00:01Helicopters roar overhead, thrilling crowds at an aerospace and defense show in Tishwem, South Africa.
00:08The showcase featured locally developed defense technology, including mobile surveillance radar systems.
00:15Families and aviation fans also watched armored vehicles and stimulated combat demonstrations, bringing military technology to life.
00:24This event wants to change the perception that we in South Africa and Africa do not have our own ideas,
00:33concepts that are converted into technology.
00:35I can talk to you about a concept of a multi-role surveillance radar that we developed, that my office
00:43developed with the industry, Raytech Defense, which was not there.
00:47It's a surveillance and it's a mobile one.
00:49You would see it when you go there, it's rotating like this. It can go up to 200 to 300
00:55nautical miles, surveying everything without being identified.
01:01South African engineers are turning military needs into locally developed technology despite tight budgets.
01:11There are other technologies. The limit that we have is just the budget that we have. But a lot of
01:18these products, we conceptualize it.
01:21The chiefs tell us what difficulties they have. We convert those difficulties into projects and then we, where we can,
01:29we bring them into products.
01:30And some of these products that you see here come directly from us.
01:33South Africa has Africa's most developed defence industry, with companies such as Denel, Paramount Group and Milkor producing weapons, armoured
01:43vehicles, aircraft, missiles, ammunitions and drones.
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