New Production SADF Pattern 83 Battle Jacket Austria with COVID and the war

with COVID and the war in Ukraine complicating matters

These Austrian BDU shirts feature ripstop fabric—battle-tested reinforcement with the strength to resist tears while keeping the fabric comfortable

A Slice of Cold War Grit

Part 2: Unconventional Warfare in Urban Areas

New Production SADF Pattern 83 Battle Jacket Austria with COVID and the warThe Birth of Pattern 83 The Cold War was not cold for South Africa. While most of Europe was playing an elaborate game of who has the most nukes, the South African Defense Force (SADF) was hard at work fighting the counter insurgency battles of the future. In the process, they developed and refined much of the tactics, weapons, and equipment used today. In the 1960s and 1970s South Africans were involved in three major counterinsurgency wars in Sub