SA Armour Museum
Welcome to the Official home page of the
SA Armour Museum
operating hours
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
09:00AM - 14:00PM
Friday
09:00AM - 12:00PM
- We are closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
-Group visits must be arranged 14 days in advance with museum curator WO 1 Wiaan Liebenberg or Maj Dana Swanepoel.
-After hours can be arranged with the museum curator.
Contact details
Museum Manager
Maj Dana Swanepoel
Tel: 051 402 1777
E-mail: saarmourmuseum@gmail.com
Museum Curator
WO 1 Wiaan Liebenberg
Tel: 051 402 1777
Mobile: 083 277 5041
E-mail: armourschool@mweb.co.za
Please Take Note
The Museum will be CLOSED from Thursday, 28 March until Monday, 1 April for the Easter Weekend.
Normal Museum Hours will resume on Tuesday, 2 April.
Medium Turret Technology Demonstrator (MTTD) at Bloem Show
This year, the MTTD will be featured in the SA Armour Museum exhibition, at the Bloem Show. The workshop has commenced preparations and serviceable wheels have been fitted to the MTTD with assistance from the Friends of the Museum.
The MTTD was an independent project to develop and test a new Rooikat turret equipped with a 105 mm high-pressure or 120 mm low-recoil main gun. The remote turret would feature an autoloading system and various other modern technologies.
The loader (left side of the turret) and crew commander (right side of the turret) positions were moved into the hull giving rise to the depressions in the hull on either side of the main gun. The MTTD also features a mockup of an Active Protection System (APS) launcher on the top of the turret. The APS would have increased the survivability of the platform when facing anti-tank missiles.