WE INVENT MILITARY PRODUCTS NOT A BUYER FOR EVERYTHING AND VERY PROUD

Claimed to be Africa’s first home-grown military aircraft, the Advanced High-Performance Reconnaissance Light Aircraft (AHRLAC), is designed to integrate a range of military and civilian support technologies in one multi-role package. Aimed at performing duties similar to both attack helicopters and reconnaissance planes, the AHRLAC is designed to carry surveillance equipment, weapons, radar and electronic warfare systems.

http://www.gizmag.com/multi-platform-aircraft-designed-built-africa/33350/

South Africa has reached new heights in aircraft technology.

Airbus Military has officially delivered its first A400M - with critical components manufactured by South Africans, on South African soil.

The first model was delivered to the French Air Force on Monday, just eight years after local companies were asked to help put it together.

Denel Aerostructures manufactured the fuselage top-shells and the wing-fuselage fairings.

They are the biggest aircraft structures ever made in the country.

Centurion-based Aerosud manufactured the cockpit and cabin linings, while Cape Town-based Cobham SA supplied the satellite communications antennae.

The 70-ton plane would revolutionise military operations around the world

http://www.enca.com/south-africa-life/sa-soars-aircraft-technology

CONTRIBUTION BY SOUTH AFRICA TO THE WORLD

South Africa is lagging far behind the developed world when it comes to broadband services and general access to technology. This has a direct impact on technology innovations in the country, but despite this South Africans have produced some of the world’s greatest inventions.

The country which has given the world icons such as Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Chris Barnard, Gary Player, Charlize Theron, and Lucas Radebe (and of course Naas Botha, and Riaan Cruywagen) has also provided the world with many technology innovations.

South African born Mark Shuttleworth (Thawte and Canonical), and Elon Musk (Paypal and Tesla motors) are well known for both their technology innovations and their space explorations. Musk’s SpaceX recently became the first privately developed and owned spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station.

Shuttleworth and Musk are well known international tech celebrities, but there are many other inventions which came from South Africa which are used globally. Here are some of the lesser known inventions.


http://mybroadband.co.za/news/general/54485-cool-things-invented-in-south-africa.html

South African inventions

Where would you expect to find the inventor of the CAT scan, the makers of the "speed gun" used in cricket ovals the world over, or the world's first oil-from-coal refinery?

For some of the material in this article, our thanks to Mike Bruton, 'Great South African Inventions' (Cambridge University Press, Indigenous Knowledge Library series, ISBN 978 0 521 74663 2)

There's a wide range of innovative and entrepreneurial activity in South Africa, backed up by a number of organisations (see box down right) that provide support for budding inventors and innovators. Some of the world firsts South Africa can lay claim to are the following:

CAT scan

The computed axial tomography scan, or CAT scan, was developed at Tufts University in the UK by South African physicist Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories. Their achievement secured them the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Cormack's interest in the problem of X-ray imaging of soft tissues or layers of tissue of differing densities was first aroused when he took up the part-time position of physicist for a hospital radiology department.

The two-dimensional representations of conventional X-ray plates were often unable to distinguish between such tissues. More information could be gained if X-rays of the body were taken from several different directions, but conventional X-ray techniques made this procedure problematic.

In the early 1960s, Cormack showed how details of a flat section of soft tissues could be calculated from measurements of the attenuation of X-rays passing through it from many different angles.

He thus provided the mathematical technique for the CAT scan, in which an X-ray source and electronic detectors are rotated about the body and the resulting data is analysed by a computer to produce a sharp map of the tissues within a cross-section of the body.

Read more: Nobel e-Museum – Allan Cormack

Oil from coal

Sasol is the world's first - and largest - oil-from-coal refinery. It is situated in Sasolburg in South Africa and provides 40% of the country's fuel.

The history of Sasol began in 1927 when a White Paper was tabled in Parliament to investigate the establishment of a South African oil-from-coal industry.

