Armed Forces of Guyana
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guide | |||
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Commander in Chief : | President David Arthur Granger | ||
Military Commander: | Brig Gen Mark Philips | ||
Military strength | |||
Active soldiers: | 3,400 | ||
Conscription: | No | ||
Eligibility for military service: | 17th | ||
Share of gross domestic product : | 1.09% 2012 | ||
history | |||
Founding: | 1965 |
The Guyana Defense Forces ( GDF ) are the armed forces of Guyana .
history
The GDF was established on November 1, 1965 and was originally formed from members of the British Guiana Volunteer Force (BGVF), the Special Service Unit (SSU), the British Guiana Police Force (BGPF) and newly drafted civilians.
It is now a volunteer army and is also open to female soldiers . Crews and NCOs are trained in Guyana, Army officers are trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Coast Guard officers are trained at Britannia Royal Naval College . The GDF's motto is "Service".
She is a member of the Council of South American Defense and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and participant in the US International Military Education and Training (IMET) program, the Canadian Military Training Assistance Program (MTAP) and a Chinese military initiative Training and provision of military equipment. It is also a partner of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) .
The tasks of the GDF include national defense , maintaining the sovereignty of the state, internal order and security as well as providing support in emergencies and disasters. The use of the GDF is decided by the President and Parliament. The Defense Committee consists of the President, the Prime Minister, the Interior Minister and three other persons appointed for this purpose.
The GDF had its first major mission in January 1969 when it was used in the Rupununi uprising against the Rupununi rebels supported by Venezuela. The uprising was put down by the GDF after a few hours on the same day.
In August 1969, in the border conflict with Suriname, the area around the New River and a runway near the Tigri were liberated by Surinamese troops with the "Operation Climax" .
Organization and equipment
The armed forces are subordinate to the respective Guyanese prime minister and their commander in chief is the Guyanese president. Furthermore, they are not subject to any special parliamentary control.
army
structure
Departments:
- 1st Infantry - Battalion
- 2. Infantry - reserve battalion
- Support battalion
- Engineer Battalion
- 21. Artillery Company
- 41. Construction company
- 1st Special Forces - company
- Military Music Corps
- Medical Corps
- Agri Corps (Agricultural Corps)
- Telecommunications
- Training Corps
Armament
- 10 Ford F-350 ( United States )
- 4 Shorland ( United Kingdom )
- 6 EE-9 Cascavel ( Brazil )
- 12 EE-11 Urutu ( Brazil )
Guns, mortars and rocket launchers:
- 12 122mm D-30 (2A18) howitzer ( Soviet Union )
- 6 M1954 (M-46) 130mm cannon ( Soviet Union )
- 12 81 mm L16 mortars ( United Kingdom )
- 18 82 mm M-43 mortars ( Soviet Union )
- 18 M1938 120 mm mortar ( Soviet Union )
- 6 recoilless guns B-10 ( Soviet Union )
- 6 multiple rocket launchers Type 63 ( People's Republic of China )
- 6 ZPU-4 Fla-MG ( Soviet Union )
- 18 rocket launcher 9K32 Strela-2 ( Soviet Union )
Infantry weapons:
air force
The Guyana Defense Force Air Corps was established in 1968 and currently has 2 aircraft and 4 helicopters:
plane | origin | Type | version | In service | Remarks | |
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Transport and liaison aircraft | ||||||
Short Skyvan | United Kingdom | Transport plane | SC-7 Skyvan 3M | 1 | In service since 1979. | |
Harbin Y-12 Panda | People's Republic of China | Transport plane | Y-12 | 1 | In service since 2002. | |
helicopter | ||||||
Bell 206 JetRanger | United States | helicopter | 206B | 2 | In service since 1976. | |
Bell 412 | United States | helicopter | 412 | 1 | In service since 1984. | |
RotorWay Exec 162F | United States | Light helicopter | 162F | 1 | In service since 2004. |
Coast guard
The maritime component of the GDF was set up in 1969 and reclassified as a coast guard in 1990 . The Guyana Defense Force Coast Guard has the following ships and boats:
- GDFS Essequibo , minelayer ( United Kingdom )
- 1 river patrol boat , 890 tons (1985)
- 8 T-44 patrol boats , 18 tons
- 1 LCU Mark I (NL) (national kimbala class) ( Netherlands )
Individual evidence
- ^ The Caribbean: Defense and Security in the Anglophone Caribbean - The Roads to Cooperation . In: Red de Seguridad y Defensa de América Latina (RESDAL): A Comparative Atlas of Defense in Latin America and Caribbean. Edition 2010, especially table Organization of Defense and Security Forces. P. 113 and Legal functions related to defense in the system. P. 116 f (whole article p. 113–128, pdf, resdal.org, there p. 4 f).
- ^ Odeen Ishmael, The Trail of Diplomacy: The Guyana-Venezuela Border Issue
- ^ World Military Aircraft Inventory. Aerospace Source Book 2007, Aviation Week & Space Technology , January 15, 2007.
- ↑ Video footage of the 8R-GRR Skyvan shortly after landing (piloted by Mike Rogers) . January 23, 2008. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
- ↑ Photo of the GDF Short SC-7 Skyvan, 8R-GGK (airliners.net) . December 7, 2008. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
- ↑ Article with exterior and interior photos of the 8R-GGK Skyvan . April 6, 2007. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
- ↑ Article about the Bell 412 and other GDF aircraft at the Guyana Times website (with a larger resolution photograph of the Bell 412 in flight) . February 9, 2012. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
Web links
- The Guyana Defense Force website (English)