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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.
| + | yNVLdl wow, awesome blog article. Great. |
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| - | KzfYII Say, you got a nice article post. Cool.
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| - | bys5pk Really informative blog post.Thanks Again. Will read on...
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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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yNVLdl wow, awesome blog article. Great.
