New fleet ! – The Colombian Navy

Armada Nacional de la República de Colombia

c90 vessels 1947-today – Colombian National Day:
The Colombian Navy, “Armada Nacional de la República de Colombia” simplified as “Armada Nacional” as a naval branch of the military forces of Colombia today is tasked of security and defence on both the Atlantic (Caribbean) and Pacific oceans as well as an extensive network of rivers and a few small land areas under its jurisdiction. Today it had a strength of 35,000 personnel including c22,000 in the Marine Infantry corps, 9 frigates, 2 corvettes, a hundred OPVs, 4 submarines, a coast guard and more than 100 riverine vessels. It used not to be that plentiful.
In 1902 the country had a single cruiser, and in 1903 faced the panama standoff with the USN and… three gunboats.

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