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Malta — analysis of the armed forces
What the inventory on record could form, man and sustain, by published norms — the same engine and the same figures as the Analysis tab of the interactive map. Models of what the equipment allows, not the real order of battle, training or readiness.
- Rear categories not documented in open sources (5 of 7) — support figures are a lower bound
Force structure i
No armoured manoeuvre force on record.
| formation · what it means | equivalents |
|---|---|
Mortar battery-equivalents26 mortars ÷ 6·6 mortars per manoeuvre battalion sourced | 4.3 |
Transport-helicopter battalion-equivalents6 helicopters ÷ 30·30 helicopters per assault battalion (US Army) sourced | 0.2 |
UAV squadron-eq1 aircraft ÷ 9·9 aircraft per squadron (placeholder: half a fighter squadron) assumption | 0.1 |
Not on record: tanks, IFV / APC, MRAP / protected 4×4, artillery, rocket artillery, long / medium-range SAM, short-range SAM, attack helicopters, combat aircraft, bombers, transport aircraft, tankers, AEW&C
| naval class | hulls | crews needed |
|---|---|---|
| patrol vessels | 17 | 116 |
Formation equivalents by published tables of organisation — an estimate of what the inventory could form, not the actual order of battle.
Manning & readiness i
Personnel needed to man the inventory: 952 (crews 260 / maintainers 335 / support 357)·on strength: 1,700·manning 179%·the force is infantry-heavy or much equipment is in storage
| group | units | availability | effective fleet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land | 103 | 70% assumption | 72 |
| Air | 11 | 65% sourced | 7 |
| Sea | 17 | 36% sourced | 6 |
Effective fleet is shown next to the nominal count, never instead of it. Support coefficient 0.6 derived
Air-defence coverage i
No surface-to-air system with a documented engagement range on record.
point defence: 50 launchers / guns (AAG)
Territory area from the outline: 326 km²·overlap factor assumption·radar horizon derived
Strike reach i
No combat aircraft, missile or coastal system with a documented range on record.
Budget realism i
| Inventory value1 of 19 types priced·3% of units covered | $40.2M |
| Annual budgetSIPRI 2024 | $109M |
| Operation & support / year15% of budget·benchmark O&M 40%·O&S from estimated unit prices for 18 types | $16.8M |
| Personnel cost / yearassumed cost per service member $15K (model tier: low, fitted to the budget)·23% of budget·benchmark 22% | $25.5M |
| Implied procurement sharebenchmark 20% (NATO ≥ 20%) | 61% |
| Years to re-buy the inventoryinventory value ÷ (budget × procurement share) | 0.6 |
Support equipment not documented (LOG, ENG, MED, C3, CBRN)·figures are a lower bound
Budget structure compared with US FY2025 / NATO guideline shares; national accounting differs — read as an order of magnitude. Cost-per-service-member tiers derived
World standing i
| Active personneltop 100% (25th of 25 documented countries) | 1,700 |
| Helicopters (all)top 96% (24th of 25 documented countries) | 6 |
| Military budgettop 100% (24th of 24 documented countries) | $109M |
Closest inventories: Morocco (20,790 units, 51% similar), Norway (7,708 units, 49% similar), Montenegro (445 units, 47% similar)
Inventory Strength Index i
Transparent index: published weights × counts, normalised to the leading documented country per block; quality factor 1 for every type until stage 2; mass categories on a square-root scale above 100 units. It measures inventory, not training, doctrine, readiness or will — like every such index. Weights assumption mass rule assumption
Figures are static: they are rendered at build time from the same data as the map and change with every data update. Norms, sources and statuses: the method page.