The SA army is not in as desperate straits as the navy, but it does face some real challenges. The most obvious one is the age of its main equipment.
The army’s Olifant 2 tanks were upgraded in the 1990s from Centurions built in the 1950s; the Ratel infantry combat vehicles, the Casspir armoured personnel carriers and the 155mm G5 guns all date from the late 1970s and 1980s, as do the Samil trucks; the Rooikat armoured cars and the G6 self-propelled guns date from the 1990s as does the more modern field engineer equipment...
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