Kuwaiti Army
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Kuwaiti Army is the primary land force of the Military of Kuwait
Military of Kuwait
Under the constitution of Kuwait, the Emir of Kuwait is the supreme commander of the armed forces with a Minister of Defence who directs the Military of Kuwait through the Chief of the General Staff. The National Guard has its own commander, who reports directly to the minister of defence. Public...

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Kuwait's postwar equipment orders include 200 M-84
M-84
The M-84 is a Yugoslav 2nd generation main battle tank. The M-84 is in service in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kuwait, Slovenia and Serbia.-Development and production:...

 tanks (from Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

 to offset previous Yugoslav oil purchases) and eighteen self-propelled 155mm guns from France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. Kuwait also has received United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n, and Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian armored vehicles.

Structure

  • AlJiwan Camp (HQ)

  • 6th (AlTahreer) Mechanized Brigade

  • 15th (Mubark) Armoured Brigade

  • 26th (AlSoor) Mechanized Brigade

  • 35th (AlShaheed) Armoured Brigade

  • 94th (AlYarmouk) Mechanized Brigade

  • 25th Commando Brigade (Independent)

  • National Guard Division (Independent)
    • AlSomoud Camp
    • Kathma Camp
    • AlTahreer Camp

Vehicles

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|| M1A2 Abrams || || MBT || 218 || -
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|| M-84
M-84
The M-84 is a Yugoslav 2nd generation main battle tank. The M-84 is in service in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kuwait, Slovenia and Serbia.-Development and production:...

 || || MBT || 150 || To be modernized to M-84AS
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|| Desert Warrior
Warrior Tracked Armoured Vehicle
The Warrior tracked vehicle family is a series of British armoured vehicles, originally developed to replace the older FV430 series of armoured vehicles. The Warrior started life as the MCV-80 project that was first broached in the 1970s, GKN Sankey/Defence winning the production contract in 1980....

 || || IFV || 254 || 136 with 25mm gun, 118 APC
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|| BMP-3
BMP-3
The BMP-3 is a Russian amphibious infantry fighting vehicle, successor to the BMP-1 and BMP-2. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty .- Production history :...

 || || IFV || 120 || -
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|| BMP-2
BMP-2
The BMP-2 is a second-generation, amphibious infantry fighting vehicle introduced in the 1980s in the Soviet Union, following the BMP-1 of the 1960s....

 || || IFV || 76 || -
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||M113A2 || || APC || 230 || 60 Active
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|| M577 || || APC || 30 || Command post vehicle
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|| Fahd 240
Fahd (armored personnel carrier)
The Fahd is a 4x4 Egyptian armored personnel carrier, designed to fit the requirements of the Egyptian Military. The Fahd APC is relatively lighter, smaller, better armed, and less expensive than other modern APCs. It replaced older APCs in Egyptian service such as the BTR-40, and the Walid...

 ||  Egypt || APC || 110 || -
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|| Pandur
Pandur 6X6 APC
The Pandur is an APC developed and produced by the Austrian company Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeuge . It was developed during the 1980s as a private venture, based in spanish BMR-600 design...

 || || APC || 70 || National Guard
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|| Shorland S600
Shorland S600
-Production history:The S600 is an APC developed in 1995 as a private venture by Short Brothers plc in Northern Ireland. Unlike the previous Shorland armoured car series which were based on the Land Rover Defender, Shorts used the much larger chassis and drive-train of the Mercedes-Benz Unimog...

 || || APC || 22 || National Guard
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|| VBL
VBL
The Panhard Véhicule Blindé Léger is a wheeled 4x4 all-terrain vehicle offered in various configurations. It was designed to combine the agility of the Peugeot VLTT liaison vehicle with adequate protection against small arms fire, artillery fragments, mines and NBC weapons...

 || || APC || 20 || National Guard
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|| PLZ-45
PLZ-45
The PLZ-45 is a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer used by the People's Liberation Army of China, the Bangladesh Army, the Kuwaiti Army, the Saudi Arabian Army, and possibly the Pakistani Army....

 || || Self-propelled Gun || 75 || -
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|| M-109A1B
M109 howitzer
The M109 is an American-made self-propelled 155 mm howitzer, first introduced in the early 1960s. It was upgraded a number of times to today's M109A6 Paladin...

 || || Self-propelled Gun || 23 || withdrawn from service
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|| M88 Hercules || || ARV || 14 || -
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|| Smerch 9A52 (300m)
BM-30
The BM-30 Smerch or 9A52 is a Soviet heavy multiple rocket launcher. The system is designed to defeat personnel, armored, and soft-skinned targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries, command posts and ammunition depots. It was created in the early 1980s and entered service in the Soviet...

 || || MRLS || 27 || -
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ATGW

  • 8x TOW M-901
    M901 ITV
    The M901 ITV is a United States Army armored vehicle designed to carry a dual M220 TOW launcher. It is based on the ubiquitous M113 Armored Personnel Carrier chassis.- Equipment :...

     
  • 66x TOW II
    BGM-71 TOW
    The BGM-71 TOW is an anti-tank missile. "BGM" is a weapon classification that stands for "Multiple Environment , Surface-Attack , Missile ". "TOW" is an acronym that stands for "Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire command data link, guided missile"...

     
  • 80 AT-4 Spigot
    AT-4 Spigot
    The 9K111 Fagot is a SACLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile system of the Soviet Union. "9M111" is the GRAU designation of the missile. Its NATO reporting name is AT-4 Spigot.-Development:...

     
  • 60 AT-10
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