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When Venezela bought helicopters and 120,000 rifles from Brazil for their standing forces, the question surfaced of were the current rifles would go?
- FARC ?
- chavistas?
The rifles are actually Russian and the AK-103/AK-104 models in 7.6mm M-43. The nation did favor the FNC in 5.56mm SS-109 but it seems Chavez wishes to put a finger in the wests eye or something.
The helicopters are the Mi-17 and the FAV favored the UH-60 Blackhwak, once again a finger in the eye. And the MiG-29Ms are supposed to be a finger in the eye.
He can have fun trying to fit all that into his military...
To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway
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