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The Sudan People's Armed Forces is a 394,260^[1] member army supported by 95,000 paramilitary (2004). The Sudanese army also has air borne systems, the Sudanese Air Force, including Mi-24 helicopter gun ships, F-7 fighters and fourth generation fighters such as the MiG-29, Antonov medium and long transport aircraft, mobile artillery pieces, and light assault weapons. Sudan now receives most of its military equipment from the People's Republic of China and Russia.

Sudan has a weapons industry called the Military Industry Corporation, which is self-sufficient in the production of ammunition, machine guns, mortars, artillery, rockets, armored vehicles, UAVs, tanks and even light planes.

Sudan's ground forces currently operate:

Army equipment

Main Battle Tanks

• Type 85
• Type 80
• Type 79
• Type 69
• Type 62 - 70
• Type 63 - 60
• Type 59 - 10
• Type 59D
• M60A3 Patton-2 - 20
• T-34/85 - 20 (Ex-Egyptian, currently being phased out)
• Digna^[2]- 250 Modernization programme for T-55
• Al Bashier (licensed version of Type 85M-II^[3])
• Al Zubair Modernization Level Of Type-72Z Safir-74
• Al Zubair 2 (licensed version of Type 59)

Armored Cars

• ZSL-92- 500
• Shareef 1 (licensed version of BTR-80)
• Shareef 2 (licensed version of WZ-551)
• Khatim 1 (licensed version of Boragh) - 10
• Amir (licensed version of Rakhsh)
• OT-62 TOPAS - 10
• /OT-64C - 65
• BMP-2 - 15
• BRDM-2 - 100 (Ex-Egyptian)
• Walid - 104
• Fahd-280 - 25

Artillery

• BM-21 Grad - 22
• Abu Fatma SPG (2S1 Gvozdika)
• Taka (licensed version of Type 63 MRL)
• Njoumi (BS-3)
• Khalifa (D-30)
• Mahdi (M-30)

Surface to Air Missiles (SAM)

• S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) - 150
• 9K32 Strela-2 (SA-7 Grail) - 70
• FIM-43C Redeye - 25
• WS-2 multi-launch rocket systems - A very large amount of this rocket system has been bought

Anti-Aircraft Artillery

• KS-19 100mm - 10

Infantry equipment

Assault Rifles

• Type 81
• Type 56
• Maz (licensed version of Type 56)
• Dinar (licensed version of Iranian G3A4)
• Terab (licensed version of Norinco CQ)

Submachine Guns

• Tihraga (licensed version of Iranian MP5)

Sniper Rifles

• Dragunov SVD

Pistols

• Lado (licensed version of Chinese CZ75 compact)
• Marra (licensed version of Chinese CZ75)

Machine Guns

• Karar (licensed version of Iranian MG3)
• Khawad (licensed version of Type 85 HMG)
• Mokhtar (licensed version of Type 80 HMG)

Anti-Tank Weapons

• Sinar (licensed version of RPG-7)
• Hongjian HJ-8
• Swingfire - 250 (Ex-Egyptian)
• Soba (licensed version of Iranian SPG-9)

Mortars

• Aboud 82mm (licensed version of Type 53)
• Nimir 60mm
• Ahmd 120mm

Military branches: Army, Navy^[4], Air Force, Popular Defense Force, Joint Integrated Units, Special Forces, Early Reaction Forces, Border Patrol

Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 8,739,982 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 5,380,917 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 1,921,121 (2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $4 Billion (2001 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 3.0% (2005 est.)

Sources

 This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook document "2007 edition".

Further reading

• Joint Integrated Units
• U.S. Army Infantry magazine, July-August 2004
• Air Combat Information Group, [1], accessed March 2009

References

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