Argentine Army

Argentine Army Ejército Argentino
Argentine Army Seal
Active	1810 (1810)
Country	Argentina
Branch	Army
Size	44,233 military personnel 16,000 reservists
Part of	Ministry of Defence
Garrison/HQ	Buenos Aires
Anniversaries	May 29 (Argentine Army Day)
Equipment	348 Main battle tanks 896 armored vehicles 771 artillery pieces 128 Self-propelled artillery 5,021 military vehicles 46 helicopters
Engagements	War of Independence (1810-1818) Spanish American wars of independence (1808–1833) Luso-Brazilian Invasion (1816) Cisplatine War (1825-1828) War of the Confederation (1836-1839) Uruguayan Civil War (1839-1852) Platine War (1851-1852) Paraguayan War (1864-1870) Conquest of the Desert (1870-1884) Operation Independence (1975-1976) Operation Soberanía (1978) Falklands War (1982) Gulf War (1990-1991) "U.N. missions" Bosnia (1992-1995) Cyprus (1993-present) Kosovo (1999-present) Haiti (2004-present)
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief	President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Ceremonial chief	Army General César Milani

The Argentine Army (Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land armed force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of the country. As of 2012, the army has 44,233 military personnel. Under the Argentine Constitution, the President of Argentina is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, exercising his or her command authority through the Minister of Defense.

The Army's official foundation date is May 29, 1810 (celebrated in Argentina as the Army Day), four days after the Spanish colonial administration in Buenos Aires was overthrown. The new national army was formed out of several pre-existent colonial militia units and locally-manned regiments (most notoriously the Patricios Regiment, which to this date is still an active Army unit). These units had previously fought the British invasions of the Río de la Plata in 1806 and 1807.

History

Gral José de San Martín during Battle of Chacabuco, 1817

Several armed expeditions were sent to the Upper Peru (now Bolivia), Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile to fight Spanish forces and secure Argentina's newly gained independence. The most famous of these expeditions was the one led by General José de San Martín, who led a 5000-man army across the Andes Mountains to expel the Spaniards from Chile and later from Perú. While the other expeditions failed in their goal of bringing all the dependencies of the former Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata under the new government in Buenos Aires, they prevented the Spaniards from crushing the rebellion.

During the civil wars of the first half of the 19th century the Argentine Army became fractionalized under the leadership of the so-called caudillos ("leaders" or "warlords"), provincial leaders who waged a war against the centralist Buenos Aires administration. However, the Army was briefly re-unified during the war with the Brazilian Empire. (1824–1827).

It was only with the establishment of a Constitution (which explicitly forbade the provinces from maintaining military forces of their own) and a national government recognized by all the provinces that the Army became a single force, absorbing the older provincial militias. The Army went on to fight the War of the Triple Alliance in the 1860s together with Brazil and Uruguay against Paraguay. After that war, the Army became involved in Argentina's Conquista del Desierto ("Conquest of the Desert"): the campaign to occupy Patagonia and root out the natives, who conducted looting raids throughout the country.

1880–1960s

Between 1880 and 1930 the Army sought to become a professional force without active involvement in politics, even though many a political figure -President Julio Argentino Roca, for example- benefitted from a past military career. The Army prevented the fall of the government in a number of Radical-led uprisings. Meanwhile, the military in general and the Army in particular contributed to develop Argentina's unsettled southern frontier and its nascent industrial complex.

The main foreign influence during this period was, by and large, the prussian (and then German) doctrine. Partly because of that, during both World Wars most of the officers supported the Germans, more or less openly, while the Argentine Navy favored the British instead.

In 1930, a small group of Army forces (not more than 600 troops) deposed President Hipólito Yrigoyen without much response from the rest of the Army and the Navy. This was the beginning of a long history of political intervention by the military. Another coup, in 1943, was responsible for bringing an obscure colonel into the political limelight: Juan Perón.

Even though Perón had the support of the military during his two consecutive terms of office (1946–1952 and 1952–1955), his increasingly repressive government alienated many officers, which finally led to a military uprising which overthrew him in September 1955. Between 1955 and 1973 the Army and the rest of the military became vigilant over the possible re-emergence of Peronism in the political arena, which led to two new coups against elected Presidents in 1962 (deposing Arturo Frondizi) and 1966 (ousting Arturo Illia). It should be noted that political infighting eroded discipline and cohesion within the army, to the extent that there was armed fighting between contending military units during the early 1960s.

