Ghana has a small but relatively well equipped army with an impressive array of amoured fighting vehicles. 
Ghana has never been big on heavy amour. The army has no Battle Tanks and long range self propelled howitzers. So they divide their army into 3 brigade sized commands. The
1st Reconnaisance Amoured Squadron based in Accra and Reconnaisance Amoured Regiment Squadron in Tamale.
1st Reconnaisance Amoured Squadron based in Accra and Reconnaisance Amoured Regiment Squadron in Tamale.
They are Ghana's first line of defence of the homeland against external military aggression. Lacking heavy or light Main Battle Tanks to effectively defend its territory, Ghana's army needs strategic mobility and firepower.
The army needed an amoured vehicle, not to slug it out with battle tanks, but to provide strategic mobility to infantry operating independently over vast stretches of land.
The Ghanaian army adopted the South African made Ratel 20 and 90 series of Infantry fighting vehicles.
The Ghanaian army adopted the South African made Ratel 20 and 90 series of Infantry fighting vehicles.
The Ratel 20 is a wheeled 6x6 IFV fitted with a two man turret and the primary armament consists of a 20 mm automatic cannon mounted in a non-powered turret at the front of the vehicle.
Ratel 90 Infantry fighting vehicle is fitted with a two man turret armed with a 90mm cannon.
Now at Piranha Amoured fighting vehicles.
The WZ-523 armored personnel carrier (with amphibious capability)
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In May 2021 Ghana received 40 Dubbed Cobra II armoured vehicles for the 155 Amoured Regiment in Tamale.
Ghana also fields an array of APCs like the Turkish made Otoka Cobra APC.
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