South Africa employing Gripens to track rhinoceros poachers

At the annual meeting of the Swedish Air Force Fan Club in Paris on Jun. 18, the commanding officer of South African Air Force 2 Squadron told attendees that his unit’s Gripens are tasked with searching for rhinoceros poachers near the Zimbabwe border.

Saab JAS-39C Gripen '3920 - 20' (16874435905)
By Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK (Saab JAS-39C Gripen ‘3920 / 20’) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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