South African Army - Equipment - Light Weapons

Light Weapons

  • Vektor Z88 (licence-built Beretta 92) and the Vektor SP1 semi-automatic pistol (South Africa)
  • H&K MP-5 SMG (Germany)
  • Vektor R4 5.56 mm assault rifle, shortened versions are designated R5 and R6. (licence-built versions of the Galil family of rifles) (South Africa/Israel) – replaced the R1 (license-built FN FAL (Belgium)) 7.62 mm battle rifle during the 1980s.
  • Vektor SS-77 7.62 mm general purpose machine gun (South Africa) replacing the 7.62 mm FN MAG (Belgium)
  • Milkor MGL-MK1 six round 40 mm grenade launcher (South Africa)
  • RPG-7 anti-tank rocket (USSR)
  • MILAN 3 – Anti-tank guided missile with the ADT launcher (France/Germany)
  • Ingwe ATGM Launcher (South Africa)
  • Starstreak man portable surface to air missiles (United Kingdom)
  • Denel BXP 9 mm parabellum sub machine gun. Similar to Mac 10 (South Africa)
  • FN MAG 7.62mm LMG (Belgium)
  • M2 Browning machine gun 12.7mm Heavy Machine Gun (USA)
  • M40 recoilless rifle 106mm (120) (USA)
  • M67 recoilless rifle 90mm (USA)
  • FT-94 Light ATRL (South Africa)
  • M-3 81mm medium mortar (France/South Africa)
  • M-1 60mm light mortar (France/South Africa)

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