Argentine ground forces in the Falklands War

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This is a list of the ground forces from Argentina that took part in the Falklands War. For a list of ground forces from the United Kingdom, see British ground forces in the Falklands War.

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[edit] Background

Two, ultimately wrong, factors decided how the ground component of the Argentine garrison at the Falklands (Guarnicion Militar Malvinas) will be composed. The assumption that the British would not use force to retake the islands and the Chilean threat due the still pending Beagle Conflict. This led to the mass of Argentine troops were conscripts, who had only begun their training in the Jan/Feb of that year mainly for the tropical Mesopotamia region and Buenos Aires. The southern V Corp Army regiments and western mountain warfare regiments plus Navy marine battalions, all of which were much better trained and equipped for the patagonia climate were holded at the chilean border. [1]

One of the amphibious commandos after the fall of Stanley's Government House
One of the amphibious commandos after the fall of Stanley's Government House

[edit] Operation Rosario (April 2)

Main article: 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands

[edit] Georgias (April 3)

  • 1st Marine Infantry Btn. (BIM 1) (†2) , embarked ARA Bahia Paraiso transport and ARA Guerrico corvette
    • 60 men

[edit] Teatro de Operaciones Malvinas (April 7 - June 14)

See also: List of Argentine Army Regiments
  • Commander: Brigade General Mario Menendez (governor). RI (Infantry Regiments) were 800 men aprox

[edit] 3rd Mechanised Infantry Brigade

Commander: Brigade General Omar Parada. Brigade home base: Mesopotamia

  • 4th Regiment (RI 4) — Mount Harriet & Two Sisters (Port Stanley) (†23)
    • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Diego A. Soria.
  • 12th Regiment (RI 12) — Goose Green & Darwin (East Falkland) (†35)
    • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Italo A. Piaggi.
  • West Falkland
    • 5th Regiment (RI 5) — Port Howard (†8)
      • Commander: Colonel Juan R. Mabragana
    • 8th Regiment, 9th Infantry Brigade (RI 8) — Fox Bay (†5)
      • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Ernesto A. Repossi.

[edit] 10th Motorised Infantry Brigade

Commander: Brigade General Oscar Joffre. Brigade home base: Buenos Aires Province

  • 3rd Regiment (RI 3) — Port Stanley - aborted urban warfare
    • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel David U. Comini.
  • 6th Regiment (RI 6) — Port Stanley airfield (†12)
    • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Jorge Halperin.
  • 7th Regiment (RI 7) — Mount Longdon & Wireless Ridge (Port Stanley) (†36)
    • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Ortiz N. Giménez.
  • 25th Regiment (RI 25), 9th Infantry Brigade (attach to 10th Brigade) — airmobile, East Falkland (†13)
    • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Mohamed A. Seineldin.
  • 10th Exploration cavalry armoured car squadron (EECB 10) (Port Stanley). (†6)
    • Commander: Major Alejandro D. Carullo.
    • 6 x Panhard APC 90 mm.

[edit] Artillery

  • 3rd Artillery Group (GA3), 3rd Infantry Brigade (†2)
    • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Martín A. Balza
    • 18 105 mm OTO Melara field guns (Port Stanley & Goose Green).
    • 4 x CITEFA 155 mm guns airlifted from May 15th (from the 101st Artillery Group) (Port Stanley).
  • 4th Air mobile Artillery Group (GA4), 4th Airborne Brigade (†3) (Port Stanley).
    • Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Carlos A. Quevedo
    • 18 105 mm guns.

[edit] Miscellaneous Army

  • 181st Military Police and Intelligence Coy (Port Stanley). (†1)
  • 601st Engineer battalion (BI-601) (†10) (Fitz Roy bridge demolition)
    • Commander: Major Jorge L. A. Etienot.
    • 9th Engineer company
      • Commander: Major Oscar M. Lima.
    • 10th Engineer company
      • Commander: Major Carlos R. Matalon.
  • 601st Commando
    • Commander: Major Mario Castagneto
  • 602nd Commando Mt Kent... (†4)
    • Commander: Major Aldo Rico.

[edit] Navy

  • 5th Marine Infantry Btn. (BIM 5) attached to Army — Mount Tumbledown, Mount William & Sapper Hill (Port Stanley) (†29)
    • Commander: Capitan de fragata (commander) Carlos Hugo Robacio.
    • 800 men

[edit] Gendarmería

  • Special Forces Units: (†7) 6 died in the same Puma crash, May 30th
    • Squadron Atucha - Mount Kent (East Falkland).
    • Squadron Bariloche.
    • Squadron Calafate.
    • Squadron Esquel - Top Malo House (East Falkland).

[edit] Air defences

[edit] Army

  • 601st Air defence artillery group (GADA-601). (†6)
  • B Battery, 101st Anti-Aircraft group, I Corps.
    • Commander: Major Jorge Monge.
    • 8 30 mm Hispano Suiza guns.
    • 10 12.7 mm machine guns

[edit] Air Force

  • Airfield defence group. (†3)
    • 1 Westinghouse TPS-43F long range radar.
    • 1 Super fledermaus fire control radar.
    • 1 Elta short ranged radar
    • 3 Oerlikon twin 35 mm guns (BAM Cóndor).
    • 9 Rheinmetall twin 20 mm anti-aircraft guns.
    • A number of SA-7 man portable short ranged SAMs.

[edit] Navy

  • No. 1 Marine Air Defence Battalion: (†2)
    • 3 Tigercat SAM triple launchers.
    • 12 Hispano HS-831 30 mm anti-aircraft guns.

[edit] Infantry weapons

[edit] Casualties


 v • d • e Falklands War
Military forces | Argentine ground forces | British ground forces | Argentine air forces | British air forces | Argentine naval forces | British naval forces
Timeline | Background | Invasion | Falklands War
Battles | Goose Green | Mount Harriet | Two Sisters | Mount Longdon | Mount Tumbledown | Wireless Ridge
Operations | Algeciras | Canbelow | Corporate | Black Buck | Keyhole | Paraquat | Purple Warrior | Azul (also Rosario) | Sutton

[edit] References

  1. ^ Commodore Ruben Oscar Moro La Guerra Inaudita, 2000 ISBN 987-96007-3-8

[edit] External link

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