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Mozambican Army, the most important component of the country's defence forces, mainly in response to the coups d'état in the African region and *** At present, the Mozambican Army has more than 10,000 troops, divided into 3 infantry brigades, 3 special operations battalions, 2 engineer battalions and 1 logistics battalion and its auxiliary units. At present, the main equipment of the national army is Soviet-made**, and in recent years, with the increasing influence of our country, there are more Chinese equipment faces in the Mozambican army.
Faced with its outdated equipment and inadequate training of its personnel, the Mozambican army has chosen to hire foreign mercenaries and troops to assist it, while also hoping that they will be able to eliminate the extremists who have long been entrenched in the north of the country. Russia and Mozambique** signed an agreement in 2017 to provide military equipment assistance to Mozambique in the name of the war on terror. Follow-up Mozambique** in 2019 withRussian Wagner GroupAn agreement was signed to hire more than 200 military advisers from the group to participate in the fight against terrorism, and Wagner was subsequently evacuated after being ambushed by militants in Mozambique territory several times. Mozambique** hired in 2020South African military contractor Dyck ConsultingReplace Wagner, but this mercenary group is still helpless, and the same appears many times**.
In 2021, in order to prevent extremist organizations from growing in Mozambique, they have just recovered from the big **Rwanda**A counter-terrorism force of about 1,000 men was officially sent into Mozambique, and soon after entering the border, it joined forces with the ** army to regain the northern provinces occupied by extremist forces. In the same yearBotswana300 soldiers and armored vehicles were sent to participate in the joint operation, and subsequentlySouth Africa**The announcement authorized the deployment of 1,495 soldiers, followed by South African military aircraft, naval vessels and special forces, and finally South Africa committed more than 3,000 troops to the war on terror. The United States and the former suzerainty of PortugalInstructors have also been sent to Mozambique to support the fight against ISIS.
60+ T-54 Type 55 main battle tanksAfter all, during the Cold War, East Germany did not have less arms in Africa, and in 1977 East Germany provided Mozambique with 160 T-34-85 tanks, which were all stock products of the East German army. The contract for the tanks was said to have been a mere middleman for the GDR, with someone else in the real cargo.
30 BRDM-1 Type 2 armored reconnaissance vehiclesThe BRDM-1 was developed by the Soviet Union in the mid-50s of the 20th century, entered service with the Russian Army in 1957, and now the front-line units in Russia have been replaced by the subsequent BRDM-2 amphibious reconnaissance vehicles, and some of the decommissioned products have been handed over to many third world countries as assistance.
40 armored infantry vehicles of the BMP-1 typeThe car is developed and produced by the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, using a full crawler structure, the engine in front, the rear of the crew compartment in the car layout, the body of the welded steel plate structure, is the world's first large-scale service of the tracked infantry fighting vehicle, with three defense and amphibious swimming capabilities, the service of this type of infantry vehicle to a certain extent has affected the development of the subsequent army mechanized units of various countries.
30 tracked armored infantry vehicles of the FV432 familyIn the 50s of the 20th century, Britain developed the FV432 series of models, looking at the appearance, we also know that this series of armored vehicles borrowed from the box design of the American-made M113 armored personnel carrier, and the same type of armored vehicle that is still in service in the United Kingdom is handed over to BAE Ground Systems to upgrade and improve, and it is called FV430 MK after upgrading3 "Bulldog", with new additional armor and anti-IED jammers, replaced with a better transmission system and engine.
160 armored personnel carriers of the BTR-60PB type, which was used by the Soviet Union at the end of the 50s of the 20th century to replace the BTR-152 type (6x6 drive), for the first time adopted the 8x8 drive form, and there is a waterjet propulsion at the rear of the car, which has amphibious capabilities. The early BTR-60 had a roofless open design, which made it less protected. So in 1966 it was refined, and then the famous BTR-60PB appeared, which had a fully sealed body, housed a fully enclosed machine-gun turret with the same fully enclosed machine gun tower as the BDRM-2 light armored car, built into 145 mm and 7Side-by-side machine gun of 62 mm caliber.
100 armored personnel carriers of the BTR-152 type, as early as 1946 began to develop, in 1950 began to enter the army, Mozambique is still in service most of the BTR-152 is from the former Soviet Union, as a poor small African country all over the world to collect aid and collect other countries' backward equipment is normal, and even now some countries still use Cold War or World War II equipment. The Soviet Union provided nine armoured vehicles of this model at the time of Mozambique's independence, and in 1983 the Soviet Union delivered a second batch of BTR-152 armoured vehicles to Mozambique, although Mozambique did not put these vehicles into front-line use this time.
25 armored personnel carriers of the AT-105 Saxon type, an armored vehicle developed by the British GKN Defense Company, as a successor to the early AT104 armored personnel transport vehicle, and later developed into a car family. The protection of the car body has been enhancedThe underfloor was redesigned and replaced with a newer engine, and most of the armored vehicles were equipped with turrets after they went into production.
