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The Myanmar Air Force (MAF) was formed as the Burmese Air Force on 16 January 1947, while Burma (as Myanmar was known until 1989) was still under British rule. By 1948, the fleet of the new air force included 40 Airspeed Oxfords, 16 de Havilland Tiger Moths, four Austers, and three Supermarine Spitfires transferred from the Royal Air Force, and ...
Flag of Mon State. Yellow Hamsa on a red field. Flag of Rakhine State. Emblem of Rakhine, a Shrivatsa, on a blue disk in the centre of a white-red horizontal bicolour. 12 February 1947 [7] Flag of Shan State. White circle, representing the moon, on a yellow-green-red horizontal triband.
Min Aung Hlaing was born on 3 July 1956 in Minbu, Magway Region, Burma (now Myanmar ), to Khin Hlaing and Hla Mu, as the fourth of five children. [25] His parents were teachers from Dawei, in Tanintharyi Region. [26] His family moved to Mandalay as duty when he was 5 years old. His father, Khin Hlaing, was an artist.
Almost three years since the military seized power in a coup, ending a brief stretch of semi-democratic rule in the former British colony and plunging Myanmar once again into civil war, the fight ...
The Myanmar Army ( Burmese: တပ်မတော် (ကြည်း); pronounced [taʔmədɔ̀ tɕí]) is the largest branch of the Armed Forces ( Tatmadaw) of Myanmar (formerly Burma) and has the primary responsibility of conducting land-based military operations. The Myanmar Army maintains the second largest active force in Southeast Asia ...
The Wa military is the biggest and strongest ethnic armed organization in Myanmar, with an army of approximately 30,000 well-equipped soldiers and sophisticated weaponry including heavy artillery ...
Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters, and Mogok, the ...
No. 71 Submarine Base (on Ownchein Island near Kyaukphyu SEZ) Panmawaddy Regional Command (headquarters on Haigyi Island) Mawyawaddy Regional Command (headquarters in Mawlamyine) Tanintharyi Regional Command (headquarters in Myeik ) Zadetkyi Island Naval Base. Mali (Tavoy) Naval Base. Palai Island Naval Base. Kadan Naval Base.