AIR/GROUND STRIKE CANGAMBA AIRFIELD, ANGOLA

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 20, 1983
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1. SIGNIFICANCE: EVIDENCE OF AN AIR/GROUND STRIKE, POSSIBLY AS A
RESULT CF UNITA GROUND OPERATIONS SUPPORTED BY SOUTH AFRICAN
COMBAT AIRCRAFT, IS OBSERVED AT CANGAMEA AIRFIELD SINCE
Attachment to Z-14866/83
NPIC/PEG (8/83)
(2 PART GRAPHIC)
AIR/GROUND STRIKE
CANGAMBA AIRFIELD, ANGOLA
(SWN)
2. REMARKS: THE AIRFIELD HAS BEEN RENDERED INOPERABLE. THE
GRADED-EARTH RUNWAY HAS BEEN HEAVILY CRATERED AND ONE CURL HAS
BEEN DESTROYED. SEVERAL SMALLER POSSIBLE SATCHEL CHARGE
CRATERS ARE IN A LINEAR PATTERN ALONG THE CENTER OF THE RUNWAY
AND EXTEND TO BOTH ENDS (GRAPHIC 1). THIS TECHNIQUE OF PLACING
SATCHEL CHARGES ON THE RUNWAY HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH PREVIOUS
UNITA MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST CACO COUTINHO AIRFIELD
AND THE AIRFIELD AT LUPIRE MILITARY AREA
THE SUPPORT AREA AT THE NORTH END OF THE
AIRFIELD HAS ALSO BEEN DESTROYED, AND MOST OF THE VEHICLES
PREVIOUSLY PARKED HERE ARE EITHER ABANDONED OR DESTROYED
(GRAPHIC 2). (SWN)
COLLATERAL INDICATES THAT UNITA FORCES HAVE RECENTLY BEEN
ACTIVE IN MOXICO PROVINCE, AND THAT CANGAMBA WAS ATTACKED
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RECENT SOUTH AFRICAN COMBAT AIRCRAFT DEPLOYMENTS IN NORTHERN
NAMIBIA. FOUR CANBERRA TACTICAL/RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT, FOUR
BUCCANEER STRIKE/ATTACK AIRCRAFT, AND SIX MIRAGE F-1
FIGHTER/BOMBER WERE DEPLOYED TO GROOTFONTEIN AIRFIELD
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AIR ORDER-OF-BATTLE THERE IS NORMAL TODAY. 2oX1
GROOTFONTEIN IS A KEY SOUTH AFRICAN BASE WHICH HAS SUPPORTED
SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY OPERATIONS IN ANGOLA. (SWN)
CANGAMBA AIRFIELD IS IN SOUTHERN MOXICO PROVINCE, 130 NM
EAST-NORTHEAST OF MENONGUE AND 330 NM NORTHEAST OF GROOTFONTEIN
AIRFIELD. (SWN)
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