Chapter 4 - Formations, Vessels, Aircraft and Vehicles of the Armed Forces
             
Table 4.15 Declared Attack Helicopters and Combat Aircraft Holdings and Ceilings by country
                        within the scope of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, at 1 January 2009
    Attack helicopters   Combat aircraft1
             
Countries not in NATO  
Holdings
Ceiling
  
Holdings
Ceiling
Armenia   8 50   16 100
Azerbaijan   15 50   75 100
Belarus   22 80   153 294
Georgia   6 50   12 100
Moldova   - 50   - 50
Russia2   410 855   1 828 3 416
Ukraine   161 250   525 800
 
Countries in NATO  
Holdings
Ceiling
  
Holdings
Ceiling
Belgium   39 46   85 232
Bulgaria3   20 67   67 235
Canada   - 13   - 90
Czech Republic4   29 50   42 230
Denmark   8 18   62 106
France   256 374   433 800
Germany   165 280   324 900
Greece   31 65   568 650
Hungary4   45 108   89 180
Italy   127 142   437 650
Netherlands   16 50   106 230
Norway   - 24   57 100
Poland4   91 130   131 460
Portugal   - 26   111 160
Romania3   31 120   84 430
Slovakia3   16 40   46 100
Spain   32 80   168 310
Turkey   32 130   304 750
United Kingdom   242 356   434 900
United States of America   48 396   216 784
Source: Directorate for Counter-Proliferation and Arms Control
1. Does not include land-based maritime aircraft for which a separate limit has been set.
2. The Russian Federation suspended the implementation of the CFE Treaty on 12 December 2007. Consequently, Russia did not submit the annual exchange of
    information required by the Treaty. The given numbers of holdings are taken from the "Consolidated Information" provided by the Russian Federation on 15
    December 2008 as a sign of goodwill.
3. These countries joined NATO on 29 March 2004.
4. Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became NATO members on 12 March 1999.
 
The ceiling figures given above differ from the figures in editions of UKDS from 2006 and earlier. This is because the figures were previously reproduced from the Military Balance publication, which used an unratified version of the Adapted CFE Treaty, and we are now using ceiling figures from the ratified version of the CFE Treaty.