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Zimbabwe border fence completed

By: Donna Slater 4th May 2020 The 40 km borderline fence between South Africa and Zimbabwe at the Beitbridge border crossing was completed on April 20, after undergoing 29 days of repairs and the replacement of some sections. At a value of over R37-million, the project involved the repair and replacement of an existing... →

Airbus announces modification to allow airlines to take cargo on their passenger decks

By: Rebecca Campbell 4th May 2020 Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus has announced that it has developed a modification that allows its A330-family and A350-family widebody airliners to safely carry cargo pallets on their passenger decks, in place of seats. The pallets can be secured to the cabin floor seat tracks,... →

Photo by Airbus
Cargo pallets locked on to cabin floor seat tracks on an Airbus airliner

Nasa announces the three companies to develop new lunar landing craft for astronauts

By: Rebecca Campbell 4th May 2020 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), America’s space agency, announced at the end of April the three companies that it has chosen to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for its Artemis progammme. Artemis is the successor to the renowned Apollo programme, which... →

Photo by Nasa
An artist’s impression of the Blue Origin Integrated Lander Vehicle on the Moon

Boeing reports significant impacts on business from Covid-19

By: Rebecca Campbell 30th April 2020 US aerospace and defence giant Boeing has reported that its revenues for the first quarter this year (1Q20) were 26% lower than in the same period last year (1Q19). The 1Q20 revenues were just under $16.91-billion as against the 1Q19 figure of just under $22.92-billion. Using Generally Accepted... →

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A Boeing 777 in the colours of Angolan airline TAAG

Companies which will develop Nasa’s new crewed lunar lander to be announced soon

By: Rebecca Campbell 30th April 2020 The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has stated that it will announce the companies it has chosen to develop the ‘human landing system’ (HLS) for its crewed Artemis programme on April 30. The HLS will be used to safely put astronauts on the surface of the Moon, including... →

Photo by Nasa
An artist’s impression of the fully assembled Gateway space station orbiting the Moon, with (top) an Orion spacecraft docked with it

Airbus reports first quarter results hit by Covid-19 pandemic

By: Rebecca Campbell 29th April 2020 Europe-based global giant aerospace group Airbus has reported a consolidated net loss of €481-million for the first quarter of this year (1Q20), in sharp contrast to its net income of €40-million during the same period last year (1Q19). The consolidated reported loss per share was €0.61 in 1Q20,... →

Denel reports staff previously trapped in Spain are safely home

By: Rebecca Campbell 28th April 2020 South African State-owned aerospace and defence group Denel has thanked the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) for its assistance in the repatriation of four Denel Aeronautics personnel, who had been caught in Spain by the Covid-19 pandemic. The workers safely returned... →

Boeing ends JV agreement with Embraer, sparking acrimony

By: Rebecca Campbell 28th April 2020 US aerospace giant Boeing announced on April 25 that it had terminated its Master Transaction Agreement (MTA) with Brazilian aerospace group Embraer. Under this, the two groups who have created two joint ventures (JVs). The first JV would have embraced Embraer’s commercial airline business and... →

SANDF calls on reservists, not yet mobilised, to contact their units

By: Rebecca Campbell 23rd April 2020 The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has called on members of its reserve forces, who have not yet been mobilised or put on alert for call-up, to contact their units to confirm their availability. This applies to reservists for all four branches of the SANDF – the South African Army,... →

Huge increase in number of military personnel being deployed to help counter Covid-19

By: Rebecca Campbell 23rd April 2020 President Cyril Ramaphosa formally communicated to Parliament on April 22 that he was massively increasing the numbers of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) personnel undertaking services in support of national efforts to counter the Covid-19 pandemic. The communication was in the form... →

On-standby SANDF to provide field hospitals in fight against coronavirus

By: News24Wire 23rd April 2020 The entire South African National Defence Force has been put on standby. The deployment of more than 73 000 SANDF members will include medical personnel and it might include field hospitals, Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said when she addressed the Joint Standing... →

DA commends Ramaphosa for approaching IMF, World Bank to fund part of relief package

By: Sane Dhlamini 22nd April 2020 Democratic Alliance interim leader John Steenhuisen has welcomed President’s Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of the R500-billion Economic and Social Relief Package and has further applauded the President for approaching the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for funds. During a virtual... →

