Message from @Bartender
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High Adventure History, he makes a lot of Rhodesian themed patches (as well as others), and he sells various flags and military bits he finds
He selects which patches he sells via polls on his Instagram
Ah nice where's he based?
Galveston, Texas.
In November he's going to have an all-Rhodesian patch poll in honor of UDI
I believe his last patch was that blue Congo one
Sounds mint! How the hell did he get ahold of an original Angolan flag...
No idea, he tends to just get a hold of things, he's definitely worth adding on Instagram if you like cool stuff.
Definitely got these before the embargo 😉
I'd pay a killing on customs though since I am not based in the US
True. I know he ships patches internationally all the time so those can't be too bad cost-wise
Buffel seen better days...
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Captured during Op Protea. Checking out a soviet helm?
Wonder whether this is actual combat or an exercise.
Is it just me or is that a scope on a vickers? Description of this pic says its in a guntower at kutima mulilo
32Bn with modified Unimogs... interesting.
Rhodies had the same setup
These okes must have had some lekker biltong for awhile after.
The scope on the vickers is real it was operated like that to have accurate fire out to 1km away which was quite easily achieved by the vickers and as for the picture where you ask about training or real combat it is a training exercise, photos or cameras for that matter werent allowed in the operational area but exercises were photographed
Those are 106mm recoilless rifles on the mogs
Hmm im thinking the picture of the combat area might also be a demonstration in a township maybe ? Or it could be an aftermath of a battle that occured ? Only thing throwing me off is the fact that all the ratels are so closely parked together
This Ratel upgrade looks fokken mint
It looks more like theyre setting up a temp base or getting ready to go out on a operation
Ja doesn't look like a battefield to me
I wonder if theyre still using oerlikon 20mm's on it or if they switched to the bushmaster 25mm
🅱 oerlikon 20mm
I think still 20mms
It looks like a 20mm
Ratel 20 after all
Its probably still the oerlikons then
It has thicker armour
Cool little bit of info about a friend of my dads, his father actually helped to translate the swedish manual for the oerlikon into afrikaans and he helped construct the first training guide for it, he also worked with armscor/denel on optimising the gun for south african use
Must be loaded then? Those okes usually are
Not at all really
This was wayy back in the 60s or 70s and he still just got regular army pay
9 days and my working season is over! Back to modeling for Op Savannah soon lads!
It'll be glorious! Between this and the Armscor mod I'm so hyped!
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Psst Rhodesian Bush War is also being planned on but I'm very quiet about that as my primary focus is on the Border War. Cool thing is many assets can be reused such as the Alouette, Eland, R1 and more.
Long as you don't bite off more than you can chew, I'll be happy with anything related to either war. Shame they're so forgotten in the west.
It's far easier to make content for SQUAD than it is for ARMA. So don't worry about that