d_taddei2 Sun Jan 24, 2016 3:03 am
Mongolia doesn't really need much a military force really, the only real thing it would ever be used for is in emergency situations such as natural disasters and possibly in a small isolated case of terrorism which is at such a low level of terrorism threat its almost non-existent so doesn't need a serious amount of decent high end equipment. If Mongolia insists of having a reasonable armed forces then here are my views on it.
I personally looking at what they have they probably have too many tanks, instead of getting T-72 they would have been better getting there T-55 upgraded something along the same type of upgrade as the Egyptian Ramses, this alone would have been enough. The BTR 60/70/80 are good enough Mongolia ideally needs highly mobile forces if anything further purchases would be better spent on BTR-82A and Tigr-M and possibly some Ural or Kamaz Typhoon especially ones with the remote turret. Other upgrades could be done to there BM-21's and their BMP-1. They have a reasonable amount of artillery despite no SP artillery, for this they would be better to buy 2S23 "Nona-SVK, but if they did want some with more range etc, then Russia has plenty of 2S1 and 2S3 in stock that it could sell.
A couple of areas where Mongolia are lacking is air defence, aircraft, and infantry anti tank weapons.
For anti tank weapons Russia could easily sell them AT-4 and AT-5, and some various shoulder launched anti tank weapons, and a small number of Kornet D(Kornet mounted on Tigr-M) this would be enough or another option would be for them to convert some of their BRDM-2 into anti tank platforms carrying AT-4, AT-5, AT-6 or even purchase some MT-LB armed with AT-6.
For aircraft side of things, they could upgrade their Mi-24's to be able to operate day/night and in all types of weather depending on the quality of their airframe, if their knackered they could just operate/buy Mi-171Sh attack heli's and add some more Mi-17 transports. As for fixed wing 6-8 multirole attack version of YAK-130 would be enough, for their needs. Their was talk of Mongolia buying the YAK but nothing has materialised. Another possible useful aircraft would be a couple of Mi-26T2.
And finally air defence, Mongolian air defence is pretty dated, buying some SA-24 MANPADS, and some BUK would be suffice, as well as getting their ZSU-23-4 upgraded to ZSU-23-4M5 (and host of improvements including addition of SA-24) and get is SA-9's upgraded, and if you add all this to their existing air defence of SA-2(S-75M), SA-3(Pechora-2M) and various AA artillery and as I mentioned above of the multirole YAK-130 carrying some form of AA missiles and they would have a fit for purpose air defence. Other minor upgrades could be done to their AA artillery that they currently have ZPU-4, ZSU 23-2, S-60 and 61K, upgrades could include mounting them on trucks or MT-LB to make them more mobile and adding to this a decent fire control systems/radar controlled and they would prove deadly against Helicopters, low flying aircraft and UAV's. Also to note some of their ZSU23-2 could be given the ZU-23M1 upgrade (fire controls sytems etc and addition of SA-24) and all of these systems could also double up as ground fire support. They could also buy SA-8, SA-13, and Tunguska systems as Russia looks to replace these systems and Mongolia would get a reasonable deal on them.
So really for not much investment and mostly through upgrades, as well as a little procurement, and of course some good training and Mongolia could have a reasonable armed force.
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