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• Branches: 
Ground Forces, Navy, Air Forces, Air Defense Forces, Strategic Rocket Forces 
 
• Manpower availability: 
males age 15-49 38,264,699; males fit for military service 29,951,977; males reach military age (18) annually 1,106,176 (1995 est.) 
 
• Defense expenditures: 
$NA, NA% of GDP 
 
note: 
the Intelligence Community estimates that defense spending in Russia fell about 15% in real terms in 1994, reducing Russian defense outlays to about one-fourth of peak Soviet levels in the late 1980s; although Russia may still spend as much as 10% of its GDP on defense, this is significantly below the 15% to 17% burden the former USSR carried during much of the 1980s; conversion of military expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results