The South African defence industry is the most advanced in Africa and one of the most advanced and largest in the world with over 20 defence companies. The defence industry provides weapons and equipment to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and for export customers. The South African defence industry develops weapons and combat systems such as rifles, armored fighting vehicles, tanks, artillery, military aircraft, navy ships and missiles.

Companies

• Armscor
• Atlas Aircraft Corporation
• Atlantis Diesel Engines
• BAE Systems Land Systems South Africa
• Denel
• Denel Land Systems
• Denel Dynamics
• Denel Aeronautics
• Delta G Scientific Company
• DCD Group
• Paramount Group
• Land Systems OMC
• Reutech
• Rippel Effect
• Milkor
• Protechnik
• Sandock-Austral
• Truvelo Armoury
• OTT Technologies
• Roodeplaat Research Laboratories
• Anduril Industries

Rheinmetall Denel Munition

• HENSOLDT
• Evotex Engineering

Small arms and light weapons

Rifles

Assault rifles

• Vektor R4 and R5

• Vektor R4 Tactical
• Vektor CR-21
• DM4 (AR-15)
• Truvelo Raptor
• TRV 545

Battle rifles

• R1 rifle

Sniper rifles

• Truvelo CMS
• Truvelo Phantom X

Anti-material rifles

• Denel NTW-20
• Truvelo SR-20

Machine guns

General purpose machine guns

• Vektor SS-77
• Denel DMG-5

Submachine guns

• Milkor BXP

Grenade launchers and anti-tank launchers

Grenade launchers

• Milkor MGL
• Neopup PAW-20
• Denel Y3 AGL
• Evotex 66-EGL
• Rippel XRGL40
• Rippel MGL MK4
• Rippel MGL6

Anti-tank launchers

• Denel FT5

Handguns

• Vektor Z88
• Vektor SP1

Land systems

Armored vehicles

Armored fighting vehicles

• Rooikat
• Badger IFV
• Mbombe 8
• Mbombe 6
• Ratel IFV
• iKlwa
• RG-41

Armored personnel carriers

• Mamba
• Marauder
• Mbombe 4
• Maatla
• MAX 9
• LM14
• RG-12
• RG-19
• RCV-9
• Reva
• Springbuck
• PUMA M26-15
• Bruiser 112

Mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles

• Casspir
• Matador
• RG-31 Nyala
• RG-32 Scout
• RG-33
• RG-34
• RG-35
• Husky VMMD
• Okapi
• Gila MBPV
• Gila APC

Light tactical vehicles

• RG Outrider

Internal security vehicles

• Maverick

Tanks

• Olifant Mk1A
• Olifant Mk1B
• Olifant Mk2
• Tank Technology Demonstrator (TTD)

Artillery

Towed artillery

• G5 Leopard

• G7 LEO

Self-propelled artillery

• G6 Rhino
• T5-52
• Bhim

Rocket artillery

• Valkiri
• Bateleur FV2

Other vehicles

Armoured ambulance

• Mfezi

Utility vehicles

• Hornet RDRV
• Gecko RDLV
• Jakkals

Military trucks

• SAMIL 20
• SAMIL 50
• SAMIL 100
• Denel Africa Truck

Air systems

Military aircraft

Fighter aircraft

• Atlas Cheetah
• Atlas Carver

Attack aircraft

• Paramount Mwari

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

• Denel Dynamics Bateleur
• Denel Dynamics Seeker
• Milkor 380 Archived 2023-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
• ASTUS
• ATE Vulture
• Meteorite
• N-Raven

Helicopters

Attack helicopters

• Denel Rooivalk
• Atlas XH-1 Alpha
• ATE Super Hind

Transport helicopters

• Atlas Oryx

Naval systems

Patrol vessels

• Warrior-class strike craft
• Warrior-class MMIPV
• 70M Frontier LMS
• 85M Frontier OPV

Other ships

• Drakensberg

Weapon systems

Close-in weapon systems (CIWS)

• Denel 35mm Dual Purpose Gun

Missiles, bombs and turrets

Missiles

Anti-tank missiles

• ZT3 Ingwe
• Mokopa

Cruise missiles

• MUPSOW
• Torgos
• Raptor II

Surface-to-air missiles

• Umkhonto

Air-to-air missiles

• A-Darter
• Marlin

Ballistic missiles

• RSA-1
• RSA-2
• RSA-3
• RSA-4

Bombs

• Denel Dynamics Umbani

Turrets

Remote weapon systems

• Reutech Rogue
• Evotex THEBE
• Evotex IMPI
• Evotex VIKELA

Autocannons

• Denel Land Systems GI-2

Combat turrets

• AMICT

• MCT-30

• LCT-20
• Denel GI-30

See also

• Armscor
• List of equipment of the South African National Defence Force
• South African National Defence Force

References