Basic Training: American

 Notes: Argentina has a fairly large, wellequipped military. Their defeat in the Falklands was not a result of lack of bravery or combat ability, although most of the troops on the islands were reservists and conscripts of relatively low standards and morale.

Update courtesy Charles Doty and Scott Steinmetz.

 ARMY

 Equipment:

• FMK Submachine Guns (as Uzi, w/40 round magazine)
• FNFAL Battle Rifle
• FNMAG Machine Gun
• M1911 Pistol
• AMX30 Main Battle Tank
• EBR90 Armored Car
• AMX-13 Light Tank/Tank Destroyer
• TH301 Light Tank
• Cobra ATGM (Similar to Soviet AT3.  Obsolete, but apparently still in use)
• M113 Infantry carrier

 Army Special Forces:

IV Airborne Brigade - Airborne

 Commandos - Raider table

 Navy:

 Notes:

 No Seabees

 Diesel-electric Submarines only - no nuclear power.

 Naval Aviation uses only helicopters and landbased aircraft. Use Air Force career tables. (Their old aircraft carrier has been retired...). Pilots rolling "Strike" on aircraft table fly "Super Etendards", a naval strike plane equipped with the Exocet missile.

 Naval Special Forces:

Infanteria de Marina - Marines

 Marine Amphibious Commandos -Naval Raiders (Better known as "Buzos Tacticos")

 Air Force:

 Aircraft Used

• Mirage V and Dagger Fighter/Bombers
• Mirage III Interceptors
• IA-58 Pucara and A-4 Skyhawk attack planes
• C-130 Transport
• Boeing 707 Transport
• Fokker F-27 Transport
• Fokker F-28 Transport
• Ch-47 Chinook Heavy Helocopter
• UH-1D/H Utility Helocopter
• Allouette II light Helocopter
• Hughes 369 (equivelent yo the MD500, roughly)

For air defense, the Argentinan Air force relies on flak guns (20mm and
35mm) and a towed variant of the Roland II.
 

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