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Total Armed Forces

  • 59,400 (5,000 conscripts); 272 cbt ac, 46 armed hel;
  • Ad Command: 1 gp.
  • Fighter: 2 sqn with 16 F-103E/D (Mirage IIIE/DBR);
  • Tactical Command: 10 gp;
  • FGA: 3 sqn with 48 F-5E, 4-B, 4-F, 26 AMX;
  • Coin: 2 sqn with 58 AT-26 (EMB-326);
  • Recce: 2 sqn with 4 RC-95, 10 RT-26, 12 Learjet 35 Recce/VIP, 3 RC-130E;
  • Liaison/Observation: 7 sqn: 1 ac with 8 T-27; 1 hel with 8 UH-1H (armed); 5 ac/hel with 31 U-7 ac and 30 UH-1H hel (armed);
  • Maritime Command: 4gp;
  • ASW (afloat): 1 sqn with 11 EMB-110B, 20 EMB-111;
  • Transport Command: 6 gp (6 sqn), plus 7 regional indep sqns: 1 with 11 C-130H, KC-130H; 1 with 4 KC-137 (tpi/tkr); 1 with 12 C-91; 1 with 23 C-95A/B/C; 1 sqn with 17 C-115; 1 sqn (VIP) with ac: 1 VC-91, 12 VC/VU-93, 2 VC-96, 5 VC-97, 5 VU-9, 2 Boeing 737-200, hel: 3 VH-4; 7 sqn (regional) with 7 C-115, 86 C-95 A/B/C, 6 EC-9 (VU-9);
  • Helicopters: 8 AS-332 (armed), 8 AS-355, 4 Bell 206, 27 HB-350B;
  • Liaison: 50 C-42, 3 Cessna 208, 30 U-42;
  • Training Command: ac: 38 AT-26, 97 EMB-110, 25 T-23, 98 T-25, 64 T-27 (Tucano), 14 AMX-T, hel: 4 OH-6A, 25 OH-13;
  • Calibration: 1 unit with 2 C-95, 1 EC-93, 4 EC-95, 1 U-93;
  • AAM: AIM-9B Sidewinder, R-530, Magic 2.
Forces Abroad
  • UN and Peacekeeping: Angola (UNAVEM II): 19, incl 8 Observer, 3 civ pol; Croatia: (UNPROFOR I): 23 Observes, 10 civ pol; El Salvador (ONUSAL): 4 Observers, 11 civ pol; Mozambique (ONUMOZ): 27 Observers, 67 civ pol.
  • Paramilitary: Public Security Forces: some 385,600 in state military police org (State Militias) under Army control and considered an Army Reserve.

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