page_title: Special Task Force
section_title: Equipment
hierarchical_section_title: Special Task Force / Equipment
caption_attribution_description: Counter-Terrorist Bomb Disposal Unit - Sri Lanka Army
context_page_description: The Special Task Force is an elite para-military forces unit of the Sri Lanka Police specializing in counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations. It was formed in 1983 not as a military force, but rather as a highly specialised police unit.
context_section_description: Land vehicles
  Unibuffel – Mine-protected APC
  Land Rover Defender
  Unicorn APC
  Pindad Komodo APC
  Disaster Management Amphibious Multi Unit Vehicles
  Mortars
  Type 84 (W84) 82 mm mortars
  Type 89 60 mm mortars
  Small arms
  
  
   
  Handguns
  Glock 17
  Beretta 92
  Smith & Wesson M&P
  M1911 pistol
  Browning Hi-Power
  Assault Rifles
  Type 56 Assault rifles
  CAR-15
  M4 carbine
  QBZ-95
   
  Sub-machine guns
  H&K MP5 Submachine Guns
  Uzi Submachine Guns
  Sniper Rifles
  Heckler & Koch PSG1 Sniper Rifles
  Grenade launchers
  M203 Grenade launcher
  Rocket launchers
  Type 69 RPG Rocket launchers (Chinese version of RPG-7)
  Missile launchers
  SA-18 Missile launcher
  Machine guns
  Ultimax 100 LMG
caption: STF Counter-Terrorist Bomb Disposal Unit Bomb suit personal and Equipment
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