MAN-PORTABLE ANTITANK WEAPONS IN THE THIRD WORLD: INCREASING AVAILABILITY AND LETHALITY

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• Document Release Date: January 23, 2020
• Case Number: F-2016-02132
• Publication Date: April 1, 1989

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Directorate of
Intelligence
Man-Portable Antitank Weapons
in the Third World: Increasing
Availability and Lethality
A Research Paper
8940036 .
April /989
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MANPATS in the Inventories of Major
Insurgent Groups
Africa
Angola
Group Weapons
UNITA (National Union for RPG-2/RPG-7
the Total Independence of M72 I AW
Angola) APILAS
Ethiopia EPLF (Eritrean People's RPCi-2/RPG-7
Liberation Front)
TPLF (Tigrean People's RPG-2/RPG-7
I.iberation Front)
Mozambique RENAMO (Mozambican RPG-2/RPG,7
National Resistance)
Namibia SWAPO (South-West Africa RPG-7
People's Organization)
Group
Weapons
Guatemala EGP (Guerrilla Army of the RPG-2
Poor)
FAR (Rebel Armed Forces)
ORPA (Organization of the
People in Arms)
RPG-2/RPG-7
RPG-2/RPG-7
Nicaragua RN (Nicaraguan Resistance) RPG-2/RPG-7
M72 LAW
Near East/South Asia
- Afghanistan Mujaheddin
Somalia SDSF (Somali Democratic RPG-2/RPG-7
Salvation Front)
SNM (Somali National � RPG-2/RPG-7
Movement)
South Africa ANC (African National RPG-7
Congress) .
Sudan SPLA (Sudanese People's RPG-7 (maybe
Liberation Army) RPG-2)
Uganda UPF (FOBA) (Uganda RPG-2 or RPG-7
People's Front (Force Obote
Back Again))
UPDM (United Peoples RPG-2 or RPG-7
Democratic Movement (Army))
Latin America
Colombia M-I9 (19th of April M72 LAW
Movement)
FARC (Revolutionary Armed M72 LAW
Forces of Colombia)
EPL (Popular Liberation M72 LAW
Army)
ELN (National Liberation M72 LAW
Army)
El Salvador FMLN (Faribundo Marti
National liberation Front)
Iraq Kurdish rebels
RPG-2/ RPG-7
RPG-16
RPG-7
Sri Lanka LITE (Liberation Tigers of RPG-7
Tamil Eclam)
East Asia
Burma BCP (Communist Party of
Burma)
SSA (Shan State Army)
RPG-2/RPG-7
M72 LAW
RPG-2/RPG-7
M72 LAW
KNU (Karen National Union) RPG-2/RPG-7
M72 LAW
SUA (Shan Lnited Army)
RPG-2/RPG-7
M72 LAW
KIA (Kachin Independence RPG-2/RPG-7
Army) M72 LAW
Cambodia ANS (Sihanoukist National
Army)
RPG-2/RPG-7 (have
requested
M72 LAW and Carl
Gustaf M3)
KP- NLF (Khmer People's
National Liberation Front)
KR (DK) (Khiner Rouge
[Democratic Kampuchea))
� Philippines MNIS (Moro National
Liberation Front)
RPG-2/RPG-7
M72 LAW
RPG-2/RPG-7
RPG-2/RPG-7
RPG-7
NPA (New People's Army( Seeking RPG-7
Secret
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