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Latest revision as of 00:33, 19 April 2024
This is a list of equipment used by the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Infantry weapons[edit]
Anti-tank[edit]
Name | Photo | Type | Origin | Caliber | Quantity | Notes |
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RPG-7[3] | ![]() |
Rocket-propelled grenade | ![]() |
40mm | ||
RPG-16[10] | Rocket-propelled grenade | ![]() |
58mm | |||
B-10 recoilless rifle[2] | ![]() |
Recoilless rifle | ![]() |
82mm | ||
SPG-9[3] | ![]() |
Recoilless gun | ![]() |
73mm |
Anti-Tank Missile[edit]
Name | Photo | Type | Origin | Caliber | Quantity | Notes |
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3M6 Shmel | Anti-tank missile | ![]() |
136mm | [2] | ||
9M14 Malyutka | Anti-tank missile | ![]() |
125mm | Some mounted on Mi-24s and BMP-1s.[11] | ||
9M17 Fleyta | Anti-tank missile | ![]() |
148mm | Mounted on Mi-24A helicopters.[11] | ||
9K111 Fagot | ![]() |
Anti-tank missile | ![]() |
120mm | Mounted on BMP-2s.[11] |
Surface-to-air missile[edit]
Name | Photo | Type | Origin | Caliber | Quantity | Notes |
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9K32 Strela-2[12] | ![]() |
Man-portable air-defense system | ![]() |
72mm | ||
9K34 Strela-3 | ![]() |
Man-portable air-defense system | ![]() |
72mm | 100[11] | Possibly included with supplied Mi-24 gunships.[11] |
S-75 Dvina | Fixed SAM launcher | ![]() |
700mm | 18 launchers[12] | 3 battalions operated by the Air Force.[12] | |
S-125 Neva | Fixed SAM launcher | ![]() |
375mm | 12 launchers[12] | 3 battalions with quad launchers operated by the Air Force.[12] | |
9K35 Strela-10 | Mobile SAM launcher | ![]() |
120mm | 16+ launchers[12] | Operated by the Army[12] |
Uniform[edit]
Name | Image | Origin | Type | Information | |
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Military uniform | |||||
SSh-68 | ![]() |
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Combat helmet | Main service helmet[13] | |
Stahlhelm | ![]() |
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Combat helmet | Austro-Hungarian M1918 helmets purchased from Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, they were occasionally worn during parades.[14] | |
TTsKO | ![]() |
Combat uniform | Initially issued to officers and special units, entered main stream adoption in the late 80s and early 90s.[15][failed verification][16][failed verification] | ||
KLMK | ![]() |
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Combat uniform | Issued to commando paratroopers, officers[17] and KHAD operatives | |
Flak jacket | ![]() |
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Ballistic vest | provided by the KGB to Afghan units tasked with rescuing Adolph Dubs.[18][19] 6b2 and ZHZL-74 body armor used by Sarandoy special purpose units. | |
Ushanka | ![]() |
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Fur cap | Usually worn without a insignia[citation needed] |
Armored fighting vehicles[edit]
Name | Image | Origin | Type | Number | |
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Tanks | |||||
T-34 | ![]() |
Medium tank | 175+[11] | ||
T-54/T-55 | ![]() |
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Main battle tank | 1000+[20] | |
T-62 | ![]() |
Main battle tank | 500+[20] | ||
PT-76 | ![]() |
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Light tank | 60[21] | |
Armoured fighting vehicles | |||||
BTR-152[21] | ![]() |
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Armoured personnel carrier | Unknown[22] | |
BTR-60 | ![]() |
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Armoured personnel carrier | 200+[20] | |
BTR-80 | ![]() |
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Armoured personnel carrier | 250+[20] | |
BRDM-2 | ![]() |
Scout car | 1000+[20] | ||
BMP-1 | ![]() |
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Infantry fighting vehicle | 129+[20] | |
BMP-2[23] | ![]() |
Infantry fighting vehicle | 100+[20] |
Unarmored vehicles[edit]
Name | Image | Origin | Type | Number |
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GAZ-66[24] | ![]() |
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Medium truck | Unknown |
GAZ-69[24] | ![]() |
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Light utility vehicle | Unknown |
UAZ-469[24] | ![]() |
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Light utility vehicle | Unknown |
Ural-375[25] | ![]() |
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Medium truck | Several thousand.[citation needed] |
ZIL-157[24] | ![]() |
Medium truck | Unknown |
Artillery[edit]
Aircraft[edit]
Fixed wing[edit]
Helicopters[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | Afghanistan: International responsibility for human rights disaster". Refworld. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g Hogg, Ian Vernon (1988). Jane's Infantry Weapons: 1988/89. Jane's Yearbooks. p. 766. ISBN 978-0710608574.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Isby 2013.
- ^ Isby 2013, pp. 25–26.
- ^ a b Isby, David (1986). Russia's War in Afghanistan (Men-at-Arms). Osprey. p. 35. ISBN 9780850456912.
- ^ Galeotti, Mark (2021-03-23). Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz seize Kabul, Soviet-Afghan War 1979. Mark Stacey, Johnny Shumate. Osprey Publishing. pp. 57−58. ISBN 978-1-4728-4187-2.
