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Treaty Limited Equipment
Group Limit
Tanks 20,000
Artillery 20,000
Armored Combat 30,000
Vehicles (ACVs)
Attack Helicopters 2,000
Combat Aircraft 6,800
Table 22-1. TLE Limits.
Subsequent national limits for each treaty signatory
were determined during negotiations among the
members of the two respective alliances. Following
the demise of the Soviet Union, the successor states
(within the area of treaty application) determined
their respective limits from the total allocated to the
Soviet Union in May 1992. The three Balkan states
(Lithuania, Latvia, <strong>and</strong> Estonia) did not participate in
the negotiations to determine national limits for the
“successor” states of the Soviet Union. They argued
that their nations were not “successor states” but had
been “occupied territory.” Consequently, their territory
was no longer part of the treaty’s area of application.
Still, following their entry into <strong>NATO</strong>, all have
indicated a willingness to accede to the adapted CFE
Treaty once it enters into force.
Bloc limitations for <strong>NATO</strong> <strong>and</strong> the former Warsaw
Pact were further restrained by a series of five geographic
nesting zones for l<strong>and</strong>-based TLE with limits
for each zone. These restraints were imposed to
prevent destabilizing concentrations of conventional
military armaments in critical localized areas. A fourzone
area commences with a central region consisting
of Germany, the Benelux, Pol<strong>and</strong>, the Czech Republic,
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