‘The art of the possible’: Paramount says SA has enough home-grown defence talent
Procurement delays remain a major challenge With the exception of the acquisition of 12 Marshall internal security vehicles by the police, the company has never been able to supply its vehicles to the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), despite the South African-designed Mbombe family being acquired, built and deployed operationally in Africa, Europe and Asia.
Paramount says South Africa can build world-class defence vehicles SA’s two-decade-long delayed Project Hoefyster, set up in 2007 to replace the army’s ageing Ratel IFV fleet, has yet to put a single Badger IFV in the field and is now estimated to cost R16 billion more than the initial R1 billion budget to complete.
South Africans should not look overseas for their defence needs to be met because the country has more than enough home-grown talent, says Paramount South Africa chair Mathews Phosa.
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