Uzbek Ground Forces
Uzbek Ground Forces | |
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O'zbekiston quruqlik qo'shinlari Сухопутные войска Узбекистана | |
Founded | 1992 |
Country | Batken Conflict War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |
The Uzbek Ground Forces are the land component of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Operating since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the army is made up of former Soviet Army units that were in the territory of Uzbekistan. As of 2006, it had around 40,000 active personnel. Much of the equipment it uses is also old Soviet material, and the government of Uzbekistan has not given much effort to replace it with modern equipment.[1]
History
The armed forces were created in 1992, and along with the army, the
Uzbekistan then became the only Central Asian state that did not allow
Three major Soviet military academies, the Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School, the Chirchiq Higher Tank Command and Engineering School, and the Samarkand Higher Military Automobile Command School, were located in Uzbekistan. This caused the government to not send Uzbek officers to Russia for training. In 1994, they established the joint Armed Forces Academy, to train officers of all branches. Though the Uzbek language was becoming more in use by the army, Russian remained the main language used in training officers, due to the fact that most manuals were in Russian and that the Central Asian Turkic languages did not have proper military vocabulary.
In 1997, the United States CENTRASBAT program paid over $5 million to fund a training exercise between Uzbek and American troops that were going to be stationed in the country. Later in 1998, a US
In 2003, the
Organization
Districts
Formation | Headquarters Location | Notes |
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Northwest Military District | HQ Nukus | Xorazm Province
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Southwest Special Military District | HQ Karshi | Navoiy Province
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Central Military District | HQ Dzhizak |
Sirdaryo Province
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Eastern Military District | HQ Ferghana |
Namangan Province
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Tashkent Military District | HQ Tashkent | Tashkent Province , Established 2001
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Specialties[3]
- Motor Rifle Units
- Tank Forces
- Special Operations Forces
- Reconnaissance
- Engineering
- Chemical units
- Signals
- Electronic warfare units
- Logistics
- Topogeodetic
List of Formations
There are four motor rifle brigades, listed below have been attributed to the various military districts either because they are located in the same city as the military district headquarters or are clearly within the military districts' area of responsibility.
Army Headquarters (Tashkent)
- Honor Guard Battalion of the Tashkent Military District
- Engineering Brigade
- Special Forces Battalion of the Eastern Military District "Lynx"[6][7]
Regular Army
- Training Regiment (Chirchik)
- 387th Airborne Training Regiment[8]
- 17th Air Assault Brigade at (Fergana)[9] - Consists of up to 5000 soldiers, was formerly the Soviet 105th Guards Vienna Airborne Division.
- 1st Motor Rifle Brigade (Chirchik)
- 2nd Motor Rifle Brigade (Samarqand)
- 3rd Motor Rifle Brigade (Termez)
- 25th Motor Rifle Brigade (Karshi, Military Unit No.08579)
- 37th Motor Rifle Brigade (Andijan)[10]
- 15th Independent Special Forces Brigade
- Tank Regiment (Ahangaran)
Facilities
- Kattakurgan Training Ground[11][12][13]
- Gurumsaray Training Ground[14]
- Farish Mountain Training Area[15]
- Shorsu Training Ground[15]
- Angren Training Ground[15]
- Nuristan Training Ground[15]
- Termez Training Ground[15]
- Nukus Training Ground[15]
Exercises
Uzbek troops participated in
In September 2004, the (then)
Equipment
Reportedly, Uzbek armed forces' small arms include the
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- https://www.ng.ru/cis/2018-11-26/6_7448_training.html - training report from 2018