Forças Armadas de Defesa de Mozambique

	Mozambique Armed Forces ; Forças Armadas de Defesa de Moçambique
guide
Commander in Chief :	President of Mozambique
Military strength
Active soldiers:	11,200
Conscription:
Eligibility for military service:
household
Military budget:	$ 103 million (2017)
Share of gross domestic product :	0.8% (2017)
history
Founding:	1994

The armed forces of Mozambique ( pt. Forças Armadas de Defesa de Moçambique , abbreviated to FADM ) are the military of the Republic of Mozambique .

General

Mozambican soldiers

The FADM was formed in 1994 from associations of the former FRELIMO government army and RENAMO fighters. It has a staff of 11,200 and is divided into the three classic branches of the army , navy and air force . In 2017 which amounted defense budget 103 million US dollars , which 0.8 percent of gross domestic product accounts.

Land Forces

According to the IISS, the army has 9-10,000 members. These are divided into seven infantry battalions , three special forces battalions , two to three artillery batteries , two engineer battalions and one logistics battalion .

At equipment are u. a. 60 T-54 - Tank , 40 BMP-1 - armored , 30 BRDM-1 / BRDM-2 - Spähpanzer , 160 BTR-60 - team armored and 100 BTR-152 -Mannschaftstransportpanzer available.

Naval forces

The Navy operates 8 patrol boats .

two L&T- class patrol boats
three OCEAN EAGLE 43 trimaran patrol boats
three HSI 32 patrol boats

Air Force

The Air Force operates 10 aircraft and 6 helicopters (as of the end of 2019).

Aircraft	origin	use	version	active
Planes
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21	Soviet Union Soviet Union	Fighter plane		8th
Antonov An-26	Soviet Union Soviet Union	Transport plane		1
Aero L-39	Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia	Trainer aircraft		1
helicopter
Mil Wed-24	Soviet Union Soviet Union	Attack helicopter	Wed-25	2
Mil Wed-8	Soviet Union Soviet Union	Transport helicopter	Wed-8 Wed-17	4th

Web links

Commons : Forças Armadas de Defesa de Moçambique - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Military expenditure by country in US $ 2001-2017. (PDF) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) , accessed on February 18, 2020 .

↑ Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product 2001-2017. (PDF) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, accessed on February 18, 2020 .

↑ worldguide.de ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 1, 2015 @1@ 2

↑ Ridzwan Rahmat: India hands over two interceptor vessels to Mozambique Navy. Jane's Information Group , July 31, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .

↑ ^a ^b French shipyard CMN confirms major order by Mozambique including 6 Patrol Vessels & Interceptors. In: worlddefencenews.blogspot.com. September 8, 2013, accessed March 6, 2020 .

↑ World Air Force 2020. Flight International , December 10, 2019, accessed February 18, 2020 .

[1] Military expenditure by country in US $ 2001-2017. (PDF) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) , accessed on February 18, 2020 .

[2] Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product 2001-2017. (PDF) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, accessed on February 18, 2020 .