Possibly

G6 Rhino always looks amazing in every picture.

Would be fun to have the jakkals in at some point. Small with a big 50 on it.

Seen one with dual 50's too

Interesting how they used the orange square on the lid to avoid friendly fire from above. Troops had orange squares inside their boshoeds too. Turn it inside out and you're identifiable from above. No fancy strobes like the US has today. Though my boshoed doesn't have an orange square...

https://images.app.goo.gl/ud6TfWmf3WcdU5h47

Looks like that. It's apparently called dayglo

what would the marksman weapon be for SADF?

Don't think there were marksmen to my knowledge.

They were all marksmen by default

So, the R4

Only scoped R4 I have seen during the Border War.

This Ratel is able to detect enemy artillery barrages and pinpoint where they fired from I believe. Which allowed the SADF to fire counter barrages.

I'm assuming all of the above pictures are from SA and not Rhodesia, right? Just for folder sorting

Yes

All SA

Rhodesia never had Ratels

Those are Rhodesian

Crocodile and Leopard

Looks like something from Mad Max

Rhodesian hueys delivered by Israel

Rhodesian take on an armoured "techie"

Rare arid Rhodesian brushstroke

Rhodesian with an R1

Rhodesia also used the Buffel in small numbers I believe

Have pics of them using some but not on my phone.

@Springbok uniform changes were around the same time they switched from R1 to R4 iirc

@Springbok and yes the red star was on a lot of vehicles but afaik that was not the norm with most vehicles simply being that olive green color

@Springbok @Colonel Clint @Ruanhead marksman rifle was an accurised R1 with some german scope on cant remember which. My dad was issued one

Was still used as a DMR till like 2009?

Some also had Weaver V7 scopes

Lekker stuff @Kooijpolloi glad to have you around! Marksmen will have an R1 with that scope then. Gotta get up for work. Chat later this afternoon. Have plenty more questions 👌

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Marksmen did exist but scoped R1's were few in far between. I just spoke to my father who was a designated marksman and he said they trained on R1s and were issued R1s even when the R1s were being fased out. They were trained to use iron sights as shooting at range was impossible due to the lack of open space to clearly see a target. The scoped R1s are still used by marksmen today especially by the recces and the MRS

So most marksmen used ironsights in the SADF? I figured that the thick bush would be a problem as time after time I've seen short engagement distances due low visibility mentioned in the books I've read.

Rare pic of the milkor y2 mgl in use during the war. I wonder how common these were at the squad level...

Anyone know if that palm tree symbol is just "nose art" or an actual unit insignia?