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South African mercenary’s Gazelle helicopter shot down in Mozambique

Patrick Kenyette by Patrick Kenyette
April 10, 2020
in Security
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Multiple reports from Mozambique indicates that one of the South African private military contractors Gazelle helicopter deployed against jihadists in northern Mozambique was shot down this morning.

The Gazelle helicopter was attacked with small arms fire, which apparently damaged the helicopter’s gearbox, thereby forcing it to land. The crew were safely extracted however, there is no information yet on the status of the helicopter.

The Gazelle helicopter belonging to the South African private military contractors and Mozambican Air Force aircraft has conduct several major air attacks on Islamist extremists for a long time.

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For instance, earlier this month, Joseph Hanlon published a photograph showing one of the Gazelle helicopter gunships supposedly used in an attack. The photograph shows a door gunner operating a 20mm cannon mounted in the door of the aircraft.

A door gunner manning a 20mm cannon (Joseph Hanlon)

Mercenaries in Mozambique

Since Mozambique is embroiled in an emerging counter-terror war, the states security forces—the Forças de Defesa e Segurança (FDS)—has proved incapable of dealing with the lightly-armed terrorists in the north.

Mozambique president Maputo began a search for military alternatives. Initially, Erik Prince’s Dubai-based Lancaster Six Group (L6G) private security firm was in competition with Russia’s Wagner private military company (PMC) and Eeben Barlow’s South African Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection International (STTEP) for security contracts in Cabo Delgado, with Prince promising to eliminate the terrorists in three months in return for a share of oil and natural gas revenues.

Although, according to Daily Maverick, Wagner had pulled out of Mozambique in March after failing in its mission and was replaced by South Africa’s private security company Dyck Advisory Group, (DAG) based in South Africa and owned by former Zimbabwean military colonel Lionel Dyck who is believed to be close to Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Dyck Advisory Group, (DAG) operates three helicopters in Cabo Delgado northern coast — one Gazelle gunship, one Bell UH I “Huey” and one Bell 406 Long Ranger — and one fixed-wing Diamond DA42. They joined another Gazelle and a Cessna Caravan fixed-wing personnel carrier which had arrived in Pemba.

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