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Abraham Gubler said:Kadija_Man said:What I was referring more to was the recent post about a Plessey Radar. Then we have numerous mentions of MAN and the Spanish truck company. I wonder if there is a statute of limitations on sanctions busting?
Must of this stuff wasn't against the UN embargo because trucks could be transferred for civil use and radars for ATC. The acquisition of dual use material was a legal method the RSA used to get past the embargo.
Plus somehow I doubt that this forum is breaking news about RSA sanction busting efforts.
Indeed.
Plessey SA has been going for over 50 years.
Many Plessey products are and were used in SA for the control of Civil Aviation.
If a company or entity buys something, and then sells it a few years later, that's just the simple marketplace.
As mentioned MAN have had an assembly plant in SA since 1962.
There are/were plenty of local heavy industry manufacturers anyway, either making local products, licence produced components, or assembling imported components into indigineous platforms.
Truckmakers, TFM, ADE etc to name just a few.
ADE engines for example were used on commercial trucks, including Nissan, in the civil marketplace too.
Sanctions are often a sham in many ways in any event, very often contrary to commercial interests and political needs.
From what I can gather, the US, and others, made good use of information supplied by Silvermine and other tracking facilities in SA.