The Austrian Army was one of the most formidable forces Napoleonic France had to face. After Prussia made peace with France in 1795, Austria carried the main burden of resistance for nearly a decade, and its unwillingness to join the Third Coalition was overcome by British subsidies before its decisive defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 forced the humiliating Treaty of Pressburg. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founded YearThe Austrian Empire was proclaimed in 1804, but the army that fought at Austerlitz in 1805 was the continuation of the Habsburg Monarchy's existing standing forces rather than a newly raised institution; 1804 is used here as the empire's own founding year. Force Type
Force Type (category) Austrian Army
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The Glock 17, designed in Austria, was adopted by the Austrian Army as its standard sidearm in 1983
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The Austrian Army was defeated by Prussia at Koniggratz in the brief 1866 Austro-Prussian War
The Austrian Army defeated Piedmont-Sardinia in the First Italian War of Independence (1848-1849)
The Austrian Army was the principal opponent across the three wars of Italian unification, 1848-1866
The Austrian Army was defeated by France and Piedmont-Sardinia at Magenta and Solferino in the Second Italian War of Independence (1859)
The Austrian Army fought Italy (allied with Prussia) in the Third Italian War of Independence (1866), part of the wider Austro-Prussian War
Source Wikipedia: Austrian Empire
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Source Wikipedia: Leopard 2
Source Wikipedia: Steyr AUG
Source Wikipedia: Steyr SSG 69
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Austria, found in there.
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1. Wikipedia: Austrian Empire
Wikipedia: Steyr AUG
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The AUG was adopted by the Austrian Army in 1977 as the StG 77 (Sturmgewehr 77), where it replaced the 7.62×51mm NATO StG 58 automatic rifle.
Wikipedia: Leopard 2
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style="text-align: left" | Notes |- style="vertical-align: top;" | | 2A4 | 56 | | The Austrian Army initially acquired 114 Leopard 2A4s from surplus Dutch stocks plus one turret in 1996.
Wikipedia: Steyr SSG 69
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Aside from being the Austrian Army's standard issue sniper rifle, it is also used by several law enforcement organizations.
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