Libyan People's Army

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The 89,000-strong Libyan People's Army (LPA) is the branch of the Libyan military primarily responsibile for land-based military operations. It is by far the largest and most developed branch of the military forces, and is a highly mechanized force outfitted with top-of-the-line military hardware, the vast majority of it purchased from the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The Libyan People's Army has five motorized rifle divisions and two tank divisions. A motorized rifle division has 12,000 soldiers organized into three motorized rifle regiments, a tank regiment, an artillery regiment, an air defense regiment, surface-to-surface missile and anti-tank battalions, and supporting chemical, engineer, signal, reconnaissance, and rear services companies. A typical tank division has 10,000 soldiers organized into three tank regiments and one motorized rifle regiment. The LPA also includes an air assault, or airmobile, brigade that conducts helicopter landing operations and two artillery regiments (in addition to the artillery and missile units organic to divisions). General Abu-Bakr Yunis Jaber is the current supreme commander of the LPA.

Contents 1 Equipment 1.1 Individual weapons 1.1.1 Pistols 1.1.2 Shotguns 1.1.3 Submachine guns/carbines 1.1.4 Rifles 1.1.5 Machine guns 1.1.6 Grenade launchers/assault weapons 1.2 Vehicles

Equipment

Individual weapons

Pistols

• CZ 85 9mm semi-automatic pistol
• CZ-99 9mm semi-automatic pistol
• MAG-95 9mm semi-automatic pistol
• Stechkin APS 9×18mm machine pistol

Shotguns

• Saiga-12 12 gauge combat shotgun
• TOZ-194 12 gauge pump-action shotgun

Submachine guns/carbines

• PP-19 Bizon 9×18mm submachine gun
• PP-90 9×18mm submachine gun
• SKS 7.62×39mm semi-automatic carbine

Rifles

• AK-74M 5.45×39mm assault rifle
• AKMP 7.62×39mm assault rifle
• AK-103 7.62×39mm assault rifle
• Dragunov SVU 7.62×54R sniper rifle
• QBU-88 5.56mm×45 sniper rifle

Machine guns

• PKM 7.62×54mm general purpose machine gun
• Type 67 7.62×54mm general purposemachine gun
• KPV 14.5×114 mm heavy machine gun
• RPK-74 5.45×39mm light machine gun
• Zastava M72 7.62×39mm light machine gun

Grenade launchers/assault weapons

• Type 87 35mm automatic grenade launcher
• Type 69 85mm rocket propelled grenade launcher
• 9К115-2 Metis-M anti-tank guided missile launcher
• 9M133 Kornet anti-tank guided missile launcher
• 9K34 Strela-3 man-portable air defense system
• 9K38 Igla man-portable air defense system

Vehicles

to be added