Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic

Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic Ozbrojené sily Slovenskej republiky
guide
Commander in Chief :	President Zuzana Čaputová
Defense Minister:	Peter Gajdoš
Military Commander:	Chief GenStab Lieutenant General Daniel Zmeko
Military leadership:	General Staff
Headquarters:	Bratislava
Armed forces:	Army ( Pozemné sily Slovenskej republiky ) Air Force ( Vzdušné sily Slovenskej republiky ) Training and support staff ( Sily podpory a výcviku Slovenskej republiky )
Military strength
Active soldiers:	11,700 (2018)
Conscription:	No
Eligibility for military service:	18th
household
Military budget:	€ 1.098 billion (2018)
Share of gross domestic product :	1.22 (2018)
history
Founding:	January 1, 1993

The armed forces of the Slovak Republic , also Slovak Armed Forces or Armed Forces of Slovakia ( Slovakian Ozbrojené sily Slovenskej republiky ; 1993–2002 also Armáda Slovenskej republiky ) are the armed forces of Slovakia .

history

In 1993 the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic separated into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. The soldiers of the Czechoslovak Army were allowed to decide for themselves whether they wanted to serve in the Czech Armed Forces or in the Slovak Armed Forces in the future . Slovakia has been a member of NATO and the EU since 2004 .

organization

Structure of the Slovak Armed Forces

The armed forces of the Slovak Republic are located in the organizational area of ​​the Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic and are subordinate to the General Staff of the Slovak Armed Forces . They are divided into the armed forces

• Army (Army of the Slovak Republic),
• Air Force (Air Force of the Slovak Republic)
• Special Operations Forces (since 2019)

and the

• Training and support staff.

Troop strength and equipment

The armed forces have consisted of professional soldiers since around 2006 with a share of around 8.65% women soldiers (as of June 2007). Slovakia had around 11,700 soldiers in 2019, compared to 13,500 in 2016. The country currently has 22 main battle tanks. The air force has 24 combat aircraft.

Air Force Equipment

Slovak MiG-29A

Most of the equipment was taken over from the stock of the Czechoslovak Air Force, although some machines have been decommissioned, modernized or replaced by new ones in recent years. Most important of all is the addition of two Alenia C-27J transport machines. A successor model is currently being sought for the troops' Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 fighter jets. It is still unclear which and how many machines should be procured and whether they should be bought or leased.

The Air Force currently has, among other things:

• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29
• Antonov An-26
• Aero L-39
• Mil Wed-8

Equipment army

Main battle tank:

• : T-72M1 - 30 (as of August 2013)
• : T-72M2 Moderna - only some trial versions are available

Transport tank:

• : BVP-2 infantry fighting vehicle - 91
• : BVP-1 armored personnel carrier - 162
• : BPsV-1 reconnaissance tank (based on the BMP-1) - 71
• : Tatrapan in different versions

Artillery:

• : DANA
• : ZUZANA

Equipment close combat

Slovak soldier at Camp Echo in Iraq

Handguns:

• Gun vz. 82
• Samopal vz. 58 standard assault rifle
• M-16 assault rifle
• Heckler & Koch G36 - used by the 5th Special Operation Regiment
• Heckler & Koch HK416 - used by the 5th Special Operations Regiment, from 2009 the HK416 and HK417 are the regiment's standard assault rifles
• Heckler & Koch HK417
• FN MINIMI Para
• Samopal vz. 61
• Heckler & Koch MP5 used by the 5th Special Operation Regiment
• Barrett M82 .50cal sniper rifle
• Heckler & Koch UMP used by the 5th special operation regiment and the military police
• UK vz. 59 machine gun
• Dragunov sniper rifle (SWD)
• Grand Power K100
• Accuracy International Arctic Warfare 12.7 AW.50 MK2. Sniper rifle
• 9K111 bassoon
• FFV Carl Gustaf used by the special forces
• AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher
• RPG-75 reactive anti-tank rifle
• SIG-Sauer SSG 3000

Peacekeeping by the Slovak Armed Forces

In the 1990s, the Slovak armed forces took part in the UN missions UNAVEM II and UNAVEM III in Angola. The Slovak military took part in SFOR from 1998, KFOR from 1999 and ISAF from 2001 .

Web links

Commons : Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Slovak Ministry of Defense
• Rastislav Báchora: Bratislava between Moscow, Brussels and Washington . In: Austrian Military Journal , Edition 3/2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} "Defense Expenditure of NATO Countries (2013-2019)", Press Release Communique PR / CP (2019) 123, NATO Public Diplomacy Division, November 29, 2019 (PDF)
2. ^ Slovak National Briefing . ( Memento of November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 15 kB) nato.int, p. 1.
3. ↑ Slovakia Military Strength Globalfirepower, accessed July 23, 2016.
4. ↑ Defense Statistics 2013 . (PDF; 223 kB) dasa.mod.uk, p. 10.
5. ↑ UNAVEM III Facts and Figures as of June 30, 1997. ( Memento of June 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) un.org
6. ^ Angola UNAVEM II - Facts and figures . On un.org