Guardia Nacional

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The '''Guardia Nacional''' (English: ''National Guard'') is a defunct military agency active in Nicaragua prior to the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution; it is a combination of police, army, and navy in one institution (the air force was made a separate component in 1938). It was originally created in 1927 during the occupation of that country by the United States.
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==Organization==
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As of October 2007 the National Guard has 20,500 personnel (17,000 in active service and 3,500 in reserve) and the Air Force of the National Guard has 1,500 personnel.
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===Active units===
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*1 infantry brigade
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*12 artillery batteries
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*8 antiaircraft batteries
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*2 armored battalions
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*1 motorized infantry battalion
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*1 mechanized infantry battalion
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*1 engineer battalion
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*1 presidential guard battalion
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*4 special forces companies
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===Reserve units===
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*3 infantry battalions
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*1 armored company
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*1 mechanized infantry company
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==Equipment==
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===Small arms===
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*M16 assault rifle
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*IMI Galil assault rifle
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*M14 battle rifle
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*FN FAL battle rifle
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*IMI Uzi submachine gun
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*M1911 semi-automatic pistol
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*M2 Browning heavy machine gun
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*M1919 Browning medium machine gun
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*FN MAG General Purpose Machine Gun
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*M60 General Purpose Machine Gun
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*M72 Light Anti-tank Weapon
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===Artillery===
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*M198 155mm towed howitzer
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*M224 60mm mortar
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===Armored vehicles===
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====Active====
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*M60 Patton Main Battle Tank
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**M60A1 Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge
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**M60 Armored Vehicle Launched MICLIC (Mine-Clearing Line Charge)
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**M60 Panther remotely controlled mine clearing tank
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**M728A1 Combat Engineer Vehicle
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*M48 Patton Main Battle Tank
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**M48A4
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**M48A5
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**M67A2 "Zippo" Flamethrower Tank
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**M88 Hercules Armored Recovery Vehicle
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*M47 Patton Main Battle Tank
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**M47M
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*M103 Heavy Tank
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**M103A1
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**M103A2
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*M41 Walker Bulldog Light Tank
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**M42 Duster SPAAG
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*M551 Sheridan Airborne Reconnaissance Vehicle
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**M551A1 TTS
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**M551 NTC
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*M50 Ontos Tank Destroyer
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*Chaimite Armored Personnel Carrier
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**V-200: APC
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**V-300: Heavy fire support, with 90mm gun
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**V-400: Light fire support, with 20mm cannon
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**V-500: Anti-tank, with Swingfire or HOT missile launcher
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**V-600: Mortar carrier, with 81mm or 120mm mortars
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**V-700: Ambulance
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**V-800: Communications and command vehicle
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**V-900: Armored Recovery Vehicle
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**V-1000: Anti-riot, with water cannon
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*EE-11 Urutu Armored Personnel Carrier
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*EE-3 Jararaca Armored Car
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*EE-9 Cascavel Armored Car
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*RG-31 Charger Multi-purpose Mine-Protected Vehicle
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*M151 MUTT Light Truck
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**M718A1 front-line ambulance variant
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**M151A2 Fast Assault Vehicle
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**M151A2 TOW anti-tank variant
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**M825 106mm recoilless rifle variant
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**M1051 firefighting variant
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**MRC108 Forward Air Control variant
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====Reserve====
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*M4 Sherman Medium Tank
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*M3 Scout Car
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*M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car
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*M3 Half-track Armored Personnel Carrier
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===Support vehicles===
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*M3 amphibious rig
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*M35 2-1/2 ton cargo truck
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*M939 logistical/transport truck
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*Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer
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===Aircraft===
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*A-1 Skyraider attack aircraft
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*A-26 Invader light bomber
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*A-37 Dragonfly light attack aircraft
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*Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano counterinsurgency aircraft
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*C-47 Skytrain transport
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*CASA C-212 Aviocar medium transport
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*de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter STOL utility transport
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*IAI-201 Arava VIP transport
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*Hawker Siddeley HS125 VIP transport
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*Cessna Skymaster civil utility aircraft
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*Cessna 180 light utility aircraft
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*Cessna U-17 liaison aircraft
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*Sikorsky H-34 SAR helicopter
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*Hughes 269 light utility/training helicopter
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*Bell UH-1 Iroquois Iroquois multipurpose utility helicopter
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*Hughes OH-6 light observation helicopter
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*T-33 Shooting Star trainer
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*T-28 Trojan trainer
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===Naval vessels===
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*Patrol Boat, River (PBR)
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*Fast Patrol Craft (PCF)
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[[Category:Military of the Federal Republic of Central America| ]]
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Current revision as of 01:10, 16 January 2014

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