THE SECRET SOUTH AFRICAN PROJECT TEAM: BUILDING STRIKE CRAFT IN ISRAEL, 1975-79

dc.creator	Thean Potgieter
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:09:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:09:18Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/32-2-132
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/55659667cc7743da8f2f97fb9b0b085b
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8886
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/55659667cc7743da8f2f97fb9b0b085b
dc.description	<p>Though the history of the South African Navy (SAN) only dates back to 1922, for most of its history it depended on Britain for warships. The British Royal Navy on the other hand had an unbroken involvement with maritime defence along the South African Coast and the protection of the Cape Sea Route from 1806 to 1975 (when the Simon’s Town Agreement was cancelled). However, political tension between South Africa’s apartheid government and Britain caused a break in this relationship, forcing the SAN to acquire warships from alternative sources.</p><p>A number of South African efforts to acquire corvettes failed during the 1970s, leaving the strike craft project as the only major warship project of the SAN to succeed for close to three decades. This project had an overseas as well as a local building phase. As part of the overseas phase, a project team was dispatched to Israel in 1975 to oversee the building and commissioning into the SAN, of three strike craft. The project team consisted of the Armaments Board (AB, Armscor after 1977) team as well as the SAN project team. While the AB/Armscor had to oversee the building process, the SAN team had to prepare to take the vessels into service.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/132
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 32, Iss 2 (2012)
dc.subject	THE SECRET SOUTH AFRICAN PROJECT TEAM
dc.subject	BUILDING STRIKE CRAFT
dc.subject	South African Navy (SAN)
dc.subject	Britain
dc.subject	Simon’s Town Agreement
dc.subject	British Royal Navy
dc.subject	Israel
dc.subject	corvettes
dc.subject	warships
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	THE SECRET SOUTH AFRICAN PROJECT TEAM: BUILDING STRIKE CRAFT IN ISRAEL, 1975-79
dc.type	Article