A certain number of WZ-551 wheeled armored transport vehiclesIt is a wheeled armored vehicle produced by the China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) in 1986, and the Mozambican Army acquired this type of armored vehicle equipped with a gun shield 127mm heavy machine gun, along with this type of armored vehicle also came the Type 03 bulletproof helmet, Type 07 camouflage helmet and other light **, with the increasingly close exchanges between the two sides, there will be more Chinese arms into the Mozambican Army. As the fighting in Mozambique expanded, Tanzania's 20,000 army infantry divisions equipped with 59D tanks and WZ551 armoured vehicles were fully assembled and ready to enter northern Mozambique.
A certain number of Yenching Guardian wheeled armored vehiclesIn 2008, China introduced 100 "Tiger" GAZ-233014 light armored vehicles from Russia and renamed Yanjing Guard. The original Yanjing Guard was provided with all the parts by the Russian side, and the Chinese-funded Yanjing Automobile in Beijing was responsible for completing the assembly, and all the subsequent parts were localized. The armoured vehicles equipped by the Mozambican army were unveiled during a campaign to carry out a campaign against extremists in the north, but the eventual failure of the campaign left some of the Yanjing guards abandoned.
11 CASspir armored patrol vehicles, developed by the Department of Defence Research of South Africa in the seventies of the last century, and then TMF took over the project, and mass production began in 1980. The bottom of the car is a V-shaped anti-wave structure and far away from the ground, which can better cope with the impact of mines, and is also the originator of the development of anti-ambush vehicles in South Africa, followed by the development of MK2, MK3 and Caspi 2000 series and other famous anti-mine vehicles, which paved the way for the development of more advanced Marauders and other armored vehicles.
6 D-48 85mm anti-tank guns, was improved by Soviet engineers on the basis of the D-44 anti-tank gun, which was widely used in African countries, such as Somalia during the Cold War, and the D-48 anti-tank gun equipped by the Somali Army during the Ogaden War was almost helpless against the T-62 that the scumbag Soviet Union equipped Ethiopia with.
12 D-44 85mm anti-tank gunsIt is a field cannon that takes into account anti-tank combat missions, and the field cannon developed by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II from the tank gun of the T-34 85 was used to replace the ZIS-3 76 mm cannon originally equipped with the divisional cannon regiment and the anti-tank artillery regiment directly under it, and the prototype of the Type 56 cannon in our country is this artillery.
20 M-1944 100mm anti-tank gunsThe Soviet Union developed a number of heavy tanks such as the King Tiger in response to the German army at the end of World War II in 1944, and the Soviet Army named it M1944 (BS-3) 100mm anti-tank gun, the prototype of the gun is a 100mm caliber B-24 naval gun, and then served as one of the most powerful anti-tank guns at the end of World War II until the end of World War II, a total of 591 units were produced, and then as the main battle tank became heavier and heavier, this type of anti-tank gun also began to be gradually retired and mothballed to assist other countries.
12 101mm howitzers of the M101 typeIt is the American Rock Island Arsenal to produce caliber 105 mm towed howitzer, developed in World War II, began to be equipped in the 40s in the United States Infantry Division, Airborne Division and Marine Corps, discontinued in 1953, 1980 to 1983 for the export of the resumption of production, this type of artillery for the United States artillery heirloom, once with the current Soviet-made D-30 status.
12 D-30 122mm howitzersFirst commissioned in 1960, the D-30 howitzer system is currently used by 65 countries around the world, including the United States. On January 10, 2019, soldiers of the Assistance Brigade of the 3rd Security Force of the United States began a new artillery training at Fort Hood, Texas, in which the training subjects included learning how to use the 122mm howitzer D-30 (2A18) in Xi, mainly to better train soldiers from other countries who use this ** and better support ** people to disrupt the situation in other countries.
6 M-46 130mm cannonsIn the Soviet Army, the artillery brigade belonging to the group army, in the body tube ratio greater than 40, firing angle less than 45 degrees cannon, mainly by virtue of the long body tube for long-distance flat fire to hit enemy targets, with a maximum range of 27 kilometers, condescending to hit coastal landing targets is convenient, but this is Mozambique, a country where 60% of the country is a mountainous plateau, long barrel cannon is far less useful than howitzers.
12 D-1 152mm howitzers, developed by the USSR in 1942 and officially put into production in 1944, it remained in service with the Soviet Army until the 80s. It was improved from the previous M-30 howitzer, and its combat weight was only 36 tons, installed with suspension and use of pneumatic rubber tires, maximum firing range 124 km, with a maximum elevation angle of 65 degrees, it is heavier than other 152 towed guns of the same class (150-mm SFH 18 howitzer).2 tons, the American 155-mm howitzer M1 weighed 58 tons), the biggest advantage is that it is light and capable of maneuvering operations in mountainous plateaus.
12 sets of BM-21 Grad type 122mm rocket launchers, which was equipped with Soviet troops before 1964. The artillery regiments of the motorized infantry division and the tank division are organized into a BM-21 rocket artillery battalion. It is currently the only long-range delivery unit in the Mozambican Army, using the Ural-375 (6x6) truck chassis and 40-tube rocket artillery system. It can deliver a stormy firepower to enemy assembly points and positions within a range of 20 kilometers, but the hit of unguided rockets still depends on faith and luck, and the accuracy is far less than that of today's cutting-edge rocket artillery.