Albanian Army

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Albanian Army
Albanian Army
Albanian Land forces.svg

Coat of arms of the Albanian Army
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Country AlbaniaAlbania Albania
Armed forces Albanian Armed Forces
Type Armed forces ( army )
management
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

Albanian Type 59 Main Battle Tank

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 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Albanian Army  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Country information from the Austrian Ministry of Defense