The SAHV-3 is fully South African, many have talked about how if it went into service would have been a massive marketing selling boost and would have also shown not to underestimate the South African military (the SADF and not the useless SANDF)
Pretty sure the Umkhonto has taken a lot of stuff from the SAHV-3, so you could technically call it a modern variant of it, but this is going off-topic now
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What do you mean?
Are you certain that every single thing in the Cheetah down to the nuts and bolts was made in South Africa
That is not what I’m saying nor did I say that, I was talking about the missiles like in your question. If I said that the Cheetahs were fully domestic then I would be as dumb and be lying as much as anyone in the Kremlin, CCP or ANC
Ok whilst I purely used it as an example of a system and it was never the point I was making: Are you certain that every single thing in the SAHV-3 was made in South Africa
Not the machinery or people but the missile, definitely, it was heavily advertised during the 90s with complete domestic design being one of the selling points
We have kind of deviated far from the original premise now, but a system would typically be considered domestic if over 80% (probably less) of the components are. The main thing is I doubt South Africa had much Chip manufacturing and designing capability and it would have been much quicker and cheaper to buy say 100 chips then make software for that. And hence I doubt it was ever 100% even with sanctions.
It would have been almost impossible, we were also starting to cut ties with Israel (from late 93 for the elections as the Government knew they would loose the elections) and
They did, now this argument is complete, enjoy your day
I’m South African ;)
SAAF JAS 39Cs tested the R-Darter, the intention is that they’ll field them (or A-Darter) in the future if all goes well, whether or not you believe it is up to you however there’s no reason as of now the SAAF Gripens can’t get or use R-Darters especially since the alternative is IRIS-T or RB-99s/AIM-120s that the regular Gripens can mount.
Not even the first time I have seen you do this
“k*firs are rampant”
Absolutely disgusting of you to use such language especially in the modern day.
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