Air Force
PERSONNEL: Aproximately
22,000 air force members
EQUIPMENT: Approximately 420 combat aircraft (more than half of the aircraft are non-operational), 52 armed helicopters (many in storage) and 90 transport aircraft (some in storage). Most of the equipment is of Soviet origin and some from the USA and France. Serviceability of aircraft and equipment has been drastically affected by the UN embargo ordered in April 1992.
AIRCRAFT INVENTORY:
Bombers : 6 TU-22A/U Blinder.
Fighter/Ground Attack : 50 Mig-21MF Fishbed, 75 MiG-23B/ML Flogger, 60 Mig-25 Foxbat, 15 Mirage F1-ED, 6 Mirage F1-BD, 40 MIG 23BN Flogger, 15 Mig 23-U Flogger, 30 Mirage 5D/DE, 14 Mirage 5DD, 14 Mirage F1-AD, 45 SU-20/22 Fitter.
Counterinsurgency: 24 Jastreb J-1E.
Reconnaissance: 5 Mirage 5DR, 7 Mig 25-R Foxbat.
Strike and multi-role aircraft : 12 SU-24MK Fencer, 40 SU-22M-3 Fitter, 10 MIG-25R/U Foxbat, 2 TU-22U Blinder.
Tankers: 2 KC-130H Hercules
Transport: 1 Boeing 707-320, 6 Boeing CH-47, 1 C-140 Jetstar, 15 An-26 Curl, 5 C-130H Hercules, 2 L-100-20 Hercules, 3 L 100-30 Hercules, 16 G-222, 18 I1-76M Candid, 15 L-410UVP Turbolet.
Helicopters: 12 Mi-35V Hind, 35 Mi-24 Hind, 50 Mi-14 Haze, 7 Mi-8C Hip, 30 Mi-2 Hoplite, 18 CH-47C Chinook, 10 SA 316B Alouette III, 5 AB 206A JetRanger, 2 AB-212 Bell, 11 SA-321 Super Frelon
Training and Liaison: 150 L-39ZO Albatross, 80 G-2AE Galeb, 20 SF-260WL Marchetti, 12 CM-170 Magister, 1 TU-22 Blinder, 20 Mi-2 hel
MISSILES:
Air Defense missiles: S-75 Dvina (SA-2), S-125 Neva (SA-3) SAMs and Antey S-200
(SA-5)
Air-to-air missiles: AA-2 (Atoll), AA-6 (Acrid), AA-7 (Apex), AA-8 (Aphid), AA-11 (Archer), R-530, R-550 Magique, Super 530D/F.
Air-to-ground missiles: AS-9 (Kyle), AS-10 (Karen), AS-14 (Kedge), AT-2 (Swatter), AT-6 (Spiral)
