This is a list of equipment of the Ecuadorian Army. Historically, the Ecuadorian Army depended on a wide variety of foreign suppliers like India, the United States and Germany for virtually all of its equipment needs. The rotary wing of the Ecuadorian Army depends on HAL Dhruv helicopters from India. Only in the 1980s did it begin to develop a modest domestic arms industry as the Directorate of Army Industries manufactured rifle ammunition, uniforms, boots, and other consumable items. The Army's present day equipment is mostly of Western origin.
| Model | Image | Origin | Quantity | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light tanks | |||||
| AMX-13 | ~108[1] | In 1988, Ecuador upgraded its fleet of 108 AMX-13 light tanks armed with 105 mm guns. SOPELEM supplied the basic day version of its SOPTAC 18 fire-control system with laser rangefinder and its control unit. Fives-Cail Babcock provided kits to modify the 105 mm gun and its ammunition system to allow APFSDS rounds to be fired. Work on upgrading the AMX-13s started in Ecuador late in 1988 and was completed in 1990. | |||
| Reconnaissance vehicle | |||||
| EE-3 Jararaca | ~10 | [2] | |||
| ~32 | |||||
| Armoured personnel carriers | |||||
| AMX-VCI | ~82 | ||||
| M113 | ~20 | ||||
| EE-11 Urutu | ~17 | ||||
| UR-416 | ~32 | ||||
| ~20 | [3] | ||||
| Model | Image | Origin | Caliber | Quantity | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mortar | |||||
| M29 | 81mm | ~357 | |||
| Towed | |||||
| Model 56 pack |  Italy | 105mm | ~24 | ||
| M101 | ~36 | ||||
| M2A2 | ~24 | ||||
| M114 | 155mm | ~12 | |||
| M198 | ~10 | ||||
| Self-propelled | |||||
| Mk F3 | 155mm | ~5 | |||
| Multiple rocket launchers | |||||
| BM-21 Grad | 122mm | ~18 | |||
| RM-70 | ~6 | ||||
| Model | Image | Origin | Caliber | Quantity | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Man-portable air-defense systems | ||||||
| 9K32 Strela-2 | 72mm | n/a | ||||
| 9K38 Igla | n/a | |||||
| Blowpipe | 76mm | n/a | ||||
| Towed anti-aircraft guns | ||||||
| ZPU-1 | 14.5mm | ~128 | ||||
| ZPU-2 | ||||||
| M-1935 |  Switzerland | 20mm | ~28 | |||
| M167 Vulcan | ~10 | |||||
| L/70 | 40 × 365mm | ~30 | ||||
| Self-propelled | ||||||
| M163 Vulcan | 20mm | ~44 | ||||
| Model | Image | Origin | Type | Versions | In service | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armoured personnel carrier/Infantry mobility vehicles | |||||||
| Armoured personnel carrier (wheeled) | 35 | Status unknown. 4x4[4] | |||||
| Otokar Ural | Tactical wheeled armoured vehicle | 15[5] | |||||
| Light armored vehicles | |||||||
| Transport and recognition | AM10 AM20 | 130 | First lot bought by Ecuador in February 2009 as a reconnaissance variant.[6] Second lot bought in August 2009 as transport variant.[7] [8] | ||||
| Utility | M-240 Storm Mark I | 280 | 4x4[9] | ||||
| Utility | UR-53AR50 | 4 | Donated by Venezuela in April 2009.[10] | ||||
| Transport Anti-tank Anti-aircraft | 820[11] | 118 Humvees were donated by US NAS in 2003. The Israeli MAPATS anti-tank version was created in 2009. Other anti-tank variants include the Chinese HJ-8 system. In 2013, 107 new units were acquired. Less reliable sources suggest that 500 Humvees are currently in use within the Armed Forces. | |||||
| Commercial utility cargo vehicle | CUCV II | 200 | The CUCV II was procured by the Ecuadorian military in limited quantities.[12] | ||||
| Truck | |||||||
| 6×6 truck | Transport | 76 | Donated by the US NAS program in 2003.[13] | ||||
| truck | Transport | ? | |||||
| truck | Transport | 15 | Donated by the US NAS program in 2010.[14] | ||||
| 4×4 truck | Anti-aircraft warfare | ? | Equipped with Anti-tank or Anti-aircraft weapon-systems. | ||||
| 6×6 truck | Transport | 35 | In the process of recovery.[15] | ||||
| 6×6 truck | Transport | 293 | Multipurpose Trucks.[16] | ||||
| 4x4 truck | Transport | 226 | Multipurpose Trucks. | ||||
| 6×4 truck | 28 | ||||||
| 6×4 truck | 20 | ||||||
| 6×4 heavy tractor | 27 | Head Truck 30T. | |||||
| 6×4 tractor | Transport | 35 | Mule-type truck 22T. | ||||
