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Syrian Armed forces

Syria
Population
22,125,249
Military budget
1.8 billion $
Active personnel
169,000
Nuclear weapons
☢
0 warheads
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Basic informations

Capital: Damascus
Area: 185,180 km2
Population: 22,125,249
Etnic groups: Arab 90.3%, Kurds, Armenians, and other 9.7%
Religions: Muslim 87% (official; includes Sunni 74% and Alawi, Ismaili, and Shia 13%), Christian 10% (includes Orthodox, Uniate, and Nestorian), Druze 3%, Jewish

Military branches

(القوات المسلحة العربية السورية‎) Land Forces, Naval Forces, Air Forces (includes Air Defense Forces).

Military service

18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation is 18 months; women are not conscripted but may volunteer to serve; re-enlistment obligation 5 years, with retirement after 15 years or age 40 or 20 years or age 45.

Military expenditures

Military budget
1.8 billion $
Percent of GDP
5

Manpower

Active personnel
169,000
Reserve
0
Available
11,550,000

Land Forces

Tanks
3,507
AFV
4,639
Artillery
3,343
Self-propelled guns
502
Rocket artillery
691
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
T-72B3 20
T-90 A 67
T-72 1000
- T-62 M/K 740
T-55 MV/AM/AMV 1600
PT-76 80

AFVs

TypeNameNumber
- BTR-70 400
- BTR-152 289
- GAZ-2975 Tigr -
BMP-1 1800
BMP-2 80
BTR-80/82A 50
- BRDM-2 700
- BTR-60PB/PU-12 650
- BTR-50 550
- BPM-97 -
- BTR-40 120

Self-propelled artillery

TypeNameNumber
2S1 Gvozdika 360
2S3 Akatsiya 100
- 2S4 Tyulpan 24
- 2S9 Nona 18

Rocket artillery

TypeNameNumber
- Hwasong -
BM-21 Grad 300
- BM-24 -
- BM-14 50
BM-27 Uragan 36
BM-30 Smerch -
- Khaibar 100
Fajr-3 -
- Fajr-5 -
- Ra'ad -
- Falaq-2 -
Type 63 100
- OTR-21 Tochka 12
- Scud-B 42
- FROG-7 18
TOS-1 8
- Fateh-110 -
- Zelzal -
- Shahab-2 -
- Golan-1000 25

Air Forces

Total aircraft
470
Fighters
108
Multirole
29
Attack
90
Helicopters
171
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
- MiG-25 (PD, RB) 2
- MiG-23 MLD 55
MiG-21 (MF/Bis, U/UM, R) 51

Multirole aircraft

TypeNameNumber
MiG-29 29

Attack and bomber aircraft

TypeNameNumber
Su-24 MK2 16
Su-22 M-2/M-3/M-4 39
- MiG-23 BN 35

Helicopters

TypeNameNumber
Mil Mi-24 27
- SA-342 Gazelle 62
- Mil Mi-2 13
Mil Mi-8, Mi-17 Hip 49
- Mil Mi-14 11
- Kamov Ka-27 2
- Kamov Ka-25 5
- Kamov Ka-226 2

UCAV (combat drone)

TypeNameNumber
- -

Navy

Total naval
43
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.