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
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.
Active units
- 1 infantry brigade
- 12 artillery batteries
- 8 antiaircraft batteries
- 2 armored battalions
- 1 motorized infantry battalion
- 1 mechanized infantry battalion
- 1 engineer battalion
- 1 presidential guard battalion
- 4 special forces companies
Reserve units
- 3 infantry battalions
- 1 armored company
- 1 mechanized infantry company
Equipment
Small arms
- M16 assault rifle
- IMI Galil assault rifle
- M14 battle rifle
- FN FAL battle rifle
- IMI Uzi submachine gun
- M1911 semi-automatic pistol
- M2 Browning heavy machine gun
- M1919 Browning medium machine gun
- FN MAG General Purpose Machine Gun
- M60 General Purpose Machine Gun
- M72 Light Anti-tank Weapon
Artillery
- M198 155mm towed howitzer
- M224 60mm mortar
Armored vehicles
Active
- M60 Patton Main Battle Tank
- M60A1 Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge
- M60 Armored Vehicle Launched MICLIC (Mine-Clearing Line Charge)
- M60 Panther remotely controlled mine clearing tank
- M728A1 Combat Engineer Vehicle
- M48 Patton Main Battle Tank
- M48A4
- M48A5
- M67A2 "Zippo" Flamethrower Tank
- M88 Hercules Armored Recovery Vehicle
- M47 Patton Main Battle Tank
- M47M
- M103 Heavy Tank
- M103A1
- M103A2
- M41 Walker Bulldog Light Tank
- M42 Duster SPAAG
- M551 Sheridan Airborne Reconnaissance Vehicle
- M551A1 TTS
- M551 NTC
- M50 Ontos Tank Destroyer
- Chaimite Armored Personnel Carrier
- V-200: APC
- V-300: Heavy fire support, with 90mm gun
- V-400: Light fire support, with 20mm cannon
- V-500: Anti-tank, with Swingfire or HOT missile launcher
- V-600: Mortar carrier, with 81mm or 120mm mortars
- V-700: Ambulance
- V-800: Communications and command vehicle
- V-900: Armored Recovery Vehicle
- V-1000: Anti-riot, with water cannon
- EE-11 Urutu Armored Personnel Carrier
- EE-3 Jararaca Armored Car
- EE-9 Cascavel Armored Car
- RG-31 Charger Multi-purpose Mine-Protected Vehicle
- M151 MUTT Light Truck
- M718A1 front-line ambulance variant
- M151A2 Fast Assault Vehicle
- M151A2 TOW anti-tank variant
- M825 106mm recoilless rifle variant
- M1051 firefighting variant
- MRC108 Forward Air Control variant
Reserve
- M4 Sherman Medium Tank
- M3 Scout Car
- M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car
- M3 Half-track Armored Personnel Carrier
Support vehicles
- M3 amphibious rig
- M35 2-1/2 ton cargo truck
- M939 logistical/transport truck
- Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer
Aircraft
- A-1 Skyraider attack aircraft
- A-26 Invader light bomber
- A-37 Dragonfly light attack aircraft
- Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano counterinsurgency aircraft
- C-47 Skytrain transport
- CASA C-212 Aviocar medium transport
- de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter STOL utility transport
- IAI-201 Arava VIP transport
- Hawker Siddeley HS125 VIP transport
- Cessna Skymaster civil utility aircraft
- Cessna 180 light utility aircraft
- Cessna U-17 liaison aircraft
- Sikorsky H-34 SAR helicopter
- Hughes 269 light utility/training helicopter
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois Iroquois multipurpose utility helicopter
- Hughes OH-6 light observation helicopter
- T-33 Shooting Star trainer
- T-28 Trojan trainer
Naval vessels
- Patrol Boat, River (PBR)
- Fast Patrol Craft (PCF)
