Military of Uzbekistan - Land Forces

Land Forces

Organisation

The Army includes five military districts, the Northwest at Nukus, the Southwest special military district at Karshi, the central military district at Dzhizak, and the East military district at Ferghana. In 2001, the Tashkent garrison was transformed into the fifth MD - the Tashkent military district.

The headquarters of the military districts and their areas of responsibility are confirmed. The subordinate brigades listed in the table below have been attributed to the various military districts either because they are located in the same city as the military district headquarters or are clearly within the military districts' area of responsibility - that is, the 37th Motor Rifle Brigade at Andijan.

There are four motor rifle brigades whose designations are not known, and the 17th Air Assault Brigade at Fergana, the former Soviet Airborne Forces' 387th Airborne Training Regiment. Motorized brigades are located around Bukhara, Samarqand, Termez, Nukus, and Andijan.

Other Listed Formations

• 2 АК МС, Fergana, в/ч 49827, вкл. 15 дшбр, чирчикский учебный полк и ферганская парашютно-десантная бригада-1999
• Motor Rifle Brigade, Chirchik, в/ч 16707
• Motor Rifle Brigade, Samarqand, former motor rifle division? (быв. мсд (запасная, кадрированная))
• Motor Rifle Brigade, Termez, На базе 108 мсд
• Tank Regiment (тп), Tashkent, Был в Навои, переведен в Ахангаран
• исбр
• б-н (отряд) спецназа, Ташкент, Быв. 459 рота спецназа
• бригада НГ, Ташкент, 1 тыс.чел-в бригаде один батальон охраны, рота почетного караула и рота спецназа.

Exercises

Uzbek troops participated in Partnership for Peace Exercise Cooperative Osprey '96 at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, hosted by the United States Marine Corps.

In September 2004, the (then) Royal Welsh Regiment (now 3rd Bn The Royal Welsh) of the British Army participated with the Uzbek Army Peacekeeping Battalion in "Exercise Timurlane Express" in the Farish Mountain Training Area. This was a 3-week NATO sponsored Partnership for Peace training exercise.

Current equipment

Reportedly, Uzbek armed forces' small arms include the AK-47, AK-74, Dragunov sniper rifle, Makarov PM pistol, and PK.

Heavier equipment includes:

Tanks

• T-72 - 70
• T-64 - 100
• T-62 - 170
• T-54/55 – 80

Infantry Fighting Vehicles

• BMP-1 - 180
• BMP-2 - 172

Armoured Personnel Carriers

• BTR-80 – 290
• BTR-70 – 36
• BTR-60 – 24
• BRDM-2 - 13

Towed Artillery

• 122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30) - 540
• 152 mm howitzer M1943 (D-1)
• 152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955 (D-20)
• 152 mm gun 2A36 - 140

Self-propelled Artillery

• 120 mm 2S9 Nona - 60
• 122 mm 2S1 Gvozdika - 18
• 152 mm SO-152 - 17
• 203 mm 2S7 Pion - 48

Rocket Artillery

• 122 mm BM-21 Grad - 60
• 220 mm BM-27 Uragan - 49