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Soviet Union: 7 killed [6] Operation Savannah was the South African code name for their military incursion into Angola in 1975–1976. It was part of the South African Border War and arose due to the Angolan War of Independence. The operation also materially influenced the subsequent Angolan Civil War. South African forces invaded deep into ...
The South African Defence Force deployed a number of Combat Groups comprising South African and Angolan elements during Operation Savannah (Angola). Initially, only Combat Groups A and B were deployed, with the remaining groups being mobilised and deployed into Angola later in the campaign. There has been much dispute the overall size of Task ...
Operation Protea (1981) Operation Daisy (1981) Operation Kerslig (1981) Operation Rekstok III SAAF Operation (March 1982) Operation Super (1982) Operation Meebos (1982) Operation Bravo (Angola) SAAF Operation (October 1982) Operation Maanskyn SAAF Operation (1983) Operation Drama (1983)
13–21 May 1985. Executed by. 4 Reconnaissance Regiment. Outcome. Angolan victory. Casualties. 1. Operation Argon (sometimes denoted simply as Operation Cabinda) was an unsuccessful military operation carried out by South African special forces in May 1985 with the objective of destroying six fuel storage tanks at Malongo in Angola 's Cabinda ...
The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa ), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990. It was fought between the South African Defence Force (SADF ...
Angola had gained its independence from Portugal on 11 November 1975, but the new country was immediately immersed in a three-sided civil war. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) was supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba, while the United States and some of its allies backed the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence ...
1,000 killed. 200 captured. Operation Reindeer, which began on 4 May 1978, was South Africa 's second major military operation in Angola, carried out under the Apartheid regime, the first being Operation Savannah . The South African operation consisted of an assault by 2 South African Infantry Battalion on two South West Africa People's ...
Operation Askari, launched on 6 December 1983, was the SADF's sixth large-scale cross-border operation into Angola and was intended to disrupt the logistical support and command & control capabilities of People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) the military wing of the South West Africa People's Organisation SWAPO, in order to suppress a large-scale incursion into South West Africa that was ...