Armed Forces of Kazakhstan

Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Қазақстан Республикасының Қарулы Күштері (Kazakh) Qazaqstan Respublikasyń qarýly kúshteri Вооруженные силы Республики Казахстан (Russian)
Coat of Arms of the Kazakh Armed Forces
Founded	May 7, 1992
Service branches	Republican Guard Kazakh Ground Forces Kazakh Air Force Kazakh Air Defense Forces Kazakh Naval Forces National Guard
Headquarters	Astana, Almaty
Leadership
Commander-in-chief	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Minister of Defence	Saken Zhasuzakov
Chief of Defense	Lieutenant General Murat Maikeyev
Manpower
Military age	18–45 years old;
Conscription	One year
Active personnel	74,500 (2018) (ranked 50)
Reserve personnel	32,000 (2018)
Expenditures
Budget	$2,435,000,000
Percent of GDP	1.1% (2018 est.)
Industry
Domestic suppliers	JSC National Company Kazakhstan Engineering
Foreign suppliers	Canada  China  France  Germany  Israel  Russia  Ukraine  United States
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The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстанның Қарулы күштері, Qazaqstannyń qarýly kúshteri), is the name of the unified armed forces of Kazakhstan. It consists of the Ground Forces, Air and Air Defence Forces, Naval Forces, and Republican Guard. The national defence policy aims are based on the Constitution of Kazakhstan. They guarantee the preservation of the independence and sovereignty of the state and the integrity of its land area, territorial waters and airspace and its constitutional order. The armed forces of Kazakhstan act under the authority of the Kazakhstan Ministry of Defence.

The Military Balance 2013 reported the armed forces' strength as; Army, 20,000, Navy, 3,000, Air Force, 12,000, and MoD, 4,000. It also reported 31,000 paramilitary personnel.

On May 7, 1992, the President of Kazakhstan took a number of actions regarding defence. He signed a decree on the 'establishment of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan', the transformation of the State Committee of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan into the Ministry of Defence, on the attribution of Sagadat Nurmagambetov the military rank of Colonel General, and the appointment of General-Colonel Sagadat Nurmagambetov as Defence Minister of Kazakhstan. Mukhtar Altynbayev served as the Minister of Defence twice, most recently from December 2001 to 10 January 2007.

On June 30, 1992, the Soviet Armed Forces' Turkestan Military District disbanded, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The most powerful grouping of forces from the Turkestan Military District then became the core of Kazakhstan's new military. Kazakhstan acquired all the units of the 40th Army (the former 32nd Army) and part of the 17th Army Corps, including 6 land force divisions, storage bases, the 14th and 35th air-landing brigades, 2 rocket brigades, 2 artillery regiments and a large amount of equipment which had been withdrawn from over the Urals after the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.