DA interim leader John Steenhuisen

Boeing announces major organisational and leadership changes

By: Rebecca Campbell 22nd April 2020 Giant US aerospace and defence group Boeing has announced major changes in its organisation and associated leadership, which come into effect on May 1. The group, the biggest aerospace company in the world, says that these changes are intended to create greater integration within the company and... →

SAPS members that violate the regulations undermine government’s efforts - General Rabie

By: Sane Dhlamini 21st April 2020 South African Police Service (SAPS) Major General Leon Rabie on Tuesday said the abuse of power or involvement in any illegal activities by the members of his organisation during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic not only brings SAPS into disrepute but grossly undermines government’s efforts to... →

Specialist UK company designs new hull form for autonomous vessels

By: Rebecca Campbell 21st April 2020 The ship design division of UK-based design, engineering and scientific services group BMT has unveiled a new hull design concept for autonomous (that is, uncrewed) vessels. This concept is called the Pentamaran platform. The Pentamaran is intended for both defence and commercial applications.... →

Artist’s impression of a Pentamaran autonomous vessel at sea (BMT)

Nigerian Air Force Super Tucano light attack plane has made first flight

By: Rebecca Campbell 20th April 2020 The first Embraer A-29 Super Tucano light attack and reconnaissance aircraft for the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) made its maiden flight in the US, at Jacksonville, Florida, on April 17. (In addition to its primary Super Tucano production line in Brazil, Embraer has a second production line,... →

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Nigeria’s first Super Tucano climbs away following its maiden take-off

2019 airline safety report released by Iata

By: Rebecca Campbell 17th April 2020 The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has reported that airline safety last year improved again, both in relation to 2018 and to the five-year average for 2014 to 2018. This improvement was across all major safety performance indicators. “The safety and wellbeing of our passengers... →

ICA partners with Navigate Compliance in South Africa

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 16th April 2020 Professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community, the International Compliance Association (ICA), has partnered with training and advisory firm Navigate Compliance to bring ICA education to South Africa. Navigate Compliance is a 100% women- and youth-owned small,... →

SANDF confirms four Covid-19 cases in military community

By: Thabi Madiba 15th April 2020 The South African Department of Defence on Wednesday confirmed four positive cases of coronavirus within the military community, however, none of the cases involved members deployed for the nationwide lockdown. The Department of Health has confirmed that the country had 2 415 confirmed cases of... →

Covid-19 has begun to afflict members of South Africa’s military community

By: Rebecca Campbell 15th April 2020 The South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF’s) chief medical officer, the Surgeon General, confirmed on April 15 that four members of the “military community” had tested positive for Covid-19. Three were in the Western Cape and one in Gauteng. None of the cases involved uniformed members of... →

SANDF must act responsibly – Parliament

By: News24Wire 15th April 2020 Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans Cyril Xaba appealed to members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to conduct themselves in "accordance with the Constitution" after complaints that soldiers used excessive force in enforcing the lockdown. In... →

Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans Cyril Xaba

Paramount Group partners with hospital on Intubox innovation

By: Donna Slater 9th April 2020 Aeronautical engineers from aerospace and technology company Paramount Group have teamed up with emergency doctors at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg, for the design and production of the innovative Intubox to help protect frontline healthcare workers when treating patients... →

South African defence company wins major export order

By: Rebecca Campbell 7th April 2020 German defence group Rheinmetall announced on April 7 that its South African subsidiary company, Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM), had won an export order worth more than €70-million (or more than $80-million). The client was identified only as an “international customer”. The order is for... →

Photo by Rheinmetall Denel Munitions
A Denel G6 155 mm self-propelled gun/howitzer fires an RDM shell using RDM propellant

Denel joins campaign to develop local medical ventilator

By: Rebecca Campbell 6th April 2020 State-owned defence industrial group Denel has committed itself to assist the country in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in every way it can. In this regard, its top priority is to assist in the local design and development of a medical ventilator. This programme, designated Project... →

Casspir mine protected vehicles

Boeing temporarily closes its military helicopter manufacturing plants

By: Rebecca Campbell 3rd April 2020 Giant US aerospace and defence group Boeing announced on April 2 that it was, with effect from close of business on April 3, suspending production at its complex at Ridley Township (just south of Philadelphia International Airport in the US state of Pennsylvania) for two weeks, as a result of the... →

A Boeing CH-47 Chinook of the UK Royal Air Force firing flares (UK MOD)

Covid-19 causes Rolls-Royce to halt most activities at its civil aerospace plants in the UK

