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Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) this week heard there was no progress on Project Hoefyster and the contract between Armscor, Denel and the Department of Defence (DoD) for the long-delayed new infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) is “not feasible in its current form”.
Flashback to the same week 43 years ago when the South African designed and built Ratel became the first wheeled IFV to enter service in the world.
The Ratel prototype was first seen in March six years earlier with production starting in 1976.
Its baptism of fire came with the second major military operation of the then SA Defence Force (SADF) in Angola – Op Reindeer – the first being Op Savannah. ....

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