| Military branches | Armenian Armed Forces: Armenian Army (includes land, air, air defense forces) (2021) |
| Military service age and obligation | 18-27 years of age for voluntary or compulsory military service; 2-year conscript service obligation, which can be served as an officer upon deferment for university studies if enrolled in officer-producing program; 17 year olds are eligible to become cadets at military higher education institutes, where they are classified as military personnel (2019) |
| Military expenditures - percent of GDP | 4.3% of GDP (2019) 4.3% of GDP (2018) 3.8% of GDP (2017) 4.1% of GDP (2016) 4.2% of GDP (2015) |
| Military and security service personnel strengths | the Armenian Armed Forces have approximately 45,000 active troops (42,000 ground; 3,000 air/defense) (2021) |
| Military equipment inventories and acquisitions | the inventory of the Armenian Armed Forces includes mostly Russian and Soviet-era equipment; since 2010, almost all of Armenia's weapons imports have come from Russia (2020) |
| Military deployments | 120 Afghanistan (NATO); contributes troops to CSTO's Rapid Reaction Force (2021) |
| Military - note | since November 2020, Russia has deployed about 2,000 peacekeeping troops to the area in and around Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a cease-fire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan; fighting erupted between the two countries over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in September of 2020; Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces (the "Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army") backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994; six weeks of fighting resulted in about 6,000 deaths and ended after Armenia ceded swathes of Nagorno-Karabakh territory; tensions remain high, and Armenia has accused Azerbaijani forces of a series of border intrusions and of seizing pockets of territory including along a lake shared by the two countries since the fighting ended |
Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021
