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Peninsula Shield Force vs Syria

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Peninsula Shield Force Syria

The Peninsula Shield Force is the military arm of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Members of PSF: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. As of March 2011, the Peninsula Shield Force was commanded by Saudi Major General Mutlaq bin Salem Al-Azima and has about 40 thousand troops.

Syria is a country located in Middle East with an area of 185,180 km2 (land boundries: 2,363 km and costline 193 km). The capital of Syria is Damascus. The number of inhabitants is 17,500,657.

The SAF's inventory is comprised mostly of Russian and Soviet-era equipment. Russia has supplied nearly all of Syria's imported weapons systems, although China and Iran have also provided military equipment.

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 97.8 billion $ 1.8 billion $
Percent of GDP: 0% 5%

Military budget

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Highest value in the world: 816 billion $ (USA)
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Manpower

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Active personnel: 611,550 169,000
Reserve personnel: 470,000 0
Available for military: 11,870,201 11,550,000

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Highest value in the world: 2,035,000 (China)
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Land Forces

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Tanks: 1,767 3,507
Armoured fighting vehicles: 16,249 4,639
Total artillery: 3,040 3,343
Self-propelled artillery: 739 502
Rocket artillery: 407 691

Tanks

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Highest value in the world: 12,267 (Russia)
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Air Forces

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Total aircraft: 2,122 470
Fighter aircraft: 141 108
Multirole aircraft: 255 29
Attack aircraft: 157 90
Helicopters: 793 171
UCAV (combat drone): 6 0

Total aircraft

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Highest value in the world: 12,930 (USA)
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Navy

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Total naval: 205 43
Aircraftcarriers: 0 0
Destroyers: 0 0
Frigates: 11 0
Corvettes: 21 0
Submarines: 0 0

Total naval

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Highest value in the world: 967 (North Korea)
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Nuclear weapons

Peninsula Shield Force

Data not available

Syria

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Military service

Peninsula Shield Force

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Syria

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.