Significant1981

Operation Protea

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Xangongo · Ondjiva · southern Angola · Ongiva

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Major SADF mechanised incursion into Cunene province against SWAPO and FAPLA that destroyed Soviet equipment and killed a senior Soviet adviser.

Belligerents3

South Africa
Angola
SWAPO

Conflict graph

PART OFSouth African Border War

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Operation Protea (1981). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-protea · Sources & methodology