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Okay, so let's jump right into the list starting at number five all the way down to number one first up
We have Italy the Italian military encompasses the Italian army the Italian Navy and the Italian Air Force now
There's a fourth branch of the Armed Forces known as the Carabinieri and this pretty much takes on the role of the nation's military
Police and they're involved in missions and operations
overseas as well
The Italian military was formed on May 4th 1861
And they ranked number 11 in the world on the scale of military power Italy's available manpower is 28 million
11003 they have
357 thousand military personnel in total and they have 175 thousand active
Personnel and 182 thousand personnel in reserve when it comes to aircraft strength
They stayed at 831
They have 94 fighter aircraft 182 attack aircraft 238 transport aircraft
185 training aircraft their helicopter strength sits at 475 and they have 59 attack
Helicopters when it comes to combat tanks that number sits at 200 they have 4,000 armored fighting vehicles
164 self-propelled artillery
90 towed artillery and 21 rocket projectors their naval assets it at
143 their aircraft carriers are at five frigates sit at 12 for destroyers
One Corvette eight submarines 14 patrol vessels and they're mine warfare
strength is at 10 moving on now to number 4 we have
Germany the Bundys weird is the military force of Germany the Bundys where is divided into a military part?
Which is the Armed Forces and the civil part with the Armed Forces?
Administration the military portion consists of Germany's army Germany's Navy and Germany's Air Force as well
as a joint support service and the joint medical service and
Also the cyber and Information Space Command Germany's military was founded on November 12 1955
But its current form was formed on October 3rd
1990 and they rank 10 in the world. Germany's available manpower is 37 million
10,000
559 their total military personnel is 21 million six hundred and eight thousand four hundred and forty-seven and they have one hundred and seventy eight
Thousand six hundred and forty-one active person now and for reserve personnel, that's at thirty thousand
The aircraft strength is at six hundred and thirteen Germany has 122 fighter aircrafts
178 attack aircraft
72 transport aircraft seventy-five trainer aircraft your helicopter strength is at three hundred and thirteen and they have sixty-five attack
Helicopters their military contains nine hundred combat tanks eight thousand three hundred and eighty nine armored fighting vehicles
209 self-propelled artillery and thirty eight rocket
Projectors when it comes to their naval assets their total naval assets are at eighty one
They have ten frigates five Corvettes six submarines
And they're mine warfare strength is a total of 12 continuing now in this list. We have the United Kingdom
So the British military is also known as Her Majesty's Armed Forces and of course, they're the military
Responsible for defending the United Kingdom as well as its overseas territories
And they're Crown Dependencies
They also work to expand the interests of Britain in the world as well as they initiate peacekeeping efforts
This military is found in the years
17:07 and they ranked number eight in the world
the uk's available manpower is just under 30 million at twenty nine million nine hundred and forty eight thousand four hundred and
Thirteen, they have a total of two hundred and thirty three thousand military personnel and in terms of active personnel
That's at one hundred and fifty thousand and they have eighty three thousand reserve personnel
The UK's aircraft strength is at eight hundred and eleven
They have 129 fighter aircraft 150 attack aircraft forty six transport aircraft
307 trainer aircraft their helicopter strength is at three hundred and nineteen and their attack
Helicopters total at forty nine when it comes to the combat tanks. That number is at three hundred and thirty one
They have four thousand six hundred and seven armored fighting vehicles. They're self-propelled artillery total. Is that eighty nine?
They're towed artillery sits at one hundred and twenty six and they have thirty five rocket projectors
The UK's total naval assets are total of 76
They have one aircraft carrier thirteen frigates
six destroyers twenty-two patrol vessels and they're mine warfare strength is a total of thirteen the second most powerful nation in this
Episode is the country of France
So the French Armed Forces includes the army the Navy the Air Force the National Guard and the John Damir of the French Republic
Excuse me
If I butchered that French France also has the world's third largest nuclear
Arsenal and they sit behind the United States and Russia
Their military is founded in the year 1792 and they ranked number five in the world for available manpower
France has thirty million one hundred and eleven
Thousand eight hundred and sixty eight their total military personnel is a total of three hundred and eighty eight
Thousand six hundred and thirty-five they have two hundred and five thousand active person now and 183 thousand
635 personnel in reserve their aircraft strength is a total of one thousand two hundred and forty-eight France has
273 fighter aircraft as well as
273 attack aircraft they have 128 transport aircraft 256 trainer aircraft and their helicopter strength is
566 and they have 56 attack helicopters. France has 406 combat tanks
6300 armored fighting vehicles a hundred and nine self-propelled artillery
152 towed artillery and 12 rocket projectors france's naval assets total
118 and they have four aircraft carriers 11 frigates 12 destroyers 23 patrol vessels
And they have a mine warfare strength of 17 now coming down to the most powerful nation in Europe
Russia so the military forces of the Russian Federation was established after the
Soviet Union was dissolved the surface branches in the Russian military
include the ground forces the
Aerospace the maritime fleet which are made up of the coastal troops the naval infantry
strategic missile troops
airborne troops as well as the special operations forces
So the Russian armed forces is one of the world's largest military forces and also the world's second-largest arms
Exporter it was founded on May 7 1992 and they ranked number two in the world
Their available manpower is 69 million six hundred and forty thousand
160 Russia's total military personnel is three million five hundred and eighty six thousand one hundred and twenty eight and they have 1 million
13,000
628 active personnel there observe personnel is a total of two million five hundred and seventy two thousand five hundred
now in terms of their aircraft strength
that number is four thousand seventy-eight and their fighter aircrafts are total up to eight hundred sixty-nine they have
1459 attack aircraft
401 transport aircraft
494 trainer aircraft and Russia's helicopter strength is at one thousand four hundred and
Eighty-five and they also have five hundred and fourteen attack helicopters for combat tanks
They have a total of twenty one thousand nine hundred and thirty two their military also
Contains fifty thousand and forty nine armored fighting vehicles their self-propelled artillery
Total at six thousand eighty three and they're taught artillery total four thousand four hundred and sixty five
they also have three thousand eight hundred and sixty rocket projectors in terms of naval sets Russia has
352 they have one aircraft carrier 13 frigates 13 destroyers 82 Corvettes
56 submarines 45 patrol vessels and they're mine warfare strength is a total of 47
So as you can see the Europeans really dominate in this list of the top
military forces in the world now
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