Tell me about the Portuguese Wars in Africa, /k/ friends.

>>30102785
Lots of tracking, and lots of torching villages.

I specialize more on Rhodesia and South Africa but a good book to read is The Terroir Fighters.

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>>30102785
Basically, Tugas sent paratroopers and marines overseas to Guinea, Angola and Mozambique in order to fight communist guerrillas funded by chinese and soviets.

Angola and Mozambique were the bigger problems, after years of war, there was a coup on the Portuguese junta leader Salazar by a center-left wing group, that ordered all troops back and gave independence to the countries, thus whichever militia controlled the capital city by the independence date would be the legitimate government, in Angola we had the west-aligned UNITA and FNLA, and the combloc-aligned FAPLA.

Later in the war, FNLA would be wiped out, and in order to hold things, South Africa would deploy the SADF to aid UNITA during the Border War, in Mozambique the combloc-aligned Frelimo guerrilla controlled the nation after the Portuguese coup, then underground resistance worked with Rhodesian SAS on some ops to attack the communists.

Eventually, with almost zero western support, UNITA would give up the armed fight to become a political party and ultimately end around 2002. SADF pulled out of Angola after the Cuito Cuanavale due to political pressure and the N embargo, not the mention their own problems with Mandela and his terrorists.

Not very different to Rhodesia's story, basically west-aligned colonialism and resistance fighters fighting terrorists and governments back by China, those same communists that now run those countries and just let China get all their natural resources as a form of "payment" for the help they gave during the war.

Probably the only time the AR-10 was ever fielded.

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>>30102868
Portuguese army gave old surplus Mausers to friendly locals in all countries.

Their main battle rifle was the G3, but Marines used the FAL and Paratroopers used the AR-10.
They also fielded MG42s and later MG3s, used some old T-6 Texan aircraft for CAS and their cavalry consisted mostly of Panhard AML60s and AML90s, oh, and some old M5 Stuarts.

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>>30102892
Some war songs and videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy9mQq3M2_U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOpqcUBzBXc

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My great uncle (in this picture) was one of the first going to Angola.

He died when his jeep went over a mine.

His son then went to Guine later in the war and came back all full of PTSD and the only thing he tells me about the war was that black pussy is warmer than white pussy and that he player soccer with the heads of the killed Rebels.

Oh he also had a shit ton of grenades that he took from the army and used to blow them up in the woods near our house.

>>30102868
>only time the AR-10 was ever fielded
how did it perform?

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>>30102964
Tuga por aqui? Interessante, não sabia que haviam alguns, vocês tem leis de armas por ai? Teu tio parece um cara legal por ter levado as granadas, saudações de sua ex-colônia latina.

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>>30102983
Apparently, good enough for most Special Ops, Recon and Paratroopers to love and adopt it, trading their old G3s and FALs for it, they used to call it "espingarda Armalite", from what I've read on some reports they were kinda rare and in limited number too.

>>30102921
What's that machine gun?

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>>30103004
Breda M37, some old MGs were fielded by the early years and were attached to old trucks and pickups.

You can read about the armaments here, it's pretty complete:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Colonial_War#Armament_and_tactics

>>30102785
How did Portugal last so long in Africa but get kicked out almost immediately in Goa?

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>>30103028
Flecha Commando with a captured AK.

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>>30103037
Short answer: Salazar refused to give back colonies, Portugal relied a lot on their colonies for having ports around the globe and resources, I don't blame them for that.

>>30102983
They loved it, paratroopers and helicopter troops thought they were fantastic and accurate rifles. Does anyone have the photo of the AR-10 with ammunition next to it spelling out I owe my life to you in Portuguese?

>>30103037
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it was probably due to it being closer Portugal and other colonies as well as higher morale, and the Indian army at that time had been trained to a British standard and the constant fighting with Sikh nationalists, Pakistan, and border skirmishes with the Chinese as well as being armed with British equipment of the time. Also if you look at the strength of the Portuguese and their actual causalities, it seems like the forces in Goa didn't intend on fighting till the death like Salazar intended.

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>>30103072
Right here.

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>>30103078
This one says:

In you I trusted. Thank you.

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>>30103078
I didn't had this one, thanks, there was also a G3 one.

On pic, german weapons that were captured by soviets during WW2 then fielded to communists guerrillas as form of support and technically not screaming soviet support, they did it a lot in African Wars.

