How many men in the Syrian Army?

Question

Simply put how many men, planes and tanks do they have?

Answer 1

oh great syria the nation of sand....
I am simply going to state this...they can not beat israel but they have like another other 3rd world nation soviet weapons....
so i present to you the armed forces of syria in a nut shell:
Air Force:
Su-24 - 20
MiG-23BN - 60
Su-22 - 50
MiG-29SMT - 14
MiG-29A - 42
MiG-25 - 30
MiG-23 - 107
MiG-21 - 102

"While the Air Force's size makes it one of the largest air forces in the Middle East, from a qualitative perspective Syria's tactics used during exercises indicate poor planning with regards to close air support and interdiction." -that sums the air force up

Army:
the army to be fair is...crappy
"In 2002, the Syrian army has roughly 215,000 soldiers."
T-54/55 - ~2000
T-62 M/K - ~1000
T-72/-72M - ~1600
they got a lot of artillery and SAM's most notable is SA-13 the army is really no threat to "modern" nations with the T-72 being it's best tank and thats nothing compared to a mark 4 merkava.

Navy:
this force is small and old not much to face
Osa I & II - 12
Petya II - 2
Zhuk PFI - 8
Polnocny LSM 3

Answer 2

Men :
In 2002, they had around 215,000 soldiers

Planes :
Hundreds of aircrafts and choppers, the main fighters are still the ancient Mig-21 and the Mig-23.

Tanks :
4,700 tanks, though 1,200 are placed in static defensive positions and another 2,000 are T-55s and T-62s. Syria does however have some 1,700 T-72/72Ms.

Answer 3

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 4,356,413 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 3,453,888 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 225,113 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$858 million (FY00 est.); note - based on official budget data that may understate actual spending

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
5.9% (FY00)

Answer 4

who cares they are all going to die by the sword

Answer 5

215,000 men - not enough for what they want to do.