Cuban Army Engineer Units
v.1.0 October 28, 2001
Each of the three Armies and four Army Corps, which make up the Cuban Revolutionary Army, has an engineer battalion under direct control. Each Armoured and Mechanized Infantry Division also has its own engineer battalion, numbering 270 and 300 respectively. Each Infantry Division, Armoured Regiment and Mechanized Infantry Regiment also has a subordinate Engineer Company, numbering 50 in each case.
Although no details are available of the composition of a Cuban Engineer Battalion, the fact that the strength of the independent Engineer Companies is identical would indicate that the strength and composition of the basic subordinate Company of the Battalions is probably also more or less the same. Soviet Engineer Battalions, the composition of which presumably influenced that of their Cuban equivalents, also provide a guideline. Each of these consisted of a Headquarters, a Sapper Company, a Road-Building Company, a Bridging Company and an Assault Engineer Company. Cuban Engineer Battalions may be assumed to follow the same general composition, the disparity between the total strength of the Engineer Battalions of the Armoured and Mechanized Infantry Divisions being probably accounted for by the presence or absence of one of these component Companies. In the Soviet Engineer Battalion, the Assault Engineer Company was the smallest component. The disparity in the overall strength of the Engineer Companies of the Armoured and Mechanized Infantry Divisions may therefore be accounted for by the absence of this type of sub-unit in the former and its presence in the latter.
The only details of Cuban engineering equipment available are as follows:
Heavy |Pontoon Bridge: TMP
Cantilever Tank Bridge on Tracked Carriage: MTU-20
Truck-Mounted Scissors Bridge: TMM and KMM
Heavy Amphibious Ferry (carried on tracked chassis): GSP
All the above are Soviet equipments.