Uniforms and Equipment
The VNG wears the same ranks and uniforms as the Venezuelan Army.
The VNG is equipped as a light infantry force, with the standard FN FAL assault rifle (being replaced with the AK-103), light machine-guns, and mortars up to 81mm.
It possesses over forty Unimog UR-416 wheeled armored personnel carriers and Walther G22 on airports. It aquired 141 Chinese VN4 4x4 wheeled armored vehicles in 2012, and 50 in 2013.
It also employs eighty small craft for its coastal and river patrol duties as part of its Naval Coastal Vigilance Command.
The Air National Guard Command operates over 50 fixed-wing light aircraft and helicopters
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