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Friday, March 23, 2012

SA Navy reviews fleet needs as antipiracy patrol highlights capacity constraints

[SAS Queen Modjadji (S103)]Largely unnoticed by the country’s people, the South African Navy (SAN) has moved from a largely peacetime routine to a predominantly operational profile.

This change has been caused by two developments – one domestic, one foreign.

The domestic development has been the adoption of the ‘back to the borders’ policy by government, under which the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has been reassuming responsibility for the protection and patrolling of the country’s borders from the South African Police Service.

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