Cuban ground personnel with some of the Soviet technicians that helped assemble the first fighter jets destined for Angola, in front of the first MiG-15UTI of the FAPA/DAA (serial C21), in early 1976

Taken at Luanda on 25 January 1976, during celebrations associated with the establishment of the FAPA/DAA, this photograph shows a row of (Cuban-manned) MiG-17Fs, plus two C-47 transports left behind by the Portuguese

Operation Savannah: 22x Eland 90 armoured cars began a 2,400 km 6 day trek from Bloemfontein #SouthAfrica to Ondangwa in SW Africa where they would airlifted into the fight in #Angola 9 October 1975

A column of Eland armored cars passing by a destroyed Angolan T-54 tank during Operation Askari. 1984

SAAF Buccaneers

Cuban troops in Angola

A Russian TU-95RT strategic bomber at Luanda airport on an unspecified date between 1976 and 1977

A rarely seen photograph of Cuban pilots Manuel Rojas García (Lieutenant Colonel) and Manuel Quesada Aguilar (Captain), prisoners of Savimbi, whose MIG-21UM was shot down on October 28, 1987, by UNITA’s MANPAD (manual anti-aircraft missile) in the Luena area. The photo was taken on October 31 of the same year at a political rally in Jamba.

Cuban ground crew prepare Angolan MiG-21bis C-315 for its next sortie at Menongue

Soviet Military Interpreter Oleg Gritsuk of the 13th FAPLA Brigade at the end of 1987 at Cuito Cuanavale

Soviet specialist of the FAPLA anti-aircraft missile brigade “Kvadrat” Vladimir Volodin in Cuito Cuanavale. 1984

M. I. Konovalenko with his subordinates in the ANC MK “Kakulama” camp. From left to right: military topography specialist, mine and explosives specialist, group senior, air defense specialist (Strela-2M), artillery systems specialist (Grad-P, mortars), hand-to-hand combat instructor. Angola, 1987. Photo from M. Konovalenko’s archive