Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay

Capital: Asuncion

Asuncion is also the largest city with about 680,250 people.

Share borders with Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.

Population of about 6 million people.

02 DEC 2012- A peasant land reform activist is assassinated in Paraguay by two gunmen. One fired a shotgun, the other fired a .38 revolver.

The U.S. sent military aid in 2005 in the form of U.S. Special Forces adivisors.

Dr. Luis Maria Argana International Airport in the town of Mariscal Estigarriba is strategically located between Brazil and Argentina. A large airport built in a small town in the 1980's by U.S. Technicians hired by the dictator of Paraguay at the time, Alfredo Stroessner. The airstrip is larger than the one in the capital, Asuncion. The population of the town is only about 2,000. When U.S. soldiers arrived in 2005, they landed at the Dr. Luis Maria Argana International Airport.

Apparently, the objective of the U.S. sending military advisors to train the military and police forces of Paraguay, was to help the government suppress a growing movement of landless farmers called the Paraguayan Campesino Movement.

Silvio Pettirosi International Airport (SGAS) in Asuncion.

About 10,650 active duty military personnel.
164,500 reserve?
14,800 paramilitary

Much military weapons and equipment has been donated throughout the years by Brazil and Argentina.

Paraguay fought in the War of the Triple Alliance against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay from 1864-1870. Paraguay lost a sizable portion of its male population during the war.

Paraguay Air Force

Fuerza Aerea Paraguay (FAP)

About 1,100 personnel

EMB-312 Tucano trainer/light attack aircraft (3)

CASA C-212 transport aircraft (4)

De Haviland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter utility aircraft

UH-1 helicopters (9)

Helibras HB-350 Esquilo helicopters (3)

The T-33 aircraft were retired from service in 1998.

Small 3 dimensional ELTA radar used by the Air Force

Airborne Brigade

Navy

Armada Paraguaya

Approximately 1,950 personnel (includes 800 naval infantry)

Paraguay is landlocked, but has access to the Atlantic Ocean through the Paraguay River and the Parana River.

34 vessels plus 43 small patrol boats built in Paraguay.

Main naval base at Puerto Saxony in Asuncion

Other naval bases at Bahia, Negra, Ciudad del Este, Encamacion, Salto del Guarta, Ita-Peru

Gunboat (1)
C1 Paraguay

C2 Humaita  (decommissioned?)

Patrol Ships (3)
P01 Capitan Cabral

P04 Teniente Farina

P05 Itaipu

Patrol Boats (21)

Tzu Chiang Class (Taiwanese made) x2
P06 Capitan Ortiz

P07 Teniente Robles

Yhaguy Class (Taiwanese made) x2
P08 Yhaguy
P09 Tebicuary

P07 Class patrol boats x5
LP07
LP08
LP09
LP10
LP11


LP101 Class patrol boats
LP101
LP102
LP103
LP104
LP105
LP106
LP107
LP108

CROQ 15 Class patrol boats. Made by Armacraft of Australia.
LP-201

LP-202
LP-203
LP-204

Landing Craft (3)
EDVP 01
EDVP 02
EDVP 03

Transport Vessel T1 Teniente Herreros

Floating Dock

Tug Boats (4)
R-4
R-5
R-6
R-7

Presidential Yacht

Miscellaneous small craft made in Paraguay
Pira 500 SL
Pira 170 SVX

Pira 240 SVX

Aviacion Naval (Naval Aviation)

Small Cessna aircraft (6)

Helibras HB-350 Esquilo helicopters (2)

Infanteria de Marina

Naval Infantry

Approximately 800 personnel
BIM-1
BIM-2
BIM-3

Comandos Anfibios
Navy Special Forces

Prefectura

Army

Ejercito Paraguay (EP)
Around 7,600 personnel?

M-4 Medium tanks (3)
M-3 Stuart Light Tanks (12)

EE-9 Cascavel armored reconnaissance vehicles (28)

EE-11 Urutu armored personnel carriers (12)

M-2 half tracks with 20mm guns. Donated by Argentina (23)

Unimog trucks

Mercedes Benz trucks

EE-25 trucks

EE-15 trucks

Land Rover Defenders

Chevrolet S-10 pick-up trucks

M-3 37mm anti-tank guns

M-40 106mm recoilless guns

M-18 57mm recoilless guns

M20 75mm recoilless guns?

M20 Super Bazookas?

M-72 LAW light anti-tank rocket launchers

M-120 120mm mortars

81mm Stokes-Brandt mortars

60mm mortars

M-79 grenade launchers

M2HB Browning .50 cal heavy machine guns

Browning M1919 .30 cal machine guns on tripods and on M-4 tanks.

FN MAG machine guns

Negev machine guns

Bren machine guns

Steyr SSG 69 sniper rifles

Taiwanese made T-65K2 assault rifles

G-3 assault rifles

SIG SG 540 assault rifles

M4 carbines

HK MP-5 sub-machine guns

Uzi sub-machine guns

Beretta Model12 sub-machine guns

Madsen 9mm sub-machine guns

Beretta 92 pistols donated by the U.S. in 2009

Browning Hi-Power pistols

Air Defense

Anti-Aircraft unit GAA 13

Bofors L/60 40mm anti-aircraft guns

Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft guns

M-45 quadruple .50 cal machine guns

Artillery

Artillery unit GAC 1-12 with British made QF-25 88mm howitzers (12)

Artillery unit GAC 2-12 with M-101 105mm towed howitzers (17)

Bofors Model 1927/34 75mm (6 total. Donated from Argentina)

Krupp 75mm (12 total donated from Brazil)

Comando de Ingenieria del Ejercito (COMINGE)

Army Engineer Command

Army Special Forces

Regimiento Escolta Presidencial (REP)

Presidential Escort Regiment

Comando Logistico (COMLOG)
Logistics Command

Comando del Comunicaciones de Ejercito (COMCOME)
Army Communications Command



Policia Militar
Military Police

 

Reserves
Reservistas

Policia Nacional

BOPE?

FOPE

Intelligence

Paraguay Armed Forces pictures