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The Austrian Armed Forces (German: Bundesheer, lit. 'Federal Army') are the combined military forces of Austria. The military consists of 16,000 active-duty personnel and 125,600 reservists. [ 1 ] The military budget is 1.0% of national GDP (including pensions) or €3.317 billion (2023,without pensions).
The Austrian Armed Forces are administered by the Ministry of Defence and Sports located in Vienna. The Ministry controls the following entities: Ministry of National Defence and Sport, in Vienna. General Staff, in Vienna. Section I: Personnel and legal office.
Vizefeldwebel. Sergeant. Unteroffizier. Cavalry/. Artillery. Etatmäßiger wachtmeister. Vizewachtmeister. Unteroffizier mit Portepee ("Non-Commissioned Officer with Sword Knot"). Senior NCOs with the right to wear a ceremonial lanyard tied to the hilt of their NCO service dagger.
The Austrian AW169M is equipped with a skid landing gear and is to be delivered in 2 variants, training and light utility multi-role tactical variant. The equipment of the tactical variant consists of [191] Internal weapons: 12.7×99mm NATO machine gun or two pintle-mounted 7.62×51mm NATO machine guns.
The Austrian Air Force in its current form was created in May 1955 by the victorious Allied powers, subject to restrictions on its use of guided missiles. The Austrian State Treaty of 1955 committed Austria to permanent neutrality. Pilot training started out with four Yak-11 Moose and four Yak-18 Max aircraft donated by the Soviet Union, and ...
Unteroffizier(e), also Unteroffizier corps, is the collective name to all junior NCO-ranks in the modern day's Austrian Bundesheer.It comprises the ranks of the assignment group M BUO 2 (professional NCO 2; de: Berufsunteroffizier 2) with the rank Oberwachtmeister (OR6), and M ZUO 2 (time serving NCO 2; de: Zeitunteroffizier 2) with the rank Wachtmeister (OR5).
Wachtmeister (Wm; German for 'master-sentinel' or 'watch-master') is a military rank of non-commissioned officers (NCO) in Austria and Switzerland. It is also used in civil authorities in German-speaking countries (police, judiciary, customs service, border protection). The Wachtmeister was initially responsible for the guard duty of the army.