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El Salvador United States: Based on a Dodge M37. Armour kits and turrets purchased from the United States and applied in El Salvador [5] VCT-A1 Infantry fighting vehicle: 1 El Salvador: Armed with two 20mm HS cannons, used as an anti-aircraft vehicle, designed and produced by the Salvadoran Army. VCT-A2 Infantry fighting vehicle: 3 El Salvador
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 first military vehicle ever produced in El Salvador, the Cashuat was designed by Salvadoran Army Colonel Oswaldo Marenco Carballo (1955 - ) in 1984, with a prototype being built and trialed in-country in February 1985.
The Navy of El Salvador (Spanish: Fuerza Naval de El Salvador) is the naval arm of the Armed Forces of El Salvador.The navy was founded on 12 October 1951. [2]Built around craft and duties absorbed from the Salvadoran Coast Guard, the navy is primarily composed of patrol boats tasked with coastal patrol and fishery protection. [3]
On October 15, 1979, the military government was deposed by a joint military-civilian government calling itself the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador (JRG). The JRG's policies were met with opposition from the military and economic elites and government repression increased, with tens of thousands of civilians being killed in 1980 ...
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The Salvadoran Army Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea de El Salvador, abbreviated FAS) was formed on 20 March 1923 during a period of heavy interest in aviation in El Salvador. In 1947, after signing the treaty of Rio (which was a mutual defense treaty among the states of America including the U.S. ), El Salvador gained a new US air mission and ...
The Salvadoran Civil War was a military conflict that pitted the guerrilla forces of the left-wing Marxist-oriented Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) against the armed and security forces loyal to the military-led conservative government of El Salvador, between 1979 and 1992.