Armed Forces Cape Verdes

Armed Forces Cape Verdes Forças Armadas Cabo-verdianas
guide
Commander in Chief :	President of Cape Verde
Defense Minister:	Rui Mendes Semedo
Military strength
Active soldiers:	1200
Conscription:	24 Months
Resilient population:	269,043 (men and women, ages 16–49; 2010)
Eligibility for military service:	Completed 17th - 35th age
household
Military budget:	$ 9.4 million (2017)
Share of gross domestic product :	0.5% (2017)
history

Cape Verdean Coast Guard soldiers

The Armed Forces of Cape Verde ( port. Forças Armadas Cabo-verdianas , abbreviated FACV ) are the military of the Republic of Cape Verde . They are divided into a national guard and a coast guard with an attached air squadron .

history

On April 26, 2016, the police found eight soldiers, a civilian and two Spanish nationals murdered by the police on the island of Santiago at a transmitter on Mount Tchota near Rui Vaz, which was also used by the armed forces. This put the national security forces on high alert. A connection with drug trafficking is suspected.

structure

Command of the armed forces

• Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces (CEMFA) - The CEMFA is a colonel and the most senior officer in the armed forces
• CEMFA office,
• Armed Forces Staff (EMFA)
• Personnel command
• Logistics command

National Guard

The National Guard ( Portuguese : Guarda National ) is the land component of the Cape Verdean armed forces, which is responsible for the military defense of the country and for supporting internal security. As there is no command command for the National Guard, each regional command is headed by a lieutenant colonel who reports directly to the chief of staff of the armed forces and includes units from all three corps.

• Territorial Commands
  • 1st regional command
  • 2nd regional command
  • 3rd regional command
• corps
  • Military police corps
  • Marine Corps
  • Artillery corps

Coast guard

The Coast Guard ( Portuguese : Guarda Costeira ) is the maritime component of the Cape Verdean Armed Forces, which is responsible for the defense and protection of the country's economic interests at sea. Also for air and fleet support in land and amphibious operations. The Coast Guard is led by an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The boat and air squadrons include all ships and aircraft of the Cape Verdean armed forces.

• Coast Guard Command
• Maritime Security Operations Center (COSMAR)
• Boat squadrons
• Air Wing

equipment

The German Bundeswehr provided the Cape Verdean armed forces with equipment several times. The Foreign Office in Berlin noted in 2009: “Cape Verde also wants a rapprochement with NATO.” In the same year, the former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy demanded that Cape Verde should first become a member of the NATO “Partnership for Peace”, then Become a member of the OSCE and ultimately a member of NATO itself.

Hand weapons

• Pistols
  • Makarov - caliber 9 × 18 mm
• Assault rifles
  • AKM - caliber 7.62 × 39 mm
  • AK-47 - caliber 7.62 × 39 mm
  • Heckler & Koch G3 - caliber 7.62 × 51 mm NATO
  • M16 - caliber 5.56 × 45 mm NATO
• Machine guns
  • MG3 - caliber 7.62 × 51 mm NATO
  • RPD - caliber 7.62 × 39 mm
  • RPK - caliber 7.62 × 39 mm
  • PK - caliber 7.62 × 54 mm R
• Others
  • Simonow SKS-45 - self-loading carbine in caliber 7.62 × 39 mm
  • Dragunov - sniper rifle in caliber 7.62 × 54 mm R
  • RPG-7 - Reactive anti-tank rifle

Sea vessels

Ship class	origin	photo	Ships	Remarks
Patrol boats
condor	German Democratic Republic		NP Vigilante (P521)	Ocean patrol boat
Stan Patrol 5009	Netherlands		NP Guardiao (P511)	51.0 m SAR / ISPS code boat
	People's Republic of China		NP Tainha (P 262)	57.54 m SAR / ISPS code boat
	United States		NP Espadarte	15.5 m SAR / ISPS code boat
	United States		NP Rei	13.5 m SAR / ISPS code boat

Aircraft

Aircraft	image	origin	use	version	active	Ordered	Remarks
Planes
CASA C-212		Spain	Transport Search and Rescue		1
Dornier Do 228		Germany	Transport Search and Rescue	Thu 228-200	2
helicopter
Harbin Z-9		People's Republic of China	Transport Search and Rescue		2

Ranks and Rank Badges

Officers

Rank group	Generals		Staff officers			Subaltern officers				Officer Candidates
Shoulder pieces
Rank	Major General	Brigadeiro General	Coronel	Tenente Coronel	major	Capitão	Premiero Teniente	Teniente	Subtenient	Aspirante-a-Oficial
Rank (Bundeswehr)	Major general	Brigadier General	Colonel	Lieutenant colonel	major	Captain	First lieutenant	lieutenant	no equivalent	Oberfähnrich / Ensign
NATO rank code	OF-7	OF-6	OF-5	OF-4	OF-3	OF-2	OF-1			OF-D

NCOs and men

Rank group	NCOs							Teams
Shoulder pieces
Rank	Sargento-mor	Sargento chef	Sargento principal	Primeiro-sargento	Segundo-sargento	Sargento	Furriel	Cabo principal	Cabo de secção	Cabo-adjunto	Primeiro-cabo	Segundo-cabo
Rank (Bundeswehr)	Sergeant Major	Staff Sergeant	Sergeant Major	Oberfeldwebel / Feldwebel	Staff Sergeant	Sergeant		Corporal Corporal	Corporal		Hauptgefreiter / Obergefreiter	Private
NATO rank code	OR-9	OR-8	OR-7	OR-6	OR-5			OR-4			OR-3	OR-2

Web links

Commons : Cape Verdean Armed Forces  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Cape Verdean government (Portuguese)
• Official website of the Cape Verdean Armed Forces (Portuguese)
• Cape Verdean Armed Forces celebrate 36th anniversary (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIA - The World Factbook.
2. ^ Military expenditure by country in US $ 2001-2017. (PDF) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) , accessed on January 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product 2001-2017. (PDF) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, accessed on January 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Narcotráfico volta ao ataque Onze mortos em Monte Tchota. (No longer available online.) Asemana.sapo.cv, April 26, 2016, archived from the original on April 27, 2016 ; Retrieved April 26, 2016 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Stan Patrol 5009 "Guardiao". Damen Shipyards Group , accessed January 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} All-Time Aircraft Used List - Cape Verde Coast Guard. Aeroflight Publishing, accessed March 11, 2020 .