Albanian Army
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Coat of arms of the Albanian Army |
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Country | Albania |
Armed forces | Albanian Armed Forces |
Type | Armed forces ( army ) |
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Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces | President of the Republic of Albania |
Military Commander of the Armed Forces | Chief of Staff Brigadier General Bardhyl Kollçaku |
Commander of the Army | Brigadier General Nazmi Cahani |
The Albanian Army represents the army component of the Albanian armed forces .
bases
In addition to its headquarters in Tirana, the Albanian army maintains five regional commandos in Burrel , Gjirokastra , Korça , Kukës and Shkodra . Further bases are in Farka and Zall-Herr near Tirana, Laç , Marikaj , Poshnja and Vlora .
organization
The Army Command is subordinate to the Rapid Reaction Brigade , a regiment of special forces, a logistics battalion and a command support battalion.
Next the army command is under the territorial articulated Support Command with a logistics brigade, the personnel and recruitment center , a field hospital , a combat support regiment, an infrastructure Regiment, the development center and an MP - battalion .
equipment
In order to fulfill its tasks, the Albanian Army u. a. more than 40 type-59 - Tank , 37 M-113 -Mannschaftstransportpanzer, 86 type 531 -Mannschaftstransportpanzer, 20 type-77 team transport tanks, eight 152 mm artillery pieces, 81 82 mm grenade launchers and 42 M 1939 - anti-aircraft guns .