It was realised then that, because South Africa did not have crude oil reserves, the country's balance of payments had to be protected against increasing crude oil imports. After many years of research and international negotiations, the South African Coal Oil and Gas Corporation was formed in 1950.

Major milestones include the first automotive fuel (1955), the construction of the National Petroleum Refiners of South Africa (1967) and the establishment in 1990 of its first international marketing company, Sasol Chemicals Europe.

Sasol has developed world-leading technology for the conversion of low-grade coal into value-added synfuels and chemicals.

Website: www.sasol.com

Heart transplant

The world's first heart transplant was performed by Dr Chris Barnard in Cape Town on 3 December 1967.

Barnard was born in the town of Beaufort West in 1922. The seeds of his future career were sown when one of his patients delivered a baby boy with a heart defect which could not be remedied. The baby died, causing him to think deeply about the need for remedial surgery and the replacement of heart valves.

A turning point came when Barnard was offered a chance to work in Minneapolis in the US under Professor Wagensteen, a great teacher of experimental surgery. The heart-lung machine was perfected, and this turned out to be the gateway to cardiac surgery.

The idea of transplanting occurred to Barnard. If it was possible with kidneys, why not the heart? After more years of study in the US, he returned to South Africa with a parting gift from Prof Wagensteen – a heart-lung machine.

Groote Schuur hospital was waiting his return in 1958 to start the first heart unit to perform a cardiac bypass operation.

After performing the first successful kidney transplant on Edith Black, in October 1967 Barnard informed Professor Val Schrire, who had built up the cardiac clinic: "Everything is ready for a heart transplant. We have the team and we know how to do it."

In November 1967, Schrire called Barnard and told him that there was a suitable patient for a heart transplant. Louis Washkansky was suffering from heart failure and was prepared to take the chance. The rest is history.

Barnard passed away in Cyprus, Greece on 2 September 2001 from an acute asthma attack.

Speed gun

The South African-made speed gun, developed by Somerset West inventor Henri Johnson, was formally launched at The Oval in England during the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

In 1992 Johnson invented the Speedball which was manufactured by South African firm Electronic Development House. The device accurately measures the speed and angles of speeding objects such as cricket and tennis balls.

Generally referred to as a "speed gun", Johnson's gizmo is sold in cricketing countries and in the US and Europe.

Kreepy Krauly

The swimming pool vacuum cleaner was invented by Ferdinand Chauvier, a hydraulics engineer who came to South Africa from the Belgian Congo in 1951.

Chauvier quickly realised that there was a huge market for taking the hassle out of cleaning swimming pools, and went about inventing a machine that would do the job automatically, efficiently powered by the ordinary operation of the pool's filter.

But it wasn't until 1974 that the first Kreepy Krauly was born in Chauvier's Springs home.

He died in 1985, but Kreepy Kraulys continue to keep thousands of pools clean in South Africa and the world over.

Pratley Putty

Pratley's famous glue is the only South African invention that has been to the moon. In 1969 the putty was used to hold bits of the Apollo XI mission's Eagle landing craft together.

Krugersdorp engineer George Pratley invented his famous sticky stuff in the 1960s while looking for a glue that would hold components in an electrical box.

Pratley died in 1983 and today the company is run by his son, Kim. Hundreds of tons of Pratley putty have been exported all over the world, and the company has diversified into other products.

Website: www.pratley.co.za

Dolosse

Dolosse are large, unusually shaped concrete blocks weighing up to 20 tons. The structures are designed to break up wave action and protect harbour walls and coastal installations.

Designed by Eric Merrifield and first installed in East London harbour, they are now used all over the world.

The Coega Project, comprising an industrial development complex and deepwater port 20 kilometres east of the city of Port Elizabeth, made history with the casting of the biggest dolosse on the African continent: 26 500 30-ton dolosse are used on the two breakwaters for the deep-water harbour of Ngqura.

