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Sri Lanka



Sri Lanka



Sri Lanka
Capital: Colombo



Formerly known as Ceylon
Since 2005, Sri Lanka has purchased tons of military equipment from China.

Sri Lank Air Force (SLAF)
28.700 personnel

Kfir fighter aircraft (8)
F-7 fighter aircraft (9)
MiG-27 attack aircraft (7)
Beechcraft Super King Air (2)
Cessna 421 Golden Eagle (1)
K-8 Karakorum trainer aircraft (6)
Nanchang CJ-6 trainer aircraft (8)
Cessna 150 transport aircraft (10)
C-130 transport aircraft (2)
An-32 transport aircraft (7)
Harbin Y-12 transport aircraft (8)
Xian MA60 transport aircraft (2)
Mi-24 attack helicopters (14)
Mi-17 transport helicopters (13)
Bell 412 helicopters (8)
Bell 212 helicopters (18)
Bell 206 helicopters (8)


Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
IAI Searcher
EMIT Blue Horizon II (4)

Sri Lanka Air Force Regiment

Sri Lanka Air Force Regiment Special Force

Air Force Police


Sri Lanka Navy
48,000 personnel
SLNS prefix to vessels

Colombo Dockyard

3rd Fast Gun Boat Squadron (3 FGS)
4th Fast Attack Flotilla (4 FAF)
7th Surveillance Command Squadron
Special Boat Squadron

Missile Boats with Gabriel II anti-ship missiles
Fast Gun Boats
Fast Attack Craft
Patrol Boats
Landing Craft
Auxiliary Vessels

HAL Chetak helicopters
HH-65 Dolphin helicopters


Sri Lanka Coast Guard




Sri Lanka Army (SLA)
276,700 personnel

T-55 tanks (140+)
Type 69 tanks (20+)
Type 59 tanks (80)
Type 63 light tanks
BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles (45)
BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles (240)
BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (13)
Type 89 (YW534) armored personnel carriers
Type 85 (YW531H) armored personnel carriers
Type 63 (YW531) armored personnel carriers
BTR-80 armored personnel carriers
Type 92 (WZ551) armored personnel carriers
Unibuffel (Sri Lankan made armored personnel carriers
Buffel mine resistant armored personnel carriers


RM-70 multiple rocket launchers (30+)
BM-21 multiple rocket launchers (5)

Type 66 152mm towed gun/howitzers (36)
Type 59 130mm towed gun (12)
Type 60 122mm towed howitzers

Type 86 (W86) 120mm mortars
Type 84 (W84) 82mm mortars
Type 89 60mm mortars

Baktar Shikan anti-tank guided missiles (Pakistani made)

Type 69 anti-tank rocket launchers
RPO-A Shmel flame rocket launchers

Milkor MGL grenade launchers
M203 under barrel grenade launchers
HK 69 grenade launchers

Type 80 machine guns (Chinese copy of the PKM)
Type 56 light machine guns (Chinese copy of the RPD)
FN Minimi machine guns
HK21 light machine guns
Zastava M93 Black Arrow sniper rifles
HK PSG1 sniper rifles
Accuracy International L96A1 sniper rifles
Dragunov SVD sniper rifles
AK-47 assault rifles
Sa 58 assault rifles
Type 56 assault rifles
Type 81 assault rifles
HK G3 assault rifles
FN FNC assault rifles
M-16 assault rifles
M4 carbines
SAR-80 assault rifles (Singapore made)
Type 95 assault rifles
HK MP-5 sub-machine guns
Uzi sub-machine guns
Sterling sub-machine guns
Glock 17 pistols
Beretta M9 pistols
Enfield revolvers



Special Forces brigade

Commando brigade

Air Mobile brigade

Military Police

National Guard

Sri Lanka Police
Special Task Force

Sri Lanka Civil Defense Force

Intelligence




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