Service branches Ground Forces Air Forces Navy Independent formations Border Troops Internal Troops National Guard
Headquarters
Ashgabat[1]
Website
Milli Gosun National Army Newspaper
Leadership
Supreme Commander-in-Chief
Serdar Berdimuhamedow
Secretary of the State Security Council
Lieutenant General Begench Gundogdyev
Minister of Defence
Lieutenant General Begench Gundogdyev
Chief of the General Staff
Colonel Akmurad Anamedov
Personnel
Military age
18[2]
Conscription
24 months (IISS 2012)
Active personnel
36,500 (Army 33,000, Air Force 3,000, Navy 500)
Reserve personnel
formerly 108,000, not since 2018 at least.[3]
Expenditures
Budget
$800 million (FY10) (IISS 2018)
Percent of GDP
3.6% (FY10)[2]
Industry
Foreign suppliers
Belarus Kazakhstan North Korea Russia Turkey Serbia[4] United States
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Ranks
Military ranks of Turkmenistan
The Armed Forces of Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Ýaragly Güýçleri), known informally as the Turkmen National Army (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Milli goşun) is the national military of Turkmenistan. It consists of the Ground Forces, the Air Force and Air Defense Forces, Navy, and other independent formations (etc. Border Troops, Internal Troops and National Guard).
^Military Technology, World Defence Almanac 2008, p.255
^ ab"Turkmenistan Military 2014, CIA World Factbook". Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
^John Pike. "Turkmenistan- Army". Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
^"Prvi put van Srbije: Lazar 3 prikazan u punom sjaju FOTO". B92. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
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