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as a first book on the subject and was definitely good value, An excellent primer on the very interesting subject of armoured warfare during South Africas bush wars of thes ands.
Like many Osprey titles, it provides a useful summary of this particular conflict and, in this case, South Africas response to Soviet armoured vehicles supplied to the various warring factions.
The authors are open about the fact that they can only cover a fraction of the subject, but it is a fascinating and at least to me little known episode in military history, which will be of interest to those wishing to explore it.
A great little addition to the excellent Osprey series Un auteur reconnu comme un spécialiste du domaine des blindés Simon Dunstan, associé à une expertise locale Kyle Harmse, un Sud Africain soutenus par un bon illustrateur Pierre Lowe Victor et vous tenez un bon Osprey sur les blindés employés par la SADF lors de ses opérations en Namibie et en Angola entre.
Les recherches sur ce sujet sont rares et souvent un peu trop consanguines et cet Osprey déroge à cette règle.
Bonus supplémentaire, on trouve dans ce fascicule New Vanguard des photos, dont certaines en couleurs, que lon na pas déjà vufois dans dautres ouvrages sur le même sujet sauf les deux photos très connues de Jim Hooper ainsi que des encadrés spécifiques sur des unités, comme les fameux Koevoet ou des événements particuliers premier emploi au combat du missile antichar ZTpar exemple qui sont tout à fait intéressants.
Le plan chronologique de louvrage suit en fait les principales opérations Savannah, Reinder, Sceptic, etc, etc tout en faisant la part belle aux évolutions de larme blindée Sud Africaine qui passa de lEland AML très profondément modifiée au Ratel et à lOlifant alors que les sanctions interdisaient à ce pays dimporter du matériel militaire.
Dintéressantes informations sont également données sur le soutien israélien au développement de lOlifant ainsi que sur le comportement au combat de ce char et de sa version dépannage ARV.
Je nai pas relevé de point négatif à part, à la rigueur, une erreur en début de livre qui fait de Berliet une société Belge.
En résumé, un Osprey très recommandé, This book provides a good introduction and overview over the technical and partly also the doctrinal development of South African Armor during the Border War.
Unfortunately, however, it lacks both tables of organization equipment of the South African units employing the mentioned vehicles/weapon systems.
While the books features numerous pictures of the vehicles in action, these photos are comparatively small but have even longer captions, often repeating information already provided in the text.
This is an excellent Osprey title on South African ard vehicles during what they called the Border War.
Authors Kyle Harmse and Simon Dunstan have given the reader an excellent account of ard vehicles employed by South Africa and how they evolved during wartime.
The long border war involving Namibia and Angola lasted fromand propelled ard development and construction of some unique vehicles.
This is a good example of a country, by necessity, designing and developing its own military weapon systems to fit its own environment and needs.
The SADF South African Defense Force began with French Panhard ard cars which the SADF upgraded to weapons capability for but then had to rely on indigenous weapons design as an international embargo cut off outside sources.
The bush war and cross border insurgency into Namibia meant a lot of mines were used to kill police and civilians.
The SADF responded with the Casspir and the Buffel early mine resistant vehicles which were very effective in their role.
The SADF moved on to the Ratel, a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle that was among the first such vehicles and certainly predates the Bradley in US service.
The SADF vehicles arexwheeled vehicles and their designs were mostly wheeled ones because of cost, ease of maintenance and repair and strategic mobility.
Although the SADF did use tracked tanks, the Centurion based Oliphant, their vehicles were mostly wheeled with versions as infantry fighting vehicles, tank killers and self
propelled artillery.
This is an excellent primer its a typicalpage Osprey weapons title on South African ard vehicles and independent weapons design.
Very interesting and a worthwhile read! Five! Not as much content as I had expected, and the soft cover was unexpected.
