As America threats to use force on Iran keep growing and generating heat argument and controversies here and there, 9jatoday deem it fit to publish the list of the 10 most powerful nations with a military base in the world.
The ranking was made by Global Firepower’s in 2019 using the diversity of each and every country’s destructive weapons, available manpower, geographical area, logistical strength, the natural resources on the ground and the local industry in each country were also considered.
Also, the highest power index ratio is 0.0000, something that is “realistically unattainable,” this is according to Global Firepower. Hence, the closer a country is to this index number, the more powerful its military base is.
Premise on the above criteria, the following are the top 10 most powerful countries with a military base in the world:
Germany
Power Index rating: 0.2097
Population: 80,457,737
Estimated military personnel: 208,641
Aircraft strength: 613 (17th)
Overall Fighter aircraft: 122 (20th)
Combat tanks: 900 (26th)
aval assets: 81
National Defense budget: $49.1 billion
Turkey
Index rating: 0.2089
Population: 81,257,239
Estimated military personnel: 735,000
Overall aircraft strength: 1,067 (10th)
Overall Fighter aircraft: 207 (14th)
Combat tanks: 3,200 (7th)
Overall naval assets: 194
National Defense budget: $8.6 billion
United Kingdom
Power Index rating: 0.1797
Overall population: 65,105,246
Estimated military personnel: 233,000
Overall aircraft: 811 (15th)
Total Fighter aircraft: 129 (19th)
Combat tanks: 331 (49th)
Overall Naval assets: 76 (with an aircraft carrier)
National Defense budget: $47.5 billion
South Korea
Power Index rating: 0.1761
Country’s population: 51,418,097
Overall military personnel: 5,827,150
Fighter aircraft: 406 (6th)
Overall aircraft strength: 1,614 (5th)
Combat tanks: 2,654 (9th)
Not total assets: 166; (with one aircraft carrier)
National Defense budget: $38.3 billion
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Japan
Index rating: 0.1707
Overall population: 126,128,156
Estimated military personnel: 303,157
Total Aircraft: 1,572 (6th)
Fighter aircraft: 297 (8th)
Combat tanks: 1,004 (25th)
Naval assets: 131 (with four aircraft carriers)
National Defense budget: $47 billion
France
Power Index rating:0.1584
Overall opulation: 67,364,357
Estimated military personnel: 388,635
Total aircraft: 1,248 (8th)
Fighter aircraft: 273 (10th)
Combat tanks: 406 (ranked 44th)
Naval assets: 118 ( with four aircraft carriers)
National Defense budget: $40.5 billion
India
Index rating: 0.1065
Population: 1,296,834,042
Estimated Military strength: 3,462,500
Fighter aircraft: 520 (4th)
Aircraft strength: 2,082 (4th)
Combat tanks: 4,184 (6th)
Naval assets: 295; one aircraft carrier
National Defense budget: $55.2 billion
China
Power Index: 0.0673
Country’s population: 1,384,688,986
Estimated military personnel: 2,693,000
Fighter aircraft: 1,222 (2nd position)
Total aircraft: 3,187 (3rd position)
Combat tanks: 13,050 (2nd position)
Naval assets: 714; with an aircraft carrier
National Defense budget: $224 billion
Russia
Index rating: 0.0639
Population: 142,122,776
Estimated military personnel: 3,586,128
Fighter aircraft: 869 ( 3rd position)
Total aircraft strength: 4,078 ( 2nd out of 137)
Combat tanks: 21,932 (1st position)
Naval assets: 352;
National Defense budget: $44 billion
United States
Power Index rating: 0.0615
Population: 329,256,465
Estimated military personnel: 2,141,900
Fighter aircraft: 2,362 (1st position)
Aircraft in general:- 13,398 (scored first out of 137)
Combat tanks: 6,287 (ranked 3rd)
Naval assets: 415; 24 aircraft carriers
National Defense budget: $716 billion (as at 2019)
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