Panaman Small Arms Inventory

[HCV]

Handguns
Common Name: Browning HP
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre SA (FN), Herstal, Belgium.
Use: Armed forces: general service. Standard sidearm.

Common Name: P228
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: SIG-Sauer GmbH, Eckernförde, Germany.
Use: Police forces: limited service. In use with Policía Tecnica Judicial.

Submachine Guns and Personal Defence Weapons
Common Name: Uzi
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre SA (FN), Herstal, Belgium (licensed from IMI, Ramat Ha Sharon, Israel).
Use: Armed forces: special service (1970-). 190+ acquired.
Details: Folding stock.

Common Name: SAF
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Fábricas y Maestranzas del Ejército (FAMAE), Santiago, Chile.
Use: Police forces: special service. In use with TIGRE.
Details: Folding stock.

Common Name: MP5A3
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Heckler & Koch GmbH, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Police forces: special service. In use with TIGRE.
Details: Retractable stock.

Common Name: MP5A4
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Heckler & Koch GmbH, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Police forces: special service. In use with TIGRE.
Details: Fires semiautomatic, 3-round bursts, and full-automatic.

Common Name: MP5A5
Calibre: 9×19mm
Origin: Heckler & Koch GmbH, Oberndorf, Germany.
Use: Police forces: special service. In use with TIGRE.
Details: Fires semiautomatic, 3-round bursts, and full-automatic. Retractable stock.

Rifles
Common Name: AR-15A1 R613 (M16A1)
Calibre: 5.56×45mm
Origin: Colt’s Manufacturing Co Inc, Hartford, USA.
Use: Armed forces: general service.

Common Name: T65
Calibre: 5.56×45mm
Origin: Hsing-Ho Arsenal, Kaohsuing, Taiwan.
Use: Armed forces: ??? service.

Common Name: FAL-50-00
Calibre: 7.62×51mm
Origin: Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre SA (FN), Herstal, Belgium.
Use: Armed forces: limited service (1961-). OBSOLESCENT.

Common Name: Garand M1
Calibre: 7.62×63mm
Origin: Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, USA; and others.
Use: Armed forces: ??? service. OBSOLETE.

Machine Guns
Common Name: HBAR-15A1 R611
Calibre: 5.56×45mm
Origin: Colt’s Manufacturing Co Inc, Hartford, USA.
Use: Armed forces: limited service.
Details: Bipod.

Common Name: MAG-60-20 Infanterie
Calibre: 7.62×51mm
Origin: Fabrique Nationale d’Armes de Guerre SA (FN), Herstal, Belgium.
Use: Armed forces: general service.
Details: Bipod.

Common Name: M60
Calibre: 7.62×51mm
Origin: Saco Defence, Saco, USA.
Use: Armed forces: general service.
Details: Bipod.

Common Name: M60D
Calibre: 7.62×51mm
Origin: Saco Defence, Saco, USA.
Use: Armed forces: limited service. Mounted on helicopters.
Details: Lacks stock. Bipod.

Common Name: Browning M1919A4
Calibre: 7.62×63mm
Origin: USA.
Use: Armed forces: limited service. OBSOLETE.
Details: Tripod.

Common Name: Browning M2HB
Calibre: 12.7×99mm
Origin: USA.
Use: Armed forces: general service. Used on tripods
and vehicles.

Grenade Launchers
Common Name: M203
Calibre: 40×46mmSR
Origin: Colt’s Manufacturing Co Inc, Hartford, USA.
Use: Armed forces: general service. 200+ acquired.
Details: Mounted under M16A1 rifle.

Signal Pistols

Hand Grenades

Light Antitank Weapons

Cannon

[haze99]

HCV
Panama has numerous makes and models of the AK-47/AKS-47/AKM & AKMS. Plus RPK and PKM, light and medium machine guns.

To be exact, you should be able to find DDR MpikMS-72's (AKMS) and Hungarian AMD-65 (AKMS) Panama imported them sometime in the early 2000's. I saw photos of Panamaian Soldiers(?) with the AMD-65 in February 2004!
Former Soviet weapons will also be in circulation. Maybe even Polish and Bulgarian too. (From the Noriega days.)

[Ominae]

HCV
Panama has numerous makes and models of the AK-47/AKS-47/AKM & AKMS. Plus RPK and PKM, light and medium machine guns.

To be exact, you should be able to find DDR MpikMS-72's (AKMS) and Hungarian AMD-65 (AKMS) Panama imported them sometime in the early 2000's. I saw photos of Panamaian Soldiers(?) with the AMD-65 in February 2004!
Former Soviet weapons will also be in circulation. Maybe even Polish and Bulgarian too. (From the Noriega days.)

Recently saw Panama policemen carrying Hungarian AMDs with orange AK-74 mags on it too...

[Hydro]

So aside from digging these up from the graveyard, why would Panamanian policemen fit a 5.45mm magazine to a 7.62mm short weapon?

[KVLG]

HCV
Panama has numerous makes and models of the AK-47/AKS-47/AKM & AKMS. Plus RPK and PKM, light and medium machine guns.

To be exact, you should be able to find DDR MpikMS-72's (AKMS) and Hungarian AMD-65 (AKMS) Panama imported them sometime in the early 2000's. I saw photos of Panamaian Soldiers(?) with the AMD-65 in February 2004!
Former Soviet weapons will also be in circulation. Maybe even Polish and Bulgarian too. (From the Noriega days.)

WHere did Panama get Bulgarian and Polish weapons?

[raulv]

where in the hell are pics of the weapons

[KVLG]

So aside from digging these up from the graveyard, why would Panamanian policemen fit a 5.45mm magazine to a 7.62mm short weapon?

I think that maybe he meant that they had Soviet plastic magazines with their rifles.