Bahraini armed forces
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Commander in Chief : | Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa | ||
Military strength | |||
Active soldiers: | 8,200 | ||
Conscription: | No | ||
Resilient population: | 799,664 (men and women, ages 16–49; 2010) | ||
Eligibility for military service: | Age 18 and over | ||
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Military budget: | USD 697.0 million (2009), plus USD 19.5 million in military aid from the USA (2010) |
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Share of gross domestic product : | 3.14% (2012) | ||
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The Bahrain Defense Force ( Bahrain Defense Force ) are the defense of the Kingdom of Bahrain . The approximately 8,200 soldiers strong military is composed of the components Army , Air Force and Navy together.
General
In 2017, Bahrain spent just under 4.1 percent of its economic output, or 1.4 billion US dollars, on its armed forces. The state is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council ; the US armed forces maintain major US Air Force and US Navy bases .
Bahraini military history
From 1820 until independence from Great Britain in 1971, His Majesty's Armed Forces maintained military units in Bahrain on the Persian Gulf (formerly the catchphrase "mare britannicum" ). From 1935 an air base was built on Muharraq by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy built bases on the islands bordering the Bahrain and in Manama . In 1962 the deep sea port of Mina Salman was expanded as a naval base.
After independence in 1971, the ruling dynasty of Al Khalifa saw no reason to make major investments in national defense . After the shock of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1978/1979, new concepts for national defense were developed. In 1979, two patrol boats were ordered from the Lürssen shipyard , but they were not subordinated to the military, but to the coast guard .
After a Shiite coup attempt in 1981, the Saudi Air Force dispatched 25 Northrop F-5s and Saudi Arabia provided a bodyguard for the ruling family. In 1982, the Gulf Cooperation Council gave the Kingdom military aid of US $ 1.7 billion to build and expand the armed forces.
In 1987 the armed forces were regrouped into separate branches, and in 1990 the US armed forces found their way into Bahrain. During the Second Gulf War and the Iraq War , Bahrain was used as a deployment base for the United States .
There were three armed border conflicts with Qatar over the question of membership of the Hawar Islands , which were settled by an arbitration ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2001.
army
The 6000-strong army is divided into a tank brigade (two tanks and a reconnaissance battalion ), an infantry brigade (two battalions of mechanized infantry and a battalion Motorized Infantry ), an artillery brigade (a heaviness, two of medium difficulty, a light artillery battery and a MLRS - Battery ), a battalion anti-aircraft (two FlaRak batteries and a Flak battery), a battalion special forces and the Amiri -Gardebataillon.
equipment
Held by the Army are Bahrain's 180 M-60A3 -Kampfpanzer, 22 AML-90 , 8 Saladin - Spähpanzer , 8 Ferret -Spähpanzer, 8 Shorland -Spähpanzer, 25 YPR-765 (25-mm-MK) - armored , 10 AT -105- "Saxon" team transport tanks , 110 M-3 "Panhard" team transport tanks and 205 M-113A2 team transport tanks .
In the field artillery to be 8105 mm L118 guns, 18 155mm M198 -Geschütze, 20 155mm M109A5 - self-propelled guns , 13 203 mm-M110 -Selbstfahrlafetten, 9 MLRS missile launcher (30 ATACMS ) , 12 81 mm grenade launcher, 12, 120 mm grenade launcher 25 106 mm M40A1 - anti-tank guns , 6 120 mm MOBAT -Panzerabwehrkanonen, 60 Javelin - anti-tank missile , 15 35 mm Oerlikon -Flugabwehrkanonen, 12 40 mm-L / 70 anti-aircraft guns, 60 RBS-70FIM anti-aircraft missiles , 18 FIM-92A “Stinger” anti-aircraft missiles, 7 Crotale anti-aircraft missiles and 8 MIM-23B I-HAWK anti-aircraft missiles.
marine
The 700-strong Bahraini Navy is one of the two naval forces of the Gulf Cooperation Council, along with the Saudi Arabian one, which uses large types of ships.
Bahrain has the following warships:
- Sabha (FFG 90) , frigate from stocks of the US Navy
- Al Manamah , corvette from the Lürssen shipyard
- Al Muharraq , corvette from the Lürssen shipyard
- four guided missile speedboats
- four patrol boats
- a supply ship
- a multi-purpose landing craft
In addition, two Bo 105 CBS-4s and two Eurocopter Dauphin are used.
The Navy has its base in Mina Salman.
Air Force
The 1500-strong air force is largely divided into squadrons, these are in detail:
- 1st multipurpose squadron (F-16C / D)
- 2nd multipurpose squadron (F-16C / D)
- 3rd helicopter squadron (AB.212, will be converted to UH-60M)
- 4th Training Relay (T-67)
- 5th Training Relay (Hawk)
- 6. Multipurpose Relay (F-5E / F)
- 7th squadron (this squadron has no aircraft)
- 8th Combat Helicopter Squadron (AH-1E)
- 9th Combat Helicopter Squadron (AH-1E)
- 10th Helicopter Squadron (Bo-105)
There is also an air transport squadron (RJ, BAe 146) and the royal flight readiness (S-70, Bell 430, S-92, UH-60M).
Aircraft
Status: end of 2013
Aircraft | origin | use | version | active | Ordered | Remarks | |
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General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon | United States |
Multipurpose fighter combat trainer |
F-16C F-16D |
17 4 |
A machine crashed on September 27, 2003 over the Persian Gulf . | ||
Northrop F-5 Tiger II | United States |
Fighter-bomber combat trainer |
F-5E F-5F |
8 4 |
Will be replaced by 16 F-16V Viper Block 70 . | ||
BAE Hawk | United Kingdom | Advanced trainer | Hawk 129 | 6th | |||
Slingsby T-67 Firefly | United Kingdom | Basic trainer | 3 | ||||
helicopter | |||||||
Bell AH-1 Cobra | United States |
Combat helicopter / training helicopter |
AH-1E AH-1P TAH-1P |
10 6 6 |
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Sikorsky UH-60 | United States | Transport helicopter | UH-60L UH-60M UH-60M VIP |
2 8 1 |
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Bell 212 | United States | Multipurpose helicopter | 18th | ||||
Bölkow Bo 105 | Germany | Training helicopter | 4th |
Most of the air force is stationed at Sheikh Isa Air Base .
Calls
During the Syrian Civil War , the Bahraini Air Force supported the United States in bombing positions of the terrorist organization Islamic State .
Other security guards
The other security forces, such as the police and the coast guard, are subordinate to the Bahraini Interior Ministry.
The Bahraini police have two Bell 412s and one Bell 427 to carry out their duties .
In addition to various patrol boats, the 260-man coast guard also has three landing craft and a hovercraft . It is headquartered in Bandar-Dar and has a base in al-Muharraq .
Web links
- CIA - The World Factbook (English)
- Country information of the Austrian Armed Forces on the armed forces of Bahrain
- Armed Forces Overview of the Armed Forces of Bahrain. Archived from the original on March 11, 2015 ; accessed on March 23, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Home | SIPRI. Retrieved July 10, 2017 (English).
- ↑ World Air Forces 2014. (PDF; 3.9 MB) In: Flightglobal Insight. 2014, archived from the original on December 25, 2013 ; accessed on March 26, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Bahrain buys state-of-the-art F-16s. fliegerweb.com, June 28, 2018, accessed April 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Obama attacks IS in Syria with an Arab alliance. Welt Online , September 23, 2014, accessed January 18, 2015 .