809,576 males, age 15–49, 870, 864[6] females, age 15–49
Fit for military service
637,776 males, age 15–49, 729,846 females, age 15–49
Reaching military age annually
31,774 males, 31,182 females
Active personnel
70,600 (Army 65,600. Air force 5,000). There are additional 5,000 paramilitary.[2]
21,363 (in command of NKR)[3]
Reserve personnel
210,000 former service personnel with service in last 15 years[4]
Deployed personnel
Kosovo (106) Syria (83) Lebanon (33) Mali (1)[5]
Expenditures
Budget
$1.5 billion (2024)[1]. Percent of GDP= 5.3% (2024)[citation needed]
Industry
Domestic suppliers
Scientific-Production Association Garni-Ler Aspar Arms Avtomatika Plant UAVLAB
Foreign suppliers
India France[7] Bulgaria Iran China[8][9] Cyprus[10] Greece[11][12] Russia United States Poland Serbia Ukraine[13] Iraq Belarus
Related articles
History
Military history of Armenia 1918–1920 Armenian-Azerbaijani War 1918 Armenian-Georgian War 1920 Turkish–Armenian War 1920 Red Army invasion of Armenia 1921 February Uprising 1988–1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Ranks
Military ranks of Armenia
The Armed Forces of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի զինված ուժեր, romanized: Hayastani zinvats uzher), sometimes referred to as the Armenian Army (Armenian: Հայկական Բանակ, romanized: Haykakan Banak), is the national military of Armenia. It consists of personnel branches under the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces,[14] which can be divided into two general branches: the Ground Forces, and the Air Force.[15] Although it was partially formed out of the former Soviet Army forces stationed in the Armenian SSR (mostly units of the 7th Guards Army of the Transcaucasian Military District), the military of Armenia can be traced back to the founding of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918. Being landlocked, Armenia does not have a navy.
The Commander-in-Chief of the military is the President of Armenia, Vahagn Khachaturyan. The Ministry of Defence is in charge of political leadership, headed by Suren Papikyan, while military command remains in the hands of the general staff, headed by the Chief of Staff, who is Major-General Eduard Asryan. Border guards subject to the Ministry of Defence until 2001,[16] patrol Armenia's borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan, while Russian troops continue to monitor its borders with Iran and Turkey.[17][18] Since 2002, Armenia has been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.[19] Armenia signed a military cooperation plan with Lebanon on 27 November 2015.[20]
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^"Collective Security Treaty Organization". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia (in Armenian). Retrieved 26 September 2023.
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