So which Latin American Nation has the best Armed Forces, Jow Forums? Give your reason as to why they are the best.
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William Turner
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Benjamin Cruz
Quite possibly Cuba. They sent expeditionary forces all over Africa during the Cold War to support communist insurgencies, and they did the same (when allowed) in Latin America. Not to say they're particularly competent, but for a communist Latin state, they've sent troops all over the place, including Venezuela these days.
Brazil might also be a contender due to how much richer it is than other countries in its region. They had a hand-me-down aircraft carrier for some time, though it's currently decommissioned iirc.
Zachary Brown
Argentinio. That's all..
Thomas Smith
Venezuela. They stand firm against the U.S imperialism in these trying times.
Ryan Allen
Nice joke, I almost laughed.
Ethan Lopez
Chile. Best trained and equipped force down there, they have Leopard 2s and F-16s and regularly train with US forces.
David Hernandez
Not Mexico, and Im saying this as mexican nationalist.
Henry Powell
California
Noah Wilson
>posts propaganda video of ultra corrupt government for dumb retards
I guess you'll cling to that last victory against third worlders for the next 100 years huh
Brayden Gomez
>not recognizing blatant satire
Come on man
Joseph Fisher
Chile probably, after all their military was built up by Prussian immigrants.
Ryder Green
Cornudo.
Owen Wright
As an offensive military, sure, but if anyone ever invaded Mexico, the resulting insurgency would be fucking brutal.
Parker Rivera
Columbia. They're the only beaner military that has actually beaten anything in living memory except the ragtags led by Subcomandante Marcos.
Michael Gray
The EZLN. Even after almost thirty years, the Mexican Government is still coping.
Jeremiah Thomas
They’re definitely one of the more effective left-wing militias in Latin America. Not sure how well they’d fare if Mexico had anything resembling an effective government, though.
Andrew Hall
>They’re definitely one of the more effective left-wing militias in Latin America
Don't forget they aren't condemned like all the others as well. And have improved the lives of their people.
Brody Scott
Yup, Chile is very well equipped, I'd say it's one of the best countries down there
And yes, sadly (Also mexican)
Lucas Gomez
Watch all the gringos masturbate over a group of indios with rifles anda white leader
Noah Collins
That’s fair to some extent. The whole Zapatista movement has a lot of history of stealing from not just the rich but middle class farmers as well, though. At least they don’t seem to outright murder farmers like FARC does/did.
Austin Peterson
>Unironically calling Colombia ''Columbia''
Brandon Carter
They probably have one of the more combat-effective militaries on the continent, due to the long history of internal policing between cartels and commie insurgents. Along with their relatively close alliance with the US, they’re probably a contender.
Aiden Perry
The Parceros have won Fuerzas Commando for like...7 years straight? maybe more
Kayden Phillips
F-16's are shit.
Angel Jones
They seem to preform quite well for an ostensibly budget aircraft. They’re no F-15, but there isn’t really anything in its price range that can reliably outclass it.
Aaron Morgan
Argentina they fought the British.
Juan Young
They also lost, and the military has only gotten worse since the 80’s and the collapse of the military junta.
Asher Brown
Then Mexico. They defeated the French.
Henry Gonzalez
I think they’re talking about the current situation in Latin America, not historical precedent. Really, it’s either Colombia, Brazil, Cuba, or Chile.
Luis Cook
Brazil - Largest military in Latin America, largest budget (11th largest budget globally), all around decently equipped
Colombia - One of the largest militaries in Latin America, some experience fighting drug and cartel groups in its jungles, close ties to US, receives training and equipment from US occasionally, 2nd largest budget.
Chile - Well equipped and trained, btfo'd Peru and Bolivia by itself and cock blocked Bolivia from the Pacific
William Diaz
I agree with all of those points, but it’s worth noting that Cuba has been the only one to expeditionarily deploy before, despite their small size. (Ignoring Brazil’s somewhat trivial involvement in WWII)
Elijah Scott
That's true and Cuba is definitely in the top 10. Although most of its past deployments were done with logistical aid from the USSR, today that capability along with its aging equipment is far more limited without that aid anymore.
Adam Morgan
Colombia has the best infantry out of sheer experience. They have shit mechanization outside of US maintained Blackhawk helicopters for ‘Nam style raids, the mountainous terrain makes it hard to build infrastructure rated for anything larger than 5 ton vehicles.
The airforce is built around counterinsurgency with mostly Tucanos. They do have a handful of Mirages and Kifrs that exist in inventory mainly for flybys, but we’re in a terrible state of repair, as demonstrated during a period of war tensions with Ecuador and Venezuela a decade ago, they freaked out and got in a mad rush to Israel and France to secure spare parts to make their jets fully operational. I wonder if they can nigger rig sidewinders onto their Tucanos in order to be able to missile spam Venezuelan jets.
