Eland-90 armoured cars of the Rhodesian Armoured Corps
Type
Coup d'état/Decapitation strike
Commanded by
Peter Walls
Objective
Assassination of ZANU-PF leadership, destruction of ZANLA
Date
14 February 1980 (1980-02-14)
Outcome
Cancelled
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Rhodesian Bush War
First Phase (1964–1972)
Oberholzer murder
Sinoia
Pagoda
Yodel
Nickel
Cauldron
Flotilla
Griffin
Excess
Birch
Alcora Exercise
Panga
Second Phase (1972–1979)
Altena Farm
Whistlefield Farm
St Alberts School
Overload
Victoria Falls
Long John
Eland
Ignition
Hill 31
Aztec
Woolworths bombing
Odzanu Junction Farm
Dingo
Montclair Hotel
Vumba massacre
Flight 825
Snoopy
Gatling
Salisbury
Flight 827
Vanity
Beira
Chamber
Mineral
Placid
Motel
Uric
Miracle
Lancaster House
Quartz
Hectic
Related incidents
Nhari Rebellion
Cashel Helicopter Crash
Beira Patrol
Operation Quartz was a planned military operation to be conducted by the Rhodesian Security Forces against Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF in the event that party lost the Southern Rhodesian general election, 1980. The operation was organized on the assumption ZANU-PF would attempt to violently seize the government should it lose the election. ZANU-PF ultimately won the election and Operation Quartz was never executed.
OperationQuartz was a planned military operation to be conducted by the Rhodesian Security Forces against Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF in the event that...
Security Forces. The plan was designed as an underpinning operation to OperationQuartz. The plan was intended to be used to assassinate Robert Mugabe and...
seriously considered mounting a coup against a perceived stolen election ("OperationQuartz") to prevent ZANU from taking over the country. The alleged coup was...
to consist of two stages: OperationQuartz, coordinated attacks on guerrilla assembly points within the country, and Operation Hectic, the assassination...
United States) Operation Vision (Canadian support to the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala (MINUGUA) in 1997) OperationQuartz (Canadian support...
element. The oscillator frequency is often used to keep track of time, as in quartz wristwatches, to provide a stable clock signal for digital integrated circuits...
Auto-Quartz). The watches had an average monthly rate of ±15 sec and provided 75 hours of continuous operation when fully powered. Early automatic quartz movements...
A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) (also known as quartz microbalance (QMB), sometimes also as quartz crystal nanobalance (QCN)) measures a mass variation...
elements in the white ruling class were plotting a military coup (OperationQuartz) to prevent it from taking control of the government. MRA members sought...
discharge of their cargoes. After V-J Day Quartz was assigned to support "Operation Crossroads", atomic bomb testing. Quartz was part of Task Group 1 and 8, a...
A halogen lamp (also called tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen, and quartz iodine lamp) is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed...
leadership of the black nationalist parties in Operation Hectic. Another, designated OperationQuartz would have involved attacking the insurgents in...
Zambezi Valley Insurgency: Early Rhodesian Bush War Operations (2012), pp. 99; 108. "OperationQuartz – Rhodesia 1980". Archived from the original on April...
thwarted by the arrest of hundreds of officers at Nojeh Air Base. OperationQuartz 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt (also known as 23-F or the Tejerazo):...
Part-Time War (2011 ed.). Fern House. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-902702-25-4. "OperationQuartz – Rhodesia 1980". Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. "Archived...
frequency. This object can be a pendulum, a balance wheel, a tuning fork, a quartz crystal, or the vibration of electrons in atoms as they emit microwaves...
Quartz Composer is a node-based visual programming language provided as part of the Xcode development environment in macOS for processing and rendering...
Black Devils, SOFMAG, 1979 "Brief History of the Rhodesian Army". "OperationQuartz - Rhodesia 1980" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 January...
Kintarō Hattori in Tokyo, Seiko introduced the world's first commercial quartz wristwatch in 1969. Seiko is widely known for its wristwatches. Seiko and...
from 1942-1944 to supply the Manteca operation. Quartz from White Rock in Mariposa County, supplemented with quartz gravel from the Bear River in Placer...
of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz. Silt may occur as a soil (often mixed with sand or clay) or as sediment...
boiling away the mercury. The mercury method is still used in some small operations. Gold occurs principally as a native metal, i.e., gold itself. Sometimes...
opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized...
the quartz crystal, which acts as a highly selective filter element. The low manufacturing cost of this circuit and the frequency stability of quartz crystals...
generate an oscillating signal of a specific frequency. Like the similar quartz crystal, they are used in oscillators for purposes such as generating the...