1960s and the military junta

The military government which ruled Argentina between 1966 and 1973 saw the growing activities of groups such as Montoneros and the ERP, and also a very important social movement. During Héctor Cámpora's first months of government, a rather moderate and left-wing Peronist, approximatively 600 social conflicts, strikes and factory occupations had taken place. Following the June 20, 1973 Ezeiza massacre, left and right-wing Peronism broke apart, while the Triple A death squad, organized by José López Rega, closest advisor to María Estela Martínez de Perón, started a campaign of assassinations against left-wing opponents. But Isabel Perón herself was ousted during the March 1976 coup by a military junta.

The new military government, self-named Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, put a stop to the guerrilla's campaigns, but soon it became known that extremely violent methods and severe violations of human rights had taken place, in what the dictatorship called a "Dirty War" — a term refused by jurists during the 1985 Trial of the Juntas. Batallón de Inteligencia 601 (the 601st Intelligence Battalion) became infamous during this period. It was a special military intelligence service set up in the late 1970s, active in the Dirty War and Operation Condor, and disbanded in 2000. Its personnel collected information on and infiltrated guerrilla groups and human rights organisations, and coordinated killings, kidnappings and other abuses. The unit also participated in the training of Nicaraguan Contras with US assistance, including from John Negroponte.

See also: Argentine ground forces in the Falklands War

In April 1982 the Argentine Army contributed forces to 'Operation Rosario,' the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands. The 'Dirty War' events, coupled with the defeat in the Falklands War, led the military to relinquish power to a civilian government in 1983.

"Annihilation decrees"

Main article: Operativo Independencia

Military zones of Argentina, 1975–83

Meanwhile, the Guevarist People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), led by Roberto Santucho and inspired by Che Guevara's foco theory, began a rural insurgency in the province of Tucumán, in the mountainous northwest of Argentina. It started the campaign with no more than 100 men and women of the Marxist ERP guerrilla force and ended with about 300 in the mountains (including reinforcements in the form of the elite Montoneros 65-strong Jungle Company and the ERP's "Decididos de Córdoba" Urban Company), which the Argentine Army managed to defeat, but at a cost.

On 5 January 1975, an Army DHC-6 transport plane was downed near the Monteros mountains, apparently shot down by Guerrillas. All thirteen on board were killed. The military believe a heavy machine gun had downed the aircraft.

In response, Ítalo Luder, President of the National Assembly who acted as interim President substituting himself to Isabel Perón who was ill for a short period, signed in February 1975 the secret presidential decree 261, which ordered the army to neutralize and/or annihilate the insurgency in Tucumán, the smallest province of Argentina. Operativo Independencia gave power to the Armed Forces to "execute all military operations necessary for the effects of neutralizing or annihilating the action of subversive elements acting in the Province of Tucumán." Santucho had declared a 620-mile (1,000 km) "liberated zone" in Tucuman and demanded Soviet-backed protection for its borders as well as proper treatment of captured guerrillas as POWs.

The Argentine Army Fifth Brigade, then consisting of the 19th, 20th and 29th Mountain Infantry Regiments and commanded by Brigadier-General Acdel Vilas received the order to move to Famailla in the foothills of the Monteros mountains on 8 February 1975. While fighting the guerrillas in the jungle, Vilas concentrated on uprooting the ERP support network in the towns, using tactics later adopted nation-wide, as well as a civic action campaign. The Argentine security forces used techniques no different from their US and French counterparts in Vietnam.

By July 1975, anti-guerrilla commandos were mounting search-and-destroy missions in the mountains. Army special forces discovered Santucho's base camp in August, then raided the ERP urban headquarters in September. Most of the Compania del Monte's general staff was killed in October and was dispersed by the end of the year.^{[citation needed]}

The leadership of the rural guerrilla force was mostly eradicated and many of the ERP guerrillas and civilian sympathizers in Tucumán were either killed or forcefully disappeared. Efforts to restrain the rural guerrilla activity to Tucumán, however, remained unsuccessful despite the use of 24 recently arrived US-made Bell UH-1H Huey troop-transport helicopters. In early October, the 5th Brigade suffered a major blow at the hands of the Montoneros, when more than one hundred, and possibly several hundred Montoneros and supporters were involved in the Operation Primicia, the most elaborate operation of the "Dirty War", which involved hijacking of a civilian airliner, taking over the provincial airport, attacking the 29th Infantry Regiment (which had retired to barracks at Formosa province) and capturing its cache of arms, and finally escaping by air. Once the operation was over, they escaped towards a remote area in Santa Fe province. The aircraft, a Boeing 737, eventually landed on a crop field not far from the city of Rafaela.

