The folks at Global Firepower ranked the world’s 10 most powerful militaries. They examined the defence forces of 68 countries in order to compile the rankings, taking into account manpower, land systems, air power, naval power, resources, logistics, finances and geography covered. They measure 40 different stats about a country, including number of aircraft carriers, available manpower, and labor force, to produce a Power Index, in which lower numbers equal more firepower.

10. Brazil.
Power Index: 0.6912
Defense Budget: $31,576,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 371,199
Labor Force: 104,700,000
Total Aircraft: 822
Total Naval Strength: 106

9. Italy.

Power Index: 0.6838
Defense Budget: $31,946,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 293,202
Labor Force: 25,080,000
Total Aircraft: 770
Total Naval Strength: 179

8. South Korea.
Power Index: 0.6547
Defense Budget: $28,280,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 653,000
Labor Force: 25,100,000
Total Aircraft: 871
Total Naval Strength: 190

7. Germany.
Power Index: 0.6491
Defense Budget: $43,478,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 148,996
Labor Force: 43,620,000
Total Aircraft: 925
Total Naval Strength: 67

6. France.
Power Index: 0.6163
Defense Budget: $58,244,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 362,485
Labor Force: 29,610,000
Total Aircraft: 544
Total Naval Strength: 180
5. The United Kingdom.
Power Index: 0.5185
Defense Budget: $57,875,170,000
Active Military Personnel: 224,500
Labor Force: 31,720,000
Total Aircraft:1,412
Total Naval Strength: 77

4. India.
Power Index: 0.4346
Defense Budget: $44,282,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 1,325,000
Labor Force: 487,600,000
Total Aircraft: 1,962
Total Naval Strength: 170

3. China.
Power Index: 0.3351
Defense Budget: $129,272,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 2,285,000
Labor Force: 795,500,000
Total Aircraft:5,048
Total Naval Strength: 972

2. Russia.
Power Index: 0.2618
Defense Budget: $64,000,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 1,200,000
Labor Force: 75,330,000
Total Aircraft: 4,498
Total Naval Strength: 224

1. United States.
Power Index: 0.2475
Defense Budget: $689,591,000,000
Active Military Personnel: 1,477,896
Labor Force: 153,600,000
Total Aircraft: 15,293
Total Naval Strength: 290.
Nuclear capabilities are not included in this calculation. “As the inclusion of such weapons would defeat the purpose of such comparisons”. The placings are based strictly on each nation’s potential conventional war-making capabilities across land, sea and air.
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If all the nuclear weapons go off at once, then forget about planet earth. All these ratings are useless to me when almost every country is scouting for nuclear weapon.

Without Nigeria on the list the list is incomplete





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I wonder how many times we would have to masturbate on a thread like this.

Defense budgets do not translate into military strength.

Wars are not won by philosophies, technologies or by sheer weight of numbers.

Wars are won by the expedience of a single man's endurance & willingness to die for what he's defending.

A Russian soldier defends his family, his land & his 2,000 year old culture.

An Amerikan soldier defends the share prices of Boeing, Northrop Grumman, McDonalds & koolaid.

Who do you want to bet on?

Zoharariel:
I wonder how many times we would have to masturbate on a thread like this.

Defense budgets do not translate into military strength.

Wars are not won by philosophies, technologies or by sheer weight of numbers.

Wars are won by the expedience of a single man's endurance & willingness to die for what he's defending.

A Russian soldier defends his family, his land & his 2,000 year old culture.

An Amerikan soldier defends the share prices of Boeing, Northrop Grumman, McDonalds & koolaid.

Who do you want to bet on?

my brother that's your personal opinion, others may still have theirs

Zoharariel:
I wonder how many times we would have to masturbate on a thread like this.

Defense budgets do not translate into military strength.

Wars are not won by philosophies, technologies or by sheer weight of numbers.

Wars are won by the expedience of a single man's endurance & willingness to die for what he's defending.

A Russian soldier defends his family, his land & his 2,000 year old culture.

An Amerikan soldier defends the share prices of Boeing, Northrop Grumman, McDonalds & koolaid.

Who do you want to bet on?

Too bad wars are not fought by single men.

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how about Japan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and hmmm... Iran
I'm not judging based on nukes, but these countries has made quite and impression on defense issue.

UltraSphinx:
how about Japan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and hmmm... Iran
I'm not judging based on nukes, but these countries has made quite and impression on defense issue.

Remove ISIS-Arabia from that list. Even Yemen is currently making a mincemeat hamburger out of that shithole inspite of Amerika's assistance.

Zoharariel:


Remove ISIS-Arabia from that list. Even Yemen is currently making a mincemeat hamburger out of that shithole inspite of Amerika's assistance.

You are insulting a country that is 20x better than yours. Isn't that silly?

Zoharariel:


Remove ISIS-Arabia from that list. Even Yemen is currently making a mincemeat hamburger out of that shithole inspite of Amerika's assistance.

Really?

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