Military of Myanmar

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Military branches: Army (Kyee-tut, meaning land-force), Navy (Yay-tut: Water-force), Air Force (Lay-tut: Wind/Air-force)

Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 12,211,144
females age 15-49: 12,223,069
note: both sexes liable for military service (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 6,502,013
females age 15-49: 6,491,732 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 486,432
females: 470,667 (2002 est.)

Troops

488,000 (Ranked 12th)
Defence budget - 3 bn US $

The Myanmar military gets its military equipment mainly from China. However, in order to neutralise China's influence, they have recently been purchasing arms from Russia and India.

Order of battle^[1] ^[2]

10 x Infantry Divisions (each with 3 Brigades).
20 x Mobile Operations Commands.
2? x Armored Divisions (each with 3 x Tank Regiments + 4 IFV Regiments).
3? x Artillery Divisions (9 x Fd Regiment + 1 x TAB + 1 x AD Artillery Regiment + 1 x 155/130/122mm Med Regiment + 1 x 122mm MLRS Battery).
2 x Air Defence Divisions (3 x Med Range SAM Regiments + 3 x Short Range SAM Regiments + 3 AAA Regiments).

Tanks & Infantry fighting vehicles

50 x T-72S MBTs
280+ x Type 59D MBTs
190+ x Type 69 II MBTs
150+ x Type 63 Light Tanks
1000 x BTR-3U IFVs(To assemble in Burma. To complete by 2010)
200 x WZ551 IFVs
140 x EE-9 Cascavel AFVs
an unknown number of Panhard AML 90

Artillery^[2] ^[3]

30 x NORA B52 self-propelled Artillery (Serbia)
16 x M-845P 155mm Howitzers
100+ x KH-179 155mm Howitzers
16 x Type 59 130mm Howitzers
72 x D-30M 122mm Howitzers
~340 x 105mm Howitzers (various models)
80 x 75mm Field Guns
400 x 120mm Mortars
42 x Type 90 122mm MLRS

Surface to air missiles & Anti-aircraft artillery

~46 x TOR M1 SAMs
Unknown numbers of BUK-M1-2 SAMs
24 x Tunguska Gun/SAMs
24 x SA-6 Gainful SAMs
48 x SA-2 Guideline SAMs
400 x SA-18 Grouse MANPADS
200 x CPMIEC HN5 MANPADS
200 x 14.5mm KPV heavy machine guns in quadruple AAA mounts
200 x 37mm/40mm/57mm Anti-Aircraft Guns (various models)

Small Arms

EMERK 5.56mm Rifles (Burmese copy of Israel IMI Gaili)(MA series rifles)
Heckler & Koch G3 Battle rifles (Produced under licence from H&K)(no longer inservice)
BA-94 Sub-machine Gun (Burmese copy of Israel Uzi)
M79 40mm Grenade Launchers (USA)
RPG-7/16 Rocket propelled grenade launchers
Type 69 RPG Rocket propelled grenade (Chinese version of RPG-7)
1500 x 84mm Carl Gustav Portable Recoiless Guns (Sweden)
5000 x 7.62mm MG3 Machine Guns (Germany)
Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun (USA)(Burmese copy HMG are being inducted)

Air Force

52 x Chengdu F-7s and Chengdu FT-7s (equipped with French R550 Magic Air-to-air missiles).
12 x MiG-29s (** Additional Mig-29s ordered in 2006**)
16 x Shenyang J-6s
48 x Nanchang A-5s
24 x Hongdu K-8s
6 x G-4 Super Galebs
2 x Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander (Transferred by India in August 2006)

Helicopters

11 x Mi-17s
22 x UH-1 Iroquois
20 x W-3 Sokół
20 x Mi-2s
Unknown numbers of HAL Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopters(Late 2006)

Navy

1 x 108 metre frigate(equipped with 1 x 76 mm Oto Melara Super Rapid,4 x 30 mm AK 230,4x C 802,RBUs and HQ 7)
3 x 77 metre corvette(771,772,773)(equipped with 1 x 76 mm Oto Melara Super Rapid,2 x 30 mm AK 230,4x C 802)
6 x Houxin Yan 037 1 G Class FAC(471,472,473,474,475,476)(equipped with 4 x C 802 SSM, 2 x 37 mm twin,2 x 14.5 mm twin)
2 x 45 metre Myanmar Class FAC(551,551)(equipped with 1 x 57 mm twin,2 x 25 mm twin,2 x 14.5 mm twin)
4 x 45 metre Myanmar Class FAC(553,554,555,556)(equipped with 1 x 37 mm twin,2 x 25 mm twin,2 x 14.5 mm twin)
4 x 45 metre Myanmar Class FAC(557,558,559,560)(equipped with 4 x C 802 SSM,2 x 30 mm twin,2 x 14.5 mm twin)
10 x submarine chaser(441,442,443,444,445,446,447,448,449,450)(equipped with 2 x 57 mm twin,2 x 25 mm twin,2 x 14.5 mm twin, RBUs)