Population: 7 453 thousand people. The military budget is 2,7 billion dollars (2001). The regular forces are 3600 people. The reserve - 351 200 people. Militarized formations: the civil defence - 280 000 people. Recruitment for the army - draft. Hitch: 15 weeks (in the age of 19-20 years), then 10 courses of retraining for 3 weeks (for 20 - 42 years old). Mobilization resources - 2,1 million people, including 1,7 million able-bodied men.
Land forces: at the mobilization - 320 600 people, 3 army corps (in each 2 field divisions - only 6 infantry and 2 artillery regiments; 1 tank brigade, 1 artillery and 1 engineer regiment, 1 regiment of bicyclists, 1 regiments of the fortified districts, 1 division of territorial defence: 5-6 regiments), the mountainous army corps (3 mountainous divisions - 2 mountainous and 1 artillery regiment in each; 2 mountainous regiments, 2 regiments of the fortified districts, 1 engineer regiment, 1 division of territorial defence: 6 regiments, 2 brigades).
Arms: 556 tanks (of them 370 Leopard-2), 319 armoured reconnaissance vehicles, 435 infantry fighting vehicles, 1 180 armored troop carriers, 558 155 mm self-propelled guns, 1 758 81 and 120 mm mortars, 3 063 antitank missile systems (of them 303 Toy-2), portable surface-to-air missile systems Stinger, 12 512 grenade cup discharges, 60 helicopters Aluyet-3, 11 patrol boats.
Air force and air defence: 32 600 people, 171 war-planes, combat helicopters are not available. Tactical units and elements: 11 air defence fighter squadrons, 3 reconnaissance air squadrons, 1 transport air squadron, 1 training air squadron, 1 helicopter squadron, 3 SAM batteries Bladhound, 3 batteries Rapier. Planes and helicopters: 171 F-5E and F, 45 Mirage (3S, 3DS, 3RS2), 21 F/A-18 (C and D), 16 PC-6, 2 Do-27, Falcon-50, 19 Hawk Mk66, 38 PC-7, 12 PC-9, 15 AS-332M-1, 12 SA-316.
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