Nevertheless and informative publication var hmenu document, getElementById"nav hamburger menu" hmenu, setAttribute"href", "javascript: void" window, navHamburgerMetricLogger function if window. ue window. ue. count var metricName "Navm:Hmenu:IconClickActionPending" window, ue. countmetricName, ue. countmetricNamewindow. Nav hmenu. addEventListener"click", window. navHamburgerMetricLogger window. Nav window. navmet. tmpnew Date. com. au 近年兵器市場では南アフリカの会社の出品があり意外な感じがしますが実は英連邦軍として参戦した第二次大戦以降も実戦経験がかなりあることです 本書は年から年にかけて隣国のアンゴラ当時南アフリカの統治領だったナミビアの解放勢力との南アフリカ装甲部隊の戦いを描いています 本文は当初英連邦の一員として中東への部隊展開も考慮してセンチュリオン戦車など重装甲車両も準備していたものの英連邦を脱退アパルトヘイト政策撤廃後に再加入して自国周辺の防衛に専念するようになると機動性重視の装輪式軽装甲車両の整備に重点を置くようになった新たな南アフリカ軍装甲部隊の変遷を描きます調達したセンチュリオンの半数はスイスに売却してしまいます そんな中年にポルトガルで独裁政権打倒の無血クーデターが起こるとその植民地だったアンゴラも独立が認められことになりましたがアンゴラ国内の解放勢力でソ連が支援するMPLAとこれに対立するUNITAFNLAによる内戦が勃発隣国にソ連の影響のある政権誕生を阻止したい点とMPLAがナミビアの解放組織SWAMPOを支援している点から残りの勢力特にUNITAを支援してのMPLAとの戦い更にナミビア内での解放勢力との戦いが述べられて行きます この中で興味深いのは軽装甲の装輪式装甲車中心で戦いT/は勿論T戦車などとの戦闘も発生するのですがが行われ戦車センチュリオンをグレードアップしたオリファン戦車の登場は終盤の戦いだけですまた対戦車ミサイルの開発援助やオリファン戦車の主砲L砲や砲弾は同じように国際的に孤立していたイスラエル由来のものだったことも興味深いです但し記述が南アフリカ軍のもの中心で支援した勢力の状況は殆ど述べられないのは頁数の制約とは言え残念な処です 本文にはモノクロカラー写真オリファン戦車のAPFSDS T弾やHEAT弾の命中箇所の珍しい写真もありますは勿論地雷戦を考慮したユニークな装甲兵員輸送車キャスパーブッフェル砲を装備したラーテルの左側面上面前面後面の面対戦車ミサイル装備のラーテルZTオリファンの戦車回収車オリファン戦車の前面右側面のイラスト計頁初期に活躍したエランド装甲車の見開き内部透視図頁インアクションイラスト頁が視覚情報を与えてくれます 現在ではサッカーのワールドカップが開催されるほど身近になった南アフリカの当時秘密のヴェールに包まれていた国境紛争を知るには良い本だと思います Excellent book on the Border Wars fought by the South Africans.
A good book to read on how Africa became the cold wars longest battle ground,
Like many Osprey titles, it provides a useful summary of this particular conflict and, in this case, South Africas response to Soviet armoured vehicles supplied to the various warring factions.
The authors are open about the fact that they can only cover a fraction of the subject, but it is a fascinating and at least to me little known episode in military history, which will be of interest to those wishing to explore it.
A great little addition to the excellent Osprey series Un auteur reconnu comme un spécialiste du domaine des blindés Simon Dunstan, associé à une expertise locale Kyle Harmse, un Sud Africain soutenus par un bon illustrateur Pierre Lowe Victor et vous tenez un bon Osprey sur les blindés employés par la SADF lors de ses opérations en Namibie et en Angola entre.
Les recherches sur ce sujet sont rares et souvent un peu trop consanguines et cet Osprey déroge à cette règle.
Bonus supplémentaire, on trouve dans ce fascicule New Vanguard des photos, dont certaines en couleurs, que lon na pas déjà vufois dans dautres ouvrages sur le même sujet sauf les deux photos très connues de Jim Hooper ainsi que des encadrés spécifiques sur des unités, comme les fameux Koevoet ou des événements particuliers premier emploi au combat du missile antichar ZTpar exemple qui sont tout à fait intéressants.
Le plan chronologique de louvrage suit en fait les principales opérations Savannah, Reinder, Sceptic, etc, etc tout en faisant la part belle aux évolutions de larme blindée Sud Africaine qui passa de lEland AML très profondément modifiée au Ratel et à lOlifant alors que les sanctions interdisaient à ce pays dimporter du matériel militaire.
Dintéressantes informations sont également données sur le soutien israélien au développement de lOlifant ainsi que sur le comportement au combat de ce char et de sa version dépannage ARV.
Je nai pas relevé de point négatif à part, à la rigueur, une erreur en début de livre qui fait de Berliet une société Belge.
En résumé, un Osprey très recommandé, This book provides a good introduction and overview over the technical and partly also the doctrinal development of South African Armor during the Border War.
Unfortunately, however, it lacks both tables of organization equipment of the South African units employing the mentioned vehicles/weapon systems.
While the books features numerous pictures of the vehicles in action, these photos are comparatively small but have even longer captions, often repeating information already provided in the text.
This is an excellent Osprey title on South African ard vehicles during what they called the Border War.
