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The Angolan Armed Forces (Portuguese: Forças Armadas Angolanas) or FAA is the military of Angola. The FAA consist of the Angolan Army (Exército Angolano), the Angolan Navy (Marinha de Guerra Angolana) and the National Air Force of Angola (Força Aérea Nacional de Angola). Reported total manpower in 2021 was about 107,000. [2]
In 1990–91, the Army had ten military regions and an estimated 73+ 'brigades', each with a mean strength of 1,000 and comprising inf, tank, APC, artillery, and AA units as required. [5] The Library of Congress said in 1990 that '[t]he regular army's 91,500 troops were organized into more than seventy brigades ranging from 750 to 1,200 men ...
People's Army for the Liberation of Angola [4] General de exército: Coronel general: Tenente-general: Mayor-general: Coronel: Tenente-coronel: Mayor: Capitão: 1º ...
Name Origin Type Quantity Notes 2S1 Gvozdika: Soviet union 122 mm self-propelled gun: 9+ [3] 2S3 Akatsiya: Soviet Union 152 mm self-propelled gun 4 [3]: 2S7 Pion: Soviet Union 203 mm self-propelled gun
Army general Armando da Cruz Neto: 2001 2003 1–2 years [3] 3 Army general Agostinho Fernandes Nelumb: 2003 2006 2–3 years [3] 4 Army general Francisco Pereira Furtado (born 1958) 2006 2010 3–4 years [3] [4] 5 Army general Geraldo Nunda (born 1952) 6 October 2010 23 April 2018 7 years, 199 days [5] [6] 6 Army general António Egídio de ...
The National Air Force of Angola (FANA; Portuguese: Força Aérea Nacional de Angola) is the air force branch of the Angolan Armed Forces. With an inventory of more than 300 aircraft, FANA is (on paper) one of the largest and strongest air forces of Africa .
Artur Nunes (17 December 1950 – 27 May 1977) was an Angolan musician, composer, and activist. In his time, Nunes was one of the most influential voices and composers in the pre-independence days of revolutionary Angola.
The FAPLA and UNITA armies began the integration process, but it was halted, as UNITA returned to war following their loss of the 1992 Angolan general election. The army was renamed the Angolan Armed Forces (Portuguese: Forças Armadas Angolanas (FAA)), losing the close nominal association with the MPLA.