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You'll see a side-by-side comparison of the military power of these two amazing countries Pakistan and Turkey
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so don't want to begin with this military comparison starting off with the country of Pakistan the Pakistan armed forces of the military forces of
Pakistan they're the sixth largest in the entire world in terms of active military
Personnel as well as you're the largest in all of the Muslim countries Pakistan has the world's sixth largest
Nuclear arsenal as well the total manpower available in Pakistan's military is 95 million
They have a total of six hundred and thirty-seven thousand active personnel and their reserve personnel are two hundred and eighty-two
Thousand now to introduce
Turkey Turkey ranks 8th in the world for his total military power and what makes a Turkish military force so
Interesting is that since turkey is the only?
Secular power that can negotiate with Middle Eastern countries at a cultural level the Turkish army has a huge impact on
middle-eastern relations as well as politics turkeys total manpower available is at
41 million six hundred and forty thousand
It's active personnel are a total of three hundred eighty two thousand eight hundred and fifty
And they have a reserve personnel of three hundred and sixty thousand five hundred and sixty-five now
Let's take a look at the divisions of their military and compare them side-by-side
Starting off with the pakistani army when we look at the pakistan army. They have a total of
2,920 for combat tanks
And they have two thousand eight hundred and twenty eight armored fighting vehicles
They have a total of 134 rocker projectors, and they're told artillery equal
3278 as well as they have
465 self-propelled artillery for turkeys army strength they have two thousand four hundred forty-five combat tanks
7550 armored fighting vehicles they have eight hundred eleven rocket projectors as well as they have six hundred ninety
seven towed artillery and
1113 self-propelled artillery now. Let's move on from their army to their Air Forces to see what's going on up there
Pakistan has a total of 301 fighter aircraft. They have 394 attack aircraft
261 transport aircrafts 190 trainer aircraft and their total helicopters are at
316 and out of those they have 52 attack helicopters for Turkey they have
207 fighter aircrafts they also have 270 tact aircrafts their transport aircrafts are 439 they have
276 trainer aircrafts and their total helicopters are at
455 and they have 70 attack helicopters now for the comparison of their navies in Pakistan's Navy. There's a total of
197 naval assets
They have 17 patrol crafts eight submarines ten frigates and three-mile warfare vessels in Turkey's Navy. They have
194 total naval assets
thirty-four patrol crafts sixteen frigates twelve submarines and nine Corvettes
And they have eleven mine warfare vessels now currently Pakistan has a total defence budget of seven billion dollars u.s.
But Pakistan is said to increase its defense spending to eight point seven eight billion dollars u.s.. During the fiscal year of
2017 to 2018 so in the year 2018 now so that's going to be coming up real soon
if not in effect already now a large portion of Pakistan's military is going to it's
Huge budget priorities that are its combat aircraft submarines surface warships
And the country's various indigenous missile programs
Turkey their defense budget is a little bit higher at eleven point five billion dollars u.s.
And look at this so turkeys defense budget has increased by nearly fifty percent since Jen of
2017 and this is according to the Official Gazette
Despite having a second largest army in NATO Turkey was not among the top 15 military spenders in the year 2016
And those top sprinters were of course US China Russia
Saudi Arabia as well as India now that concludes your military comparison of Pakistan and Turkey
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But just on the country on a whole of Pakistan and Turkey
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