 Complete the following phrase:  Throughout much of the 1970s and 1980s, the development of South Africas military equipment, including the assets of the South African Air Force SAAF, became increasingly influenced by the changes in fortune and demands imposed by the lengthy South African Border War. Having originally been started as a limited-scale counter-insurgency campaign, it progressively escalated into a larger conflict that was being waged across areas of both South-West Africa modern-day Namibia and southern Angola against militants of the Communist-leaning South-West African Peoples Organisation SWAPO. As South African forces came to frequently launch raids into neighbouring Angola, these attacks often provoked armed clashes with the members of the Peoples Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola FAPLA, which was at that time bolstered by the provision of Soviet armaments alongside a sizeable contingent of 