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South African Defense Force

The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the apartheid-era South African military that entered into a formal cooperation agreement with the Israel Defense Forces known as the SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement (SIMWA).

1957–1994 · Pretoria, South Africa

The South African Defense Force (SADF) was the military of South Africa. It entered into a military cooperation agreement with the Israel (IDF) known as SIMWA (SADF-IDF Mutual Wartime Agreement).1

Under SIMWA, if either country faced a shortage of matériel during war or military operations, the other country would provide supplies from its own stockpiles. The SADF also agreed to invest in Israel's nuclear program and provide testing grounds in the Indian Ocean for Israeli nuclear tests.1

  1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩

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