In the aftermath, 12 soldiers and 2 policemen were killed and several wounded. The sophistication of the operation, and the getaway cars and safehouses they used to escape from the crash-landing site, suggest several hundred guerrillas and their supporters were involved. The Argentine security forces admitted to 43 army troops killed in action in Tucuman, although this figure does not take into account police and Gendarmerie troops, and the soldiers who died defending their barracks in Formosa province on 5 October 1975. By December 1975 the Argentine military could, with some justification claim that it was winning the 'Dirty War', but it was dismayed to find no evidence of overall victory.

On 23 December 1975, several hundred ERP fighters with the help of hundreds of underground supporters, staged an all-out battle with the 601st Arsenal Battalion nine miles (14 km) from Buenos Aires and occupied four local police stations and a regimental headquarters. 63 guerrillas, seven army troops and three policemen were killed. In addition 20 civilians were killed in the crossfire. Many of the civilian deaths occurred when the guerrillas and supporting militants burned 15 city buses near the arsenal to hamper military reinforcements. This development was to have far-reaching ramifications. On 30 December 1975, urban guerrillas exploded a bomb inside the Army's headquarters in Buenos Aires, injuring at least six soldiers.

The Montoneros movement successfully utilized divers in underwater infiltrations and blew the pier where the Argentine destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad was being built, on 22 August 1975. The ship was effectively immobilized for several years.

French cooperation

French journalist Marie-Monique Robin has found in the archives of the Quai d'Orsay, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, the original document proving that a 1959 agreement between Paris and Buenos Aires instaured a "permanent French military mission," formed of veterans who had fought in the Algerian War, and which was located in the offices of the chief of staff of the Argentine Army. She showed how Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's government secretly collaborated with Jorge Rafael Videla's junta in Argentina and with Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile.

Green deputies Noël Mamère, Martine Billard and Yves Cochet deposed on September 10, 2003 a request for the constitution of a Parliamentary Commission on the "role of France in the support of military regimes in Latin America from 1973 to 1984" before the Foreign Affairs Commission of the National Assembly, presided by Edouard Balladur. Apart from Le Monde, newspapers remained silent about this request. However, deputy Roland Blum, in charge of the Commission, refused to hear Marie-Monique Robin, and published in December 2003 a 12 pages report qualified by Robin as the summum of bad faith. It claimed that no agreement had been signed, despite the agreement found by Robin in the Quai d'Orsay

When Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin traveled to Chile in February 2004, he claimed that no cooperation between France and the military regimes had occurred.

Present

Light vehicle Gaucho designed with Brazil

Since the return to civilian rule in 1983, the Argentine military have been reduced both in number and budget and, by law, cannot intervene anymore in internal civil conflicts. They became more professional, especially after conscription was abolished.

In 1998 Argentina was granted Major non-NATO ally status by the United States. The modern Argentine Army is fully committed to international peacekeeping under United Nations mandates, humanitarian aid and emergencies relief.

In 2010 the Army incorporated Chinese Norinco armored wheeled APCs to deploy with its peacekeeping forces

A major problem of today's Army is that most of its combat units are understrength in manpower due to budgetary limitations; the current Table of Organization and Equipment being established at a time during which the Army could rely on larger budgets and conscripted troops.^{[citation needed]} Current plans call for expansion of combat units until all combat units are again full-strength, as soon as budget constraints allow for the induction of new volunteers.

Structure

Main article: Structure of the Argentine Army

Army General Staff

The Army is headed by a Chief of General Staff directly appointed by the President. The current Chief of the General Staff (since September 2008) is General Luis Alberto Pozzi.^{[citation needed]} The General Staff of the Army (Estado Mayor General del Ejército) includes the Chief of Staff, a Deputy Chief of the General Staff and the heads of the General Staff's six departments (Jefaturas). The current departments of the General Staff (known also by their Roman numerals) are:

• Personnel (Jefatura I - Personal)
• Informations (Jefatura II - Inteligencia)
• Operations (Jefatura III - Operaciones)
• Logistic (Jefatura IV - Material)
• Finance (Jefatura V - Finanzas)
• Welfare (Jefatura VI - Bienestar)

The General Staff also includes the General Inspectorate and the General Secretariat.