Authors Kyle Harmse and Simon Dunstan have given the reader an excellent account of ard vehicles employed by South Africa and how they evolved during wartime.
The long border war involving Namibia and Angola lasted fromand propelled ard development and construction of some unique vehicles.
This is a good example of a country, by necessity, designing and developing its own military weapon systems to fit its own environment and needs.
The SADF South African Defense Force began with French Panhard ard cars which the SADF upgraded to weapons capability for but then had to rely on indigenous weapons design as an international embargo cut off outside sources.
The bush war and cross border insurgency into Namibia meant a lot of mines were used to kill police and civilians.
The SADF responded with the Casspir and the Buffel early mine resistant vehicles which were very effective in their role.
The SADF moved on to the Ratel, a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle that was among the first such vehicles and certainly predates the Bradley in US service.
The SADF vehicles arexwheeled vehicles and their designs were mostly wheeled ones because of cost, ease of maintenance and repair and strategic mobility.
Although the SADF did use tracked tanks, the Centurion based Oliphant, their vehicles were mostly wheeled with versions as infantry fighting vehicles, tank killers and self
propelled artillery.
This is an excellent primer its a typicalpage Osprey weapons title on South African ard vehicles and independent weapons design.
Very interesting and a worthwhile read! Five! Not as much content as I had expected, and the soft cover was unexpected.
Nevertheless and informative publication var hmenu document, getElementById"nav hamburger menu" hmenu, setAttribute"href", "javascript: void" window, navHamburgerMetricLogger function if window. ue window. ue. count var metricName "Navm:Hmenu:IconClickActionPending" window, ue. countmetricName, ue. countmetricNamewindow. Nav hmenu. addEventListener"click", window. navHamburgerMetricLogger window. Nav window. navmet. tmpnew Date. com. au 近年兵器市場では南アフリカの会社の出品があり意外な感じがしますが実は英連邦軍として参戦した第二次大戦以降も実戦経験がかなりあることです 本書は年から年にかけて隣国のアンゴラ当時南アフリカの統治領だったナミビアの解放勢力との南アフリカ装甲部隊の戦いを描いています 本文は当初英連邦の一員として中東への部隊展開も考慮してセンチュリオン戦車など重装甲車両も準備していたものの英連邦を脱退アパルトヘイト政策撤廃後に再加入して自国周辺の防衛に専念するようになると機動性重視の装輪式軽装甲車両の整備に重点を置くようになった新たな南アフリカ軍装甲部隊の変遷を描きます調達したセンチュリオンの半数はスイスに売却してしまいます そんな中年にポルトガルで独裁政権打倒の無血クーデターが起こるとその植民地だったアンゴラも独立が認められことになりましたがアンゴラ国内の解放勢力でソ連が支援するMPLAとこれに対立するUNITAFNLAによる内戦が勃発隣国にソ連の影響のある政権誕生を阻止したい点とMPLAがナミビアの解放組織SWAMPOを支援している点から残りの勢力特にUNITAを支援してのMPLAとの戦い更にナミビア内での解放勢力との戦いが述べられて行きます この中で興味深いのは軽装甲の装輪式装甲車中心で戦いT/は勿論T戦車などとの戦闘も発生するのですがが行われ戦車センチュリオンをグレードアップしたオリファン戦車の登場は終盤の戦いだけですまた対戦車ミサイルの開発援助やオリファン戦車の主砲L砲や砲弾は同じように国際的に孤立していたイスラエル由来のものだったことも興味深いです但し記述が南アフリカ軍のもの中心で支援した勢力の状況は殆ど述べられないのは頁数の制約とは言え残念な処です 本文にはモノクロカラー写真オリファン戦車のAPFSDS T弾やHEAT弾の命中箇所の珍しい写真もありますは勿論地雷戦を考慮したユニークな装甲兵員輸送車キャスパーブッフェル砲を装備したラーテルの左側面上面前面後面の面対戦車ミサイル装備のラーテルZTオリファンの戦車回収車オリファン戦車の前面右側面のイラスト計頁初期に活躍したエランド装甲車の見開き内部透視図頁インアクションイラスト頁が視覚情報を与えてくれます 現在ではサッカーのワールドカップが開催されるほど身近になった南アフリカの当時秘密のヴェールに包まれていた国境紛争を知るには良い本だと思います Excellent book on the Border Wars fought by the South Africans.
A good book to read on how Africa became the cold wars longest battle ground,
A well established author, filmmaker and photographer, Simon Dunstan has written thanbooks on military history, particularly on World War II and Vietnam.
He has also written and directed numerous military history documentaries for the History Channel,