- ^ a b В. В. Твиров. Дневник переводчика // Афганистан болит в моей душе… Воспоминания, дневники советских воинов, выполнявших интернациональный долг в Афганистане / лит. запись П. Ткаченко. М., «Молодая гвардия», 1990. стр. 233–234
- ^ Shevchenko, Nikolay (2020-07-03). "What was the Soviet war in Afghanistan like? (PHOTOS)". Russia Beyond. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ Isby 2013, pp. 109−110.
- ^ Rottman, Gordon L. (15 March 2011). The Rocket Propelled Grenade. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 33−35. ISBN 978-1-84908-154-2.
- ^ a b c d e f "Trade Registers". Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Cullen, Tony; Foss, Christopher F. (1992). Jane's land-based air defence: 1992-93. Jane's Information Group. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-7106-0979-3.
- ^ "From Behind the Iron Curtain: Communist Bloc Helmets". Military Trader/Vehicles. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ Isby 2013, pp. 106–107.
- ^ Afghan Warlords Seize Kabul Afghanistan 1992 Part-2, retrieved 2023-06-28
- ^ Киселев, В. (1989-09-01). "Посол СССР в Республике Афганистан Ю.Воронцов". РИА Новости Медиабанк (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-07-17.
- ^ "klmk suit - cheaper.onlinestores2023.ru". cheaper.onlinestores2023.ru. Retrieved 2023-07-31.[failed verification]
- ^ J. Robert Moskin, American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service (Thomas Dunne Books, 2013), p. 594.
- ^ John Prados, Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), p. 468.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Никитенко Е. Г. (2004). Афганистан: От войны 80-х до прогноза новых войн (10000 экз ed.). Балашиха: Астрель. pp. 130–134. ISBN 5-271-07363-7.
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ignored (help) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Institute for Strategic Studies (1989). The military balance, 1989-1990. London: Brassey's. p. 153. ISBN 978-0080375694.
- ^ Isby 2013, p. 25.
- ^ "Taliban Army Reinstates Armour Operations In Afghanistan #Shorts". Oryx. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d Shankar, Colonel C. P. (2015). Military in Pakistan and Afghanistan A Brief History. Neha Publishers & Distributors. p. 202. ISBN 978-9380318851.
- ^ a b "Unusual Grad rocket launcher spotted in Afghanistan". VPK. 28 December 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
- ^ "Disaster At Hand: Documenting Afghan Military Equipment Losses Since June 2021 until August 14, 2021". Oryx Blog.
- ^ Limited, Alamy. "Afghan soldiers ride a Soviet-made BM-21 "Grad" truck-mounted 122 mm multiple rocket launcher during a military parade to mark the tenth anniversary of the communist revolution April 26, 1988 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The communist regime took power in a revolt known as the Saur Revolution backed by the Soviet Union Stock Photo - Alamy". www.alamy.com. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ "Chinese-Made 107mm Rockets Are the Workhorses of Insurgencies (and Goons)". VICE. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ a b "SS-1 'Scud' (R-11/8K11, R-11FM (SS-N-1B) and R-17/8K14) - Jane's Security News". 2007-12-15. Archived from the original on 15 December 2007. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- ^ Zaloga, Steven J. (2006-02-28). Scud Ballistic Missile and Launch Systems 1955-2005: No. 120. Lee Ray, Jim Laurier (Illustrated ed.). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-947-9.
- ^ The Most Concentrated Ballistic Missile Campaign Since the V2 Attacks on London..., retrieved 2023-06-17
- ^ Jalali, Ali Ahmad (17 March 2017). A Military History of Afghanistan: From the Great Game to the Global War on Terror. University Press of Kansas. pp. 381, 427. ISBN 978-0-7006-2407-2. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ^ Flight Magazine or The Encyclopaedia of World Air Forces
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Müller, Lukas (2020). Wings over the Hindu Kush: Air Forces, Aircraft and Air Warfare of Afghanistan, 1989-2001. Helion and Company. p. 10. ISBN 978-1913118662.
- ^ Flight Magazine 1990 or The Encyclopaedia of World Air Forces
- ^ "Lessons of the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan | Middle East Policy Council". mepc.org. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
- ^ Orbis Publishing Ltd, 'Sukhoi Su-7 'Fitter' – Soviet Sledgehammer, 'Warplane, Vol. 2, Issue 21, p.413. More accurate information will be found in Gordon, Yefim (2004). Sukhoi Su-7/-17/-20-22: Soviet Fighter and Fighter-Bomber Family. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing. ISBN 1-85780-108-3.
- ^ a b c d Urban, Mark (1988). War in Afghanistan. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press. pp. 225–226. ISBN 978-0-333-43263-1.
- ^ Goebel, Greg. "Ilyushin Il-28 'Beagle'." Archived 2006-02-21 at the Wayback Machine Air Vectors. Retrieved: 22 August 2011.
- ^ "Afghanistan (AFG), World Air Forces - Historical Listings." Archived 2007-01-15 at the Wayback Machine worldairforces.com. Retrieved: 22 August 2011.
- ^ Jane's Sentinel Security Assessment, 2001
- ^ Isby 2013, pp. 31–32.
Bibliography[edit]
- Isby, David (20 February 2013). Russia's War in Afghanistan. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-1-4728-0179-1. Retrieved 25 July 2023.