There are also a number of Commands and Directorates responsibles for development and implementation of policies within the Army regarding technological and operational areas and handle administrative affairs. As of 2005 these include the following:

• Communications and Computer Command (Comando de Comunicación e Informática)
• Education and Doctrine Command (Comando de Educación y Doctrina)
• Engineers Command (Comando de Ingenieros)
• Remount and Veterinary Command (Comando de Remonta y Veterinaria)
• Health Command (Comando de Sanidad)
• Materiel Logistics Command (Comando Logístico de Material)
• Army Historical Directorate (Dirección de Asuntos Históricos del Ejército)
• Research, Development and Production Directorate (Dirección de Investigación, Desarrollo y Producción)
• Planning Directorate (Dirección de Planeamiento)
• Transportation Directorate (Dirección de Transporte)
• General Staff Directorate (Dirección del Estado Mayor General del Ejército)

Field organisation

In the 1960s the Army was reorganised into five Army Corps. This structure replaced the old structure based on divisions following the French model. There was a further reorganisation in 1991, when brigades were assigned to six new divisions, two stationed at Santa Cruz and Mendoza.

Until late 2010, the First, Second and Third Army Divisions were designated as the Second, Third and Fifth Army Corps (Cuerpos de Ejército) respectively, without any intermediate division-level commands. These redesignations took place as part of a major reorganization of the Armed Forces' administrative and command structure. Two additional Army Corps, the First and Fourth, had already been dissolved in 1984 and 1991 respectively, with their dependent units reassigned to the remaining three Army Corps.

Structure of the Argentine Army (click to enlarge)

As of 2011, army forces are geographically grouped into three Army Divisions (Divisiones de Ejército), each roughly equivalent in terms of nominal organization to an U.S. Army division (+). Each Army Division has an area of responsibility over a specific region of the country; First Army Division covers the northeast of the country, Second Army Division covers the center and northwest of Argentina and Third Army Division covers the south and Patagonia. In addition to the three Army Divisions, the Rapid Deployment Force (Fuerza de Despliegue Rápido, FDR) constitutes as an additional fourth divisional-level formation, while the Buenos Aires Military Garrison operates independently from any division-sized command. There are also several separate groups, including an anti-aircraft group and the Argentine Army Aviation group.

Each division has varying numbers of brigades of armor, mechanized forces and infantry.

As of 2011, the Argentine Army has ten brigades:

• two armored brigades (1st and 2nd),
• three mechanized brigades (9th, 10th and 11th),
• three mountain brigades (5th, 6th and 8th),
• one paratroopers brigade (4th) and
• one jungle brigade (12th).

Note: The 7th Infantry Brigade was dissolved in early 1985, while the 3rd Infantry Brigade was converted into a motorized training formation which was ultimately dissolved in 2003.

Depending on its type, each brigade includes two to five Cavalry or Infantry Regiments, one or two Artillery Groups, a scout cavalry squadron, one battalion or company-sized engineer unit, one intelligence company, one communications company, one command company and a battalion-sized logistical support unit. The terms "regiment" and "group", found in the official designations of cavalry, infantry and artillery units, are used due to historical reasons. During the Argentine War of Independence the Argentine Army fielded traditional regiment-sized units. 'Regiments' are more accurately described as battalions; similar-sized units that do not belong to the above-mentioned services are referred to as "battalions". In addition to their service, Regiments and Groups are also specialized according to their area of operations (Mountain Infantry, Jungle Infantry, Mountain Cavalry), their equipment (Tank Cavalry, Light Cavalry, Mechanized Infantry) or their special training (Paratroopers, Commandos, Air Assault, Mountain Cazadores or Jungle Cazadores). Regiments are made up by four maneuver sub-units (companies in infantry regiments and squadrons in cavalry regiments) and one command and support sub-unit for a total of 350 to 700 troops.

In 2006 a Rapid Deployment Force was created based on the 4th Paratroopers Brigade.

In 2008 a Special Operations Forces Group was created comprising two Commandos Companies, one Special Forces Company and one psychological operations company.

Ranks

Insignia for all ranks except Volunteers is worn on shoulder boards. Ranks from Colonel Major onwards use red-trimmed shoulderboards and the suns denoting rank are gold-braid; the suns on other officers' shoulder boards are metallic. Senior Colonels and Generals also have golden wreath leaves on their coat lapels.

The rank insignia for Volunteers 1st Class, 2nd Class and Commissioned 2nd Class is worn on the sleeves. Collar versions of the ranks are used in combat uniforms.

