New Fleet ! – The Cuban Navy

The Cuban Navy already existed in some form as a regional Spanish fleet, certainly one of the strongest in the Caribbean. After the war of 1898 and independence, under protectorate, the Navy acquired four gunboats, going through WW1 and WW2 with these, and then modernized, still with US ships in the early cold war. After the Castrist revolution (supported by the US) it became the Marina de Guerra Revolucionaria, but after severing relations with the US and turning towards USSR, its equipment changed as well. In the 1980s, the Cuban Navy was arguably one of the largest of the Caribbean, if not the largest naval power in the entire region, with a full array of submarines, frigates, and missile launching fast attack crafts among others plus c28,000 personal. The following decade’s economical situation however massively decreased it. As of today it is down to two ex-trawlers locally reconverted as missile/helicopter frigates, a corvette, a midget sub, six FACs and a dozen patrol crafts. Cuba, still, developed its own anti-ship missile range.

See the Cuban Navy