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| Founded | 1946 |
| Service branches | Syrian Army Syrian Navy Syrian Air Force Syrian Air Defense Force Police and Security Force |
| Headquarters | Damascus |
| Leadership | |
| President of Syria | Bashar al-Assad |
| Personnel | |
| Available for military service | 4,356,413 (2005 est.), age 15–49 |
| Fit for military service | 3,453,888 (2005 est.), age 15–49 |
| Reaching military age annually | 225,113 (2005 est.) |
| Expenditure | |
| Budget | 858 million-1 billion (FY00 est.) |
| Percent of GDP | 5.9% (FY00) |
The Syrian Air Defense Force is an independent command within the Syrian Military. It has been merged into and then separated from both the Syrian Army and the Syrian Air Force.
The 55,000 man Syrian Air Defense Force controls twenty-five air defense brigades, each with six surface-to-air missile (SAM) batteries. It is equipped with 650 static SA-2, SA-3 and SA-5 launchers, 200 SA-6 and SA-11 mobile launchers and over 4,000 anti-aircraft guns ranging from 23mm to 100mm in caliber. There are also two independent SA-8 and SA-10 SAM Regiments, each with four batteries of 48 mobile SAMs.
The Syrian early warning system comprises some several dozen mobile and static early warning radar sites throughout Syria.
Syria has hardened much of its command and control systems.
Inventory
275 Lavochkin S-75 launchers- 143 Isayev S-125 launchers - under upgrade
- 48 S-200 Angara/Vega/Dubna launchers
- 200 9K32 Strela-2
- 60 9K33 Osa
Further reading
- Kenneth M. Pollack, Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948-91, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 2002, and Pollack's book reviewed in International Security, Vol. 28, No.2.