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Armed forces personnel	83,000		[44th of 166]
Branches Belarus Armed Forces: Land Force, Air and Air Defense Force
Conscription Conscription exists.
Conventional arms exports	$50,000,000.00		[21st of 40]
expenditure > % of GDP	1.24 %		[79th of 145]
Expenditures > Dollar figure	$176,100,000.00		[27th of 111]
Forces in Europe > Aircraft	210		[12th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Battle Tanks	1,586		[7th of 24]
Forces in Europe > Helicopters	55		[9th of 22]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49	2,756,570		[69th of 175]
Manpower > Military age	18 years of age
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males	64,232		[98th of 226]
personnel	183,000		[34th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force	3.83 %		[14th of 168]
Service age and obligation 18-27 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months
US military exports	$69.00 thousand		[97th of 109]
Weapon holdings	5,756,000		[15th of 137]
WMD > Missile Belarus inherited no major production or design facilities from the Soviet Union. However, a number of Belarusian firms continue cooperation with Russian missile/space enterprises, including the Minsk Wheeled Prime Mover Plant (MZKT), which produced transporter-erector launcher (TEL) vehicles for SS-25 and SS-27 road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
WMD > Nuclear When Belarus gained independence in December 1991, there were 81 road-mobile SS-25s on its territory stationed at three missile bases, and an unknown number of tactical nuclear weapons. During the 1980s, a number of units equipped with intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) were also stationed in the Belarusian SSR; however, all of these weapons were eliminated under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty by 1991. In May 1992, Belarus signed the Lisbon Protocol, which obligated it to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state, which it did in July 1993, and to ratify the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which it ratified in February 1993. As a result of these commitments, Belarus transferred its nuclear weapons to Russia. The process of transferring tactical warheads was completed in May 1992, and the last strategic warheads and associated missiles were sent to Russia in November 1996. No nuclear forces have been stationed in Belarus since then, although the possibility of stationing Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus was broached by a number of Belarusian officials in the late 1990s.
WMD > Overview Belarus has no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in its possession. As a signatory to a number of arms reduction treaties, Belarus transferred all of its Soviet-era nuclear warheads to Russia in the 1990s. It does not possess biological or chemical warfare programs. Though Belarus inherited no major production or design facilities from the Soviet Union, a number of firms continue cooperation with Russian missile/space enterprises.

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