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Iranian Armed forces

Iran
Population
86,758,304
Military budget
10 billion $
Active personnel
587,000
Nuclear weapons
☢
0 warheads
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Basic informations

Capital: Tehran
Area: 1,648,195 km2
Population: 86,758,304
Etnic groups: Persian, Azeri, Kurd, Lur, Baloch, Arab, Turkmen and Turkic tribes
Religions: Muslim (official) 99.4% (Shia 90-95%, Sunni 5-10%), other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian) 0.3%, unspecified 0.4%

Military branches

(نيروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی ايران‎‎) Ground Forces, Navy, Air Force (IRIAF), Khatemolanbia Air Defense Headquarters; Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Enqelab-e Eslami, IRGC): Ground Resistance Forces, Navy, Aerospace Force, Quds Force (special operations); Law Enforcement Forces.

Military service

18 years of age for compulsory military service; 16 years of age for volunteers; 17 years of age for Law Enforcement Forces; 15 years of age for Basij Forces (Popular Mobilization Army); conscript military service obligation is 18 months; women exempt from military service.

Military expenditures

Military budget
10 billion $
Percent of GDP
2.1

Manpower

Active personnel
587,000
Reserve
200,000
Available
23,619,215

Land Forces

Tanks
2,842
AFV
3,555
Artillery
4,873
Self-propelled guns
1,030
Rocket artillery
1,755
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

AFVs

TypeNameNumber
- Tosan 60
Boragh/BMP-1 450
M113 300
- BTR-60 200
BMP-2 400
- FV101 Scorpion 280
- Sarir APC -
- Sayyad 150
- Rakhsh APC 300
EE-9 Cascavel 35
- OT-62 TOPAS 150
- BTR-50 480
WZ-551 150
- EE-11 Urutu -
- Toofan 600

Self-propelled artillery

TypeNameNumber
2S1 Gvozdika 60
- Raad 1 200
Raad 2 250
M109 440
- M-1978 20
- M-107 30
- M-110 30

Rocket artillery

TypeNameNumber
BM-27 Uragan -
BM-21 Grad 100
Fajr-3 110
- Fajr-5 190
- Shahin -
Type 63 1300
- Fateh-110 -
- Naze'at -
- Tondar-69 -
- 122mm Hadid 55

Air Forces

Total aircraft
973
Fighters
112
Multirole
75
Attack
23
Helicopters
519
UCAV (combat drone)
83
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
- F-14 Tomcat 41
MiG-29 Fulcrum 19
Chengdu J-7 17
F-5 Tiger II 35

Multirole aircraft

TypeNameNumber
- Dassault Mirage F1 12
F-4 Phantom II 63

Attack and bomber aircraft

TypeNameNumber
- HESA Azarakhsh 6
Sukhoi Su-24 23
Sukhoi Su-25 13
Sukhoi Su-22 10

Helicopters

TypeNameNumber
Bell AH-1J Sea Cobra 50
- IAIO Toufan 67
CH-47 Chinook 42
- Bell 206 JetRanger 28
- Bell 214 70
Mi-17 92
- HESA Shahed 285 43
- HESA Shahed 274 30
- Agusta-Bell 212 60
Bell UH-1N Twin Huey 10
- HESA Shahed 278 13
- Sikorsky SH-3 8
- Sikorsky CH-53 6

UCAV (combat drone)

TypeNameNumber
- Saegheh 2 50
- Kaman-12 -
- Kaman 22 -
- IAIO Fotros 2
Shahed 129 21
- Meraj -
- H-110 Sarir 10
- Simorgh -

Navy

Total naval
272
Aircraftcarriers
0
Destroyers
0
Frigates
6
Corvettes
3
Submarines
19
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
- Alvand 3
Moudge 3

Corvettes

TypeNameNumber
- Bayandor 2
- Hamzeh 1

Submarines

TypeNameNumber
- Kilo 3
- Fateh 1
- Nahang 1
- Ghadir 14

☢ Nuclear weapons

Does not have nuclear weapons.