Capability
The Ground Forces possess over 670 tanks, 100 mobile artillery pieces, 850 Infantry Fighting Vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 450 mobile anti-aircraft weapons, more than 1,000 artillery and mortar and other military equipment. Most of them are old Soviet Union models designed between the late 1950s to early 1970s. There are a smaller number of newer models designed in post-Soviet Russia.
| Type |
Equipment |
| Light equipment |
- AKM
- AKMS
- AK-74
- FN FNC
- IMI Galil
- KPV
- Makarov PM
- NSV (machine gun)
- SKS carbine
- SVD (rifle)
- PK machine gun
- RPK machine gun
- DShK machine gun
- RPD machine gun
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| Anti-tank |
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| Air Defense |
- ZSU-23-4 "Shilka"
- 9K31 Strela-1 (SA-9 Gaskin)
- Strela 2 (SA-7 Grail)
- 9K34 Strela-3 (SA-14 Gremlin)
- 9K38 Igla (SA-18 Grouse)
- S-75 (SA-2 Guideline)
- S-125 Neva/Pechora (SA-3 Goa) partially upgraded to Pechora2M
- S-200 Angara/Vega/Dubna (SA-5 Gammon)
- ZPU-4
- ZU-23-2
- 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
- 57 mm AZP S-60
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| Towed artillery |
- 122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30)
- 130 mm towed field gun M1954 (M-46)
- 100 mm field gun M1944 (BS-3)
- 152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20)
- 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30)
- T-12 antitank gun
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| Mortar |
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| Multi Rocket Launchers |
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| Tanks |
- T-54 – 200
- T-55 – 170
- T-62 – 250
- T-72A - 50
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| Infantry Fighting Vehicles/Armored Personnel Carriers |
- BMP-1 – 400 along with 3000 9M14M Malyutka ATGMs ordered in 1981 from Soviet Union and delivered between 1982 and 1985. 400 in service as of 1996, 310 as of 2003
- BTR-60 – 300
- BTR-70M - 40
- BTR-80 – 450
- BRDM-2 – 120
- HMMWV – 30
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