Population: 29 632 thousand people. The military budget is 581 million dollars (2001). The regular forces are 117 000 people. Militarized formations: national defense - 7 000 people. Recruitment for the army - draft. Hitch - 36 months. Mobilization resources - 7,9 million people, including 4,9 million able-bodied men.
Land forces: 112 500 people, 10 divisions (1 tank, 1 mechanized, 6 infantry, 1 airborne, 1 engineers), 7 detached infantry and 1 mechanized brigades, the frontier brigade.
Arms: 200 tanks T-55, T-59, 30 infantry fighting vehicles, 100 combat armoured vehicles, 318 armoured reconnaissance vehicles, 314 armored troop carriers, 450 towed field artillery guns, 12 155 mm self-propelled guns Mk F3, 600 107 and 122 mm MLRS, mortars, 4 antitank missile systems Swingfire, 40 106 mm recoilless guns, 54 antitank guns, 1 000 antiaircraft guns, portable surface-to-air missile systems Strela-2M.
Air force: 3 000 people, 35 war-planes, 10 combat helicopters. Planes and helicopters: 9 F-5E and F, 5 PRC J-5 (MiG-17), 7 PRCJ-6 (MiG-19), 12 F-7 (MiG-21), 4 MiG-23, 4 C-130H, 4 C-213, DHC-5D, F.27, 2 Falcon-20 and -50, 8 PT-6A, 11 AB-212, 8 IAR and SA-330, 10 Mi-24.
Naval forces: about 1 500 people, 6 patrol boats, 2 storm-boats.
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