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In 2024, Italy supplied Somalia with four Bell 412 utility helicopters, "marking the most significant delivery of military equipment since the lifting of the arms embargo imposed on Somalia". [29] [30] The United Nations Support Office for Somalia has supported the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia to acquire three helicopters from ...
The Somali Armed Forces are the military forces of the Federal Republic of Somalia. [14] Headed by the president as commander-in-chief, they are constitutionally mandated to ensure the nation's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. [15] In 1990 the Armed Forces were made up of the Army, Air Force, Air Defence Force, and Navy. [16]
The Somali National Army (Somali: Ciidanka Xooga Dalka Soomaaliyeed, lit. 'Somali Ground Forces') are the ground forces component of the Somali Armed Forces. Since Somali independence in 1960, the Army fought to expand and increase Somalia's sphere of influence throughout the Horn of Africa counter to Ethiopia's and Kenya's ambitions, because of this, Somalia had amassed large ground forces.
Called the Somali Aeronautical Corps (SAC) during its pre-independence period (1954–1960), it was renamed as Somali Air Force (SAF) after Somalia gained independence in 1960. Ali Matan Hashi , Somalia's first pilot and person principally responsible for organizing the SAF, was its founder and served as its the country's first air chief. [ 1 ]
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The Somali Navy (Somali: Ciidamada Badda Soomaaliyeed, Arabic: القوات البحرية الصومالية, romanized: al-Quwwat al-Bahriyah as-Sumaliyah, lit. 'Somali Navy Force') is the naval warfare service branch of the Somali Armed Forces .
The Balance of Western Conventional Forces: A Comparative Summary of Military Expenditures; Manpower; Land, Air, Naval Forces; and National Force Trends (PDF) (Report). CSIS. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2009
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