Hawk acquisition update
Date: 30 October 2007
The Defence Portfolio Committee received a briefing by Armscor today on the Armscor 2006/7 Annual Report.
A question regarding the status of the Hawk program was asked.
Mr Sipho Mkwanazi, Acting General Manager: Acquisition, ARMSCOR, responded that there were supposed to be 24 aircraft delivered, but at the time of writing the report, only eight had been delivered. The ones delivered were brought in with operational capability baseline 1 (OC1) and they would be finally upgraded to operational capability 3 (OC3). He said that some would be delivered at operational capability 2, and two would be put aside to be upgraded to OC3. This process had no extra financial implications because it was a contractual matter.
Source: Parliamentary Monitoring Group
