Military of Kazakhstan
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| Military of Kazakhstan |
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| Service branches | Ground Forces Air and Air Defense Forces Naval Force Border Services Republican Guard |
| Military age | 18; minimum age for volunteers N/A (2004) |
| Conscription | Two years |
| Available for military service |
3,758,255 males, age 15–49 (2005 est.), 3,822,845 females, age 15–49 (2005 est.) |
| Fit for military service |
2,473,529 males, age 15–49 (2005 est.), 3,168,048 females, age 15–49 (2005 est.) |
| Reaching military age annually |
173,129 males (2005 est.), 168,697 females (2005 est.) |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | $175 million (FY01) |
| Percent of GDP | 1.5% (2006 est.) |
The Military of Kazakhstan is derived from a remnant force of the former Soviet Union. On June, 30 1992, the Soviet Armed Forces' Turkestan Military District disbanded, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The most powerful grouping of forces from the Turkestan Military District then became the core of Kazakhstan's new military which acquired all the units of the 40th Army (the former 32nd Army) and part of the 17th Army Corps, including 6 land force divisions, storage bases, the 14th and 35th air-landing brigades, 2 rocket brigades, 2 artillery regiments and a large amount of equipment which had been withdrawn from over the Urals after the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. It should also be noted that since Kazakhstan is a land locked country (the largest in the world) it does not maintain a Navy.
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[edit] Recent Deployments
Kazakhstan sent 29 military engineers to Iraq under Polish command as part of the Coalition of the willing. These engineers were sent to assist the US occupation in Iraq in order to provide a show of support to the West, while maintaining a cost-effective force.
[edit] Ground Forces
In the middle of the 1990s Kazakhstan's land forces included the 1st Army Corps (HQ Semipalatinsk), with the 68th (the former 372nd Red Banner Novgorod Rifle Div) Motor Rifle Division (Sary Ozek, in Kyzylorda Province) – 2 motor-rifle and one tank regiment and the 78th Tank Division (Ayaguz).[1] While the 68th Division was called a motor-rifle formation, in equipment terms it had almost 300 tanks and about 500 armoured fighting vehicles. The 78th Tank Division had 350 tanks, 290 armoured fighting vehicles and 150 арторудий (artillery pieces?). The 210th Separate Training Center (a former motor rifle training division) had 6000 soldier and officers and 220 tanks and 220 artillery pieces, so was a strengthened division. (It was often called the Division of Guards by Kazakh sources).
Since 2000, the Kazakhstan Army has been rapidly expanded. Many of the systems are Russian made, with a small number of American systems also entering service in the Kazakh inventory.
Additionally, a small Republican Guard exists, with 2,500 soldiers (1994), but this force is not considered a part of the Army.
The largest expansion of the Kazakhstan Army has been focused on armored units in recent years. Since 1990, armored units have expanded from 500, to and 1,613 in 2005. Many of these are Soviet-era MBT's.
[edit] Current inventory
[edit] Tanks
[edit] Infantry Fighting Vehicles
[edit] Armored Personnel Carriers
[edit] Artillery
Towed Artillery
- 100mm MT-12 - 130;
- 122mm D-30 - 540;
- 130mm M-46 - 985;
- 152mm D-20 - 30;
- 152mm 2A36 - 180;
- 152mm 2A65 - 90;
Self-propelled Artillery
Rocket Artillery
- 107mm Type-63 - 700;
- 122mm BM-21 - 190;
- 122mm BM-14 - ~7;
- 220mm 9P140 Uragan - 180;
- 240mm M-1985 - 9;
[edit] Helicopters
Attack helicopters:
- 25 Mi-24 Hind
Transport Helicopters:
[edit] Air and Air Defense Forces
While the MiG-31s are listed below, they may not be fully operational - Jane's Defence Weekly, writing in September 2007, said they had been place in storage.
| Aircraft | Origin | Type | Versions | In service[2] | Notes |
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| Antonov An-26 Curl |  Soviet Union |
tactical transport | An-26 | 1 | |
| Bell UH-1 Iroquois |  United States |
utility helicopter | UH-1H Huey II | 6 | |
| Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum | Soviet Union |
fighter | MiG-29 | 40 | |
| Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound | Soviet Union |
interceptor | MiG-31 | 33 | 356th Fighter Aviation Regiment, flying from Semipalitinsk Airport; aircraft in storage. Ten aircraft to be refurbished by RSK MIG, Sept 2007.[3] |
| Mil Mi-8 Hip | Soviet Union |
transport helicopter | Mi-8 | 22 | |
| Mil Mi-24 Hind | Soviet Union /  Ukraine |
attack helicopter | Mi-24V | 20 | |
| Mil Mi-26 Halo | Soviet Union |
transport helicopter | Mi-26 | 12 | |
| Robinson R44 | United States |
utility helicopter | R-44 | 1 | in service with the police |
| Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer | Soviet Union |
attack recon |
Su-24 Su-24MR |
25 12 |
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| Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot | Soviet Union |
attack | Su-25 Su-25UB |
12 2 |
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| Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker | Soviet Union |
fighter | Su-27 | 25 | |
| Tupolev Tu-154 Careless | Soviet Union |
transport | Tu-154 | 2 |
Surface-to-Air Missiles include many Lavochkin SA-2 Guideline, Isayev SA-3 Goa, and Almaz SA-5 Gammon missile systems.
[edit] References
- ^ Machine translated and cleaned up from a Russian source at http://www.nomad.su/?a=2-200205081022, 'Military-political safety of Kazakhstan'
- ^ "World Military Aircraft Inventory", Aerospace Source Book 2007, Aviation Week & Space Technology, January 15, 2007.
- ^ http://idr.janes.com/public/idr/upgrade_update.shtml and Reuben F Johnson, 'Kazakhstan signs MiG-31 update deal with Russia,' Jane's Defence Weekly, 12 September 2007, p.53
- CIA World Factbook, 2003 edition.
- see also - http://www.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/4472
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