South Africa’s Paramount and Namibia’s Windhoeker Maschinenfabrik (WMF) are currently engaged in armoured vehicle trials in India. A photo has emerged showing a Paramount Mbombe 4 armoured personnel carrier and Maverick internal security vehicle alongside a WMF Werewolf undergoing trials in India near Ladakh late last month. Read More

The Namibia Defence Force (NDF) is believed to be testing a Chinese copy of the US High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), commonly known as the Humvee, amid indications that the army intends to acquire it to boost its vehicle fleet. Read More

The Namibia Defence Force (NDF) has ordered 141 Marrua utility vehicles from Brazil’s Agrale, with deliveries already underway. Agrale sales director Flavio Crosa said in a release late last month that several Marruas were sent to Namibia in 2013 for demonstration purposes and that the Namibia Defence Force ordered the vehicle due to its robust…

Namibian company Windhoeker Maschinenfabrik (WMF) is busy developing a 6×6 armoured recovery vehicle and an 8×8 armoured vehicle and has put its new Mk III armoured personnel carrier into production. Magarete van Niekerk, the Sales and Marketing representative for Windhoeker Maschinenfabrik, told defenceWeb that the Mk II vehicle underwent testing last year, including blast tests…