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Syria Army Lost 6% of Armored Force

ReportFormer Syrian officer's study says Syrian army has lost 8,763 men in the civilwar.

By Gil Ronen

First Publish: 7/5/2012, 6:22 PM

A former senior Syria Army officerestimates in a report that the Syrian

Army has lost 6% of its arm ored

vehicles in the ongoing civil war.

The former s taff officer, Hosni Kurdi,61, retired from m ilitary service in

1994 and has s ince served as apolitical consultant in the Gulf states.He has is sued a detailed report that

relies on information from sourceswithin the Syrian m ilitary as well as

western research.

The report estimates that about 600Syrian tanks and APCs have been destroyed by rebels s ince the fighting began. This

is abou t 6% of Syria's armored vehicles, which include about 5,775 tanks -- includingones that are in storage or unserviceable and about 5,000 vehicles that are nottanks.

While the Syrian army says about 4,000 of its m en have been killed in the fighting,Kurdi's report says the true numbers are 8,763 killed and 21,357 wounded, as of earlyJuly. It adds that about 18,000 defectors from the m ilitary have joined rebel forces, and

not 30,000 as rebels have claimed.

The fact that rebels have been armed with advanced anti-tank weapons, while the

Syrian army is using the T-62 tank as its main weapon against the rebels, means thatthe entire T-62 tank array will be wiped out or put out of use in a few m onths' time, thereport determines. The Syrian military is also s uffering from a s evere shortage in tank

crews, it says.

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