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Azerbaijani Armed Forces
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combined military forces of Azerbaijan
Key facts
- Founded
- 26 June 1918
- Current form
- 9 October 1991
- Service branches
- Azerbaijani Land Forces , Azerbaijani Navy , Azerbaijani Air Force
- Headquarters
- Baku
- Website
- mod.gov.az
- Commander in chief
- President Ilham Aliyev
- Defence minister
- Colonel General Zakir Hasanov
- Chief of general staff
- Colonel General Karim Valiyev
- Military age
- 18 years
- Conscription
- 12–18 months for ground forces
- Active personnel
- 68,200
- Reserve personnel
- 300,000
- Deployed personnel
- 2 (UNMISS)
- Budget
- $5.0 billion (2025)
- Percent of gdp
- 5.26%
- Domestic suppliers
- Azerbaijan , * Azerbaijan Defense Industry , * State Border Service Naval Shipyard , * Azersilah , * RPE Iglim , * Radiogurashdirma , * RPE Neftgazavtomat , * RPE Automatic Lines , * Avia-Agregat , * Azad Systems
- Foreign suppliers
- Brazil United Kingdom United States Ukraine European Union Turkey Russia Pakistan South Africa Serbia Israel
- Ranks
- Military ranks of Azerbaijan
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- armed forces
- Participant in
- Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Headquarters
- Baku
- Image
- Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 33.jpg
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- Commons category
- Military of Azerbaijan
- inception
- 1918-06-26
- topic's main category
- Category:Azerbaijani Land Forces
- commanded by
- Ilham Aliyev
- native label
- Azərbaycan Milli Ordusu
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Encyclopedic overview
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Silahlı Qüvvələri) is the military of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It was re-established according to the country's Law of the Armed Forces on 9 October 1991. The original Azerbaijan Democratic Republic's armed forces were dissolved after Azerbaijan was absorbed into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 28 April 1920. After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991–92, Azerbaijan's armed forces were reformed based on the Soviet bases and equipment left on Azerbaijani soil.
The armed forces have three main branches: the Azerbaijani Land Forces, the Azerbaijani Air Forces and the Azerbaijani Navy. Associated forces include the Azerbaijani National Guard, the Internal Troops of Azerbaijan, and the State Border Service, which can be involved in state defense under certain circumstances.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Azerbaijani Armed Forces” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.