Editing Albanian Armed Forces (section)

====Naval Forces====
In 2007, was signed a contracts with the [[Damen Group]] for the or completing of the Albanian Naval Forces with Patrol vessels to be used to perform a number of tasks and duties, including coastal patrols, search and rescue, control and monitoring of maritime traffic, marine environment protection. The contract envisaged the construction of 4 vessels of the [[Damen Stan 4207]] class, which the first of them would be built in [[Netherlands]] and 3 others in the [[Pasha Liman Base|Pasha Liman]] naval base in Albania. The first patrol vessel, named [[Albanian patrol vessel Iliria (P 131)|Iliria P-132]], was built and delivered to the Albanian Coast Guard in August 2008. Enabling thus the following construction of 3 other patrol vessels in Pasha Liman Base by Albanian carpenters assisted by the experts of Damen Group. The second patrol vessel [[Albanian patrol vessel Oriku (P 132)|Oriku P-133]] will be commissioned in September 2011, the third ship, [[Albanian patrol vessel Lisus (P 133)|Lisus P-133]], will be operational in 2012 and fourth [[Albanian patrol vessel Butrinti (P 134)|Butrint P-134]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=The new ship "Oriku"|url=http://www.mod.gov.al/arkiv/images/mbrojtja/pdf/mbrojtja_nr_8.pdf|work=Revista Mbrojtja|agency=QKMBM|publisher=Ministry of Defense|date=September 2011|pages=3–7|access-date=2017-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823162329/http://www.mod.gov.al/arkiv/images/mbrojtja/pdf/mbrojtja_nr_8.pdf|archive-date=2017-08-23|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The first ship was built at Pasha Liman|url=http://www.mod.gov.al/arkiv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=853:prodhohet-anija-e-pare-ne-pasha-liman&catid=179&Itemid=552|website=www.mod.gov.al|publisher=Ministry of Defence|access-date=2017-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823163115/http://www.mod.gov.al/arkiv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=853:prodhohet-anija-e-pare-ne-pasha-liman&catid=179&Itemid=552|archive-date=2017-08-23|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title="Butrinti" ceremonial ship launching|url=http://mbrojtja.gov.al/index.php/newsroom/334-nje-anije-e-re-i-shtohet-forces-sone-detare|website=www.mbrojtja.gov.al|publisher=Ministry of Defence|access-date=2017-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823162533/http://mbrojtja.gov.al/index.php/newsroom/334-nje-anije-e-re-i-shtohet-forces-sone-detare|archive-date=2017-08-23|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=October 2021}}