Uzbek River Force
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| Founded | 1992 |
| Country |  Uzbekistan |
| Branch | .svg){kind=small} Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan |
| Type | Brown-water navy |
| Role | Force protection Internal security Law enforcement Maritime security Naval boarding Riverine patrol |
| Headquarters | Tashkent |
| Colors | Black |
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| Flag |  |
The Uzbek Navy, known officially as the River Force of Uzbek Frontier Committee are the mobile riverine force of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan, serving under the Border Troops of the State Security Service.
History
[edit]The naval development of the continental territory of Central Asia was started by the Russians back in the 19th century. During the period of the Russian Empire, the Aral Flotilla and the Amudarya River Flotilla of the Imperial Russian Navy operated between 1852 and 1917 in Russian Turkestan.[1] During the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Navy acquired military fleets. In the Aral Sea, a special division of ships near the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic functioned as part of the Caspian Flotilla. In 1943, a Russian naval base was founded in Tashkent. During the Soviet–Afghan War, it patrolled the river section from the settlement of Nizhny Panj in the Tajik SSR.[2] After 1991, the base came under the jurisdiction of the new Uzbek republic.[1] The new naval force was raised from the Termez Brigade of Frontier Escort Ships, which was formerly subordinated to the Central Asian Border District of the KGB Border Guard, notably protecting the Soviet-Afghan border at the Amu Darya.[3][4]
Rank
[edit]The navy has a system of naval ranks, which was inherited from the military ranks of the Soviet Union. Unlike the army, there is no higher officer corps in the naval ranks.[5][6][7]
- Officer ranks
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Tasks
[edit]The boats of the river flotilla patrol the 156-kilometer border with Afghanistan along the Amu Darya. Their tasks include countering drug trafficking, smuggling, and illegal immigration.[9][10] In addition, it functions as a means of preventing Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in the region.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Флот Узбекистана: вчера, сегодня, завтра | Еженедельник "Военно-промышленный курьер"". vpk-news.ru. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ^ "Термезская флотилия, 22 ОБСК". pv-afghan.narod.ru. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- ^ "Uzbek Navy: past, present and future". rusnavy.com. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
- ^ "22nd independent Border Guard Ship Brigade".
- ^ Хасанмурад Джураев. Допризывная подготовка юношей: Учебное пособие для 10—11 классов общеобразовательных школ. Изд. 2-е. — Ташкент: Шарк, 2005. — 208 с. — С. 21.
- ^ Закон Республики Узбекистан о всеобщей воинской обязанности и военной службе. Статья 9.
- ^ Ўзбекистон Республикасининг қонуни умумий ҳарбий мажбурият ва ҳарбий хизмат тўғрисида. 9-модда
- ^ a b "O'zbekiston Respublikasi fuqarolarining harbiy xizmatni o'tash tartibi to'g'risida". lex.uz (in Uzbek). Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- ^ Dianne L. Smith. Opening Pandora’s Box: Ethnicity and Central Asian Militaries. — Strategies Studies Institute, 1998. — С. 54.
- ^ Eugene Kogan. The Armed Forces of Central Asia in 2009. // Konfliktmanagement in Zentralasien. — Wien — Köln — Weimar : Böhlau Verlag Ges.m.b.H. und Co. KG, 2010. — С. 200. — ISBN 978-3-205-78565-1