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Armed forces personnel
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41,000 |
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[74th of 166]
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Branches
Armed Forces: Ground Forces, Nagorno-Karabakh Self Defense Force (NKSDF), Air Force and Air Defense |
Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC). |
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Conventional arms imports
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$68,000,000.00 |
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[40th of 85]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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2.72 %
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[24th of 145]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$135,000,000.00 |
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[16th of 111]
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Forces in Europe > Aircraft
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6 |
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[25th of 24]
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Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks
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110 |
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[24th of 24]
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Forces in Europe > Helicopters
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8 |
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[22nd of 22]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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919,582 |
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[125th of 175]
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Manpower > Military age
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18 years of age |
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|
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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30,548 |
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[129th of 226]
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personnel
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49,000
|
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[73rd of 170]
|
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personnel > % of total labor force
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3.83 %
|
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[13th of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18-27 years of age for voluntary or compulsory military service; 2-year conscript service obligation |
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Weapon holdings
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481,000 |
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[85th of 137]
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WMD > Chemical
On 15 May 1992, Armenia signed the Tashkent Agreement between the Commonwealth of Independent States, according to which Russia was acknowledged as the successor of Soviet chemical weapons. In signing the agreement, Armenia agreed to by the 1925 Geneva Protocol, abide by the Soviet moratarium of 1987 on the production of chemical weapons, coordinate its policy with a view to achieving the speedy conclusion of a multilateral and verifiable convention on the prohibition of chemical weapons, and coordinate its policy with regard to controlling the export of 'dual-use' chemicals. Armenia is a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention and a founding member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. |
WMD > Missile
Armenia does not possess ballistic missiles nor does it produce any key elements for missile systems. |
WMD > Nuclear
There are no known uranium mines, uranium processing facilities, highly-enriched uranium, or plutonium on the territory of Armenia. There are two known nuclear research facilities in Armenia: the Yerevan Institute of Physics and the Analitsark Research Facility in Gyumri. Neither houses fissile material. Armenia has one nuclear power plant, Metsamor, which produces 40% of the nation's electricity. Armenia is party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has an Additional Protocol with the IAEA, and has ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. |
WMD > Overview
When the Soviet Union broke apart, Armenia did not have weapons of mass destruction on its territory. Neither did its Soviet-era industry manufacture any key components for weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. Armenia does possess some conventional weapons production capability, mostly as a result of its long-standing conflict with Muslim Azerbaijan over a primarily Armenian-populated region, Nagorno-Karabakh. In spite of its location among states considered unfriendly to Yerevan, Armenia has foregone the option of developing or acquiring weapons of mass destruction and is signatory to a number of international agreements including the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC). Armenia is also a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency. |
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