 He was granted citizenship by an Act of Congress.Another early success for SRC was the sale of 30,000 artillery shells, gun barrels, and plans for the GC-45 howitzer to Armscor of Pretoria, South Africa.The South African Defence Force's arsenal of vintage howitzers - antiquated by the arms embargo - had been outperformed by BM-21 Grads during "Operation Savannah" in 1975.