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Ranks· 🇲🇲 Myanmar

Myanmar vs Vietnam 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 Vietnamese equivalents.

Branches
3
Ranks documented
60
Active personnel
201K

Army

Rank Ladder Highest first · 17 of 20 matched
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Army NATO code
Equivalent in
Officers
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army Vietnam Army Đại tướng insignia Đại tướng
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army Vietnam Army Đại tướng insignia Đại tướng
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-9 General Vietnam Army Thượng tướng insignia Thượng tướng
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-8 Lieutenant General Vietnam Army Trung tướng insignia Trung tướng
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ OF-7 Major General Vietnam Army Thiếu tướng insignia Thiếu tướng
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ OF-6 Brigadier General –
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-5 Colonel Vietnam Army Đại tá insignia Đại tá Vietnam Army Thượng tá insignia Thượng tá
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel Vietnam Army Trung tá insignia Trung tá
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ OF-3 Major / Commandant Vietnam Army Thiếu tá insignia Thiếu tá
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant Vietnam Army Đại úy insignia Đại úy
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ် Builʻ insignia ဗိုလ် Builʻ OF-1 Lieutenant Vietnam Army Thượng úy insignia Thượng úy Vietnam Army Trung úy insignia Trung úy Vietnam Army Thiếu úy insignia Thiếu úy
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ OF-1 Lieutenant Vietnam Army Thượng úy insignia Thượng úy Vietnam Army Trung úy insignia Trung úy Vietnam Army Thiếu úy insignia Thiếu úy
Enlisted ranks
Myanmar Army အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-9 Sergeant Major Vietnam Army Thượng tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Thượng tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Army Trung tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Trung tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Army Thiếu tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Thiếu tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-8 1st Sergeant Vietnam Army Đại úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Đại úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Army Thượng úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Thượng úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Army Trung úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Trung úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Army Thiếu úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Thiếu úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp
Myanmar Army တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-6 Staff Sergeant Vietnam Army Trung sĩ insignia Trung sĩ
Myanmar Army တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-5 Sergeant –
Myanmar Army တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ insignia တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ OR-4 Corporal Vietnam Army Hạ sĩ insignia Hạ sĩ
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ insignia ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ OR-3 Private 1st Class –
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ OR-2 Private Vietnam Army Binh nhất insignia Binh nhất
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ OR-1 Private Vietnam Army Binh nhì insignia Binh nhì

Air Force

Rank Ladder Highest first · 15 of 20 matched
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Air Force NATO code
Equivalent in
Officers
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army –
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army –
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-9 General Vietnam Air Force Thượng tướng insignia Thượng tướng
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-8 Lieutenant General Vietnam Air Force Trung tướng insignia Trung tướng
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ OF-7 Major General Vietnam Air Force Thiếu tướng insignia Thiếu tướng
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ OF-6 Brigadier General –
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-5 Colonel Vietnam Air Force Đại tá insignia Đại tá Vietnam Air Force Thượng tá insignia Thượng tá
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel Vietnam Air Force Trung tá insignia Trung tá
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ OF-3 Major / Commandant Vietnam Air Force Thiếu tá insignia Thiếu tá
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant Vietnam Air Force Đại úy insignia Đại úy
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ် Builʻ insignia ဗိုလ် Builʻ OF-1 Lieutenant Vietnam Air Force Thượng úy insignia Thượng úy Vietnam Air Force Trung úy insignia Trung úy Vietnam Air Force Thiếu úy insignia Thiếu úy
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ OF-1 Lieutenant Vietnam Air Force Thượng úy insignia Thượng úy Vietnam Air Force Trung úy insignia Trung úy Vietnam Air Force Thiếu úy insignia Thiếu úy
Enlisted ranks
Myanmar Air Force အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-9 Sergeant Major Vietnam Air Force Thượng tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Thượng tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Air Force Trung tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Trung tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Air Force Thiếu tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Thiếu tá Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-8 1st Sergeant Vietnam Air Force Đại úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Đại úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Air Force Thượng úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Thượng úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Air Force Trung úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Trung úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp Vietnam Air Force Thiếu úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp insignia Thiếu úy Quân nhân Chuyên nghiệp
Myanmar Air Force တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-6 Staff Sergeant Vietnam Air Force Trung sĩ insignia Trung sĩ
Myanmar Air Force တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-5 Sergeant –
Myanmar Air Force တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ insignia တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ OR-4 Corporal Vietnam Air Force Hạ sĩ insignia Hạ sĩ
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ insignia ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ OR-3 Private 1st Class –
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ OR-2 Private Vietnam Air Force Binh nhất insignia Binh nhất
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ OR-1 Private Vietnam Air Force Binh nhì insignia Binh nhì

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
Myanmar military personnel in dress uniforms
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