Hey guys, how's it going? My name is Leroy Kenton
and this is FTD facts the channel where we talk about the different countries and cultures and
People from all around the world and in this episode, I'm looking at the top five air forces in the world
So this episode is not just based on the size of the air forces
but also how the air forces have responded and performed during times of crises as well as a
notoriety of each of these air
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For FTD facts, we're going from five all the way to number one
So in at number five, we have the Air Force of China
So the People's Liberation Army Air Force or the PLA AF was formed in 1949
Now the air force's overall concept of operations is this people's war under modern conditions?
so inside of that context the main objectives of the Chinese Air Force is to prevent the enemy from
Interfering with their ground forces the second objective is to conduct close air support as well as interdiction operations
with nearly
400,000 personnel and over 300 aircrafts China's air force is the largest air force in Asia and is known to have some
of the deadliest homemade combat aircraft the total aircraft strength in China is
3187 they have
1222 fighter aircraft the attack aircraft total sits at
1564 for transport aircraft they have
193 trainers are totaled at
368 they have a total of 1,000 for helicopters and their attack helicopter strength is at
281 continuing now to number four the fourth Air Force is the UK Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the oldest Air Force in the world and it's known for its strategic bombing
The Royal Air Force was founded during World War one on April 1st
1918 and this done by the unification of the Royal Navy Air Services and the Royal Flying Corps P the UK has a total aircraft
strength of 811 they have 129 fighter aircraft in their possession and
150 attack aircraft their transport aircraft total sits at 46 they have 307 trainers and they have a total of
319 helicopters and out of those 49 are attack
Helicopters next up. We have the Air Force of Israel at the number three spot
Israel's Air Force was formed in 1948
And this was right after Israel declared independence since the formation of the Israeli Air Force
It's been engaged in eight recognized Wars with different Arab nations as well as has conducted several
operations against Arab nations
Most of the Israeli aircraft are from America and among their aircraft in the air fleet are the f4 phantom
twos the f15 f-16 - the f-35 lightning twos and almost 90 percent of its fleet consists of
us-made aircraft now an interesting fact
I just want to throw in here is Israeli Air Force pilot Jorah
Epstein he holds a record for taking down the most enemy airplanes and that total is
17 and hasn't been beaten to this day in Israel's air force
They have a total aircraft strength of 595
they have 253 fighter aircraft their attack aircraft also numbers at
253 there's 18 transport aircraft 153 trainers and
146 total helicopters and finally forty-eight attack
Helicopters coming down to the number two spot we have the russian air force
So the russian air force was formed in 1992 when it changed its name from the soviet air force
the russian air force has quite a bit of multi-role fighters transport aircraft attack helicopters and bombers all
build within Russia
The Russians have also been you know hard at work working on new planes including the fifth-generation fighter the sukhoi
Su-15 the total aircraft strength of russia is four thousand seventy eight. They have a total of
869 five
1459 attack aircraft
401 transport aircraft
494 trainers as well as a total helicopter strength of
1485 and
514 attack
Helicopters now in at the number one spot of the top 5 air
Forces in the world is the United States Air Force the United States Air Force or the USAF was founded on September 11th
1947 as an independent service the models of the United States Air Force are aim high
Fly fight win and integrity first service before self
excellence in all we do the United States Air Force owns the largest number of
aircraft in the world which almost equals the rest of the world put together and you know,
Just that fact alone was enough to have the United States Air Force top this list the total aircraft
strength of the United States is
13,000
398 they have a total of 2,000
362 fighter aircraft and their attack aircraft total at
2831 their transport aircrafts that has a total of
1153 they have
2853 trainers now their helicopter strength is a whopping five
Thousand seven hundred and sixty and they have nine hundred and seventy-one attack helicopters
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