Egyptian Military

Egyptian Armed Forces القوات المسلحة المصرية El Qowat El Mosalaha El Masriya
Motto	Victory or Martyrdom
Service branches	Egyptian Army Egyptian Air Force Egyptian Navy Egyptian Air Defense Forces
Headquarters	Kobri El Oubba, Cairo, Egypt
Leadership
Supreme Commander	President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Commander-in-Chief and Minister of Defence	Colonel General Sedki Sobhi
Chief of the General Staff	Lieutenant General Mahmoud Hegazy
Manpower
Military age	18–49 years old
Conscription	18–30 years of age for male conscript military service; service obligation – 18–36 months, followed by a 9-year reserve obligation; voluntary enlistment possible from age 16 (2012)
Available for military service	21,012,199 males, age 18–49 (2010.), 20,145,021 females, age 18–49 (2010.)
Fit for military service	18,060,543 males, age 18–49 (2010.), 17,244,838 females, age 18–49 (2010.)
Reaching military age annually	783,405 males (2010.), 748,647 females (2010.)
Active personnel	438,500 (ranked 10th – 11th)
Reserve personnel	479,000 In addition paramilitary 397,000
Deployed personnel	Over 2613 deployed in 24 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.
Expenditures
Budget	E£56.1 billion (~US$7.85 billion)
Percent of GDP	1.76% (2014 est.)
Industry
Domestic suppliers	Arab Organization for Industrialization Ministry of Military Production National Service Products Organization Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences Eagle International for Defense Systems
Foreign suppliers	See list  United States  Russia  France  China  Germany  North Korea  South Korea  Finland  Italy  United Kingdom  Ukraine  Spain   Switzerland  Czech Republic Former:  Soviet Union
Related articles
History	See list French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) Egyptian invasion of Sudan 1820-24 Mahdist War (1881–1899) Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition Greek War of Independence (1821–1832) First Egyptian-Ottoman War (1831–1833) Second Egyptian-Ottoman War(1839–1841) Crimean War Ethiopian–Egyptian War (1875–1876) 'Urabi Revolt (1879–1882) Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) World War I (1914–1918) World War II (1939–1945) 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949) Suez Crisis (1956) North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970) Six-Day War ( 5–10 June 1967) Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) War of Attrition (1967–1970) Yom Kippur War (1973–1974) Egyptian bread riots (18–19 January 1977) Libyan–Egyptian War ( 21–24 July 1977) Gulf War (1990–1991) War on Terror (2007 – present) Egyptian Crisis (2011–14) Sinai insurgency (2011 – present) Second Libyan Civil War (2014 – present) Military intervention against ISIL (16 February 2015 – present) Intervention in Libya (16 February 2015 – present) Intervention in Yemen (25 March 2015 – present) Intervention in Syria (12 November 2016 – present) Armed Forces Day: 6 October
Ranks	Army officers Air Force officers Navy officers

The Egyptian Armed Forces (Arabic: القوات المسلحة المصرية‎‎; Arabic pronunciation: [el qowat el mosalaha el masriya]) are the military forces of Egypt and are one of the largest in Africa, the Middle East, and the world. They consist of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Air Defense Forces.

The supreme commander of the armed forces is the President of the Republic as provided for in the Egyptian constitution. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces consists of 23 to 25 members, headed by the Commander-in-Chief and Defence Minister and his deputy, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces. Members of the council are formed of the leaders of the five main military branches, the Second and Third Army commanders, the military region commanders, along with the heads of the upper bodies (Chief of Operations – Arming – Reinforcement and Logistics – Engineering – Training – Finance – Military Justice – Management and Administration), administrative managers (Military Intelligence and Director of Morale Affairs) and the Assistant Defense Secretary for Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Secretary General of the Department of Defense (Secretary of the Council).

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