SAAF GBADS - February 2000	
		South African Air Force Ground Based Air Defence Systems	

Historical situation			
Air Defence Artillery Group.			
250 Air Defence Wing			
	120 Air Defence squadron		
		Cactus	
			2 Acquisition units
			4 Firing systems
	121 Air Defence squadron		
		Cactus	
			2 Acquisition units
			4 Firing systems
	122 Air Defence squadron		
		ZSU-23-2	
	123 Air Defence squadron	
		ZSU-23-2
251 Air Defence Wing		
	4 Squadrons	
252 Air Defence Wing		
	4 Squadrons	
253 Air Defence Wing		
	4 Squadrons	

Currant situation		
120 Air Defence squadron		
	Several upgraded cactus launchers(Note 3)	
	Single fire control post	
	Uknown captured/foreign air defence systems(Note 4)	

Air Control Sector		
	Bosveld ACS	
		Pretoria
	Lowveld ACS	
		AFB Hoedspruit
	(The above ACS monitor northern air aproaches and draw data from the national air traffic control radar system and SAAF systems)	
SAAF Mobile Deployment Wing		
	140 Squadron	
		10 AR3D long-range radars(Relatively immobile)
	142 Squadron	
		4 TMR mobile radar stations(Note 2)

Notes		
Note 1	The army is responsible for air defence of SA Army elements in the field	
	The SAAF is responsible for the defence of keypoints (Air Defence Artillery Group) 	
	and national airspace (Fighters)
Note 2	"Each consists of 3 large truck mounted containers, manufactured by Reutech"
Note 3	Now mounted on truck-mounted shelters.
	Capable of firing South African High Velocity (SAHV) missiles
	The short-range (SHORAD) SAHV comes in command-line-of-sight(CLOS) and IR
	homing.
Note 4	Reportedly includes at least one of each of the following; 

	SA-8, ZSU-23-4, Flap Wheel FCR, Flap Face search radar and possably SA-9

SA-8 missile system, the Flap Wheel fire control radar and ZSU-23-4 anti-aircraft system. The Flat Face long range search radar was also deployed