Britain's Armed Forces 2005

[GraemeR]

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but I couldn't think which other forum would work.

Graeme

Personnel

The MoD have on their books 716,360 staff.

This splits down as;

Regular Forces 202,350

Reserves 201,370

Volunteer Reserves (TA) 38,850

Cadet Forces 155,590

MoD Civilian Staff 118,200

A split of the Regular Forces is;

Army 109,850 (+ 3,540 Gurkhas)

Royal Navy 40,160

Royal Air Force 52,340

Out of all this the UK has a depolyable Infantry contingent of 20,630.

Equipment - Army

Armour

386 Challenger II

136 Sabre

54 Striker

320 Scimitar

1,467 FV 432/430

667 MCV 80 Warrior

637 Spartan

605 Saxon

11 fuchs (NBC)

Artillery & Mortars

450 81mm Mortar

2,093 51mm Light Mortar

178 AS90

63 227mm MLRS

112 105mm Light Gun

Air Defence

57 Rapier

145 Starstreak

135 HVM

Army Aviation

116 Lynx

113 Gazelle

5 BN2

67 WAH-64D Apache on order (20 now in service - sort off)