The following is a list of current equipment of the Moldovan Armed Forces.
Ground Forces
Infantry weapons
Model | Image | Origin | Type | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Pistols | ||||
TT-33 | Soviet Union | Semi-automatic pistol | Regular Army | |
Makarov | Soviet Union | Semi-automatic pistol | Regular Army, Special Forces, Police etc. | |
Glock 17 | Austria | Semi-automatic pistol | Special Forces [1] | |
Assault rifles | ||||
AK-74 | Soviet Union | Assault rifle | AK-74, AKS-74, AKS-74U variants Regular Army, Special Forces, Police etc. | |
AKM | Soviet Union | Assault rifle | AKM, AKMS variants Mainly Regular Army and Special Forces | |
M4 carbine | United States | Assault rifle | Special Forces | |
Pistol Mitralieră model 1963/1965 | Romania | Assault rifle | Mainly Regular Army and Police | |
Machine guns | ||||
PK machine gun | Soviet Union | General purpose machine gun | Mainly Regular Army | |
RPK | Soviet Union | Light machine gun | Mainly Regular Army | |
DShK | Soviet Union | Heavy machine gun | Also used in anti-aircraft role.[2] | |
M240 machine gun | United States | Medium machine gun | Donated by the United States.[3] | |
M2 Browning | United States | Heavy machine gun | Donated by the United States, mounted on Humvees, Piranha IIIHs and tripods.[3][4] | |
Sniper rifles | ||||
Dragunov SVD | Soviet Union | Sniper rifle | Mainly Regular Army, Special Forces and Police | |
PSL | Romania | Designated marksman rifle | Mainly Regular Army, Special Forces and Police | |
M110 | United States | Semi-automatic Sniper rifle | Donated by the United States.[3] | |
M107A1 | United States | Anti materiel sniper rifle | Donated by the United States.[3] | |
Grenades | ||||
GP-25 | Soviet Union | Grenade launcher | Mainly Regular Army, Special Forces and Police | |
Mk 19 | United States | Automatic grenade launcher | Mounted on Humvees.[3][5] | |
F-1 | Soviet Union | Hand grenade | Regular Army, Special Forces, Police | |
RGD-5 | Soviet Union | Hand grenade | Regular Army and Special Forces | |
Zarya Stun Grenade | Soviet Union | Stun grenade | Regular Army, Special Forces, Police | |
Mines | ||||
MON-50 | Soviet Union | Anti-personnel mine | Regular Army and Special Forces | |
TM-46 | Soviet Union | Anti-tank mine | Regular Army and Special Forces | |
Infantry equipment
Model | Image | Origin | Details | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Helmets | ||||
SSh-68 | Soviet Union | Mainly regular army | ||
STSh-81 | Mainly Police and Special Forces | |||
MASKA-1 | Mainly Police and Special Forces | |||
PASGT | United States | Mainly Special Forces and 22nd Peacekeeping Battalion | ||
Ops-Core FAST | United States | Used by special forces. | ||
Body armor | ||||
Flak jacket | United States | Mainly regular army | ||
Interceptor Body Armor | Mainly Special Forces and 22nd Peacekeeping Battalion | |||
4030 ELITE | United Kingdom | NP Aerospace bomb suit. Donated by the European Union under the European Peace Instrument (EPF).[6] | ||
Gas masks | ||||
PMG | Soviet Union | |||
PG-1 | ||||
Camouflage | ||||
U.S. Woodland | United States | |||
Vehicles
Name | Photo | Origin | Type | In service | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Armoured Fighting Vehicles | |||||
BRDM-2 | Soviet Union Romania Moldova |
Scout car | ~8 | (With TAB-71M Turret).[2] | |
MT-LB | Soviet Union | Armoured Fighting Vehicle | 25 | [2] | |
MT-LB | Soviet Union Moldova |
2+ | (With ZU-23-2 AA Gun).[2] | ||
MT-LBu | Soviet Union | 13-20 | [2] | ||
BTR-60PU-12 | Soviet Union Moldova |
At least 10 | (With ZU-23-1 AA Gun).[2] | ||
