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Ranks· 🇲🇲 Myanmar

Myanmar vs India Military Ranks

The Myanmar/ Burma Army has 20 ranks — 12 officer and 8 enlisted — from တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ up to ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ. Below: all 60 ranks across 3 branches (Army, Navy, Air Force), aligned tier by tier with their Indian equivalents.

Branches

Ranks documented

Active personnel

201K

Army

Rank Ladder Highest first · 18 of 20 matched

🇲🇲 Myanmar · Army	NATO code	Equivalent in
Officers
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	Field marshal
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	Field marshal
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-9 General	General
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-8 Lieutenant General	Lieutenant general
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ	OF-7 Major General	Major general
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ	OF-6 Brigadier General	Brigadier
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-5 Colonel	Colonel
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel	Lieutenant colonel
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ	OF-3 Major / Commandant	Major
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ	OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant	Captain
ဗိုလ် Builʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Lieutenant
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Lieutenant
Enlisted ranks
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-9 Sergeant Major	Subedar Major
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-8 1st Sergeant	Subedar
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-6 Staff Sergeant	Havildar
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-5 Sergeant	–
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-4 Corporal	Naik
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-3 Private 1st Class	Lance Naik
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-2 Private	–
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-1 Private	Sepoy

Navy

Rank Ladder Highest first · 17 of 20 matched

🇲🇲 Myanmar · Navy	NATO code	Equivalent in
Officers
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	Admiral of the fleet
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	Admiral of the fleet
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-9 General	Admiral
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-8 Lieutenant General	Vice Admiral
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ	OF-7 Major General	Rear Admiral
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ	OF-6 Brigadier General	Commodore
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-5 Colonel	Captain
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel	Commander
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ	OF-3 Major / Commandant	Lieutenant commander
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ	OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant	Lieutenant
ဗိုလ် Builʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Sub-lieutenant
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Sub-lieutenant
Enlisted ranks
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-9 Sergeant Major	Master chief petty officer 1st class
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-8 1st Sergeant	Master chief petty officer 2nd class
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-6 Staff Sergeant	–
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-5 Sergeant	–
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-4 Corporal	Petty officer
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-3 Private 1st Class	Leading seaman
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-2 Private	Ordinary seaman
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-1 Private	–

Air Force

Rank Ladder Highest first · 18 of 20 matched

🇲🇲 Myanmar · Air Force	NATO code	Equivalent in
Officers
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	Marshal of the Indian Air Force
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	Marshal of the Indian Air Force
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-9 General	Air chief marshal
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-8 Lieutenant General	Air marshal
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ	OF-7 Major General	Air vice marshal
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ	OF-6 Brigadier General	Air commodore
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-5 Colonel	Group captain
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel	Wing commander
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ	OF-3 Major / Commandant	Squadron leader
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ	OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant	Flight lieutenant
ဗိုလ် Builʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Flying officer
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Flying officer
Enlisted ranks
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-9 Sergeant Major	Master warrant officer
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-8 1st Sergeant	Warrant officer
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-6 Staff Sergeant	Sergeant
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-5 Sergeant	–
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-4 Corporal	Corporal
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-3 Private 1st Class	–
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-2 Private	Leading aircraftsman
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-1 Private	Aircraftsman

Overview

Myanmar Army (တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း)): Conducts land-based military operations, infantry warfare, and counter-insurgency campaigns. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, the branch is organized into regional military commands and light infantry divisions. It utilizes armored, artillery, and engineer regiments to engage armed opposition groups across the country.
Myanmar Navy (တပ်မတော်(ရေ)): Executes maritime defense, coastal patrol, and riverine operations along the coastline and inland waterways. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, it operates a fleet of frigates, corvettes, fast attack craft, and diesel-electric submarines. The branch manages naval bases across regional commands and oversees the Navy Special Operations Task Force.
Myanmar Air Force (တပ်မတော်(လေ)): Conducts aerial warfare, close air support, transport, and air reconnaissance operations. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, it operates fighter aircraft, ground-attack jets, transport planes, and a helicopter fleet. The branch coordinates with ground forces through the Myanmar Integrated Air Defence System.
Myanmar Coast Guard (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ကမ်းခြေစောင့်တပ်ဖွဲ့): Performs maritime law enforcement, search and rescue, and environmental protection within territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone. Governed by the 2025 Myanmar Coast Guard Law, the force is headquartered in Thanlyin, operates under the Ministry of Defence, and is overseen by the Navy. It utilizes fast patrol vessels to combat piracy, illegal trafficking, and unauthorized fishing.

Myanmar Military

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