Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces are the military forces of Cuba. They include Revolutionary Army, Revolutionary Navy, Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force, and other paramilitary bodies including the Territorial Troops Militia, Youth Labor Army, and the Defense and Production Brigades, plus the Civil Defense Organization and the National Reserves Institution. All these groups are subordinated to the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
Soldiers of the FAR
Guards at the Mausoleum of José Marti, Santiago de Cuba
Soldiers of Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias on a motorbike
Cuban MiG-21MF from the 1970s
The Cuban Revolutionary Army serve as the ground forces of Cuba. Formed in 1868 during the Ten Years' War, it was originally known as the Cuban Constitutional Army. Following the Cuban Revolution, the revolutionary military forces was reconstituted as the national army of Cuba by Fidel Castro in 1960. The army is a part of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces which was founded around that time.
Guards at the Mausoleum of José Marti, Santiago de Cuba
Vladimir Putin inspecting the Army Guard of Honour at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana in 2014.
Soldiers of Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias on a motorbike