Infantry Fighting Vehicles | |||||
BMD-1 | Soviet Union | Infantry fighting vehicle | N/A | [2] | |
BMD-1P | N/A | [2] | |||
Armoured Personnel Carriers | |||||
BTR-60PB | Soviet Union | Armoured Personnel Carrier | N/A | [2] | |
TAB-71M | Romania | 80[7] | Originally 161 delivered between 1992 and 1995.[2][8] | ||
BTR-70 | Soviet Union | 8 | [2] | ||
BTR-80 | 12[7] | [2] | |||
GT-MU | N/A | [2] | |||
Piranha IIIH | Switzerland | 19[9] | Former Danish Piranha IIIs purchased and donated by Germany.[2][10] | ||
BTR-D | Soviet Union Moldova |
Airborne Armoured Personnel Carrier | ~3 N/A |
(With 12.7mm DShK In Cupola).[2] (With 73mm SPG-9 RCL And 12.7mm DShK In Cupola).[2] | |
Multi-purpose vehicles | |||||
Humvee | United States | Multi-purpose armored vehicle | 80 | With MAK armor.[2] | |
M1008 Chevrolet | United States | Technical | N/A | [2] | |
Dacia Duster | Romania | Four-wheel drive multi-purpose vehicle | N/A | Used by the Military Police.[11][12] | |
Mitsubishi L200 | Japan | Four-wheel drive multi-purpose vehicle | 5 | Donated by the EU under the European Peace Instrument (EPF) for use by military engineers.[6] | |
Trucks | |||||
Iveco | Italy | Truck | N/A | Donated by Italy in 2018.[13] | |
FMTV | United States | N/A | Stewart & Stevenson MTV.[14][15] | ||
M915 | N/A | In service in small numbers, shown in the 2016 national day parade.[16][17] | |||
M35 | N/A | Only the M35A3 variant in service.[16][17] | |||
KamAZ-4310 | Soviet Union | N/A | |||
Ural-4320 | N/A | ||||
ZIL-131 | N/A | [11] | |||
GAZ-66 | N/A | [2] | |||
Command Posts And Communications Stations | |||||
R-409 | Soviet Union | Mobile radio-relay station | N/A | [2] | |
Engineering Vehicles And Equipment | |||||
IMR-2 | Soviet Union | Combat engineering vehicle | N/A | [2] | |
PTS-2 | Tracked amphibious transport | N/A | [2] | ||
RKhM Kashalot | Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle | N/A | [2] | ||
BRDM-2RKh | N/A | [2] | |||
GMZ-3 | Minelayer | N/A | [2] | ||
PMZ-4 | N/A | [2] | |||
BTM-3 | Trench digger | N/A | [2] | ||
MDK-2M | N/A | [2] | |||
PZM-2 | N/A | [2] | |||
PMP | Pontoon bridge | N/A | [2] | ||
Army watercraft
Name | Photo | Origin | In service | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
BMK-130M | Soviet Union | N/A | [2] | |
BMK-T | N/A | [2] | ||
Artillery
Name | Photo | Origin | Type | In service | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Towed Artillery | |||||
M-30 | Soviet Union | 122mm howitzer | 16[7] | [2] | |
D-20 | 152mm howitzer | 31[7] | [2] | ||
2A36 Giatsint-B | 20[7] | [2] | |||
Self-Propelled Artillery | |||||
2S9 Nona | Soviet Union | 120mm self-propelled mortar | 9[7] | [2] | |
Multiple Rocket Launchers | |||||
BM-27 Uragan | Soviet Union | 220mm multiple rocket launcher | 11[7] | [2] | |
Artillery Tractors | |||||
ATS-59G | Soviet Union | Artillery tractor | N/A | [2] | |
Artillery Support Vehicles | |||||
PRP-3 'Val' | Soviet Union | Artillery reconnaissance vehicle | N/A | [2] | |
1V18 'Klyon-1' | Artillery fire control vehicle | N/A | [2] | ||
1V119 | N/A | [2] | |||
SNAR-10 | Counter-battery radar | N/A | [2] | ||
9T452 | Transporter-loader | N/A | [2] | ||
Anti-tank
Name | Photo | Origin | Type | In service | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anti-tank guns | |||||
MT-12 | Soviet Union | 100mm anti-tank gun | 31[7] | [2] | |
Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Missile Systems | |||||
9P148 Konkurs | Soviet Union | Anti-tank guided missile launcher vehicle | 6-32 | [2] | |
9P149 Shturm-S | 27[18] | [2] | |||
