S. Africa shows off arsenal
I NZPA-Reuter Pretoria | South Africa yesterday! j displayed some of its home- ! produced arsenal publicly for the first time and the ; Defence Minister (General ; Magnus Malan) said the country could no longer be, ’isolated by international; iarms-sale boycotts. | The weaponry was put on at a parade of some,' 1800 troops and a fly-pasti held to honour the achieve-! ments of the Prime Minister (Mr Pieter Botha) in his 14, years as Defence Minister. i j Among the weapons werethe 155 mm gun described by! Mr Botha as among the bestj in the world, a 127 mm rock-i et artillery system claimed; to outdo the Soviet “Stalin 1 organ,” and the Olifant tank,' a modified version of the; British Centurion. I General Malan. a former; commander of the defence forces, said South Africa’s arms output was one of Mr Botha’s “monumental achievements." Among its products of, “international quality,” -he cited the Navy’s new striker craft equipped with a weapons system giving a 1 striking power equal to that o.' a much larger vessel. ]
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