Read more: SA's wave- breaking dolosse


Read more: http://www.southafrica.info/business/trends/innovations/inventions.htm#ixzz3yQc7hhl5

South African inventions

Where would you expect to find the inventor of the CAT scan, the makers of the "speed gun" used in cricket ovals the world over, or the world's first oil-from-coal refinery?

For some of the material in this article, our thanks to Mike Bruton, 'Great South African Inventions' (Cambridge University Press, Indigenous Knowledge Library series, ISBN 978 0 521 74663 2)

There's a wide range of innovative and entrepreneurial activity in South Africa, backed up by a number of organisations (see box down right) that provide support for budding inventors and innovators. Some of the world firsts South Africa can lay claim to are the following:

CAT scan

The computed axial tomography scan, or CAT scan, was developed at Tufts University in the UK by South African physicist Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories. Their achievement secured them the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Cormack's interest in the problem of X-ray imaging of soft tissues or layers of tissue of differing densities was first aroused when he took up the part-time position of physicist for a hospital radiology department.

The two-dimensional representations of conventional X-ray plates were often unable to distinguish between such tissues. More information could be gained if X-rays of the body were taken from several different directions, but conventional X-ray techniques made this procedure problematic.

In the early 1960s, Cormack showed how details of a flat section of soft tissues could be calculated from measurements of the attenuation of X-rays passing through it from many different angles.

He thus provided the mathematical technique for the CAT scan, in which an X-ray source and electronic detectors are rotated about the body and the resulting data is analysed by a computer to produce a sharp map of the tissues within a cross-section of the body.

Read more: Nobel e-Museum – Allan Cormack

Oil from coal

Sasol is the world's first - and largest - oil-from-coal refinery. It is situated in Sasolburg in South Africa and provides 40% of the country's fuel.

The history of Sasol began in 1927 when a White Paper was tabled in Parliament to investigate the establishment of a South African oil-from-coal industry.

It was realised then that, because South Africa did not have crude oil reserves, the country's balance of payments had to be protected against increasing crude oil imports. After many years of research and international negotiations, the South African Coal Oil and Gas Corporation was formed in 1950.

Major milestones include the first automotive fuel (1955), the construction of the National Petroleum Refiners of South Africa (1967) and the establishment in 1990 of its first international marketing company, Sasol Chemicals Europe.

Sasol has developed world-leading technology for the conversion of low-grade coal into value-added synfuels and chemicals.

Website: www.sasol.com

Heart transplant

The world's first heart transplant was performed by Dr Chris Barnard in Cape Town on 3 December 1967.

Barnard was born in the town of Beaufort West in 1922. The seeds of his future career were sown when one of his patients delivered a baby boy with a heart defect which could not be remedied. The baby died, causing him to think deeply about the need for remedial surgery and the replacement of heart valves.

A turning point came when Barnard was offered a chance to work in Minneapolis in the US under Professor Wagensteen, a great teacher of experimental surgery. The heart-lung machine was perfected, and this turned out to be the gateway to cardiac surgery.

The idea of transplanting occurred to Barnard. If it was possible with kidneys, why not the heart? After more years of study in the US, he returned to South Africa with a parting gift from Prof Wagensteen – a heart-lung machine.

Groote Schuur hospital was waiting his return in 1958 to start the first heart unit to perform a cardiac bypass operation.

After performing the first successful kidney transplant on Edith Black, in October 1967 Barnard informed Professor Val Schrire, who had built up the cardiac clinic: "Everything is ready for a heart transplant. We have the team and we know how to do it."

In November 1967, Schrire called Barnard and told him that there was a suitable patient for a heart transplant. Louis Washkansky was suffering from heart failure and was prepared to take the chance. The rest is history.

Barnard passed away in Cyprus, Greece on 2 September 2001 from an acute asthma attack.

Speed gun

The South African-made speed gun, developed by Somerset West inventor Henri Johnson, was formally launched at The Oval in England during the 1999 Cricket World Cup.

