Military of Honduras
| Armed Forces of Honduras Fuerzas Armadas de Honduras |
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| Founded | 1825 |
| Service branches |
 Honduran Navy
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| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-Chief | Juan Orlando Hernández |
| General | René Arnoldo Osorio Canales |
| Manpower | |
| Military age | 18 for voluntary 2-3 year service |
| Available for military service |
1,868,940 males, age 16-49, 1,825,770 (2008 est.) females, age 16-49 |
| Fit for military service |
1,397,938 males, age 16-49, 1,402,398 (2009 est.) females, age 16-49 |
| Reaching military age annually |
92,638 males, 88,993 (2009 est.) females |
| Active personnel | 52,225 |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | $201,000,000 |
| Percent of GDP | 1.1% as of 2012 |
| Industry | |
| Foreign suppliers |
 United States United Kingdom Belgium Brazil Russia Ukraine
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Honduran Army
Honduran Air Force
This article deals with the armed forces of Honduras.
During the twentieth century, Honduran military leaders frequently became presidents, either through elections or by coups d'état. General Tiburcio Carías Andino was elected in 1932, he later on called a constituent assembly that allowed him to be reelected, and his rule became more authoritarian until an election in 1948.
During the following decades, the military of Honduras carried out several coups d'état, starting in October 1955. General Oswaldo López Arellano carried out the next coup in October 1963 and a second in December 1972, followed by coups in 1975 by Juan Alberto Melgar Castro and in 1978 by Policarpo Paz García.
Events during the 1980s in El Salvador and Nicaragua led Honduras — with US assistance — to expand its armed forces considerably, laying particular emphasis on its air force, which came to include a squadron of US-provided F-5s.
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