Sweden and Russia are both influential nations with very powerful
Militaries and in this episode of FTD facts. We're doing a side-by-side comparison of the military power of Sweden and Russia
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I want to start this episode off with is Sweden the Swedish Armed Forces is an authority in Sweden which is
Responsible for defending the country as well as support peacekeeping operations and provide humanitarian
Assistance as well as protect Sweden's national interests the military manpower in Sweden is 4 million 65
thousand people
But the active personnel in their military is twenty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy five and they have 22,000 people as reserve personnel
for Russia they have the Armed Forces of Russia
And that's the military service of the Russian Federation this military service was established after the dissolution of the Soviet Union
the Russian military had gone through years of neglect after the Soviet Union collapsed
But today Russia has the second most powerful military in the entire world and as a matter of fact
It's now reported that they estimate that Russia has more nuclear warheads than the United States of America in terms of Russia's military
their available manpower is 70 million people
Its active personnel sits at seven hundred and ninety eight thousand
525 people and the reserve personnel
Total is at two million five hundred seventy two thousand five hundred people now in comparing the army strength of these two countries
Russia for sure really outnumbered
Sweden in Sweden's army. They have only 120 combat tanks and
2470 armored fighting vehicles in Russia's army Russia has 20,000 216 combat tanks 30
1298 armored fighting vehicles
3,700 93 rocket projectors
4625 towed artillery and self-propelled artillery sit at
5972 nose take it from the land all the way up into the air Sweden has 72 fighter aircrafts 74 attack aircrafts
53 transport aircrafts, they have a total of 66 trainer aircrafts total helicopters are at 49
But they have no attack helicopters in Russia's air force. They have
806 fighter aircrafts
1438 attack aircrafts
11,000 24 transport aircrafts and they have
387 trainer aircrafts the total helicopters here are at
1389 and they have a total of 490
Attack helicopters now moving on into the Navy so Sweden's Navy has only
63 total naval assets
They have nine Corvettes five submarines forging patrol crafts and eight mine warfare
vessels the total naval assets for Russia set at 352
They have 28 patrol aircrafts one aircraft carrier six frigates
15 destroyers 81 Corvettes 63 submarines and their mine warfare vessels total at
46 now next I want to compare the logistics and the defense budget of these two countries the Swedish labor force
It's at five million two hundred and seventy seven thousand people there, Merchant Marine strength is
135 Sweden has nine major ports and terminals and
231 serviceable airports and the budget that funds Sweden's military sits at six billion two hundred and fifteen million u.s.. Dollars
Now the year 2010 military conscription in Sweden was suspended this was due to the recent
increase of Russia's activities in the Baltic region and
unsuccessful efforts to fill the ranks
Sweden is set to reintroduce conscription for men and women start in January of 2018
Now when we look at Russia's logistics their labor
force is way higher sitting total of
77 million four hundred and ten thousand people there
Merchant Marine strength is at one thousand one hundred and forty-three Russia has seven major ports and terminals and
1218 serviceable airports their defense budget is a
massive forty four billion six hundred million dollars and that guy's was your side-by-side comparison of the military power of
Sweden and Russia obviously Russia is constantly building up their military
Sweden's bit lacking there
But Sweden's influence in the world is a lot more on a positive note than Russia
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Sweden and Russia in terms of their overall country. That's an exciting one
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So that was a pretty epic video now if you want to check out more about these countries here's a video
I highly recommend we can learn more about Russia as well as Sweden. We also have other amazing videos here on MTV facts
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