Military of Kazakhstan

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Military of Kazakhstan
Service branches	Ground Forces Air and Air Defense Forces Naval Force Border Services Republican Guard
Manpower
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and 35th air-landing brigades, 2 rocket brigades, 2 artillery regiments and a large amount of equipment which had been withdrawn from over the Urals after the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.

1 Recent Deployments
2 Ground Forces
- 2.1 Current inventory
3 Air and Air Defense Forces
4 References

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 that would inflict minimal burden on Kazakhstan's small economy.

Kazakhstani soldier with AK-74 (CENTRASBAT 2000)

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.

T-72 - 650;
T-62 - 75;
T-55 - 540;

BMP-1 - 210;
BMP-2 - ??;

BTR-50/60 - 300;
VCI/IFV - 1.000;
BRDM-2 - 150;

Towed Artillery

122mm D-30 - 540;
130mm M-46/Type-59-1 [PRC] - 985;
152mm D-20 - 30;

Self-propelled Artillery

122mm 2S1 - 60;
155mm M-109 - 180;
170mm M-1978 - 10;

Rocket Artillery

107mm Type-63 - 700;
122mm BM-21 - 100;
122mm BM-14 - ~7;
240mm M-1985 - 9;

Attack helicopters:

Mi-24 Hind - 25

Transport Helicopters:

Mi-8 Hip/ Mi-17 Hip-H - 15

Aircraft	Origin	Type	Versions	In service^[2]	Notes
Antonov An-26 Curl	Soviet Union	tactical transport		1
Bell UH-1 Iroquois	United States	utility helicopter	UH-1H Huey II	6
Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum	Soviet Union	fighter		40
Mikoyan MiG-31 Foxhound	Soviet Union	interceptor		33	356th Fighter Aviation Regiment, flying from Semipalitinsk Airport; to be refurbished.
Mil Mi-8 Hip	Soviet Union	transport helicopter		22
Mil Mi-24 Hind	Soviet Union	attack helicopter		20
Mil Mi-26 Halo	Soviet Union	transport helicopter		12
Robinson R44	United States	utility helicopter		1	in service with the police
Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer	Soviet Union	attack		25
Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot	Soviet Union	attack		14	including 2 Su-25UB training version
Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker	Soviet Union	fighter		25
Tupolev Tu-154 Careless	Soviet Union	transport		2

Surface-to-Air Missiles include many SA-2 Guideline, SA-3 Goa, and SA-5 Gammon missile systems.

^ 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.