In the 70 years since the South African Air Force (SAAF) first flew a jet fighter, the country has gone from importing complete aircraft with no technology transfer, to developing a highly sophisticated and capable local industry capable of adapting advanced aircraft to local conditions and designing and producing complex systems and subsystems and advanced weapons for them. This was highlighted on Thursday at the International Aerospace Symposium of South Africa (IASSA) by Council for …
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South Africa’s fighter programmes have developed the local aerospace sector
