Turkmen Armed Forces

Turkmen soldiers on the occasion of the Independence Day parade

The Turkmen Armed Forces ( Turkmen Türkmenistanyň Ýaragly Güýçleri ) are in the armed services army , air force and air defense and navy divided. There is also a national guard . Turkmenistan concluded a bilateral defense agreement with Russia in 1992 , around 12,000 Russian soldiers from a Mechanized Division and the Air Force were stationed to secure the border with Afghanistan and Iran . As relations deteriorated, the last Russian troops left the country in 1999.

The weapon systems of the armed forces of Turkmenistan are predominantly of Russian origin and are only operational to a limited extent.

army

The Turkmen Army with 18,500 members is divided into an Army High Command, which is subordinate to five military districts.

It consists of three mot rifle divisions , two mot rifle brigades , a training Division, an independent airborne battalion , an antitank regiment , a pioneer regiment , an artillery brigade , a multiple rocket launchers regiment , a R-17 - brigade and two air defense regiments .

In the event of mobilization, the training division is reinforced to form a mot rifle division with reservists.

equipment

T-90S main battle tanks during a parade

Turkmen army has 670 T-72 - Tank , 10 T-90S -Kampfpanzer (ordered a further 30), 170 BRDM-2 - Spähpanzer , 930 BMP-1 - / 2 - armored , 12 BRM -Schützenpanzer, 829 team armored transport vehicle ( BTR -60 / -70 / -80 ), 180 122 mm D-30 guns, 17 152 mm D-1 guns, 72 152 mm D-20 guns, 40 122 mm 2S1 - Selbstfahrlafette , 16 152-mm-2S3 -Selbstfahrlafetten, 17 120 mm 2S9 - armored mortar (Nona), 9 122mm 9P138 -Mehrfachraketenwerfer, 56 122 mm-BM-21 -Mehrfachraketenwerfer, 60 220mm multiple rocket launchers 9P140 "Uragan" , 6 330 mm multiple rocket launchers BM-30 "Smertsch" , 10 R-17 rockets, 31 82 mm grenade launchers, 66 120 mm PM-38 grenade launchers, 72 100 mm anti-tank guns MT- 12 / T-12 , 48 23-mm anti-aircraft guns ZSU-23-4 , 22 57-mm anti-aircraft guns S-60 , 40 9K33-Osa - air Defense systems and 13 9K35-Strela-10 -Flugabwehrraketensysteme.

Further, be 73 mm RPG-7 - antitank rifles , 9K11-Maljutka - anti-tank missile , 9K111-Fagot -Panzerabwehrlenkwaffen, 9K113-bankruptcy -Panzerabwehrlenkwaffen, 9K114-Schturm -Panzerabwehrlenkwaffen and 9K32-Strela-2 used -Panzerabwehrlenkwaffen.

air force

Turkmen Mi-8 on the occasion of the Independence Day parade

Guard boat of the Turkmen Navy in front of Türkmenbaşy

→ Main article : Turkmen Air Force

marine

The Turkmen Navy has 500 soldiers. It comprises one speedboat of the 1-MERJEN-WPB class (PB-129), four speedboats of the KALKAN-PBI- class and five speedboats of the GRIFT-PB class.

The Turkmen Navy, like the Kazakh Navy , is subordinate to the Russian Caspian Flotilla , whose headquarters are in Astrakhan .

There is still a Coast Guard with five KALKAN-M -Schnellbooten having their base in Türkmenbaşy have. Their task is to monitor the Caspian Sea on the Turkmen side. It is planned to merge the naval forces with the coast guard.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephen Foye: Russian-Turkmen Defense Accord. RFE / RL Daily Report, no.109, (10 June 1992), p. 1, quoted from Janne E. Nolan (Ed.): Global Engagement. Brookings, Washington DC, 1994, p. 369.
2. ^ Sebastien Peyrouse: Turkmenistan. Strategies of power, dilemmas of development. Sharpe, Armonk, NY 2012, ISBN 9780765632036 , pp. 196f.
3. ↑ globaldefence.net: Armed Forces of the World - Turkmenistan ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2014 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. , accessed May 25, 2014. 
4. ↑ Country information from the Austrian Ministry of Defense

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