Population: 113 007 million people. The military budget is 340 million dollars (1999). The regular forces are 78 500 people. Militarized formations (82 000 people): the port police - 2000 people, the corps of security and civil defence, coastguard (as a part of naval forces). Recruitment for the army is voluntary. Mobilization resources - 26 million people, including 14,9 million able-bodied men.
Land forces: 62 000 people, 1 armoured (two tank brigades), 1 mixed (1 motorized infantry and 1 amphibian brigade, 1 airborne battalion) and 2 mechanized (in each 1 mechanized and 1 motorized infantry brigade) divisions, 1 brigade of the presidential guard, 1 anti-aircraft artillery brigade. In each division there are the artillery and engineers brigades and 1 reconnaissance battalion.
Arms: about 200 tanks (T-55, Vikkers Mk3), 140 light tanks Scorpion, 382 armoured reconnaissance vehicles, 390 armored troop carriers, 431 towed pieces of filed artillery, 27 155 mm self-propelled guns Palmaria, 25 122 mm MLRS APR-21, more than 330 mortars, over 90 20,23 and 40 mm antiaircraft guns, 16 SAM systems Roland, 48 portable surface-to-air missile systems Blowpipe.
Air force: 9 500 people, 86 war-planes, 10 combat helicopters. Planes and helicopters: 19 Alpha Jet, 18 MiG-21MF, FR and U, 15 Jaguar (SN and BN), 22 L-39MS, 12 MB-339AN, 25 Bulldog, 3 R Beetle, 8 C-130 Н and Н-30, 17 Do-128-6, 3 Do-228, 5 G-222, Boeing 727, 2 Gulf Stream-2, BAe 125-1000, 15 BO-105D, 4 AS-332, 2 SA-330, 14 Hughs 300.
Naval forces: 7 000 people (including coastguard). Fleet: 1 frigate with guided missiles MEKO 360, 2 corvettes Wasper Mk9, 3 missile boats Combatan-3, 2 patrol vessels Lurssen-57, 2 minesweepers Lerici, 2 tank landing ships, 1 hydrographic vessels, 3 towboats. Naval aircraft: planes: 3F-27, 14 Do-128, 2 helicopters Lynx Mk89, 12 Bo-105H.
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