Everything about The Military Of Kazakhstan totally explained
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and 35th air-landing brigades, 2 rocket brigades, 2 artillery regiments and a large amount of equipment which had been withdrawn from over the Urals after the signing of the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 doesn't maintain a
Navy.
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.
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). 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 isn't 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.
Current inventory
Tanks
Infantry Fighting Vehicles
BMP-1 - 160;
BMP-2 - 250;
BTR-80A - 14;
Armored Personnel Carriers
BTR-60 - 4
BTR-70 - 25
BTR-80 - 70
BTR-3 - 2
BRDM-2 - 150
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
122mm 2S1 - 60;
120mm 2S9 - 18;
152mm 2S3 - 120;
170mm M-1978 - 10;
Rocket Artillery
107mm Type-63 - 700;
122mm BM-21 - 190;
122mm BM-14 - ~7;
220mm 9P140 Uragan - 180;
240mm M-1985 - 9;
Helicopters
Attack helicopters:
25 Mi-24 Hind
Transport Helicopters:
15 Mi-8 Hip/Mi-17 Hip-H
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'd been place in storage.
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| Antonov An-26 Curl || || tactical transport || An-26 || 1 ||
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| Bell UH-1 Iroquois || || utility helicopter || UH-1H Huey II || 6 ||
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| Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum || || fighter || MiG-29 || 40 ||
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| Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound || || 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.
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| Mil Mi-8 Hip || || transport helicopter || Mi-8 || 22 ||
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| Mil Mi-24 Hind || / || attack helicopter || Mi-24 || 20 ||
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| Mil Mi-26 Halo || || transport helicopter || Mi-26 || 12 ||
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| Robinson R44 || || utility helicopter || R-44 || 1 || in service with the police
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| Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer || || attack
recon ||Su-24
Su-24MR || 25
12 ||
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| Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot || || attack || Su-25
Su-25UB || 12
2 ||
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| Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker || || fighter || Su-27 || 25 ||
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| Tupolev Tu-154 Careless || || transport || Tu-154 || 2 ||
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Surface-to-Air Missiles include many Lavochkin SA-2 Guideline, Isayev SA-3 Goa, and Almaz SA-5 Gammon missile systems.
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