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In 1989, the armed forces of El Salvador had raised 56,000 fighting men with 63 aeroplanes and 72 helicopters. [5]: 11 Between 1983 and 1987, El Salvador's military forces received over 100 million dollars per year from the US. [24] In 1990, at the end of the Cold War, the US restricted funding to the Salvadoran military. The US found its ...
The Salvadoran Army (Spanish: Ejército Salvadoreño) is the land branch and largest of the Armed Forces of El Salvador. History. The Football War The ...
El Salvador: Armed with two HS 404 20mm cannons in a 360° turret and a 7.62mm M60 or FN MAG machine gun or a 12.7x99mm M2 Browning as a secondary weapon, it is used as a tank hunting vehicle, vehicle anti-aircraft and armored personnel carrier. BC7A1 Armoured personnel carrier: 4 El Salvador: Armed with two HS 404 20mm cannons. Also used as ...
On 6 May 2013, in celebration of the 189th anniversary of the Armed Forces of El Salvador, the Salvadoran Government announced the planned purchase of 10 A-37 aircraft from Chile. [2] A four-engined Douglas DC-6B provided long-range logistical capability between 1975 and its retirement in 1998.
The U.S. arrested Salvadoran retired military officer Roberto Antonio Garay Saravia, for his alleged involvement in El Salvador's El Mozote massacre.
According to the Salvadoran Armed Forces, the helicopter crashed in the Pasaquina district, in the southeast of the country near the border with Honduras. The total number of people in the ...
Taliban forces capture Kabul on August 15, 2021, and overthrow the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Re-establishment of the Taliban-run Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Panjshir Province held out against the Taliban for 3 weeks after Kabul was conquered but ended up also being conquered by the Taliban
Security forces from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Friday to reinforce a multinational mission tasked with tackling the country’s rampant gang violence, the Haitian National ...