| CHART 3 - SUMMARY OF ARMED FORCES OF BELARUS, KAZAKHSTAN AND | ||||||
| UKRAINE, 1992 AND 1998 | ||||||
| Belarus | Kazakhstan | Ukraine | ||||
| 1992 | 1998 | 1992 | 1998 | 1992 | 1998 | |
| Military Spending, as % of GDP a | 1.8 | 1.2 b | unavailable | unavailable | 0.8 | 4.5 b |
| NUCLEAR FORCES c | ||||||
| Strategic Warheads | 81 | 0 | 1410 | 0 | 4400 | 0 |
| Tactical Warheads | 725 | 0 | undisclosed | 0 | 2650-4200 | 0 |
| ICBMs | 54 | 0 | 104 | 0 | 176 | 115 |
| Heavy Bombers | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 41 | 44 |
| CONVENTIONAL FORCES d | ||||||
| Active Troops | 125,000 | 83,000 | unclear@ | 55,100 | 230,000 | 346,400 |
| Reserves | 350,000 | 289,500 | unclear@ | 0 | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| LAND | ||||||
| Personnel | 95,000 | 43,000 | 63,000 | 40,000 | 150,000 | 171,300 |
| Main Battle Tanks | 1,850 | 1,778 | 2,200* | 930*# | 6,300 | 4,931* |
| Armored Fighting Vehicles | 2,460 | 1,590 | 3,686 | 3079* | ||
| Armored Personnel Carriers | 1,400 | 930 | 1,000 | 2,200 | 1823* | |
| Artillery | 1,400 | 1,529 | 1,500 | 550 | 2,015 | 3749* |
| Multiple Rocket Launchers | 350 | 419 | 130 | 531 | 605 | |
| Surface-to-surface missiles | 60 | 60 | 10 | 132 | 132 | |
| Surface-to-air missiles | 650 | 350 | 150 | 100 | 2,400 | unclear@ |
| SEA | ||||||
| Personnel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | unclear@ | 12,500 |
| Submarines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 4 |
| Surface Combat Ships | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 39 | 9 |
| Other Surface Ships | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 246 | 42 |
| Naval Aviation Personnel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,300 | 7,000 |
| Naval Combat Aircraft | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 278* | 184 |
| AIR | ||||||
| Personnel | 20,000 | 22,000 | unclear@ | 15,000 | 50,000 | 124,000 |
| Combat Aircraft | 502 | 276 | 370 | 198* | 1,100 | 1166* |
| Attack Helicopters | 80 | 74 | 25 | 44 | 240 | 260 |
| PARAMILITARY | ||||||
| Personnel | 0 | 8,000 | 3-5,000 | 34,500 | 6,000 | 89,000 |
| NOTES | ||||||
| a Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, The SIPRI Yearbook 1998 (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1998), pp. 228-230. | ||||||
| b 1996 figure | ||||||
| c Rodney W. Jones and Mark G. McDonough, Tracking Nuclear Proliferation: A Guide in Maps and Charts, 1998 | ||||||
| (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1998), pp. 71-100. | ||||||
| d The Military Balance, 1992-93 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1993); and | ||||||
| The Military Balance, 1998-99 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1999). | ||||||
| * Large portions of this number are in storage | ||||||
| # a large stock of deteriorating Soviet equipment is under Kazak control, including some 2,680 tanks, 2,428 APCs, and 6,900 artillery | ||||||
| @ indicates ambiguity over joint control over the forces with Russia | ||||||