Military Balance

[paulyb102]

Hiya Chaps, thought i would start a country by country analysis of who possesses what on the Equipment side, this thread should concentrate on the armies of the world, i will add a Navy thread and an Air Force thread, starting with the British Army,

British Army statistics [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_army#_note-0)Personnel (Regular Army)107,730Personnel (Territorial Army (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Army))38,460Main Battle Tanks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Battle_Tank)386 Challenger 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2)Infantry fighting vehicles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_fighting_vehicle)667 Warrior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_Tracked_Armoured_Vehicle) (789 purchased)APCs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_Personnel_Carrier) and reconnaissance vehicles3,230–4,000+Land Rover Wolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_Wolf)15,000Pinzgauer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinzgauer_High_Mobility_All-Terrain_Vehicle)2000Utility Trucks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Vehicles)2300Artillery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery) pieces and mortars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_%28weapon%29)2896Air Defence
337

Aircraft 300 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft)

[ed316]

America. We win. Game over.

[Biglug]

+1 we win, everyone else might as well just start sending shipments of your best liquor and whore's for payment in homage to us.woot



Just kidding, this is a fairly good site for breakdown of equipment and manpower.
It isn't just about manpower and bullets today, it's mainly in the highly capable equipment and the money your willing to spend that runs the show the way I see it.


http://www.globalfirepower.com/index.asp

[winchester_down]

I agree that the US has the most advanced and powerful army on earth, but my pers opinion is that can only get you so far in this modern world(and increasingly into the future) , world population growth and the shrinking of resourses will make the countries of the world more and more dependant on each other, limiting if you will the effectiveness of armies and the like.

My 2 cents...

[James]

Hiya Chaps, thought i would start a country by country analysis of who possesses what on the Equipment side,

Why? ......

[Roaming East]

Why? ......
He's probably a Chinese spy

[James]

If we're going to do this, let's have some fun. Let's look at Africa or something!

Hellfish had that amazing thread in History/Tactics about a coups in Equatorial Guinea. SOmeone look it up and tell us what EG's military is like.

Next: Zimbabwe, then Botswana.

[Hispeed1]

Look it all up on the world factbook:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

[H3]

Thanks for the links but I'm sure the MOD aren't cutting back that much these days , the following pics were from your post mmm !
Ranging from artillary , utility and transport variants oh and MBT!

[TR1]

If you want to look at Russia's armed forces, I reccomend warfare.ru.
they just had a major update, many videos, diagrams dispalying deployments, units histories, an excellent site overall.

[Andrew116]

If you want to look at Russia's armed forces, I reccomend warfare.ru.
they just had a major update, many videos, diagrams dispalying deployments, units histories, an excellent site overall.

Sweeet! I love that site and the russian army so now I have to go check it out