Salvadoran Coast Guard and Aerial and Maritime Police
By Julio A. Montes We visited Navy Captain Omar Iván Hernández Martínez, Chief of the General Staff of the Salvadoran Naval Force, and Lt. Commander...... Read more.
SHOW REPORT: EXPODEFENSA 2019
Expodefensa: A Hub Linking North and South America By Julio A. Montes Expodefensa was held for the first time in 2009 at Corferias International...... Read more.
Tanks, Trucks and Machine Guns
How Multiple Machine Gun Mounts Shaped Wars in Latin America By Julio A. Montes As they overflew the Swan Islands, the 15 C-130s descended to...... Read more.
Preparing for the Olympic Games 2016
ABOVE: The new Sistema Integrado de Monitoramento de Fronteiras (Sisfron), will transforms all aspects of the Brazilian armed forces. Here a trooper demonstrate... Read more.
Machine Gun Armored Patrol Carriers in Central America
ABOVE: In El Salvador, the AML-90 was relegated to perform security escort to artillery units, with an UR-416 traveling alongside — not with mechanized infant... Read more.
Police Small Arms Arsenals in the Northern Central American Triangle
ABOVE: TIGRES operators are trained at Lepaterique, Francisco Morazán, where they attend a 12-week course provided by Colombian police Jungle Commandos, and 7t... Read more.
Portable Anti-Tank Weapons in Mexico & the Northern Central American Triangle
ABOVE: Mexican soldier atop of a Humvee with a RL-83 Blindicide. This is an obsolete AT weapon, but still applicable to the potential threats faced...... Read more.
Infantry Support and Anti-tank Weapons in Latin America: 90mm and 105mm Recoilless Rifles
ABOVE: Salvadorian soldiers parade with M67 RCL. The U.S. supplied some 379 M67 RCLs to El Salvador between 1981 and 1992 to arm the soldiers,...... Read more.
Salvadorian Armed Forces Research & Development Center
During the 12 long years of brutal and bloody internal conflict in the 1980s, military correspondents mentioned the Salvadorian Maestranza countless times. Am... Read more.
Stormy Paraguay
Early last June 2012, news from Paraguay indicated that 321 police agents had been dispatched to Curuguaty. The police officers, supported by a couple of helic... Read more.
