Sri Lanka Armed Forces
| Sri Lanka Armed Forces | |
|---|---|
| Service branches | |
| Headquarters | Colombo |
| Leadership | |
| Supreme Commander | Anura Kumara Dissanayake |
| Minister of Defence | President Anura Kumara Dissanayake |
| Secretary of Defence | Air vice-marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retd) |
| Personnel | |
| Military age | 18 years of age |
| Conscription | None |
| Active personnel | 262,500 (ranked 20th) |
| Reserve personnel | 6,000 |
| Deployed personnel | 18,000 (UN peace keeping) |
| Expenditure | |
| Budget | රු.442 billion / US$ 1.5 billion (2025) |
| Percent of GDP | 1.93% (2020) |
| Industry | |
| Domestic suppliers | SLEME Colombo Dockyard |
| Foreign suppliers | India China Russia Pakistan Israel United States United Kingdom |
| Annual exports | India Maldives Nigeria |
| Related articles | |
| History | World War I World War II First JVP Insurrection Second JVP Insurrection Sri Lankan Civil War |
| Ranks | |
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces is the overall unified military of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka encompassing the Sri Lanka Army, the Sri Lanka Navy, and the Sri Lanka Air Force; they are governed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The three services have around 263,000 active personnel; conscription has never been imposed in Sri Lanka.