The Paramount Group, a privately owned defence and aerospace company, has produced and sold the first military aircraft made in South Africa since the 1980s.
The company said it has won orders for the Mwari, a reconnaissance and precision-strike aircraft, and the first delivery will take place this week after an 11-year development period.
Paramount Group further said aircraft will be supplied to two air forces, saying it can’t yet disclose their identity.
The military aircraft is named Mwari, a word in Zimbabwe’s Shona language that means “the all-knowing, all-seeing deity.”
The company said it is aiming to sell the Mwari across the world where it can be used for counter-insurgency purposes as well as for other applications including maritime surveillance and anti-poaching missions.
The two-pilot aircraft can carry as much as a ton of precision-guided arms and with a lighter load has a range of about 960 kilometres (596 miles).
The wari has an interchangeable pod that allows reconnaissance and other equipment to be swapped out within two hours so that the aircraft can be used for different purposes. | Bloomberg via NewZimbabwe.com
But why use a shona name.for God
They don't speak shona same word different meaning
wangu usanyepere kudzungaira they know very well what the word means.usapenge in which other SA language does the word appear and what is the meaning of "it".its a mockery and evilous f u c k e r y..
SEIKO has a meaning in Shona and also another meaning in Japanese. Saka usatuke vanhu uchiti vari kudzungaira. Unless you know all the South african languages. Look B.e.che in German languages kana uine nharo
don't be crazy the article has already stated that it's from the Shona language.
Tiratidze pacho pakanzi its a Shona word. Zvangonzi it has a meaning in Shona
The world is coming to an end soon you may take it lightly but it's a mockery to the almighty if it is true that this company named the air craft Mwari let's just say it has a different meaning to them than the Shona may mean,therefore the christian community throughout the world must protest this and shows what south Africa is made of in terms of religion it's matter of time take note.
this article was written by Bloomberg...they know their stuff...they would have given us the other meanings of that word.get away intellectual buffoon.
@Biden, ko iwe zvauri kunzi Biden, waaPresident wekuAmerica here?
Ko kugoli zvakuna PASTOR M B O R O saka zvakazonzi izita rechishona here, Jozi haisi Zimbabwe kaaa nhaiwe
don't make silly arguments...the article is clear the name was taken from the Shona language...ok give us the South African meaning of Mwari?muri ana Zuze zvechokwadi🙄🙄🙄