Armed Forces of Armenia

Armed Forces of Armenia Հայկական Բանակ
guide
Commander in Chief :	Nikol Pashinyan
Defense Minister:	David Tonoyan
Military Commander:	Artak Davtjan
Headquarters:	Yerevan
Armed forces:	Armenian Army Armenian Air Force Armenian Border Guard
Military strength
Active soldiers:	46,684
Reservists:	200,000
Conscription:	24 months (mandatory) 9 years (voluntary)
Eligibility for military service:	18th
household
Military budget:	$ 626.3 million (2019)
Share of gross domestic product :	3.85% (2017).
history
Founding:	January 28, 1992

The Armed Forces of Armenia (Armenian: Հայկական Բանակ) is the military of the Republic of Armenia . The Armenian armed forces are divided into Army ( poor. : Հայկական Բանակ), Air Force ( poor. : Հայաստանի Ռազմաօդային Ուժեր), air defense ( arm . Հայաստանի Ռազմաօդային Ուժեր) and Border Protection ( arm . Հայաստանի Սահմանի Պահակություն). Armenia does not have a navy as it is a landlocked country. The current commander in chief of the armed forces is Armenian President Armen Zarkissyan . The armed forces were established shortly after Armenia gained independence on January 28, 1992. Today there is close cooperation with the Russian armed forces . Armenia is a member of the Partnership for Peace and the Collective Security Treaty Organization .

Calls

The Armenian Armed Forces were first used during the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1993. At that time the Armenian armed forces intervened on the side of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic . During the war, the troops of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, together with the Armenian army, were able to take control of large parts of the predominantly Armenian-inhabited Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan . They also occupied the Azerbaijani districts of Ağdam, Cəbrayıl, Füzuli, Kəlbəcər, Laçın, Qubadlı and Zəngilan, which are outside Nagorno Karabakh. Today there are occasional skirmishes with the Azerbaijani army on the armistice line. In April 2016, the situation on the ceasefire line around Nagorno-Karabakh escalated with around 200 deaths. In July 2020, fighting broke out again along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

International peace missions

Armenia also sent 46 soldiers to the Iraq war , where they were subordinate to Polish command as a member of the Coalition of the Willing . In addition, Armenia is currently involved with 70 soldiers in the KFOR mission in Kosovo and 120 soldiers in NATO's Resolute Support mission in northern Afghanistan under German command.

equipment

The weapons and weapon systems used in the Armenian armed forces are of Soviet or Russian origin.

Status: 2016

army

The Krunk drone is Armenia's first own production drone

The X-55 drone was introduced in 2015

Type	Country of production	Weapon system	number
T-90	Russia	Main battle tank	30th
T-72	Soviet Union	Main battle tank	110
T-80	Soviet Union	Main battle tank	20th
BMP-1	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers	106
BMP-2	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers	100
BTR-60	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers	108
BTR-70	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers	18th
BTR-80	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers	50
MT-LB	Soviet Union	Armored personnel carriers	145
GAZ-2975 Tigr	Russia	Armored personnel carriers	5

air force

Type	Country of production	number
Su-30SM	Russia	4+
Su-25	Russia	11
Ilyushin Il-76	Russia	3
Mil Wed-8	Soviet Union	20th
Mil Wed-24	Soviet Union	28

Air defense uses the Tor-M2KM , 2K11 Krug , S-75 , S-125 , 9K32 Strela-2 , 9K33 Osa S-300P , 9K35 Strela-10 , 9K310 Igla-1 and 9K38 Igla systems .

Measured in terms of its gross domestic product (GDP) and the total population, Armenia had  the highest degree of militarization in Europe in 2015 according to the Global Militarization Index (GMI) of the  Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). In the same year, the country was ranked third on a global scale behind Israel and Singapore.

gallery

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  Soldiers of Armenia during the 2015 Moscow Victory Parade

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  Armenian soldiers during a training session

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  Armenian soldiers in Nagorno-Karabakh in 1994

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  Armenian special forces

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  Armenian and American soldiers in Iraq 2008

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  Armenian BM-21 during a parade in Yerevan

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  Osa air defense units during a parade

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  Fighter planes spray the national colors of Armenia

See also

• Armed Forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Davit Tonoyan as Armenia's Defense Minister. In: aravot-en.am. May 11, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Artak Davtyan is Armenian army's new Chief of the General Staff. In: mediamax.am. May 25, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2018 . 
3. ^ The Military Balance 2010 . Routledge for the IISS, London 2010, ISBN 1-85743-557-5 , p. 174.
4. ^ Armenian Military statistics.Retrieved April 20, 2013
5. ↑ [1]
6. ↑ Statistics, military expenditure of Armenia as a percentage of GDP. Accessed February 1, 2020.
7. ↑ Russia extends military presence in Armenia ; last accessed on March 15, 2012.
8. ^ Armenia and Azerbaijan: Escalation at the border. In: [2] . July 18, 2020, accessed July 18, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Armed Forces ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 April 20, 2013. 
10. ↑ [3] , The Military Balance 2016, accessed July 18, 2020.
11. ↑ regnum.ru , accessed on July 18, 2020.
12. ↑ Nagorno-Karabakh and the military balance - Published in Analytical Articles
13. ↑ Flugrevue.am , accessed February 1, 2020.
14. ↑ https://www.armyrecognition.com/december_2019_global_defense_security_army_news_industry/armenia_armed_forces_have_received_russian_tor-m2km_air_defense_missile_systems.html (accessed February 2, 2020)
15. ↑ Max M.Mutschler / BICC: Global Militarization Index 2016. 2016, accessed on November 14, 2017 (English). 

Web links

Commons : Military of Armenia  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Armenian military (also English)