Oficiales

Insignia	Jerarquía Argentina	Equivalente Ejército de los Estados Unidos	Código de jerarquías OTAN
	Teniente General	Lieutenant General	OF-9 / OF-8
	General de División	Major General	OF-7
	General de Brigada	Brigadier General	OF-6
	Coronel Mayor *	(No equivalente)	(Honorario, jerarquía no equivalente)
	Coronel	Colonel	OF-5
	Teniente Coronel	Lieutenant Colonel	OF-4
	Mayor	Major	OF-3
	Capitán	Captain	OF-2
	Teniente Primero	First Lieutenant	OF-1
	Teniente	Second Lieutenant(Senior)	OF-1
	Subteniente	Second Lieutenant(Junior)	OF-D

La jerarquía de Coronel Mayor es un rango honorario que le es otorgado a los coroneles con mucho tiempo en el rango o a aquellos Coroneles que han sido promocionados para ascender a General de Brigada, pero que no han podido hacerlo debido a que en ese momento no había vacantes disponibles para acceder a dicho cargo.

Suboficiales

Insignia	Rango
	Suboficial Mayor
	Suboficial Principal
	Sargento Ayudante
	Sargento Primero
	Sargento
	Cabo Primero
	Cabo

Tropa

Insignia	Rango
	Soldado de Primera
	Soldado de Segunda
	Soldado de Segunda en Comisión

Officers

Non-commissioned Officers and Enlisted Men

Argentine Rank Translation Teniente General Lieutenant General General de División Divisional General General de Brigada Brigade General Coronel Mayor * Senior Colonel Coronel Colonel Teniente Coronel Lieutenant Colonel Mayor Major Capitán Captain Teniente Primero First Lieutenant Teniente Lieutenant Subteniente Sub-lieutenant * honorary rank for long-serving colonels who have not been promoted to Brigade General; the rank is junior to Brigade General but senior to Colonel.

Argentine Rank Translation Suboficial Mayor Senior Sub-officer Suboficial Principal Master Sub-officer Sargento Ayudante Adjutant Sergeant Sargento Primero First Sergeant Sargento Sergeant Cabo Primero First Corporal Cabo Corporal Voluntario Primero First Volunteer Voluntario Segundo Second Volunteer Voluntario Segundo en Comisión Commissioned Second Volunteer

Equipment

The following are estimated totals for the weapon systems of the Argentine Army in service as of 2009^{[citation needed]}:

Infantry weapons

Small arms

Argentine soldiers carrying the FN FAL

Name	Type	Caliber	Origin	Notes
FN P35	Semi-automatic pistol	9mm	Belgium	Built under licence as models M90 and M95 (variants "Classic" and "Detective")
FMK-3	Submachine gun	9mm	Argentina
M4	carbine	5.56mm	United States	M4A1 variant, SOPMOD capable.
M16A1	Assault rifle	5.56mm	United States	Replaced by Steyr AUG.[citation needed]
M16A2	Assault rifle	5.56mm	United States	To be replaced by Beretta ARX160
Steyr AUG	Assault rifle	5.56mm	Austria	To become the standard small arm, replacing the M16A2
FARA 83	Assault rifle	5.56mm	Argentina
FN FAL	Battle rifle	7.62mm	Belgium	Built under licence as models FAL IV and M5 (modernized version).
FN MAG/DGFM	General purpose machine gun	7.62mm	Belgium/Argentina
M2HB	Heavy machine gun	12.7mm	United States

Grenades, anti-aircraft and anti-tank systems

Name	Type	Quantity	Origin	Notes
GME-FMK2-M0	Hand grenade	?	Argentina
Mk 19 AGL	Automatic grenade launcher	?	United States
M72 LAW	Rocket launcher	?	United States
AT4	Anti-tank weapon	?	Sweden
Model 1968	Recoilless rifle	?	Argentina
Model 1974 FMK-1	Recoilless rifle	?	Argentina	105mm
Mathogo	Anti-tank guided missile	?	Argentina
BGM-71 TOW	Anti-tank guided missile	?	United States
RBS 70	Man-portable air-defense system	?	Sweden

Artillery systems

Mortars

• 440 x 120 mm mortars
• 1100 x 81 mm mortars
• 214 x 60 mm mortars

Field artillery

Name	Type	Quantity	Origin	Notes	Photo
M-101	105mm Howitzer	60	United States
OTO Melara Mod 56	105mm Howitzer	70	Italy
CITEFA Model 77	155mm Howitzer	109	Argentina
CALA 30	155 mm Howitzer	2	Argentina	Developed to replace the CITEFA Model 77
M-114	155 mm Howitzer	48	United States

