Military unit
The Uzbek Navy , known officially as the River Force of Uzbek Frontier Committee are the mobile riverine force of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan , serving under the Border Troops of the State Security Service .
History
The naval development of the continental territory of Central Asia was started by the Russians back in the 19th century. During the period of the Russian Empire , the Aral Flotilla and the Amudarya River Flotilla of the Imperial Russian Navy operated between 1852 and 1917 in Russian Turkestan .[ 1] Russian Civil War , the Soviet Navy acquired military fleets . In the Aral Sea , a special division of ships near the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic functioned as part of the Caspian Flotilla . In 1943, a Russian naval base was founded in Tashkent . During the Soviet–Afghan War , it patrolled the river section from the settlement of Nizhny Panj in the Tajik SSR .[ 2] [ 1] Termez Brigade of Frontier Escort Ships, which was formerly subordinated to the Central Asian Border District of the KGB Border Guard , notably protecting the Soviet-Afghan border at the Amu Darya .[ 3] [ 4]
Rank
The navy has a system of naval ranks, which was inherited from the military ranks of the Soviet Union . Unlike the army, there is no higher officer corps in the naval ranks.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Officer ranks Other ranks
Rank group
Senior NCOs
Junior NCOs
Enlisted
Uzbek River Force [ 8]
Bosh starshina I darajali starshina II darajali starshina III darajali starshina Starshina Matros
Tasks
The boats of the river flotilla patrol the 156-kilometer border with Afghanistan along the Amu Darya. Their tasks include countering drug trafficking , smuggling, and illegal immigration .[ 9] [ 10] Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in the region.
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