Operation Copper News Today

Cast has been assembled for an epic tale of Australian wartime daring and survival, 'The Guns of Muschu.'

André Wessels, whose latest book is A Century of South African Naval History: The South African Navy and its Predecessors 1922-2022, gives his insights

China is becoming increasingly assertive in the Indian Ocean. The EU and India should work together to support the smaller states of the region…

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - SAS Drakensberg (A301). Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) heard the South African military, in all probability in the form of the Joint Operations Division, “prompted a conversation” with Mozambique as regards the “modus operandi and execution” of the regional anti-piracy tasking Operation Copper. In what a committee member termed “a masterstroke of under-statement” given the volatile situation in north...

defenceWeb Written by Kim Helfrich - A Namacurra harbour patrol boat passes the SAS Protea hydrographic survey vessel. The maritime defence programme of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) is executed by the SA Navy (SAN) using 15 platforms ranging from built-for-purpose frigates and submarines through to a hydrographic vessel. That’s according to the 2019/20 annual report of the Department of Defence (DoD). The report covers the period 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 and was tabled in Parl...