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>>30103086

>>30103078
>>30103075
My aesthetic goals. There's a beautiful scene in the Italian documentary Africa Addio, which is a short segment on a Portuguese outpost on the coast of either Angola or Mozambique. >>30103086
Didn't the Portuguese colonial forces themselves field a lot of German surplus as well?

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>>30103097
Yes, during the early years they fielded Karabiners, MG13s and MG42s a lot, and some Donier planes, Portugal purchase a lot of weapons from Germany in the 30s.

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>>30103114
And later, HK21s.

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>>30103126
Not sure about this one, can anyone identify?

>>30103114
>>30103126
Any other odd combinations of firearms? Since Europe and Africa were awash with the tools of war, did anything rather unique end up in Portuguese service?

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>>30103167
Vampires, maybe, not sure if they got any engagements anywhere else, but here they were limited to CAS, since the enemy never had any air.

Other unusual, but not really unique combations were M20 Super Bazookas, MP 34s, FBP m/948 and Uzis.

>>30103164
Madsen LMG, Danish light machine gun made in almost any caliber and sold to anyone.

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>>30103167
>>30103191
And some HK G1 variants among other FN FALs.

Sorry for the small res, but I'm pretty sure those are G1s being used by the Marines.

>>30103126
>m'senhora

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>>30103210
Oh, I was gonna risk saying some Vz variant, but you're right. Probably in 8mm Mauser or .308, just like the ones used by some Brazilian police.

>>30103072
>it seems like the forces in Goa didn't intend on fighting till the death like Salazar intended

That would have been a complete waste I guess. Perhaps it would have invoked some sympathy in the African campaigns, although those were also doomed to fail.

>>30103228
The Danish company Madsen was eager to sell to almost anyone, their bolt action rifle, the M47, was advertised as avaliable in any caliber you wanted. It's a shame they went under, the M50 box SMG of theirs is the concept of the Sten perfected, and the Madsen LMG is essentially a F/A Martini Henri action, upside down. It was also the earliest LMG and had a very good reputation, seeing widespread use up until, now with those BOPE units.

>>30103263
That and, a small colony far, far away from home against Indira Gandhi, or colonies closer to home, supported by South Africa and Rhodesia, against small insurgencies. I doubt anyone was going to support the Portuguese in Goa, and the then brand new state of India was in a very interesting position, neither being aligned with the west or the east.

>>30102913
So what happened there? Friendly fire or something?

Não sou eu

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>>30103037
Goa had a small force of colonial troopers, Portugal couldn't get supplies there, and the Indian air force was chock full of British officers/trainers at the time, airpower made the difference

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>>30103733
wierdly familiar

>>30103063
He should have traded the colony for permanent basing rights and a consulate

>>30103770
That and at that time, you didn't fuck with Indria Gandhi. Probably one of the scariest women in history.

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>>30103702
Eu vi o que fez ai.

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>>30103648
Care to identify the submachine on the topleft above he G3A4

>>30104561
>belt fed FAL

>>30102921
What the fuck is the point of a gay little hat like that

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>>30104626
This is actually a HK21 copy.

>>30104581
Pretty sure its a FBP m/948

>>30104626
Its an HK21 newfag.

Lurk HARDER.

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I want to drive an AML60.

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Successful use of cavalry was pretty interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoons_of_Angola

>In 1966, the Portuguese Army created an experimental horse platoon, to operate against the guerrillas in the high grass region of the Eastern Angola. Each soldier of this unit was armed with a G3 assault rifle to use in combat on foot, and with an automatic pistol to use while on horseback. The troops on horseback were able to operate in difficult terrain (unsuited for motor vehicles), were less vulnerable to landmines and had the advantage of being able to control the area around them, with a clear view over the grass (which foot troops did not have). Moreover, these unconventional troops created a psychological impact over the enemy, who were not accustomed to dealing with horse troops and had no kind of training or strategy with which to face them.

>>30104765
>G3 assualt rifle
>assualt rifle
>G3
My jimmies have been rustled

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>>30104959
They really shouldn't be; it was considered an assault rifle when it was first adopted. Intermediate calibers were only pipe dreams in the West at that time.

>>30102868
Actually, Guinea was by far the bigger problem.

>>30102985
Mais que um tuga aqui, as leis de armas aqui são uma completa merda comuna. Claro.

>TFW no guns

>>30105797
This. I have an uncle that was a Comando in Angola, and he says he'd rather lose his left ball than go to Guinea. It was a fucking hell hole.

>>30103049
I Have heard that those Flechas were some of the best comandos they had.