The SADF Recces South Africa’s most elite special forces are the 'Recces' (short for “Reconnaissance”). In the border conflicts, they were the cream of the crop, being experts in both long-range combat reconnaissance and counter-insurgency.

South African Defense Force Surplus, Reproductions, and morale merch inspired by bush-war era South Africa.

2024年12月2日 · This kit layout is of an SADF infantryman in the late 1970s and of course since putting this together I have managed to add a few more bits of kit, but I am not about to get everything out again for a while!

New South African Defense Force (SADF) Pattern 70 web kit made of very heavy duty tightly woven canvas type of material and is like new/never issued, no fading, no rips or tears. All of the metal attachment buckles and D-rings are coated with a green plastic type of material.

New South African Defense Force(SADF) Pattern 70 web kit made of very heavy duty tightly woven canvas type of material and is like new/never issued, no fading, no rips or tears. All of the metal attachment buckles and D-rings are coated with a green plastic type of material

2023年10月24日 · Here we have a very nice set of South African Defence Force (SADF) Pattern 70 web gear AKA: Load Bearing Equipment (LBE). All pieces are unissued except for the two canteens and canteen pouches which are used but in pretty good shape.

2023年5月12日 · Apparently they sell for 20-30 bucks in south africa but around here everybody is charging 120+ bucks for them. Need to see this on person. Looks cool. I want this kit, where’d you get the pattern 83 gear? Another fellow South African kit, great to see!

2024年12月3日 · SADF Recce Niemoller Webbing Since KommandoStore started doing business over a decade ago, it's been a dream of ours to resurrect some of the most sought-after South African kit from curio status back to a new life — when we got in contact with Johann Niemoller himself, it wasn't long before we started talking about webbing...

To address this need, the Pattern 83 system (Pat 83) was designed in partnership with the South African outdoors industry. The system consists of three components: a “chest webbing” (chest rig), “battle jacket” (load bearing harness with assault pack), and “grootsak” (large backpack with detachable external frame.)