Sri Lankan Armed Forces

Sri Lanka Armed Forces English: Sri Lanka Armed Forces
guide
Commander in Chief :	president
Military strength
Active soldiers:	157,900 (2007)
Conscription:	no
Eligibility for military service:	18th
household
Military budget:	2.2 billion US dollars (2012)
Share of gross domestic product :	2.43% (2012)
history
Founding:	1948

The Sri Lankan armed forces consist of the army ( Sri Lanka Yuddha Hamudawa ), the navy ( Sri Lanka Navika Hamudawa ) and the air force ( Sri Lanka Guwan Hamudawa ). In 2007, the Sri Lankan armed forces had a staff of 157,900 men. The military budget has expanded significantly over time and is now the equivalent of US $ 2.2 billion annually.

history

Honorary company of the Ceylon Army 1950

Early on under British rule , there were domestic military such as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ceylon Regiments (1802/3) and the 4th Ceylon Regiment (1814). On April 1, 1881, the Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers were founded to replace the local regiments that had since been disbanded . The local military was combined in the Ceylon Defense Forces (CDF) in 1911 . During World War II , the local military was greatly expanded but was under direct British control. In June 1947 Ceylon became the British Dominion , and on February 4, 1948 it became independent within the British Commonwealth . In the same year the Ceylon Army was founded. The Royal Ceylon Navy (RCyN) was founded on December 9, 1950 ; its predecessor was the Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force, founded in 1937 . The Air Force was established in 1951 as the Royal Ceylon Air Force (RCyAF) with the support of the British Royal Air Force .

After a failed coup attempt in 1962, some regiments of the Ceylon Army were disbanded. The military was therefore poorly prepared when there was an uprising by the Janathā Vimukthi Peramuṇa (People's Liberation Front; JVP for short), a national-Marxist, communist party in Ceylon in 1971 . On May 22, 1972 Ceylon became a republic with the name "Sri Lanka" and the armed forces were renamed accordingly. The JVP initiated a second armed uprising in Sri Lanka from 1987-1989, which was crushed by the army. In the civil war in Sri Lanka with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which lasted from 1983 to 2009 , the army was ultimately able to defeat the LTTE. The civil war ended on May 18, 2009 with the complete military victory of the Sri Lankan government forces over the rebels. The death toll during the war between 1983 and 2009 is estimated at 80,000 to 100,000.

Military parade 2012

overview

In 2007, the Sri Lankan armed forces had the following equipment and manpower. In the meantime, the defense budget and the number of personnel have been increased significantly.

T-55AM2 main battle tank of the army

army

118,000 employees

Equipment (as of 2007):

• 62 battle tank of the type T-55
• 15 Spähpanzer type Ferret
• 16 BMP-1 armored personnel carriers
• 135 armored transport vehicles ( BTR-80 , Unicorn, ...)
• 50 field howitzers (76/85 mm, 25 pdr. And 130 mm)
• 307 mortars (81/82/107/120 mm)

22 Al-Khalid main battle tanks were ordered in 2010.

air force

19,300 staff

Combat aircraft (as of 2007):

• 13 IAI Kfir
• 7 MiG-27M
• 4 F-7BS

Other (as of 2007):

• 10 transport aircraft ( C-130 , Antonov An-32 , Shaanxi Y-8 )
• 14 helicopters ( Bell 412 , Jet Ranger , Mi-17 )
• 20 attack helicopters ( Mi-24 , Bell 212 )

Patrol boat SLNS Sagara (P 622)

marine

Workforce 20,600

40 speed and patrol boats , mainly Chinese and Israeli manufacture (as of 2007)

Today the Navy also has 22 state -of-the- art speedboats of the Colombo class (Ultra Fast Attack Craft) as well as more than 100 smaller speedboats from its own production.

More powers

• Coast Guard - Sri Lanka Coast Guard
• paramilitary police forces

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The CIA World Factbook
2. ↑ Sri Lanka: Civil war claimed 100,000 lives
3. ↑ globaldefence.net: Sri Lanka ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 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.  
4. ↑ asian-defence.net: Sri Lanka Buying Al-Khalid Tanks from Pakistan . 2010. Archived from the original on April 13, 2013. 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. Retrieved January 16, 2015. 

Web links

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

• Website Ministry of Defense, Public Security, Law and Order (Engl.)