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Austrian Armed forces

Austria
Population
9,027,999
Military budget
3.2 billion $
Active personnel
23,000
Nuclear weapons
☢
0 warheads
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Basic informations

Capital: Vienna
Area: 83,879 km2
Population: 9,027,999
Etnic groups: Austrians 81.1%, former Yugoslavs 6.3% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Serbs, and Bosniaks), Germans 2.7%, Turks 2.2%, Others 11.5%
Religions: Roman Catholic 58.8%, Muslim 7%, Protestant 3.4%

Military branches

(Österreichisches Bundesheer) Land Forces, Air Forces

Military service

Registration requirement at age 17, the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; 18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory military service (6 months), or optionally, alternative civil/community service (9 months); males 18 to 50 years old in the militia or inactive reserve are subject to compulsory service; in a January 2012 referendum, a majority of Austrians voted in favor of retaining the system of compulsory military service (with the option of alternative/non-military service) instead of switching to a professional army system.

Military expenditures

Military budget
3.2 billion $
Percent of GDP
0.74

Manpower

Active personnel
23,000
Reserve
125,600
Available
1,941,110

Land Forces

Tanks
56
AFV
215
Artillery
30
Self-propelled guns
30
Rocket artillery
0
Armoured fighting vehicles includes infantry fighting vehicles, tank destroyers, armoured personnel carriers, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles(MRAP), amphibious and reconnaissance vehicles.
Total artillery includes towed, self-propelled gun(SPG) and rocket artillery.

Tanks

TypeNameNumber
Leopard 2A4 56

AFVs

TypeNameNumber
- Pandur EVO 64
ASCOD 112
- Pandur I 79
- BvS 10 32
- Dingo 2 75

Self-propelled artillery

TypeNameNumber
M109 A2/A5Ö 30

Rocket artillery

TypeNameNumber
- -

Air Forces

Total aircraft
129
Fighters
15
Multirole
0
Attack
0
Helicopters
87
UCAV (combat drone)
0
Total aircraft - number of all military aircraft and helicopters in country. Includes training and cargo aircraft. Does not include drones.
Attack includes ground-attack and strategic bomber aircraft.

Fighter aircraft

TypeNameNumber
Eurofighter Typhoon 15

Multirole aircraft

TypeNameNumber
- -

Attack and bomber aircraft

TypeNameNumber
- -

Helicopters

TypeNameNumber
- AW169M 18
Sikorsky S-70 12
- Bell OH-58 Kiowa 10
- Bell UH-1N 23
- Aérospatiale Alouette III 24

UCAV (combat drone)

TypeNameNumber
- -

Navy

Total naval
0
Aircraftcarriers
0
Destroyers
0
Frigates
0
Corvettes
0
Submarines
0
Total naval - number of all military ships in country. Includes auxiliaries.
Aircraft carriers includes helicopter carriers. Destroyers includes Battlecruisers and Cruisers.

Aircraftcarriers

TypeNameNumber
- -

Destroyers

TypeNameNumber
- -

Frigates

TypeNameNumber
- -

Corvettes

TypeNameNumber
- -

Submarines

TypeNameNumber
- -

☢ Nuclear weapons

Does not have nuclear weapons.