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Military Equipment
The Chilean Army has aqcuired in the last few years Leopard 1V tanks,'s from the Netherlands Army (via RDM), M113 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from USA and Italy, M-109´s SPH from Switzerland and AIFV-B APCs from the Belgian Army (via SABIEX). Now is due to recieve new Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks (MBTs) from the German Army to boost defence capabilities. Their goal is to have a completely modernized (and mostly mechanized) army by 2015. They are also modifiying the operational structure, creating Armoured (and 1 Special Operations) Brigades throughout the entire territory, while conserving the current divisional scheme. Further aquisitions of more M-109´s self propelled howitzers, Flakpanzer Gepard self propelled anti air vehicles and AH-1 Super Cobra attack helicopters are currently in study.

In all, the Chilean army has about 202 Leopard 1's, 427 M113's, 169 AIFV´s and are going to receive 118 Leopard 2's from Germany. They also have around 300 of FAMAE Piranhas (Mowag Piranha) LAV's. Their main assault rifle is currently the licenced built SG-542 with some Heckler & Koch G3 still in service. Rumours said that the army is planning to replace the Heckler & Koch G3 for the Heckler & Koch G36 in the following years.[citation needed])


Chileans soldiers.
Chilean´s leopard´s 1V.
Chilean marine operating a TAG FIGTER SISTEM.
Chileans M109 howitzer.
Chilean Mowag Piranha 8X8.
Chilean M113A2.
Chilean HMMWV whit M113A2.
Chilean YPR-765.

Tanks and APC's
202 Leopard 1 V Main Battle Tank
Several numbers of Leopard chassis-based vehicles
118 Leopard 2 A4 Main Battle Tank
169 AIFV YPR-765 from Belgian stocks
20 AIFV Armored Personnel Carrier variants equipped with Twin SPIKE anti-tank missiles and M2 Browning machine gun
427 M113A2 APCs
300 Mowag Piranha LAV's manufactured in Chile by FAMAE

Guns (Rifles, pistols, grenade launchers and machine guns) PISTOLS
CZ-75 Semi-automatic pistol (Main Pistol of the army)
M9 pistol
SIG P220
Desert Eagle
Glock 17
RIFLES

SG-542 manufactured in Chile by FAMAE (Main Assault rifle)
SG-540 manufactured in Chile by FAMAE (Main Assault rifle)
SG 550 - 500+ manufactured in Chile by FAMAE (Main Assault rifle)
Heckler & Koch G3 (In service only in mountain troops, artillery and engineers)
Galil ARM (For paratroopers and commandos)
Heckler & Koch G36 (Main Assault rifle) in service 2007/early 2008) [citation needed])
M4 carbine equipped with M203 grenade launcher (for special forces only).
M82 Barrett rifle (A1 version) High-Powered Sniper Rifle
FN F2000

OTHER GUNS
Rheinmetall MG42 (Converted into MG3)
Rheinmetall MG3 (Standard Machine Gun)
M2 Browning machine gun
FN M249
FN P90
SIG 552
Heckler & Koch MP5
GRENADE LAUNCHERS
Mk 19 grenade launcher
Milkor MGL grenade launcher

Artillery
24 x M109 howitzer KAWEST Upgraded by RUAG, Switzerland
47 x AMX-13 Mk.F3 155 mm Self Propelled Howitzer
Soltam M68 155mm Towed Howitzer
Soltam M71 155mm Towed Howitzer
M101 howitzer/33 105mm Towed Howitzer (Upgraded by FAMAE)
Oto Melara M56 105mm Towed Howitzer (Mountain Artillery)

Air defense
Gepard (Cheetah) (In study)
Mistral missile launchers mounted on UNIMOG trucks
M163 VADS

Anti tanks systems
AT4 Anti-tank weapon (Infantry Squad AT weapon)
Carl Gustav recoilless rifle Anti-tank weapon
Bofors 106mm Recoiless Gun mounted on IMI Storm jeeps.
IMI MAPATS mounted on IMI Storm jeeps.
Rafael SPIKE ATGM, on YPR 765 and MD-530F (manufactured in Israel).

Transport
Land transport assets:
200+ HMMWV (Some will replace the "AT role" Storm Jeeps. The rest for Recon units).
The standard transport for troop commanders is the IMI Storm (manufactured in Israel).
MB-1017A (Most used truck)
Armoured Unimog trucks
Ducati Multistrada Dual-sport Motorcycles

Aircraft inventory
Aérospatiale Lama France search and rescue SA 315B 1
Aérospatiale Puma France transport helicopter SA 330L 4
CASA C-212 Aviocar Spain tactical transport C-212-100 4, C-212-300 2
CASA CN-235 Spain tactical transport 3
Cessna 172 United States utility 3
Cessna 208 United States utility 8
Cessna Citation United States VIP transport Citation II 1, Citation III 1
Eurocopter Cougar France transport helicopter AS 332B 1, AS 332M2 1
Eurocopter Ecureuil France utility helicopter AS 350 3, AS 355 MD Helicopters MD 530 United States utility helicopter MD 530F 19
AH-1 Super Cobra United States attack helicopter AH-1W 24