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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 ...
Cuba: IMR Soviet Union (Not yet seen in original configuration. Several converted to a yet unknown role). [15] PT-76B Transporter-Loader Cuba (For the S-125 SAM). [14] Tank Destroyers 9M14 Malyutka Soviet Union: unknown 100mm C-AP-AT-BMP-100 Cuba: Towed Artillery 57mm ZiS-2 Anti-tank Gun Soviet Union: unknown 76mm ZiS-3 Anti-Tank Gun (Not yet ...
Back in Cuba, Castro feared a US-backed coup; in 1959 his regime spent $120 million on Soviet, French, and Belgian weaponry and by early 1960 had doubled the size of Cuba's armed forces. [187] Fearing counter-revolutionary elements in the army, the government created a People's Militia to arm citizens favourable to the revolution, training at ...
In 1990, Cuba's Air Force was the best equipped in Latin America. During this time, the Cuban Air Force imported approximately 230 fixed-wing aircraft. Although there is no exact figure available, Western analysts estimate that at least 130 (with only 25 operational) [ 9 ] of these planes are still in service spread out among the thirteen ...
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 ...
Juanita Castro co-wrote her memoirs and the history of the Castro family, ‘Fidel and Raúl, mis Hermanos, la historia secreta’ (Fidel and Raúl, my brothers, the secret history (Aguilar, 2009 ...
Granma is a yacht that was used to transport 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 to overthrow the regime of Fulgencio Batista.The 60-foot (18 m) diesel-powered vessel was built in 1943 by Wheeler Shipbuilding of Brooklyn, New York, as a light armored target practice boat, US Navy C-1994, and modified postwar to accommodate 12 people.
The Alejandro is a bolt-action precision rifle used by all branches of the Cuban Armed Forces. [2] Its design started towards the end of 2001 and the beginning of 2002, and it fires the 7.62×54mmR cartridge fed from an internal magazine with a capacity of 8 rounds.