Aztec Army (Aztec Empire)

The Aztec Army (Anahuacahui Teyaotlani) is the land branch and largest of the Aztec Military Services; it also is known as the National Defence Army. It is famous for having been the first army to adopt and use an automatic rifle (The Mondragón rifle) in 1899, and the first to issue automatic weapons as standard issue weapons, in 1910. In September 2007 the Secretary of Defense reported that the Aztec Army consisted of 569, 908 men in 2007.