Turkish army

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Türk Kara Kuvetleri Turkish Army
Coat of arms of the Turkish army
active
Country	Turkey
Armed forces	Turkish Armed Forces (Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri)
Type	Armed forces ( army )
Strength	660,700
Commander in chief
Kara Kuvetleri Komutanı	Ümit Dündar

Turkish infantry in the occupied part of Syria

The Turkish Army ( Turkish: Türk Kara Kuvvetleri) forms the land forces of the Turkish Armed Forces (Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri).

The army has 660,700 soldiers , of whom 320,000 are conscripts and 285,000 are reservists in the active state.

Associations

The Turkish Army Command ( Kara Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı ) has four armies ( 1st , 2nd , 3rd and Aegean Army ). In addition to these armies, the training, logistics and army aviation command are subordinate to them .

Turkey has nine armored , sixteen mech infantry , eleven motorized infantry , five special operations , one army aviation , two artillery and five training brigades , as well as a brigade for humanitarian tasks.

equipment

Turkish soldiers in KFOR deployment in 2010

In order to fulfill its tasks, the Turkish army has, among other things, in 2015:

• 4 Altay main battle tanks (are coming in - 250 have been ordered)
• 298 Leopard 2 A4 battle tank
• 397 Leopard 1 A3 / A4 battle tank
• 658 Sabra battle tank / M60A3 battle tank
• 254 M60-A1 main battle tanks
• 2576 M-48 main battle tanks
• 250 Akrep reconnaissance tanks
• 350 T-155 Fırtına 155 mm self-propelled howitzer
• 130 T-122 Sakarya 40-barrel multiple missile launcher 122 mm
• 650 TIFV - AIFV infantry fighting vehicle with a 25 mm cannon
• 830 TIFV - AIFV infantry fighting vehicle with 12.5 mm Browning M2
• 830 AAPC armored personnel carriers
• 2000 M-113 crew armored personnel carrier
• 12 MLRS - multiple rocket launcher
• 186 Cobra - anti-tank weapons
• 340 Eryx anti-tank weapons
• 392 MILAN anti-tank weapons
• 365 TOW anti- tank weapons
• 789 Redeye - anti-aircraft missiles
• 146 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.

The Turkish army aviators have 4 Beech 200 Super King Air , 3 Cessna 421 , 98 U-17B , 34 7GCBC Citabria , 25 T-41D Mescalero , 4 T-42A Cochise , 37 AH-1P / W Cobra , 3 OH-58B Kiowa , 50 S-70B Black Hawk , 2 AB-212 , 10 AS 532UL Cougar , 12 AB-204B , 64 AB-205A, 20 Bell 206 Jet Ranger , 45 UH-1H Iroquois , 9 Bell 412 Twin Huey , 28 Hughes 300C and 11 Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook . 57 TAI T-129 are currently in service, 91 have been ordered in total.

From 2017, the HK G3 was replaced by the newly developed MPT-76 as the army's standard infantry rifle.

See also

• List of weapon systems of the Turkish Army

Web links

Commons : Turkish Army  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Country information from the Austrian Ministry of Defense
2. ^ Turkey Army Equipment. February 18, 2017. From GlobalSecurity.com, accessed January 9, 2019.
3. ↑ Eric B: First MPT-76 rifles delivered to the Turkish Military. January 18, 2017. From TheFirearmBlog.com, accessed January 9, 2019.