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[[Image:FA_Shqiptare.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Albanian Armed Forces emblem.]]

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| service=668,526 (2005 est.)

| reaching age=37,407 (2005 est.)

| active= 4540,000

| amount=$210 million (FY07)

| percent GDP=1.81% (FY07)

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== Albania Land Forces==

This is what theThe Albanian land forcesforce consist of approximately over 500 operational tanks and approximately over 700 APC’s and IVF’s, some equipment has been scraped, or put in storage,. like theThe T-34/76, T-54, &and some 150 Type 59 tanks have been scarped or waiting to be scraped. Whilst the PT-76, BRDM-1, Type 60, and some 150 Type 59 tanks, The T-34/85 have been put in storage, apart from that all other equipment in list below are operational.

Some 550 tanks remain operational & over 640 APC's & IFV's, there have also been a recent purchase of 300 [[HMMWV]]'s 150150x of which are equipped with [[BGM-71 TOW]] anti tank rockets, also the 130130x M113 APC's were a Military aid donation from Turkey to Albania 50x of the [[M113]] are to be fitted with [[BGM-71 TOW]] , these are just some of the new things that have been introduced in Albanian Military Arsenal for its modernization, Albania also purchased some more modern equipment in 1995 in case of a conflict with Serbia it needed some new tanks to match Serbia’s [[M84]], over x50105 [[T-62M62]] tanks from Ex-East German stock 55x are [[T-62A]] and 50 others are [[T-62M]] and so were the [[BMP-1]], [[BMP-2]] and [[BRDM-2]] they were put in service near the border with [[Kosovo]] during the 1998-1998 [[Kosovo War]]

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*[[T34/85]] - many

*[[T-54]]

*[[T-55]]

*[[T-62]] - T-62A & T-62M versions

*[[Type 59]] - T-55 Chinese copy

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*[[Type 77]] - Chinese copy of BTR-50

*[[Type 60]] - tracked truck

*[[Type 63]] (armoured personnel carrier)]]

==See also==