VIGIL CONSILIUMSearch
Context. Not headlines.
Conflict coverage · Syria

Force Structure

Every published organisation on both sides, as an order of battle you can walk: pick a formation, see the parent above it and its subordinates below, and read what the record itself states.

Context, not targeting. This atlas describes structure and history. It deliberately excludes current locations, live strength, unit movements, and anything operationally sensitive — the content model has no fields for them. See the methodology.
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Order of battle

Structural · historical · non-operational

This view needs JavaScript. Every organisation it draws has a permanent page of its own — the Formations indexlists all of them, and the browser on the left links each one.

Line pattern is the subordination the record states: solid confirmed · dashed reported · fine dots disputed · sparse dots unknown or historical. Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia. No positions, strengths, readiness or movements are published, and none is drawn.

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Equipment Library

Major publicly documented systems · full profiles and structured records

Reviewed profiles of major publicly documented systems — the ones unit profiles and key events link to, each with a permanent page. The full structured catalogue, including the stub index, lives at Equipment. Each system's confidence grade, status date and sources are shown on its own record.

Bayraktar TB2

Strike UAV / loitering munition
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
The early-war icon whose strike role faded as Russian air defence coalesced — a case study in how fast adaptation cycles run in this war.
Origin
Türkiye
Also appears in
Ukraine–Russia · Mali · Nagorno-Karabakh · Libya · Syria

IED / explosive-remnant threat (Syria)

IED / explosive threat · capability record
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
The explosive threat that outlives the war twice over: remnant ISIS cells' roadside and vehicle-borne devices in the east, and fourteen years of mines and unexploded ordnance contaminating return areas nationwide — among the world's worst casualty environments for civilians, per demining organisations.
Origin
Various (improvised)
Also appears in
Syria

Su-34

Combat aircraft
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
The workhorse of the Russian glide-bomb campaign.
Origin
Russia
Also appears in
Ukraine–Russia · Syria

T-72 family

Main battle tank
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
Core mechanised firepower fielded by both sides — one family record, two operators.
Origin
Soviet Union, Russia
Also appears in
Ukraine–Russia · Syria · Nagorno-Karabakh · Iraq
Silhouette · not to scale
Role
The pickup truck with a heavy weapon is the true main combat system of the Sahel war — on every side.
Origin
Various (commercial chassis)
Also appears in
Mali · the wider Sahel · Syria