Shoulder-fired/mounted weapons | |||||
RPG-7 | Soviet Union | Rocket-propelled grenade | N/A | Mainly Regular Army, Special Forces and Police | |
RPG-22 | N/A | Regular Army and Special Forces | |||
9K111 Fagot | Anti-tank guided missile | 71[18] | |||
9M113 Konkurs | 19[18] | ||||
9K115 Metis | N/A | ||||
SPG-9 AG-9 |
Soviet Union Romania |
Recoilless rifle | 138+[18] | ||
Anti-aircraft
Name | Photo | Origin | In service | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Towed Anti-Aircraft Guns | ||||
23mm ZU-23-2 | Soviet Union | 28[7] | [2] | |
57mm AZP S-60 | 11[7] | [2] | ||
Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Guns | ||||
14.5mm KPV | Soviet Union Moldova |
N/A | Mounted on GAZ-66.[2] | |
14.5mm ZPU-2 | N/A | Mounted on GAZ-66.[2] | ||
23mm ZU-23-2 | N/A | Mounted on GAZ-66 and on BTR-D.[2] | ||
57mm AZP S-60 | N/A | Mounted on ZIL-135.[2] | ||
Army aircraft
Name | Photo | Origin | Type | Variant | In service |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | |||||
DJI | China | Quadrotor UAV | Matrice 300 rtk | 18+[3] | |
Air Force
Name | Photo | Origin | Variant | In service | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Transport | |||||
An-2 | Soviet Union | 2[7] | [19] | ||
An-26 | Soviet Union | 1 | [20] | ||
Helicopters | |||||
Mi-8 | Soviet Union | Mi-8PS Mi-8MTV-1 |
2 4 |
[7] | |
Air defence
Name | Photo | Origin | In service | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Static Surface-To-Air Missile (SAM) Systems | ||||
S-125 | Soviet Union | N/A | (One site protecting the capital Chișinău).[2] | |
Radars | ||||
P-14 'Tall King' | Soviet Union | N/A | [2] | |
P-15 'Flat Face A' | N/A | [2] | ||
P-12 'Spoon Rest A' | N/A | [2] | ||
P-18 'Spoon Rest D' | N/A | [2] | ||
PRV-13 'Odd Pair' | N/A | [2] | ||
PRV-16 'Thin Skin B' | N/A | [2] | ||
36D6 'Tin Shield' | N/A | [2] | ||
SNR-125 'Low Blow' | N/A | (For S-125).[2] | ||
Ground Master 200 | France | 1 | Ordered and delivered in 2023.[21][22] |
See also
References
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- ↑ "Exerciții demonstrative cu trageri de luptă la JCET-2023". news.ungheni.org (in Romanian). 2 November 2023.
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- ↑ "Ultimul lot de transportoare blindate Piranha, donate de Guvernul Germaniei, a ajuns în Republica Moldova". radiochisinau.md (in Romanian). 14 November 2023.
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- ↑ Cristi Vlas (24 January 2018). "Italy donates military trucks and equipment to Moldova's Army". moldova.org.
- ↑ Gheorghe Gurău (July 2020). "Geniștii - pe potecile "Codrului"" (PDF). Oastea Moldovei (in Romanian). No. 7. p. 10.
- ↑ MDNationalArmy (24 July 2020). Exercițiul tactic "Codru 2020", desfășurat la Negrești. Event occurs at 0:27 – via YouTube.
- 1 2 PublikaMD (August 2016). Paradă militară de excepţie! Mii de militari au defilat în PMAN FULL HD (in Romanian). Event occurs at 25:33 – via YouTube.
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- 1 2 3 4 International Institute for Strategic Studies (2010). The military balance 2010. Routledge. p. 188. ISBN 9781857435573.
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- ↑ "World Air Forces 2023". Flight Global. Flightglobal Insight. 2023.
- ↑ "Moldova procures new tactical air-defence radar". Janes.com. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ↑ Mircea Ţicudean (20 December 2023). "Moldova a primit un radar din Franța, estimat la 14 milioane de euro". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Romanian).
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