In 1992 Johnson invented the Speedball which was manufactured by South African firm Electronic Development House. The device accurately measures the speed and angles of speeding objects such as cricket and tennis balls.

Generally referred to as a "speed gun", Johnson's gizmo is sold in cricketing countries and in the US and Europe.

Kreepy Krauly

The swimming pool vacuum cleaner was invented by Ferdinand Chauvier, a hydraulics engineer who came to South Africa from the Belgian Congo in 1951.

Chauvier quickly realised that there was a huge market for taking the hassle out of cleaning swimming pools, and went about inventing a machine that would do the job automatically, efficiently powered by the ordinary operation of the pool's filter.

But it wasn't until 1974 that the first Kreepy Krauly was born in Chauvier's Springs home.

He died in 1985, but Kreepy Kraulys continue to keep thousands of pools clean in South Africa and the world over.

Pratley Putty

Pratley's famous glue is the only South African invention that has been to the moon. In 1969 the putty was used to hold bits of the Apollo XI mission's Eagle landing craft together.

Krugersdorp engineer George Pratley invented his famous sticky stuff in the 1960s while looking for a glue that would hold components in an electrical box.

Pratley died in 1983 and today the company is run by his son, Kim. Hundreds of tons of Pratley putty have been exported all over the world, and the company has diversified into other products.

Website: www.pratley.co.za

Dolosse

Dolosse are large, unusually shaped concrete blocks weighing up to 20 tons. The structures are designed to break up wave action and protect harbour walls and coastal installations.

Designed by Eric Merrifield and first installed in East London harbour, they are now used all over the world.

The Coega Project, comprising an industrial development complex and deepwater port 20 kilometres east of the city of Port Elizabeth, made history with the casting of the biggest dolosse on the African continent: 26 500 30-ton dolosse are used on the two breakwaters for the deep-water harbour of Ngqura.

Read more: SA's wave- breaking dolosse

Read more: http://www.southafrica.info/business/trends/innovations/inventions.htm#ixzz3yQc7hhl5

World’s first digital laser
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) announced the development of the world’s first digital laser.

The innovation is expected to spur numerous applications to improve the communication and health sectors, said Professor Andrew Forbes of the CSIR National Laser Centre.

The experimental work in the laser project was done by doctoral candidate and CSIR researcher Sandile Nqcobo.

“This groundbreaking development is further evidence of the great potential we have in scientific innovation. That the world’s first digital laser should come from our country is testimony to the calibre of scientists that South Africa has,” said former minister of science and technology, Derek Hanekom.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2014/07/08/13-of-south-africa-s-boldest-science-innovations

TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH
A South African research center—the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)—was the driving force behind the world’s lithium batteries, from those in your laptop to cell phones and the Chevy Volt, in addition to the time machine now used by the world’s leading road engineers.

And the SABLE Accelerator understands that South Africa’s CSIR, a government- and private sector-funded research and innovation hub, has just made a major global breakthrough in laser technology, which could help shape the future as fundamentally as the “tube” behind television.

This technology was developed by the CSIR's National Laser Centre and is the world's first digital laser, which allows the laser beam to be manipulated into multiple shapes, whereas traditional lasers appear only as a small point. While it is still being refined, this multifunctional technology will ultimately simplify numerous applications and will have implications across a number of industries. Watch the video below to learn more.

THE BEST MILITARY IN AFRICA DISCUSSION SHOULD BE ABOUT INVENTION, DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY, TRAINING CAPABILIES (NOT FOREIGN ASSISTANCE), MAINTENANCE, STANDARDS OF MILITARY ATTIQUET, BASES, MORAL AND CODE OF CONDUCT.

Discussion should be what you have not what you wish.

