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Saudi Arabian Army (Arabic: الجيش العربي السعودي) ,Also called Royal Saudi Land Force (Arabic: القوات البرية الملكية السعودية). Is a branch of the Saudi Armed Forces. The total number of active troops is around 300,000. The Army is capable of conducting air assault operations with a lift capability of up to 5 battalions at a time, both day and night.

The current Chief of the Saudi General Staff is Field Marshal Saleh Al-Muhaya.

Units

Armour

• 4th (King Fah’d) Armoured Brigade
• 8th Armoured Brigade
• 12th Armoured Brigade
• 24th Armoured Brigade
• 30th Armoured Brigade
• 34th Armoured Brigade
• 45th Armoured Brigade
• 60th Armoured Brigade

A typical Saudi armored brigade has an armored reconnaissance company, three tank battalions with 42 tanks each, two tank companies with 30 tanks, three tank troops with 12 tanks, a mechanized infantry battalion with 54 AIFVs/ APCs, and an artillery battalion with 18 self-propelled guns. It also has an army aviation company, an engineer company, a logistic battalion, a field workshop, and a medical company.

Mechanised

• 6th Mechanised Brigade
• 8th Mechanised Brigade
• 10th Mechanised Brigade
• 11th Mechanised Brigade
• 17th Mechanised Brigade
• 18th Mechanised Brigade
• 19th Mechanised Brigade
• 20th Mechanised Brigade
• 31st Mechanised Brigade
• 33rd Mechanised Brigade
• 40th Mechanised Brigade
• 42nd Mechanised Brigade
• 48th Mechanised Brigade
• 50th Mechanised Brigade

A typical Saudi mechanized brigade has an armored reconnaissance company, one tank battalion with 37-42, three mechanized infantry battalion with 54 AIFVs/APCs each, two infantry companies with a total of 33 APCs, three infantry platoons with a total of 12 APCs, and an artillery battalion with 18 self-propelled guns. It also has an army aviation company, an engineer company, a logistic battalion, a field workshop, and a medical company. It has 24 anti-tank guided weapons launchers and four mortar sections with a total of eight 81mm mortars.

Infantry

• 1st Infantry Brigade
• 2nd Infantry Brigade
• 3rd Infantry Brigade
• 5th Infantry Brigade
• 7th Infantry Brigade
• 9th Infantry Brigade
• 10th Infantry Brigade
• 19th Infantry Brigade
• 21st Infantry Brigade
• 23rd Infantry Brigade
• 28th Infantry Brigade
• 30th Infantry Brigade
• 32nd Infantry Brigade
• 34th Infantry Brigade
• 35th Infantry Brigade
• 37th Infantry Brigade
• 40th Infantry Brigade
• 44th Infantry Brigade
• 45th Infantry Brigade

Each infantry brigade consists of three motorized battalions, an artillery battalion, and a support battalion.

Airborne

• The Airborne Brigade
  • 4th Airborne Battalion
  • 5th Airborne Battalion

Artillery

• 1 Independent Artillery Brigade

The IAB includes heavy artillery, multiple launch rockets, some medium artillery (an artillery reserve that can be assigned as needed). It also includes some Patriot surface to air missiles for military air defence. Others are assigned to the Air Force for national air defence, particularly of Riyadh, Mecca, Medina, and Jeddah.

Equipment

Armoured Vehicles

• M1A2 Abrams
• M1A1 Abrams
  • M1 Abrams Recovery Vehicle
  • M104 Wolverine Heavy Assault Bridge
  • M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle
• Leclerc MBT
  • Char de dépannage DNG/DCL
• AMX-30
  • AMX 30 D
• M60 Patton
  • M60A1 Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge (AVLB)
  • M88 Recovery Vehicle
• BMP-3
• M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle
• AMX-10P
• M113
• Al-Fahd APC
• EE-11 Urutu APC
• Panhard M3 APC
• Véhicule de l'Avant Blindé
• TPz Fuchs
• Panhard AML
• EE-9 Cascavel
• LAV III AFV
• AMX 10RC
• Véhicule Blindé Léger
• FV101 Scorpion

Artillery

• AMX 30 AuF1
• G6 howitzer
• M109 howitzer
• M110 howitzer
• M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
• Astros II MLRS
• Shahine Surface to Air Missile
• MIM-23 Hawk
• MIM-104 Patriot
• FIM-92 Stinger
• Mistral
• RBS 70
• Blowpipe missile
• Euromissile HOT
• BGM-71 TOW
• FGM-148 Javelin

Small Arms

Aircraft