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The armored equipment in Cuba is a few known theme. Cuba
receives its first tanks in 1942 when entering in the war against the Axis, and
after the 1959 revolution the Soviet and Czech deliveries of tanks become extensives.
The Cuban armored units fight with success every time in Bay of Pigs, Syrian,
Angola, Ethiopia, against enemies as Israel, Sudáfrica and Somalia or the
CIA. In Angola the Cuban troops came to have in the first campaign of 1976 some
400 tanks, and in the final campaign of 1988, near 1,000 tanks. Today Cuba have
some 1,600 tanks (1,100 T-55, 400 T-62, 300 T-34-85, 40 IS-2M, 60 PT-76, part
of them in conservation), among which the T-62 are the better tanks of Latin America.
They are the strongest and experienced armored forces of America, surpassed only
by the United States. |