Air force capacity plane awful
07 November 2016 - 02:07
Aviation experts warn that the South African military might soon struggle to fly troops and weapons to war and disaster zones using its own aircraft, as a skills and maintenance crisis threatens to ground its entire transport fleet. The SANDF relies on its ageing air force fleet of nine Lockheed C130s for transport after a deal to buy eight A400M heavy lift transport aircraft from Airbus was cancelled in 2011.
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