| 6×4 tractor | 11 | 12m Cubic. | |||||
| 4x4 truck | Transport | 99 | Multipurpose Trucks 3.5T | ||||
| 4x4 truck | Transport | 20 | Van truck 5T. | ||||
| Anti-material warfare | |||||||
| 244 | Some units are mounted on vehicles. Deliveries started in October 2009.[17] | ||||||
| ? | Some units are mounted on vehicles. | ||||||
/ | Missile launchers | ? | Mounted on Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopters. | ||||
/ | ? | Some units are mounted on vehicles. | |||||
| ? | [18] | ||||||
| 66mm RPG (M-72A-3 LAW) | ? | ||||||
| ? | Used by the Marine Corps. | ||||||
| Anti-aircraft warfare | |||||||
| Towed Mounted | 34 | AA System. Some units are mounted on vehicles.[19] | |||||
| Mobile surface-to-air missile system | |||||||
| Mobile 6x6 amphibious self-propelled | 200 mm SAM system | 10[20] | |||||
| Surface-to-air missile | |||||||
| ? | Some are mounted on vehicles. Also used by Marine Corps. | ||||||
| 72 mm Surface-to-air missile HN-5A | ? | ||||||
| Small arms[21] | |||||||
| ? | [22] | ||||||
| ? | |||||||
 Austria | ? | ||||||
 China | 10,000 | They will be used for conscript training. Donated by China.[23] | |||||
| 50,000 | Former standard rifle of the Army, it was replaced by the HK 33 since 1994, the FN FAL is still used by some units such as Jungle Infantry where the 7.62mm round has its advantages.[24] | ||||||
| ? | |||||||
| ? | Colt M16A1, M16A2 & CAR-15A1 (M16A1 carbine delivered. | ||||||
| ? | M4s sold as a 2008 Foreign Military Sales package.[25] | ||||||
| ? | Used also by Ecuadorian UN operatives and jungle warfare units. Delivered between 1987 and 1989. | ||||||
| ? | |||||||
| 33,000+ | Used also by Ecuadorian Naval Infantry, Ecuadorian UN operatives, paramilitary units, and the 9th Special Forces Brigade. 30,000 units (produced in England) were delivered in 1994. A further 3,000 units were acquired through Chile. An unknown quantity was purchased from Turkey (HK-33A-2 and HK-33A-3). | ||||||
| ? | Used (also) by: Ecuadorian Naval Infantry, Air Force Infantry detachments and the Counter-terror unit GEO. Night-vision and SD versions available. | ||||||
| 5.000 | Used (also) by: Air Force Infantry | ||||||
| ? | |||||||
| ? | |||||||
| ? | |||||||
| ? | [26] [27] | ||||||
| ? | |||||||
| ? | |||||||
| Infantry support weapon | ? | ||||||
| Infantry support weapon | ? | ||||||
| GL | |||||||
| GL | |||||||
| Infantry support | ? | ||||||
| Anti-material Infantry support | ? | ||||||
| Aircraft | Image | Origin | Type | Versions | In service[28] | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trainer aircraft | |||||||
| T-41D | 2 | ||||||
| 4 | [29] | ||||||
| Utility aircraft | |||||||
| Turbo Porter | 5 | STOL aircraft, the Porter series was produced under license in the States. | |||||
| MT-7-235 Super Rocket | 3 | ||||||
| Aerial reconnaissance | |||||||
| Aerial survey | 550 | 1 | |||||
| Transport | |||||||
| 3 | |||||||
| 201 | 2 | STOL aircraft. | |||||
| 1 | STOL aircraft. Delivered in August 2018 to replace crashed IAI Arava.[30] | ||||||
| | 400 | 2 | STOL aircraft. | ||||
| | 2 | ||||||
| Armed reconnaissance helicopter | |||||||
| SA 342L1 | 16 | [31] In 2003 only 26 were operational.[32] One (no#E-342) crashed on August 1, 2008, killing the crew. Two crashed on January 24, 2007, killing the Defence Minister. All were equipped with HOT missiles between 1982 and 1983. Remaining helicopters been modernized and improved with Israeli technology . | |||||
| Military helicopter | |||||||
| Mi-17-1V Mi-171E | 9 1 | [33] [34] [35] | |||||
| SA.330L AS 332B | 6 2 | ||||||
| | 332M | 12 | A total of one unit was delivered. Since then only six are in use. Various sources state that one or few units might have been acquired in the AS332M variant. It is being planned to modernise, overhaul and upgrade the remaining helicopters until 2018. | ||||
| | AS532 UL/AL | 8 | |||||
| | 4 | ||||||
| 214B | 1 | ||||||
| | 4 | ||||||
| | 9 | ||||||
| AS350 B AS 350B2 AS 350B3 | 6 1 2 | ||||||
| AS550 C3 Fennec AS555 Fennec 2 | 11 7 | ||||||