Our Equipment in Cyprus list:
Main battle tanks 296
M48A5C (training) 9
M48A5T1/T2 287
Armoured personnel carriers/armoured infantry battle vehicles 677
Armoured personnel carriers M113 361
Armoured personnel carriers NUROL 90
Armoured infantry battle vehicles NUROL 126
Armoured personnel carriers Mortar trnsp. M106/NUROL 100
Artillery guns 212
(a) Towed 96
M-115 203 mm 12
M-59 155 mm 12
M-114A2 155 mm 36
M-101A1 105 mm 36
(b) Self-propelled 108
M-52T 155 mm 66
M-44T 155 mm 42
(c) Multiple rocket launchers T-122 mm 8
Anti-tank weapon systems 609
TOW (MSL) 48
MILAN (MSL) 72
M-40A1 106 mm 429
KONKURZ 60
Mortars 592
M-30 107 mm (4.2) MOR 142
HY-12 120 mm MOR 171
81 mm MOR 279
Air defence systems 299
RHIMENTAL/GAI DOI 20 mm 48
OERLIKON 35 mm 36
STINGER/REDEY 215
Warships 10
Coastal patrol vessels 9
Landing craft LCM 1
General purpose helicopters (Cougar AS-532) 2
It should be emphasized that, in 2005, Turkey completed a restructuring programme of its occupation forces in Cyprus, which was based on the upgrading of the infantry into mechanized infantry. Since then, Turkey has been constantly upgrading the military equipment and weaponry of its occupation forces in Cyprus through, inter alia, the replacement of M48A5T1 battle tanks with the technologically advanced M48A5T2, the acquisition of NUROL armoured personnel carriers and armoured fighting vehicles, the replacement of 105-mm towed artillery guns with 155-mm self-propelled guns, the increase in the number of 122-mm multiple rocket launchers, the upgrading of the light air defence artillery to squadrons and the forthcoming reinforcement of the coastal patrol with another two vessels.