Yemeni Armed Forces

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Parade of the Yemeni Navy

The Yemeni Armed Forces officially emerged from the union of the armies of North and South Yemen in May 1990, with fighting between the two armies starting in May 1994, which could not be finally ended until they were fully combined in March 1995. In the wake of the civil war in Yemen and the military intervention in Yemen since 2015 , the armed forces are divided between supporters of ex-President Ali Abdullah Salih in the north and the troops allied with the Gulf Alliance in the south.

structure

They consist of an army , an air force ( Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Jamahiriya al Yemeniya ) and a navy . Before the beginning of the civil war, the number of soldiers on duty (including conscripts ) was 66,700, plus another 71,200 paramilitary units.

In Yemen , general conscription for men is formally unchanged and has a length of three years.

According to estimates from various sources, the military budget in 2006 accounted for between 6.6% and around a third of the gross domestic product . In 2009 it was $ 1.55 billion.

army

Flag of the Yemeni Army
Flag of the Republican Guard

Before the beginning of the civil war and the 2015 intervention, the army, which with around 60,000 men was the largest part of the armed forces, consisted of eight tank brigades , sixteen infantry brigades , six mechanized infantry brigades , two airborne / special operations brigades , one SSM brigade , three artillery brigades , and one brigade Special forces , six anti-aircraft brigades and the Republican Guard .

50: stand on equipment available  M-60A1 - battle tanks , 66  T-80 , -Kampfpanzer 60  T-72 -Kampfpanzer, 200  T-62 -Kampfpanzer, 450  T-54 / -55 -Kampfpanzer, 30  T-34 -Kampfpanzer , 80  AML-90 - Spähpanzer , 50  BRDM-2 -Spähpanzer, 200  BMP-1 / -2 - armored , 60  M-113 -Mannschaftstransportpanzer, 60  BTR-40 -Mannschaftstransportpanzer, 100  BTR-60 -Mannschaftstransportpanzer, 20  BTR-152 Team transport tanks and 18  YALV “Cougar” team transport tanks .

The artillery has 25  105-mm M-101A1 guns, 130  122-mm D-30 guns, 30  122-mm M-1931/37 guns, 40 122-mm M-30-M guns  1938 -Geschütze, 60  130-mm M-46 -Geschütze, 10  152-mm D-20 -Geschütze, 15  155-mm M-114 -Geschütze, 25  122 mm-2S1 - self-propelled guns , 30  100 mm -SU-100 - assault guns .

800  anti-aircraft missiles of the weapon systems 9K33 Osa , 9K31 Strela-1 , 9K35 Strela-10 and 9K34 Strela-3 were used for air defense .

Air Force (Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Jamahiriya al Yemeniya)

Before the start of the civil war and the 2015 intervention, the Yemeni Air Force had a strength of about 5000  soldiers and was divided into a squadron with MiG-21, a squadron with MiG-21 and MiG-29, a squadron Su-22 and F-5E, a helicopter squadron with Mi-24 and Mi-8, a helicopter squadron with Mi-8, a training squadron with L-39C and a transport squadron.

marine

Flag of the Yemeni Navy

Mainly in Aden and Al-Hudaydah stationed navy with a strength of 1,700 men had four partially with missile -equipped speedboats (a ship of Tarantul-I-class (Project 1241) and three of Huangfeng class (Type 021)) and 16 Coast guard boats (6 boats of the BAKLAN HSIC class and 10 boats of the Austal PB class) and four landing craft .

Other naval facilities are or were in al-Hudaida , Perim and Socotra .

A coast guard was set up, which in addition to 1200 members had 16 coast guard boats.

Paramilitary groups

In addition to the 50,000-strong gendarmerie , which is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior, there are around 20,000 tribal warriors.

Web links

Commons : Yemeni Armed Forces  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Country information from the Austrian Ministry of Defense
  2. ^ Robert Burrowes, The Yemen Arab Republic: The Politics of Development. 1962-1986 , p. 109, (1987)
  3. ^ Sarah Phillips, Yemen's Democracy Experiment in Regional Perspective, Patronage and Pluralized Authoritarianism , 70, New York (2008)
  4. ↑ Country information from the Austrian Ministry of Defense