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Top 5 Most Powerful Armies in the World

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Armies are considered an important part of a country and its security.Without leading to wars, we can have a fair idea about the military strengths of countries by taking into account the arsenal in their possession, advanced technologies implemented, training, power and number of allies, size of the army, budget allocated, etc. 

Here are world's top 5 most powerful Armies.

 1) United States of America
United States of America is the most powerful country in the world and there is surprise about it but the population of this country is not more than 5% of the population of the world.
The United States spends $612.5 billion on the military, more than the other nine countries's
budgets combined.The US implements cutting-edge technology like Navy's new rail gun and the country also has 7,500 nuclear warheads at its disposal.No wonder it is the no.1 military force since World War II.

Budget: $612.5 billion
Active frontline personnel: 1,400,000
Tanks: 8,848
Aircraft: 13,892
Submarines: 72

2) Russia
Russia has the world's largest tank fleet, the second largest aircraft fleet behind US, and the third largest submarine fleet behind the US and China.Russia is also great dealer of arms in the words because sales of arms of this country per year is more that 15 to 20 billion dollars after United States which is on highest rank.The man force is backed by 15,500 tanks, making Russia the largest tank force in the world. The country is the world's leader, with almost 8,500 active nuclear warheads.


 Budget: $84.5 billion
Active frontline personnel: 766,055
Tanks: 15,398
Aircraft: 3,429
Submarines: 55




3) China
The Chinese military has grown rapidly in terms of both size and capability in the past few decades.In terms of raw manpower, it's the largest military in the world.It also has the largest tank fleet behind Russia and the second largest submarine fleet behind the US.China is in possession of about 300 nuclear weapons, alongside 180 different methods of their deployment.
Budget: $216 billion
Active frontline personnel: 2,333,000
Tanks: 9,150
Aircraft: 2,860
Submarines: 67


4) India
India is one of the largest military powers on the planet. It has the most active manpower of any country aside from China and the US, in addition to the most tanks and aircraft of any country besides Us, China or Russia.India also has access to nuclear weapons.Its ballistic missiles can hit all of Pakistan and most of the China.It is the world's largest military goods importer & the biggest volunteer army in the world.


Budget: $50 billion
Active frontline personnel: 1,325,000
Tanks: 6,464
Aircraft: 1,905
Submarines: 15




5) United Kingdom
UK has second largest economy in Europe and maintained its position in this region.This country has a large historic power background from 18th century and instead of this UK is also a large dealer in industrial products.The Royal Navy is planning to put the HMS Queen Elizabeth, an aircraft carrier that has a flight deck measuring at 4.5 acres, into service in 2020, carrying 40 F-35B joint strike fighters across the globe.


 Budget: $60.5 billion
Active frontline personnel: 146,980
Tanks: 407
Aircraft: 936
Submarines: 10



Thus, the countries with strongest armies are the nations that are considered the biggest threats to global security, and these are the nations that also become the heavyweights in global affairs.


Comments

  1. Amandeep4 May 2017 at 11:59

    awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...............

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  2. Unknown5 May 2017 at 01:43

    Proud of my India as it acquires 4th position in world.........

    ReplyDelete

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