By: Rebecca Campbell 30th March 2020 UK-based industrial technology group Rolls-Royce announced on March 27 that it would “significantly reduce all but essential activity” at its civil aerospace facilities in Britain with effect from midnight on that day, and for a period of one week. This was in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.... →

Ramaphosa writes to Parliament, reveals 2 820 soldiers could be on SA's streets until June

By: News24Wire 27th March 2020 Members of the South African National Defence Force could be patrolling the country’s streets well beyond the 21-day lockdown period. This is contained in a letter President Cyril Ramaphosa sent to the speaker of the National Assembly on Wednesday, informing members of Parliament of the... →

Opinion: War declared during peacetime

By: Donna Slater 24th March 2020 The outbreak of coronavirus in every continent (except Antarctica) has resulted in a war-time mobilisation of national assets and resources, as well as a shift in production by some companies from their core products to the manufacture of products that can support the fight against the... →

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Members of the South African National Defence Force gather at the premises of the Rand Light Infantry in Craighall Park on March 23 in preparedness for mobilisation to help enforce the presidents national lockdown.

Boeing announces work suspension at major plants owing to Covid-19

By: Rebecca Campbell 24th March 2020 US aerospace giant Boeing announced on March 23 that it was temporarily suspending production at its facilities in the Puget Sound area of the US state of Washington. The suspension would start on March 25 and would run for 14 days. The decision was taken following the proclamation, that same... →

Airbus imposes temporary Covid-19 shutdown at its French and Spanish plants

By: Rebecca Campbell 17th March 2020 Europe-based major global aerospace group Airbus announced on Tuesday that it was temporarily halting work in its facilities in France and Spain. This is the result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The halt, which will see a temporary cessation of production and assembly work at these facilities, will... →

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An Airbus A350 XWB airliner

Programme to help startup drone companies launched in Gauteng

By: Rebecca Campbell 13th March 2020 The first drone (unmanned air vehicle) start-up accelerator programme in Africa was recently launched in Katlehong, south east of Johannesburg. (Katlehong lies within the City of Ekurhuleni.) The programme is being hosted by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Rapid Incubator (CfERI) of the... →

SAA says adhering to safety protocols on Covid-19

By: African News Agency 12th March 2020 National carrier South African Airways said on Thursday its operational health and safety procedures were in line with the World Health Organisation’s protocols to protect its passengers and crew from contracting Covid-19. On Wednesday WHO declared the coronavirus disease a pandemic as it... →

Accelerator to help start-up drone companies launched in Gauteng

By: Rebecca Campbell 28th February 2020 The first drone (unmanned air vehicle) startup accelerator programme in Africa was launched in Katlehong, south east of Johannesburg, on Friday. The programme is being hosted by the Ekurhuleni Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College. The initial programme is a pilot of the... →

Defence contract signed with German armed forces

21st February 2020 Germany’s unified armed forces and civil administration and procurement authority The Bundeswehr, has joined with defence contractor Rheinmetall to carry out new measures for extending the service life of its Marder infantry fighting vehicles. In order to maintain the operational readiness of... →

The upgrades to the Marder tanks will expand the life of the tanks which have been in service since 1971

Big armoured vehicle delivered

21st February 2020 Kazakhstan Paramount Engineering (KPE), a joint venture between global aerospace and technology business Paramount Group and defence industry complex Kazakhstan Engineering, has successfully delivered a series of Arlan 4 X 4 mine-protected armoured wheeled vehicles to Kazakhstan’s Ministry of... →

ROLL OUT The supply of 1 000 armored vehicles to the Kazakhstan government was finalized in November by Paramount Group

Rolls-Royce starts manufacture of the world’s largest aeroengine fan blades

By: Rebecca Campbell 21st February 2020 UK industrial technology group Rolls-Royce has announced that it has started manufacturing the world’s largest aeroengine fan blades. These are for its UltraFan demonstrator power plant, which will be unprecedentedly efficient and sustainable. A full set of UltraFan blades will have a diameter of... →

Denel upgraded by Fitch Ratings as it closes aerostructures business

By: Rebecca Campbell 21st February 2020 South Africa’s State-owned defence industrial group has Denel welcomed the recent decision by Fitch Ratings to affirm its long- and short-term ratings for the group, and to upgrade its outlook. Fitch affirmed Denel’s national short-term rating at “B(zaf)” and its national long-term rating also at... →

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