Arab Republican Army
From Daily Escape
The Arab Republican Army (ARA) is the ground force of the United Arab Republic. It is the largest of the four branches of the Arab Republican Armed Forces, with over 500,000 active duty soldiers and over 200,000 reserves. It is the largest military in Africa and the Middle East.
In Egypt, the Republican Frontier Corps is a lightly armed paramilitary unit of about 12,000 men, mostly Bedouins, responsible for border surveillance, general peacekeeping, drug interdiction, and prevention of smuggling. In the late 1980s, the force was equipped with remote sensors, night-vision binoculars, communications vehicles, and high-speed motorboats. They are equipt and trained by the ARA.
[edit] Order of Battle
- 11 Armored Divisions (each consisting of 2 Armored Brigades and 1 Mechanized Brigade, and 1 Artillery Brigade).
- 1st Armored division
- 3rd Armored division
- 4th Armored division
- 5th Armored division
- 8th Armored division
- 9th Armored division
- 10th Armored division
- 11th Armored division
- 12th Armored division
- 21st Armored division
- 22nd Armored division
- 15 Mechanized Infantry Divisions (each consisting of 1 Armored Brigade, 2 Mechanized Brigades, and 1 Artillery Brigade).
- 2nd Infantry division
- 6th Mechanized division
- 7th Infantry division
- 13th Mechanized division
- 15th Mechanized division
- 16th Infantry division
- 17th Mechanized division
- 18th Infantry division
- 19th Infantry division
- 20th Mechanized division
- 23rd Mechanized division
- 24th Mechanized division
- 25th Mechanized division
- 26th Mechanized division
- 27th Mechanized division
- 14th Special Forces Division with 3 SF regiments; ten independent regiments
- 2 Republican Guard Armored Division
- 30th Republican Guard Armored Division
- 31st Republican Guard Armored Division
- 4 Independent Armored Brigades
- 4 Independent Mechanized Brigades
- 6 Independent Infantry Brigades
- 1 Airmobile Brigade
- 1 Airborne Brigade
- 6 Commando Groups
- 17 Independent Artillery Brigades
- 2 Heavy Mortar Brigades
- 8 ATGW Brigades
- 1 Border Guard brigade
- 5 SSM Brigades {one with 9 Batteries of FROG-7 and Sakr-80 and one with 9 Batteries of combined Scud-B and Project-T (an enhanced Scud-C) variant manufactured with North Korean help } Each Battery consist of 6 Launchers with two reloads each.
