World Military and Police Forces: Bolivia

Bolivia

Capital: La Paz (administrative capital) or Sucre (constitutional capital)

A few dozen HN-5 shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles were loaded on a U.S. cargo plane and flown to the U.S. to be dismantled. This action was carried out without the permission of the president of Bolivia. The people of Bolivia were outraged over the incident. The weapons were purchased in the 1990's.

2006- Bolivia sent soldiers to occupy foreign owned gas companies, and on the 1^st of May (May Day) the gas companies were nationalized.

2006- Two new military bases are to be built in the lowlands of Bolivia. To cost around $22 million. The bases are to station some 2,500 elite soldiers. The bases are most likely being built to watch for any incursions from U.S. forces coming from Paraguay. There are U.S. forces stationed in Paraguay supposedly to train Paraguay military and police forces.

2006- Bolivian president Evo Morales announced that Bolivia would no longer be attending the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly known as the School of the Americas) at Fort Benning, Georgia.

2007- A U.S. embassy official in Bolivia told members of the U.S. Peace Corps volunteers to spy on Cubans and Venezuelans in Bolivia.

APR 2013- The US donates three C-130 transport aircraft, eight UH-1 helicopters, and one King Air airplane to Bolivia for counter drug operations.

01 MAY 2013- Bolivian president Evo Morales seeks to expel the CIA linked U.S.AID, stating that the organization has been used to spy on Bolivia and other nations.

20 DEC 2013- China launches Bolivias first communications satellite. The Tupac Katari (TKSat 1) satellite was launched from a Chinese Long March-3B rocket. The Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) created the satellite. The satellite, Tupac Katari, is named after a Native American resistance leader.

Amachuma satellite control station

55.500 total military personnel

Air Force

Fuerza Aerea Boliviana

4,000 personnel

K-8 trainer/light attack aircraft (6)

AT-6 trainer/light attack aircraft

PC-7 trainer/light attack aircraft

C-130 transport aircraft (3)

PC-6B Turbo Porter transport aircraft

Hughes 500M helicopters
AS.332 Super Puma helicopters

EC-145 helicopters

UH-1 helicopters

Bell 212 helicopters

SA.315 helicopters
R44 helicopters

F-86F Sabre fighter aircraft (retired in 1994)
AT-33N (T-33) trainer/light attack aircraft (retired in 2017)

Fuerza de Tarea Aerea Diablos Rojas
Task Force Red Devils
Search and Rescue (SAR) group that operate UH-1 helicopters?

Task Force Black Devils
Fuerza de Tarea Aerea Diablos Negros
Transport group that operate C-130 aircraft?

FAB personnel

Grupo de Artilleria y Defensa Antiaerea (GADA) Anti-Aircraft Artillery Defense Group
GADA-91
GADA-92
GADA-93
GADA-94
GADA-95
GADA-96
GADA-97

HN-5 shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles

Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft guns

Type 65- Chinese made twin 37mm anti-aircraft guns

Browning M2HB .50 cal. machine guns

Fuerza Naval Boliviana (also called Armada Boliviana)

Bolivian Naval Force

Bolivia is landlocked, but maintains a small navy which operates mainly on Lake Titicaca and on rivers.

Every year in an annual ceremony on the Dia del Mar (Day of the Sea), Bolivia politely asks Chile for its coastal lands back that were lost during the War of the Pacific in 1879-1884.

3,800 personnel

2,000 Naval Infantry

Patrol Boats (43)

Small patrol craft

Piranha assault boats (8)

Transport ship (1)

Hydrocarbon transports (2)

Hospital river boats (3)

Cessna 402 light aircraft (1)

Cessna 206 light aircraft (1)

Divers

Policia Militar (PM)

Military Police

Infanteria de Marina

Naval Infantry

Approximately 2,000 personnel

Black berets?

RPG-7

Type 65 recoilless gun

M-20 Super Bazooka

RPD machine guns

Dragunov SVD sniper rfiles

AK-47/AKM assault rfiles

Fuerza de Tarea Diablos Azules

Task Force Blue Devils

Blue berets

Naval Intelligence

Army

Ejercito Boliviano

20,000 personnel

FV 101 Scorpion light tanks ?

Steyr SK 105 Kurassier light tanks with 105mm gun (36)

EE-9 Cascavel armored reconnaisance vehicles (24)

EE-11 Urutu armored personnel carriers (24)

V-150 Commando armored personnel carriers (10)

M-113 armored personnel carriers (50)

Mowag Roland armored personnel carriers (20)

Shaanxi Baoji Tiger 4x4 light armored vehicles. Donated by China. (37?)

M3 halftrack armored personnel carriers

HMMWV 4x4 wheeled utility vehicles

Tiuna 4x4 wheeled utility vehicles

Bolivian made Koyak (or Kojak) fast assault vehicles (or dune buggies) used by Special Forces

Unimog trucks with small Bolivian made multiple rocket launchers. Still used?

M-101 towed 105mm howitzer (6)

Bofors M-1935 75mm guns (6)

M-116 75mm pack howitzer (10)

LeFH-18 howitzers (World War 2 era German howitzers)

M120 120mm mortars

M30 107mm mortars

M29 81mm mortars

W87 81mm mortars

M224 60mm mortars

HJ-8 anti-tank guided missiles

RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launchers
RL-83 Blindicide anti-tank rocket launchers?

M20 Super Bazooka anti-tank rocket launchers

M-40A1 106mm recoilless guns

M67 90mm recoilless guns

Type 65/87 82mm recoilless guns

M203 under barrel grenade launchers

MM-1 multiple grenade launchers?

M-79 grenade launchers

Type 87 (QLZ-87) 35mm automatic grenade launchers?

Steyr HS-50 sniper/anti-material rifles

Steyr SSG-69 sniper rifles

Dragunov SVD sniper rifles

M2H Browning .50 cal machine guns

M-60 machine guns

FN MAG machine guns

Type 56 light machine guns

FN FAL assault rifles

Type 56 assault rifles

G3 assault rifles

Galil assault rifles

SIG SG 542 assault rifles?

M-16 assault rifles

SA80 assault rifles

Steyr AUG assault rifles

M4 carbines

Uzi sub-machine guns

MAT-49 sub-machine guns

FMK 3 sub-machine guns

Glock 17 pistols

Beretta 92 pistols

M1911 .45 cal pistols

Armored unit wears burgundy berets

Special Forces

Koyak- Bolivian made dune buggies used by Special Forces. May be equipped with heavy weapons such as HJ-8 anti-tank guided missiles, Browning M2HB machine guns or small multiple rocket launchers with 2.7 inch rockets..

RPG-7

RPD machine guns

Galil assault rifles

Night vision goggles

Escuelade Condores- Condors School

Ranger training school
Condors

Camouflage berets