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South Africa’s Denel Shines at African Defense Show
The first product of the South African-UAE joint venture will be the Al-Tariq, based on Denel’s Umbani modular bomb kit (Photo: David Donald)
The first product of the South African-UAE joint venture will be the Al-Tariq, based on Denel’s Umbani modular bomb kit (Photo: David Donald)

South Africa’s government-owned Denel industrial group dominated the news at last week’s African Aerospace and Defence 2012 show, held at Waterkloof AFB near Pretoria. Just before the show’s opening Denel Aerostructures signed a renegotiated agreement with Airbus Military covering manufacture of top shells and wing/fuselage fairings for the A400M airlifter. The signing of the new deal vindicated a South African government cash injection earlier this year to underpin the loss-making division. A South African order for eight A400Ms was cancelled in 2009 at the height of the airlifter’s technical problems.

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