Armed Forces of Armenia
The Armed Forces of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի զինված ուժեր, romanized: Hayastani zinvats uzher), sometimes referred to as the Armenian Army (Armenian: Հայկական Բանակ, romanized: Haykakan Banak), is the national military of Armenia. It consists of personnel branches under the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces, which can be divided into two general branches: the Ground Forces, and the Air Force. Although it was partially formed out of the former Soviet Army forces stationed in the Armenian SSR (mostly units of the 7th Guards Army of the Transcaucasian Military District), the military of Armenia can be traced back to the founding of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918. Being landlocked, Armenia does not have a navy.
| Armed Forces of Armenia | |
|---|---|
| Հայաստանի զինված ուժեր | |
Emblem of the Armenian Armed Forces | |
| Founded | 28 May 1918; 105 years ago |
| Current form | 28 January 1992; 32 years ago |
| Service branches | Armenian Ground Forces Armenian Air Force |
| Headquarters | Yerevan |
| Website | www |
| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-chief | President Vahagn Khachaturyan |
| Prime Minister | Nikol Pashinyan |
| Minister of Defence | Suren Papikyan |
| Chief of the General Staff | Major General Edvard Asryan |
| Personnel | |
| Military age | 18–27 |
| Conscription | 24 months |
| Available for military service | 809,576 males, age 15–49, 870, 864 females, age 15–49 |
| Fit for military service | 637,776 males, age 15–49, 729,846 females, age 15–49 |
| Reaching military age annually | 31,774 males, 31,182 females |
| Active personnel | 70,600 (Army 65,600. Air force 5,000). There are additional 5,000 paramilitary. 21,363 (in command of NKR) |
| Reserve personnel | 210,000 former service personnel with service in last 15 years |
| Deployed personnel | Kosovo (106) Syria (83) Lebanon (33) Mali (1) |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | $1.5 billion (2024). Percent of GDP= 5.3% (2024) |
| Industry | |
| Domestic suppliers | Scientific-Production Association Garni-Ler Aspar Arms Avtomatika Plant UAVLAB |
| Foreign suppliers | India France Bulgaria Iran China Cyprus Greece Russia United States Poland Serbia Ukraine Iraq Belarus |
| Related articles | |
| History | Military history of Armenia 1918–1920 Armenian-Azerbaijani War 1918 Armenian-Georgian War 1920 Turkish–Armenian War 1920 Red Army invasion of Armenia 1921 February Uprising 1988–1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War 2020 Second Nagorno-Karabakh War |
| Ranks | Military ranks of Armenia |
The Commander-in-Chief of the military is the President of Armenia, Vahagn Khachaturyan. The Ministry of Defence is in charge of political leadership, headed by Suren Papikyan, while military command remains in the hands of the general staff, headed by the Chief of Staff, who is Major-General Eduard Asryan. Border guards subject to the Ministry of Defence until 2001, patrol Armenia's borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan, while Russian troops continue to monitor its borders with Iran and Turkey. Since 2002, Armenia has been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. Armenia signed a military cooperation plan with Lebanon on 27 November 2015.