:

The PAF has always impressed me with how well they maintain their elderly Mirages. Those airframes were built to last!

The size of a jeep, weighing only about 5 tonnes. Very, very, compact - only underfed Africans can get comfortable in one. With a gigantic gun capable of destroying a T-55 tank. Vehicles like this are one of a kind.

Now this is all hearsay, so don't hold me up to it - I think Pakistan uses some AMLs for base security. They have an unusual twin-barreled 20mm anti-aircraft cannon. There's no record of who sold them the vehicles, and because it wasn't done with the knowledge of the manufacturer (a French...

Privatise police? What on Earth for? SAPS are corrupt as hell where I live, but I'm still pleased they're there. BTW you can normally tell the crime rate of any country by the degree of police privatisation. Notice that the nations with the highest crime rates are always the ones with the most...

The Nats, who were the ruling party during apartheid, were actually anti-Jewish because Jan Smuts was a Zionist. They changed their ideology when it became profitable to do business with Israel. And I know you didn't bring it up, but since this has generally been a common misconception among...

Hopefully you chaps will do better than RSA did! Brain drain forced us to buy the Gripens instead of building more of our own Mirages. Budget cuts ensure that they are grounded and last I checked none of the fleet was combat operational. A bloody shame.

Khalifa, as a Saffie myself I can tell you liking wasn't a factor. We were the only country willing to secretly sell Israel weapons-grade uranium at the time. They had the technology/knowledge to build a bomb, we had the cake. Israeli scientists and SA uranium is what created both countries'...

The French always build the sleekest, most beautiful aircraft. I remember seeing the Rafale in action for the first time. It could keep its nose pointed in one direction while flying in another...very impressive next to the F-15!

F-16s aside, the Mirage III is more than a match for any Soviet aircraft of the era - including MiG-21, MiG-23, and even MiG-29, in the hands of a capable pilot.