Self-propelled artillery

Name	Type	Quantity	Origin	Notes	Photo
VCTM	Self-propelled mortar	50	Germany/Argentina	TAM variant carrying a 120mm AM-50 mortar
AMX Mk F3	Self-propelled howitzer	24	France	155 mm gun on AMX-13 hull
VCA Palmaria	Self-propelled howitzer	19	Argentina/Italy	155 mm gun. Palmaria turret mated to a modified TAM hull
SLAM PAMPERO	Multiple rocket launcher	4	Argentina	105 mm multiple rocket launcher mounted on a Unimog truck
SLAM SAPBA	Multiple rocket launcher	27	Argentina	127 mm multiple rocket launcher mounted on a FIAT 697 truck
SLAM VCLC	Multiple rocket launcher	4	Argentina	105 mm multiple rocket launcher mounted on a VCTAM hull

Anti-aircraft systems

Name	Type	Quantity	Origin	Notes	Photo
Hispano Suiza GAI B01	20 mm anti-aircraft gun	220	France	Being automated
Bofors L/60	40 mm anti-aircraft gun	250	Sweden
L90 twin cannon	35 mm anti-aircraft gun	8	Switzerland
Roland	Surface-to-air missile system	4	France

Vehicles

Armored fighting vehicles

Name	Type	Quantity	Origin	Notes	Photo
WZ551	Armored personnel carrier	35	China	6x6 wheeled APC, more ordered, will be used in UN peacekeeping in Haiti.
M113	Armored personnel carrier	500	United States	Including variants (M577,M106,M548,...)
MOWAG Grenadier	Armored personnel carrier	47	Switzerland	4x4 wheeled APC
Alvis Tactica	Armored personnel carrier	9	United Kingdom	4x4 wheeled APC
AMX-13 VCPC	Armored personnel carrier	30	France
VBTP-MR	Armored personnel carrier	14 on order	Brazil
VCPC	Command vehicle	9	Germany/Argentina	Command post version of the VCTP
VCTP	Infantry fighting vehicle	216	Germany/Argentina	IFV variant of the TAM. Tank turret replaced with a turret mounted 20mm autocannon
Panhard AML-90	Armored car	50	France
SK-105 Kurassier	Light tank	112	Austria
AMX-13/105	Light tank	56	France	Being phased out in favour of the Patagon
Patagon	Light tank	1	Argentina	Locally produced light tank. Combines a SK-105 hull with an AMX-13 turret. Patagon project were cancelled due non satisfactory prices and capabilities of the tank
TAM	Medium tank	236	Germany/Argentina	Modernised by Elbit Systems, with new gun stabilizing systems.

Logistics and utility vehicles

Name	Type	Quantity	Origin	Notes
Lohr Fardier	All terrain vehicle	50	France	For use by Paratrooper Brigade
M151A2 MUTT	Light Utility Vehicle	340	United States
Mercedes-Benz MB 230G	Light Utility Vehicle	919	Germany
Isuzu Trooper	Light Utility Vehicle	147	Japan
VLEGA Gaucho	Light Utility Vehicle	147	Argentina/Brazil	Currently awaiting "civilian homologation" (legal issues). About to enter active duty. Proyect interaction with Brazil stopped as of 2011. The only user is now the Argentine Army.
Humvee	Light Utility Vehicle	40	United States	For use in UN peacekeeping missions
Agrale Marruá	Light Utility Vehicle	?	Brazil	Use in UN peacekeeping missions
Ford F-100	Light utility truck	485	United States/Argentina	These Ford Trucks were locally built in Argentina by Ford de Argentina SA
Chevrolet M1008	Light utility truck	70	United States
Mercedes-Benz MB 1112/1113/1114		790	Germany/Argentina	These MB Trucks were locally built in Argentina by Mercedes Benz Argentina SA
Mercedes-Benz MB 1720		100	Germany/Brazil	This MB Trucks are built in Mercedes Benz do Brasil Limitada.
Mercedes-Benz Unimog U-416/421/431	Light Tactical Wheeled Vehicle	1913	Germany
FIAT 697	Heavy equipment transporter	20	Italy/Argentina	These FIAT Trucks were locally built in Argentina by FIAT local Factory

Aircraft

Main article: Argentine Army Aviation

See also

• Argentine Navy
• Argentine Air Force
• Argentine Naval Aviation
• Argentine Army Aviation

Bibliography

• International Institute for Strategic Studies; Hackett, James (ed.) (2010-02-03). The Military Balance 2010. London: Routledge. ISBN 1-85743-557-5. 

External links

• (Spanish) Official website
• (Spanish) Organization and equipment