Armed Forces of Madagascar

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Flag of Madagascar Armed Forces of Madagascar
Forces armées de Madagascar
Tafika Malagasy
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Commander in Chief :
Military strength
Active soldiers: 13,500
Conscription:
Eligibility for military service:
household
Military budget: $ 67.3 million (2017)
Share of gross domestic product : 0.6% (2017)
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The armed forces of Madagascar ( French Forces armées de Madagascar , Malagasy Tafika Malagasy ) make up the armed forces of Madagascar with 13,500 soldiers and 8,100 gendarmes .

They are divided into Army with 12,500 soldiers, Air Force with 500 soldiers, Navy with 500 soldiers and Gendarmerie National with 8100 members.

Land Forces

The army has, among other twelve PT-76 - battle tanks , 35 BRDM-2 - Spähpanzer , 20 M3 Scout Car , ten Ferret Radpanzer , eight M8 Greyhound , 30 track Half-M3 , twelve 122-mm D-30 - howitzers five 105-mm M-101 -Haubitzen, eight 120-mm M-43 -Mörser, eight 82-mm M-43 -Mörser, 50 14.5 mm ZPU-4 - anti-aircraft guns and 20 37 mm Type 55 anti-aircraft guns.

Naval forces

The navy has 7 patrol boats and a landing craft .

Air Force

Cockade of the Malagasy Air Force

The Armée de l'Air Malgache operates 6 helicopters (as of the end of 2019).

Aircraft image origin use version active Ordered Remarks
helicopter
MBB / Kawasaki BK 117 Example image GermanyGermany Germany / Japan
JapanJapan  		Multipurpose helicopter 1
Airbus Helicopters H125 Example image European UnionEuropean Union European Union Multipurpose helicopter H125M 3
Aérospatiale Alouette II Example image FranceFrance France Training helicopter SA.318 2

Web links

Commons : Madagascar Armed Forces  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military expenditure by country in US $ 2001-2017. (PDF) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) , accessed on March 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Military expenditure by country as percentage of gross domestic product 2001-2017. (PDF) Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ World Air Force 2020. Flight International , December 10, 2019, accessed March 10, 2020 .