Battle of Cassinga
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The Battle of Cassinga also known as the Cassinga Raid or Kassinga Massacre was a controversial South African airborne attack on a South West Africa People's Organization military camp at the town of
SAAF Canberra bomber
ZPU-2 anti-aircraft gun
Depiction of the Cassinga massacre at the Namibian Independence Memorial Museum.
Blackburn Buccaneer
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The Blackburn Buccaneer is a British carrier-capable attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy. Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft at Brough, it was later officially
Battle of Cassinga
…Super Frelons. The air attack component provided by the SAAF consisted of four Canberra B-12 bombers, each carrying 300 Alpha anti-personnel bombs; five Buccaneers carrying eight 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs each, as well as a sixth carrying seventy-two 68 mm rockets, and lastly four Mirage III fighter aircraft, armed…
A Buccaneer taking off from Faro, Portugal
Buccaneer S.1 at the 1962 Farnborough Airshow; the anti-flash white colour scheme is for the nuclear strike role
A Buccaneer S.2 launches from HMS Eagle; the S.2 featured more powerful Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines that allowed it to launch at its maximum take-off weight
Buccaneer S.2 with wings folding, a space-saving feature typically employed by carrier aircraft