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Ranks· 🇲🇲 Myanmar

Myanmar vs Malaysia 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 Malaysian equivalents.

Branches

Ranks documented

Active personnel

201K

Army

Rank Ladder Highest first · 16 of 20 matched

🇲🇲 Myanmar · Army	NATO code	Equivalent in
Officers
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	–
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	–
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-9 General	Jeneral
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-8 Lieutenant General	Leftenan jeneral
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ	OF-7 Major General	Mejar jeneral
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ	OF-6 Brigadier General	Brigedier jeneral
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-5 Colonel	Kolonel
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel	Leftenan kolonel
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ	OF-3 Major / Commandant	Mejar
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ	OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant	Kapten
ဗိုလ် Builʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Leftenan Leftenan muda
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Leftenan Leftenan muda
Enlisted ranks
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-9 Sergeant Major	Pegawai waran I
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-8 1st Sergeant	Pegawai waran II
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-6 Staff Sergeant	Sarjan
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-5 Sergeant	–
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-4 Corporal	Koperal
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-3 Private 1st Class	Lans koperal
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-2 Private	–
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-1 Private	Prebet

Navy

Rank Ladder Highest first · 16 of 20 matched

🇲🇲 Myanmar · Navy	NATO code	Equivalent in
Officers
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	–
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	–
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-9 General	Laksamana
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-8 Lieutenant General	Laksamana madya
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ	OF-7 Major General	Laksamana muda
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ	OF-6 Brigadier General	Laksamana pertama
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-5 Colonel	Kepten
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel	Komander
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ	OF-3 Major / Commandant	Leftenan komander
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ	OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant	Leftenan
ဗိုလ် Builʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Leftenan madya Leftenan muda
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Leftenan madya Leftenan muda
Enlisted ranks
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-9 Sergeant Major	Pegawai waran I
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-8 1st Sergeant	Pegawai waran II
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-6 Staff Sergeant	Bintara muda
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-5 Sergeant	–
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-4 Corporal	Laskar kanan
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-3 Private 1st Class	Laskar kelas I
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-2 Private	Laskar kelas II
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-1 Private	–

Air Force

Rank Ladder Highest first · 17 of 20 matched

🇲🇲 Myanmar · Air Force	NATO code	Equivalent in
Officers
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	–
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army	–
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-9 General	Jeneral TUDM
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ	OF-8 Lieutenant General	Leftenan jeneral TUDM
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ	OF-7 Major General	Mejar jeneral TUDM
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ	OF-6 Brigadier General	Brigedier jeneral TUDM
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-5 Colonel	Kolonel TUDM
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ	OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel	Leftenan kolonel TUDM
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ	OF-3 Major / Commandant	Mejar TUDM
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ	OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant	Kapten TUDM
ဗိုလ် Builʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Leftenan TUDM Leftenan muda TUDM
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ	OF-1 Lieutenant	Leftenan TUDM Leftenan muda TUDM
Enlisted ranks
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-9 Sergeant Major	Pegawai waran udara I
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ	OR-8 1st Sergeant	Pegawai waran udara II
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-6 Staff Sergeant	Sarjan udara
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ	OR-5 Sergeant	–
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-4 Corporal	Koperal udara
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ	OR-3 Private 1st Class	Laskar udara kanan
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-2 Private	Laskar udara I
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ	OR-1 Private	Laskar udara II

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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