Ecuador and Peru have a decent selection of NATO and Combloc gear, Ecuador in particular got 5,000 Type 56s as aid after an earthquake a few years ago, and supposedly bought out Tapco’s entire supply of FAL furniture. Peru is equipped with mostly slavshit while fighting against Shining Path, but they had a brief war with Ecuador in 1995 in which they were shooting down each other’s Hinds with Iglas, a repeat of that conflict would be very interesting given the improvements to infrastructure they have had since then.
The decline of Argentina is a bummer since Chile has kept itself up to date like has written, but no regional rival to conduct an arms race with.
Levi Powell
Have some pride in your nation you cucks.
Jayden Morales
Colombia
Mexico
Peru
all in that order.
>Colombia
Fought against the FARCS , Nacros and also Narcoterrorism, experts in guerrilla and jungle warfare.
>Peru
Although they lost the CENEPA war against Ecuador, their main focus was to defeat the MRTA and Shining Path terrorists groups rising up on the Andes and Amazons. Although Montesinos and Fujimori got indicted for human rights violations, the dudes where so fucking based that they not only threw commies out helicopters but also drowned them and even killed them with death squads on their own festivities and parties. They also led Operation Chavin De Huantar on national television live and succeeded beautifully.
>Mexico
Theyve been battling Los Zetas for decades and the Sinaloan Cartel. Enough said.
Eli Murphy
I have pride in my nation, but the gubmint is a fucking piece of shit that doesn't care about its armed forces, at this point the Federal police and state police agencies are better equipped
Nathan Powell
>Brazilian Navy fell for the ACU meme
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Hunter Scott
>Ecuador in particular got 5,000 Type 56s as aid after an earthquake a few years ago
wat
Jose James
>at this point the Federal police and state police agencies are better equipped
which makes sense, they actually need it. mexico doesn't need a well equipped army, that's why they don't even have tanks. no real enemies outside of mexico, no interest in foreign intervention.
Nicholas Butler
True, yet they still have the army on the streets
Connor Bailey
Brazil has the best artillery of the continent by far.
Counting with astros and they also received a fuckload of M109 from the US milsurp, which were updated to the A5+ version.
Carter Reed
>they lost the CENEPA
so this is how Ecuadorians sleep at night
we moped the floor with the Ecuadorian army, however, at the end of the war we acknowledged them a miserable 1km of worthless amazonian land but without actual Ecuadorian sovereignty (lmao) so they could stop bitching and mourn their fallen soldiers there, the Ecuadorian government (their independent journalists have a different view) somehow see this as a victory of their part even though not even an inch of the disputed land was gained by Ecuador, all went to Peru
Matthew Cooper
I see you're still coping Peru.
Oliver Perry
This. It proved that not all Socialist militias are evil and that they can do some good.
Noah Torres
Guacamole camo
Nathan Wilson
If the gringos had adopted it you wouldn't call it that
Ironically, the army's old boots were called guacamole boots by the regular infantry
Oliver Lewis
>Theyve been battling Los Zetas for decades and the Sinaloan Cartel. Enough said.
They would have won the Drug War earlier if America stops supporting the Cartels.
John Cox
So who's the Greatest General in your own respective countries Latin America? I know for a Fact that Santa Anna is Mexico's greatest General of all time.
Camden Lopez
They're miles ahead of the Tucanos and F-5s and Mirage's that every other South American military can hope to field.
Bentley Murphy
For me, it was Duque de Caxias.
During Paraguay War he basically took a crumbling Brazilian Army and made it a professional force, also during the war he made Paraguayan prisoners build a highway to their main cities and capital.
Asher Morales
Ian Myers
They're MLU's though, not even the most advanced in the continent.
Christian Nelson
Costa Rica
Logan Brown
French Guiana :D
I guess U.K. still has the Falklands too... Is there any other "foreign" country in the neighborhood?
Ryan Ortiz
Points for implying veterancy as the force multiplier it is. Additional points to the Columbians for fighting insurgencies which are actually effectively militarized, more invaluable experience. This is part of the reason I'd take America's average line unit over that of pretty much any of its equals in the world -- when you have a competent, battle hardened NCO corps that doesn't panic when rounds start popping off and instead takes control of the situation, that's most of the battle right there. A completely green line platoon is unlikely to survive over an experienced one simply because their minds have already adjusted to combat. They get to skip the part where they're getting into the shit for the first time. It's a hell of a thing when your platoon leadership shits the bed on contact.
Ryan Jones
If that were the case, then Mexico has the Third Best Army in the Americas simply due to them dealing with the Drug Cartels.
Liam Powell
Brazil
Adrian Gray
And got eternally BTFO, still buthurt today
Ryder Reyes
They lost the Islas Malvinas to imperialist. Any nation would be mad.
