Fort Benning, GA, 1986: some of the first female infantry train on the M-60 machine gun:
Images Of Kara's First Day: Pictures Of Red Dawn's WW3 And The Aftermath
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A mix of prewar equipment (FALs, HK-21 and Mendoza LMGs, U.S. M1919 .30 cals and the Ma Deuce, and M-101 155-mm guns), and Soviet-bloc supplied: AKs, PPsh SMGs, RPD and RPK, PK and DshK machine guns, B-11 recoilless rifles). Not much in terms of armor prewar, other than ERC-90 and VAB APCs from the French, but T-54/55, T-34/85, BTR-152 and early BTR-60 APCs, towed 122 and 152-mm artillery, BM-21 MRLs, and AT-3 ATGW. Postwar, they have a lot of Soviet and Cuban leftovers (the troops went home, but left their equipment behind).
And they lost The Baja War/Second Mexican War (depending on who you talk to) and a good deal of that equipment in so doing.
A GCM-A 30mm cannon mount, which was mounted on many RN warships and some RFA.
A GAM-B01 20mm mount. These cannon were fitted to almost every vessel in RN & RFA service.
A 20mm Oerlikon. While this weapon dated back to the Second World War, it was still in widespread service with Allied Navies. These simple mounts were often fitted to merchant vessels.
A GAM-B01 20mm mount. These cannon were fitted to almost every vessel in RN & RFA service.
A 20mm Oerlikon. While this weapon dated back to the Second World War, it was still in widespread service with Allied Navies. These simple mounts were often fitted to merchant vessels.
The USN also used some WW-II era 20-mms. Some were in the Brown Water War, others on various types of ships-mainly in the anti-swimmer role.
in the end of that war Cartels been rise up and had those weapons for their own use.
Actually, the remnants of the Cartels have largely fled: they were seen by the U.S. in the Northern Mexico Security Zone (for all intents and purposes de facto territories of the U.S.) as a national-security threat and have largely been eradicated. The main beneficiaries of that hardware have been the five major insurgent groups in Mexico-four of which are staunchly anti-communist (but spend most of their time fighting each other) and the fifth? The Zapatistas, who think the current regime isn't Communist enough. They, too, spend much of their time fighting other insurgents rather than the Government they all despise.
Artist's representation of a FARM (Revolutionary Air Force of Mexico) MiG-17, 1986:
The other issue in Northern Mexico is the four states and part of a fifth that got sliced off from Mexico during the Baja War. Hardly anyone wants to go back to Mexico City's administration, and a UN fact-finding mission found that most people want either U.S. Statehood (and we need four states like we need a hole in the head), or territorial/commonwealth status (a la Puerto Rico,). Independence was a distant third, followed by return to Mexican control. The fact that there's quite a few U.S. bases, American companies moving in, public works and infrastructure projects, etc. and all of those being popular with the locals, stunned the UN observers.
That was a Soviet Navy vessel found at Port O'Connor, TX during LONG RIFLE in 1988. Why wasn't it scuttled? The leading theory as to why is that the crew was pressed into serving in a scratch Naval Infantry unit to defend the port from 4th Marine Division. Though when she was checked out, her fuel tanks were just about empty. They may have been hoping to refuel and head south for Brownsville, for her SSMs had been expended. The ship was evaluated, and then passed to Battleship Cove in MA as a museum exhibit in the late 1990s.
And one of the workhorses of the Denver Airlift, and wherever you had a short runway, the C-123:
What happened to Pablo Escobar ITTL? Is he still running the Medellin Cartel and making sure drugs reach those areas in the Soviet-Cuban-Mexican-Nicaraguan occupation zones?
The U.S. Navy keep the Soviet weapons or retrofitted it with American weapons just like how Japan donated former IJN destroyers to the ROCN?