Editing Sudanese Armed Forces (section)

==Navy==
[[File:Naval Ensign of Sudan.svg|thumb|Naval ensign]]
A visit by [[Josip Broz Tito]], the [[President of Yugoslavia]], to Sudan in 1959 helped build the impetus to create the Sudanese Navy. Yugoslavia was instrumental in the founding, training, and supply of vessels for the Sudanese Navy.{{sfn|Ofcansky|2015|pages=344–347}} Yugoslavia initially provided four coastal patrol boats.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Nelson|editor1-first=Harold D.|title=Sudan, A Country Study. Vol. 550, no. 27.|publisher=Headquarters, [[Department of the Army]]|date=1982|pages=271|series=[[Library of Congress Country Studies]]}}</ref> It was eventually established in 1962 to operate on the [[Red Sea]] coast and the [[River Nile]].{{sfn|Sharpe|1999|pages=657–658}}

In 1971, British [[Defence Intelligence]] said the Navy comprised six patrol craft, two landing craft, and three auxiliary vessels with its base at [[Port Sudan]].{{sfn|Robinson|2022|page=22}}
In 1999, estimated naval strength was 1,300 officers and men. Reported bases were at Port Sudan and [[Flamingo Bay (Sudan)|Flamingo Bay]] on the Red Sea and at Khartoum. The navy had two 70-ton, 75-foot, [[Gohar-class patrol boat|''Kadir''-class coastal patrol craft]] (''Kadir'' [129] and ''Karari'' [130]), both transferred from [[Iran]] to Sudan in 1975, as well as sixteen inshore patrol craft and two supply ships:
*4 Kurmuk class patrol boats
*1 Swiftship type patrol boat
*2 ex-Yugoslav patrol boats (Kraljevica class)
*3 Sewart type patrol craft
*2 Sobat class amphibious/Transport/Supply boats

The navy, according to 2004 estimates from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, had 1,800 personnel, and a base at [[Marsa Gwayawi]] on the Red Sea.{{sfn|Library of Congress|2004|p=14}} By 2017 IISS estimates for navy personnel had fallen to 1,300.{{sfn|IISS|2017|p=539}}