Juan Parker
>sidewinder armed tucanos
Liam Hall
Dont they have their own camo? I tought only Kazakstan fell for the UCP meme
Jordan Sanchez
lmao, ironically the one country in Central America with no army and it has the biggest "defense" budget of the region
Interesting country Costa Rica they do pretty well for that region and have very low inmigration numbers in the US(I read an article some dude published in fox news) they do however suffer from mass inmigration from their neighbors
Juan Sullivan
>not Obregón
Fuck you
John White
>Not Pancho Villa.
The Americans fear the Centaur of the North.
Nicholas Ward
They do, despite the corruption and budget, they’re fairly well equipped and make excellent use of technicals as transports and support vehicles, along with APCs. If a war ever came to this side of the world, theyd be a better military ally than Canada
John Howard
They’re both pretty good, though Obregón had excellent understanding of conventional warfare for the time
James Perry
General Patton
Ayden Diaz
>they’re fairly well equipped and make excellent use of technicals as transports and support vehicles, along with APCs.
You weren't kidding.
Blake Gutierrez
Yeah, it’s pretty ingenious considering the terrain. They have this seating thing in the middle of the truck bed that allows for four people to sit, so carrying capacity is like ten including a gunner
Angel Peterson
The camo on that thing is pretty cool.
Robert Jackson
Not just a terrain issue either.
It’s cheap and fast too. Using anything else would be a downgrade. The only issue is that the crew isn’t protected by armor, but in places where that’s an issue they have better protected armored cars.
Brody Moore
>Ecuador: We have had much earth rumbling and need humanitarian aid
>Everyone else: Have shelters, bottled water, baby formula, canned food, etc.
>China: Here, have 5000 AKs
>Ecuador: but we need tents and water purification devices and...
>China: Its humanitarian aid, please accept
>Ecuador: o-okay (wtf do we do with AKs, we have FALs and HK33s)
Easton Johnson
None.
And don't say messico has cool shit. If you have ever seen these fucking monkeys and their improvised toys, you'd fucking laugh.
John Garcia
He's a boomer, don't expect much.
Lucas Smith
They never had them to begin with.
Michael Thompson
I've trained with Chile's navy. Disciplined dudes that know how to get things done. Much better than most of the other foreign armed forces I've trained with
Colton Thomas
Wrong! It rightfully belongs to us.
Benjamin Scott
They have Block 50s too
Austin Long
They use the same pattern as the Army, but theirs are more greener. While the Army has some shades of Brown.
Colton Wilson
Eletronics wise both Chilean F-16's and Brazilian's F-5's are on pair, since Brazilians modernized their not so long ago.
Alexander Taylor
As a follow-up: can they unite and btfo gringoland?
Blake Martin
Rest of LatAm infantry looks so outdated compared to the Mexicans.
Gabriel Carter
Eh the Chileans keep up
Angel Phillips
Equipment doesn't mean much desu.
Results is where is at, i could post GRUMEC and call them "the most dated of LatAm".
Tyler Martinez
Even a basic Block 50 with the APG-68V5 is much more capable than an upgraded F-5 which is only using the Grifo F
Mason Rivera
You’re right, it doesn’t mean everything. But it is a good indication that a military has money to spend on keeping its forces trained and prepared while maintaining good logistic chains.
Elijah Campbell
Jason Rodriguez
How equipped is the Mexican army?
Josiah Cooper
Pretty well. New uniforms and rifles for most units, G3 currently being phased out.
Luke Phillips
All black?
John Sanders
The drug cartels
Ryder Lopez
That’s a CT unit training in a shoothouse, that’s why they’re wearing that.
Benjamin Adams
Brazil definitely has the budget. I will also add that the Colombian soldiers I saw on the streets of Bogota a few years back looked like some hard cunts. They had just finished battling the FARC into negotiating a cease fire and those 19-21 year old guys looked weathered from just a couple of years of fierce jungle combat waging a counter insurgency. I don't know how competent their leadership is, and their equipment was definitely dated 80's US stuff (super aesthetic BDU's M16A1's and FN FNC's tho) but the average grunt looked lean and mean to be sure.
Evan Perry
So, the entire Mexican forces went for Digital camo?
Jaxon Gray
lol
Austin Mitchell
Yes. The guy in the picture is naval infantry, they all wear that camo. The army has two uniforms, one desert and one forest. This is the desert uniform.
Tyler Perry
Did you know Brazil has nuclear T-I-G-E-R-S?
Anthony Brooks
It looks weird in that photo because it’s too saturated, this is more what it looks like in person.
Isaiah Nguyen
This qt army paratrooper candidate is wearing the forest/jungle uniform.
Based Brazil
Gavin Foster
Here the Caatinga forces use a leather uniform.
The coolest thing is the hats they use is inspired from the Cangaçeiros, which was a criminal group in the early 1900's in Northeast.