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER THE RADAR RANGE IS 500 METRES OR SO......ATLEAST ITS STEP FORWARD IN TERMS OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT......ONLY THE MINDLESS SCUMBAGS WOULD RIDICULE SUCH GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS BY AN AFRICAN COUNTRY.
PROPHETS OF DOOM SHOW YOUR COUNTRY'S ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF RADARS.......PLEASE YOURS NOT FOREIGN PROCUMENT.

Nigeria proud to have a helicopter maintenance hangar at this age and juncture.....HAHAHAHAHAHHAH

@DonBebs does it have to be used to b convinced....any way Nigeria is battling a rag tag militia force that has wrecked havoc with your army. Look at your living conditions of your army personnel, salary, equipment and conditions of service and conclusions are dire.

Modern and professional armies possess sophisticated equipment that has never been tested but ready too when called upon. A lesson Nigerian army can testify through soldiers complaining about poor military hardware and refusing to fight or worst running away.

Morrocco has advance weaponry and yet never used , South Korea, Japan, Spain, etc. Your problem face the reality

SANDF NOTHING TO COMPARE EXCEPT PEOPLE WHO SUFFER FROM ENVY AND RAG TAG MENTALITY

THE PRIDE AND ELITE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN AIRFORCE......OPPPS BY THE WAY 9 PILOTS.....BUT LETS SEE NIGERIAN AIRFORCE AND SEE MEDIVIAL AIRCRAFT

9 PILOTS OR NOT ....WE ARE THE BEST ONLY JELOUSY TO RIDICULE WOULD MAKE YOU GOOD

IT DOES NOT MATTER THE AGE, COMBAT TESTING.....THE FACT IS OUR SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCT....SHOW ONE AFRICAN COUNTRY THAT HAS THE CAPACITY TO PRODUCE ANY OF THE SAME MILITARY HARDWARE......ONLY JELOUSY TO RIDICULE WOULD BE THE ANSWER....NOTHING MORE EXCEPT ENVY

SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCTS......PROUDLY OURS NOT CHINA, PAKISTAN, ISRAEL OR ANY COUNTRY.......BUT SOUTH AFRICAN.....WAIT FOR NIGERIAN PIC AND LAUGH.

SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCTS AND PROUDLY MADE IN SOUTH AFRICA BY SOUTH AFRICANS. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER ITS IN SANDF SERVICE....OR TRAVEL LESS THAN 2 METRES. THE FACT NO SINGLE AFRICAN COUNTRY HAS EVER DESIGNED, MANUFACTURE AND PRODUCE ANY MISSILE OF NOTE. NOT CHRISTMAS ROCKET FUEL BY GUN POWDER.

PROVE NIGERIA TO HAVE A MISSILE OF NOTE: PRODUCE AND SHOWCASED......WAIT FOR THE PICTURE AND LAUGH

SOWETO TOWNSHIP

NEW TRAIN REPLACES THE OLD TRAINS.....AND NIGERIA TO HAVE NEW TRAINS 50 YEARS

South Africa aint no banana Republic though most Nigerians believes otherwise.

SOUTH AFRICA ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE

CAPITAL PRETORIA....SOUTH AFRICANS ENJOY ELECTRICITY 24 HOURS A DAY, 367 DAYS, 52 WEEKS AND 12 MONTHS A YEAR

City of Richards Bay....Biggest coal terminal in Africa

CITY OF BLOEMFONTEIN.....LOAD SHEDDING HAS NOT HAPPENDED FOR THE LAST 3 MONTHS NOW.......HOW IS IT GOING IN NIGERIA

CITY OF GEORGE.....COMPARE TO NIGERIA A COUNTRY OF THE WISE AND THE HEALTHY

KYSNA

HOW MANY CITIES AND TOWN DOES NIGERIA HAS....I MEAN TRUE WORLD CLASS

HIV INFESTED COUNTRY WITH A POPULATION OF DULL BRAINS......ATLEAST NOT INVADING OTHER PEOPLE'S COUNTRIES AND CLAIM A STAKE
PORT ELIZABETH.

DURBAN

Johannesburg

CAPE TOWN