Danish Armed forces

Denmark
Population
5,982,117
Military budget
5 billion $
Active personnel
21,000
Nuclear weapons
warheads
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Basic informations

Capital: Copenhagen
Area: 43,094 km2
Population: 5,982,117
Etnic groups: Danish (includes Greenlandic and Faroese) 84.2%, Turkish 1.1%, other 14.7% (largest groups are Polish, Romanian, Syrian, Ukrainian, German, and Iraqi)
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran (official) 71.4%, Muslim 4.3%, other/none/unspecified 24.3%

Military branches

Danish Armed Forces (Forsvaret): Royal Danish Army, Royal Danish Navy, Royal Danish Air Force, Danish Home Guard

Military service

18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscripts serve an initial training period that varies from 4 to 12 months depending on specialization; former conscripts are assigned to mobilization units; women eligible to volunteer for military service; in addition to full time employment, the Danish military offers reserve contracts in all three branches

Military expenditures

Military budget
5 billion $
Percent of GDP
1.4

Manpower

Active personnel
21,000
Reserve
63,000
Available
2,605,137

Land Forces

Tanks
44
AFV
621
Artillery
27
Self-propelled guns
19
Rocket artillery
8
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

AFVs

TypeNameNumber
- CV9035DK MKIII 44
- Mowag Eagle IV 85
- Mowag Eagle V 93

Self-propelled artillery

TypeNameNumber
- Elbit Systems ATMOS 2000 19

Rocket artillery

TypeNameNumber
- Elbit Systems PULS 8

Air Forces

Total aircraft
133
Fighters
0
Multirole
48
Attack
0
Helicopters
34
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
- -

Multirole aircraft

TypeNameNumber

Attack and bomber aircraft

TypeNameNumber
- -

Helicopters

TypeNameNumber
- Eurocopter Fennec 11
- AgustaWestland AW101 14

UCAV (combat drone)

TypeNameNumber
- -

Navy

Total naval
79
Aircraftcarriers
0
Destroyers
0
Frigates
9
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
- Absalon class 2
- Iver Huitfeldt class 3
- Thetis class 4

Corvettes

TypeNameNumber
- -

Submarines

TypeNameNumber
- -

Nuclear weapons

Does not have nuclear weapons.