# Defence industry of South Africa

The South African defence industry is the most advanced in Africa and one of the most advanced and largest in the world with over 20 defence companies. The defence industry provides weapons and equipment to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and for export customers. The South African defence industry develops weapons and combat systems such as rifles, armored fighting vehicles, tanks, artillery, military aircraft, navy ships and missiles.

## Companies

* Armscor
* Atlas Aircraft Corporation
* Atlantis Diesel Engines
* BAE Systems Land Systems South Africa
* Denel
* Denel Land Systems
* Denel Dynamics
* Denel Aeronautics
* Delta G Scientific Company
* DCD Group
* Paramount Group
* Land Systems OMC
* Reutech
* Rippel Effect
* Milkor
* Protechnik
* Sandock-Austral
* Truvelo Armoury
* OTT Technologies
* Roodeplaat Research Laboratories
* Anduril Industries
Rheinmetall Denel Munition
* HENSOLDT
* Evotex Engineering

## Small arms and light weapons
### Rifles
#### Assault rifles

* Vektor R4 and R5
* Vektor R4 Tactical
* Vektor CR-21
* DM4 (AR-15)
* Truvelo Raptor
* TRV 545

#### Battle rifles

* R1 rifle

#### Sniper rifles

* Truvelo CMS
* Truvelo Phantom X

#### Anti-material rifles

* Denel NTW-20
* Truvelo SR-20

### Machine guns
#### General purpose machine guns

* Vektor SS-77
* Denel DMG-5

#### Submachine guns

* Milkor BXP

### Grenade launchers and anti-tank launchers
#### Grenade launchers

* Milkor MGL
* Neopup PAW-20
* Denel Y3 AGL
* Evotex 66-EGL
* Rippel XRGL40
* Rippel MGL MK4
* Rippel MGL6

#### Anti-tank launchers

* Denel FT5

### Handguns

* Vektor Z88
* Vektor SP1

## Land systems
### Armored vehicles
#### Armored fighting vehicles

* Rooikat
* Badger IFV
* Mbombe 8
* Mbombe 6
* Ratel IFV
* iKlwa
* RG-41

#### Armored personnel carriers

* Mamba
* Marauder
* Mbombe 4
* Maatla
* MAX 9
* LM14
* RG-12
* RG-19
* RCV-9
* Reva
* Springbuck
* PUMA M26-15
* Bruiser 112

#### Mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles

* Casspir
* Matador
* RG-31 Nyala
* RG-32 Scout
* RG-33
* RG-34
* RG-35
* Husky VMMD
* Okapi
* Gila MBPV
* Gila APC

#### Light tactical vehicles

* RG Outrider

#### Internal security vehicles

* Maverick

### Tanks

* Olifant Mk1A
* Olifant Mk1B
* Olifant Mk2
* Tank Technology Demonstrator (TTD)

### Artillery
#### Towed artillery

* G5 Leopard
* G7 LEO

#### Self-propelled artillery

* G6 Rhino
* T5-52
* Bhim

#### Rocket artillery

* Valkiri
* Bateleur FV2

### Other vehicles
#### Armoured ambulance

* Mfezi

#### Utility vehicles

* Hornet RDRV
* Gecko RDLV
* Jakkals

#### Military trucks

* SAMIL 20
* SAMIL 50
* SAMIL 100
* Denel Africa Truck

## Air systems
### Military aircraft
#### Fighter aircraft

* Atlas Cheetah
* Atlas Carver

#### Attack aircraft

* Paramount Mwari

#### Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

* Denel Dynamics Bateleur
* Denel Dynamics Seeker
* Milkor 380 Archived 2023-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
* ASTUS
* ATE Vulture
* Meteorite
* N-Raven

### Helicopters
#### Attack helicopters

* Denel Rooivalk
* Atlas XH-1 Alpha
* ATE Super Hind

#### Transport helicopters

* Atlas Oryx

## Naval systems
### Patrol vessels

* Warrior-class strike craft
* Warrior-class MMIPV
* 70M Frontier LMS
* 85M Frontier OPV

### Other ships

* Drakensberg

### Weapon systems
#### Close-in weapon systems (CIWS)

* Denel 35mm Dual Purpose Gun

## Missiles, bombs and turrets
### Missiles
#### Anti-tank missiles

* ZT3 Ingwe
* Mokopa

#### Cruise missiles

* MUPSOW
* Torgos
* Raptor II

#### Surface-to-air missiles

* Umkhonto

#### Air-to-air missiles

* A-Darter
* Marlin

#### Ballistic missiles

* RSA-1
* RSA-2
* RSA-3
* RSA-4

### Bombs

* Denel Dynamics Umbani

### Turrets
#### Remote weapon systems

* Reutech Rogue
* Evotex THEBE
* Evotex IMPI
* Evotex VIKELA

#### Autocannons

* Denel Land Systems GI-2

#### Combat turrets

* AMICT
* MCT-30
* LCT-20
* Denel GI-30