World Military and Police Forces: Yemen

Yemen

Capital: Aden

Second largest military in the Arabian Peninsula behind Saudi Arabia.

1962-1970 North Yemen civil war. Royalists verses Republican forces.

1994 civil war between north and south Yemen.

2011 civil protests and uprising
2015- Currently being bombed and occupied by Saudi led forces

About 89,500 total military personnel

Ballistic Missiles

Hwasong-5 missiles?

SS-1 Scud C missiles

Borkan 1 ballistic missile. Made in Yemen.

Borkan 2 ballistic missiles. Made in Yemen

Borkan 3 radar evading ballistic missile. Further development from the Borkan 2. Made in Yemen

Zulfaqar (or Zolfaqar) ballistic missile. Made in Yemen

SS-21 (OTR-21 Tochka) short range ballistic missiles

Qaher-M2 ballistic missiles. Made in Yemen.

Qaher-1 short range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. Appear to be modified S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missiles. Made in Yemen

Badr P-1 precision guided missiles. Made in Yemen

Badr-F ballistic missiles. Appear to explode into many pieces of shrapnel over a large radius. Made in Yemen.

FROG-7 rockets?

Samoud rockets. Made in Yemen

Badr 1 rockets. Made in Yemen

Hidden underground rocket launchers.

Zelzal 2 rockets. Made in Yemen

Zelzal 1 rockets. Made in Yemen

Air Force

5,000 personnel (2007 estimate)

MiG-29 fighter aircraft (10)

Su-22 fighter bomber aircraft (30)

F-5E Tiger II fighter aircraft (12)

L-39 Albatros trainer/light attack aircraft

Yak-11 Moose trainer aircraft

Zlin Z 142 trainer aircraft

C-130 transport aircraft

An-12 transport aircraft

An-26 transport aircraft

Yak-40 transport aircraft

Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters (8)

Mi-8 transport/attack helicopters

Kamov Ka-27 Helix helicopters

Mi-14 helicopters

Agusta Bell AB204/AB205 helicopters

Agusta Bell AB206 helicopters

Agusta Bell AB212 helicopters

Agusta Bell AB214 helicopters

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Samad 3 (Invincible 3)

Qasef 2K (Striker 2K) unmanned aerial vehicles. Made in Yemen.

Qasef 1 (Striker 1) unmanned aerial vehicles. Made in Yemen

Rashed (Surveyor) unmanned aerial vehicles. Made in Yemen.

Raqib (Rival) unmanned aerial vehicles. Made in Yemen.

Hudhud 1 unmanned aerial vehicles. Made in Yemen.

Khatif loitering munitions. Made by Yemen

Wa'aed loitering munition

Mersad reconnaissance drone

Navy

7,000 personnel (2007 estimate)

Main naval bases at Aden and Al Hudaydah. Also bases at Al Mukalla, Perim Island, and Socotra.

Corvettes (2)

Missiles Boats (18)

Gunboats (8)

Patrol Boats (13)

Mine Warfare vessels (3)

German made Barbe Class Landing Craft, Utility (11)

Amphibious Warfare ships (7)

Polnocny Class landing ship (1)

Patrol boats include Yemeni made Sana'a Class patrol boats
2601 Sana'a
2602 Aden

Yemeni Naval Personnel

Marines

Al Mandab 1 anti-ship missiles. Made in Yemen.

Mersad ("Ambush") sea mines. Made in Yemen

Army

66,000 personnel (2007 estimate)

2 airborne commando brigades

Special Forces brigade

T-80 tanks (31)

T-72 tanks (70)

T-62 tanks (250)

M60 Patton tanks (240)

T-54/55 tanks (700)

T-34 tanks (100)

BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles (334)

BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (420)

Panhard AML (185)
Ratel armored vehicles

Alvis Saladin

M113 armored personnel carriers (670)

BTR-152 (250)

BTR-40 (670)
BTR-60 (500)
Reva III- South African made mine resistant armored personnel carriers

BRDM-2 (50)

HMMWV utility vehicles

“Technicals” and guntrucks

RM-70 multiple rocket launchers

BM-21 multiple rocket launchers (280?)

BM-14 multiple rocket launchers (30)

BM-13 multiple rocket launchers (30)

BM-27 multiple rocket launchers (13)

BM-24 multiple rocket launchers

2S1 self propelled howitzers (25)

S-23 180mm towed guns (20)

M114 155mm towed howitzers

M-46 (70)

D-20 (190)

M-43 120mm mortars

L16 81mm mortars

BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missiles

MILAN anti-tank guided missiles

AT-5 anti-tank guided missiles

AT-4 anti-tank guided missiles

AT-3 anti-tank guided missiles

AT-2 (3M11 Falanga) anti-tank guided missiles

FGM-77 Dragon anti-tank guided missiles

RPG-7 shoulder fired anti-tank rocket launchers

RPG-2 shoulder fired anti-tank rocket launchers

KPV machine guns

SG-43 Goryunov machine guns

Locally manufactured copies of the Vickers machine guns

RPD machine guns

Type 99 light machine guns

DS-39 machine guns

Dragunov sniper rifles

AK-47/AKM assault rifles

Locally manufactured copies of the Gewhr 43 rifle

Locally manufactured copies of the Karabiner 98k rifle

Mosin-Nagant rifles

M4 carbines

SVT-40 rifles

AVS-36 rifles

Locally manufactured copies of the MP 18

Locally manufactured copies of the MP 40

PPSh-41 sub-machine guns

PPS sub-machine guns

PPD-40 sub-machine guns

Makarov PM pistols

Air Defense

SA-2 surface-to-air missiles

9K22 Tunguska (SA-19) surface-to-air missiles

SA-15 Gauntlet surface-to-air missiles

SA-9 surface-to-air missiles

SA-6 surface-to-air missiles

SA-3 surface-to-air missiles

S-60 57mm anti-aircraft guns (120)

ZSU-23-4 self propelled 23mm anti-aircraft guns (40)

Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns

M1939 (61-K) 37mm anti-aircraft guns

Fater-1 (Innovator-1) surface-to-air missiles. Made in Yemen. Appears to be a 9M336 missile from the Soviet era 2K12 Kub (SA-6 Gainful) air defense system.

Thaqib-1 (Piercer-1) surface-to-air missiles. Made in Yemen. Appears to be a modified R-73 air-to-air missile configured to fire as surface-to-air missile. .

Thaqib-2 (Piercer-2) surface-to-air missiles. Made in Yemen. Appears to be a modified R-27 air-to-air missile configured to fire as surface-to-air missile.

Thaqib-3 (Piercer-3) surface-to-air missiles. Made in Yemen. Appears to be a modified R-77 air-to-air missile configured to fire as surface-to-air missile.