bensonby said:
Ironic how they hate Britain so much but basically use british-style insignia and uniforms (sort of)
Also because the British army trained them in the 80's and have a great deal of weapons like ours, including SA-80's and SLR's.
a list I found of the equipment they use these days, if anyone cares:
Armour
Norinco Type 59 MBT - 35
Norinco Type 69 MBT - 10
Type 63 light tank - 20 received 1983/1984 from China
T-54 - 20 tanks received from USSR in September 1984.[4]
T-54/55 ARV
T-55 tanks - 12 from North Korea, 1981[citation needed]
EE-9 Cascavel Armoured Car - 90
EE-11 Urutu - 7
Panhard AML Armoured Car - 30
Eland Mk7 - 20
EQ2050 Armoured Car (Chinese version of the American M998 (HMMWV) - 100
YW 531 Armoured Personnel Carrier - 30 (8 from China and 22 Korean VTT-323 version)
Unknown type Armoured Personnel Carrier - 22 donated by China in January 2005
UR-416 Armoured Personnel Carrier - 36
Crocodile Armoured Personnel Carrier - 40
BRDM-1 Armoured Personnel Carrier, from North Korea in 1984 - 20
BRDM-2 Armoured Personnel Carrier, from Russia - 1980
BTR-152 Armoured Personnel Carrier, from North Korea - 1983
BTR-50 Armoured personnel carrier, from Syria - 1984 - 40
ACMAT TPK 4.20 VSC Armoured Personnel Carrier 260
Steyr-Daimler-Puch 4x4 Armoured Personnel Carrier (exact type not known)- at least 66
Field Artillery
2S1 122mm Self-propelled howitzer - 12
D-30/2A18M Towed Artillery (122mm) - 4
Type 60 howitzer - Towed Artillery (122 mm) - 18
PRC Type-54 - Towed Artillery (122 mm) - 12
OTO Melara Mod 56 105mm Pack Howitzer - 18
L118 Light Gun 105 mm towed howitzer - 12
PRC Type 63 Multiple Rocket Launcher - 18
RM-70 Multiple Rocket Launcher - 52
BM-21 Grad - 25
L16 81mm Mortar - 100
81 mm / 82 mm Mortar - 502
120 mm Mortar - 74 (60 of unidentified type delivered from Bulgaria in 2000, according to the 2001 edition of the U.N.âs Register of Conventional Arm)
Air Defense Artillery
ZPU-1/-2/-4; ZU-23; M1939 Air Defence Guns - 215
ZSU-23-4 Shilka
SA-7/SA-18 Igla Surface-to-air missile - 30
Seacat/Tigercat missiles
HQ-2 Surface-to-air missile - Reported. Quantity unknown.
ATGM missiles have been cited in military exercise reports.
Light Infantry Weapons
L85A1 Assault rifle
AK family of rifles is standard issue infantry weapon
FN FAL sometimes issued the special forces
FN MAG Machine gun
PK machine gun
Dragunov Sniper Rifle
Sako TRG