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Egyptian Armed forces

Egypt
Population
107,770,524
Military budget
6 billion $
Active personnel
438,500
Nuclear weapons
☢
0 warheads
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Basic informations

Capital: Cairo
Area: 1,010,407 km2
Population: 107,770,524
Etnic groups: Egyptian 99.6%, other 0.4%
Religions: Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 90%, Christian (majority Coptic Orthodox) 10%

Military branches

(القوات المسلحة المصرية‎) Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Forces.

Military service

18-30 years of age for male conscript military service; service obligation - 18-36 months, followed by a 9-year reserve obligation; voluntary enlistment possible from age 16.

Military expenditures

Military budget
6 billion $
Percent of GDP
0

Manpower

Active personnel
438,500
Reserve
479,000
Available
41,157,220

Land Forces

Tanks
3,789
AFV
8,699
Artillery
4,328
Self-propelled guns
889
Rocket artillery
1,250
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
M1 Abrams 1130
M60 Patton 1700
T-80 34
- T-62 500
T-55 425

AFVs

TypeNameNumber
EIFV 1000
- YPR-765 PRI 1000
BMP-1 200
M113 2447
- BTR-50 450
Pegaso BMR 260
- OT-64 SKOT 250
- BTR-60 200
- BTR-152 175
- RG-32 Scout 180
- Timsah MRAP -
- M706 Commando 292
- BRDM-2 300
Casspir -
- Fahd 765
International MaxxPro 12
- Caiman 468
- RG-33 450
- OT-62 TOPAS 250

Self-propelled artillery

TypeNameNumber
M109A2 420
- SPH 122 124
M109A5 201
- M110 144

Rocket artillery

TypeNameNumber
- Scud 34
- FROG-7 72
M270 65
BM-21 685
- BM-24 48
Type 63 346

Air Forces

Total aircraft
1,103
Fighters
44
Multirole
278
Attack
121
Helicopters
310
UCAV (combat drone)
32
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
MiG-29 44

Multirole aircraft

Attack and bomber aircraft

TypeNameNumber
- Dassault Mirage V 81
- Alpha Jet 40

Helicopters

TypeNameNumber
- AW149 8
Mil Mi-24 6
AH-64 Apache 46
Kamov Ka-50 39
Mi-17 62
- Sikorsky S-70 2
- Sea King 23
- Aérospatiale Gazelle 89
CH-47 Chinook 19
- SH-2G Super Seasprite 10
- AW109 3
- AW139 2

UCAV (combat drone)

Navy

Total naval
193
Aircraftcarriers
2
Destroyers
0
Frigates
14
Corvettes
7
Submarines
8
Total naval - number of all military ships in country. Includes auxiliaries.
Aircraft carriers includes helicopter carriers. Destroyers includes Battlecruisers and Cruisers.

Aircraftcarriers

TypeNameNumber
Mistral class 2

Destroyers

TypeNameNumber
- -

Frigates

TypeNameNumber
Fremm 3
Oliver Hazard Perry 4
- Knox class 2
- Meko A-200 EN 4

Corvettes

TypeNameNumber
Pohang-class 1
Gowind class 4
- Descubierta class 2

Submarines

TypeNameNumber
Type 209 4
- Romeo-class 4

☢ Nuclear weapons

Does not have nuclear weapons.