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Cuba: Mambi AMR: 14.5×114mm: Bullpup Anti-materiel rifle Cuba: Rocket propelled grenade launchers RPG-2 [1] 40mm Rocket-propelled grenade Soviet Union: RPG-7 [1] 40mm Rocket-propelled grenade Soviet Union: Grenades RGD-5: Hand grenade Soviet Union Cuba: F-1: Hand grenade Soviet Union Cuba: Grenade launchers AGS-17 [1] 30×29mm Automatic ...
The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias; FAR) are the military forces of Cuba.They include Revolutionary Army, Revolutionary Navy, Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force, and other paramilitary bodies including the Territorial Troops Militia (Milicias de Tropas Territoriales – MTT), Youth Labor Army (Ejército Juvenil del Trabajo – EJT), and the ...
When the Cuban Revolution overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista at the end of 1958, the new government led by Fidel Castro inherited most of the aircraft and equipment of the old regime, which was supplemented by the aircraft of the revolutionaries own Fueza Aérea Rebelde, [a] to form the new Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (FAR).
Cuba supplied the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola rebels with weapons and soldiers along with tanks to fight as the Cuban military would fight alongside the MPLA in major battles. [16] [17] [18] The arrival of the T-55 tanks in 1963 allowed Castro to send many of the older T-34-85 tanks to the conflict in Angola in 1975. All of ...
Cold War military equipment of Cuba (1 C, 3 P) S. Naval ships of Cuba (6 C) W. Weapons of Cuba (1 C) Pages in category "Military equipment of Cuba"
Cuba’s military created Almest in 1994 to “provide real estate and leasing services to entities of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces” and act as “principal investor” for ...
The Cuban Navy today operates its own missile systems, the made-in-Cuba Bandera (a copy of the dated Styx Soviet missiles) and Remulgadas anti-ship missile systems, as well as the nationally produced Frontera self-propelled coastal defence multiple rocket launcher. The navy's principal threats are drug smuggling and illegal immigration.
The Cuban Revolutionary Army (Spanish: Ejército Revolucionario) serve as the ground forces of Cuba. Formed in 1868 during the Ten Years' War, it was originally known as the Cuban Constitutional Army. Following the Cuban Revolution, the revolutionary military forces was reconstituted as the national army of Cuba by Fidel Castro in 1960.