Written by
D-Mitch
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| Latin America |
The following image depicts the most important naval forces by each sovereign state of Latin America region. Similarly with my previous Naval Forces posts, I include also the classes and not just quantities. Therefore, I made it easier
for the reader to realize where these numbers came from and the most
important to check and to understand why a class belongs to a specific
category of warships. Before starting completing this large table, I used almost the same criteria I used for the EU Naval Forces table that helped me to categorize better each class and
to make a fair allocation of the warships that each LA country
has in each type of warships. I avoided each country's system of pennant
numbers such as -D- for Argentinian Almirante Brown class that allocates the class to destroyer type despite the non destroyer's capabilities and
the small size of the class. I tried to avoid also the unfair
categorization of warships in a higher position in the hierarchy such as
the Pauk or various fast attack crafts to corvettes without having missile
launch capability or their capabilities are inferior to a modern corvette respectively. I did my best to avoid all
these unfair classifications and based on capabilities, size and
armament I divided all the classes (in brackets) except of the auxiliary
ships in eleven (11) main types/categories. I have excluded types of warships such as Large Helicopter Carriers (LHD, LHA, LPH) and Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN) as there is no country operating these types in Latin America. I have added though the Cruisers (CLM, CG, CGN). Obsolete ships or ships their status is unknown, they have been excluded (mainly Mexican and Cuban ships).
