The 35 most powerful militaries in the world

[ninja85]

in both Quantity and Quality

yeah in quality but in quantity??? who can beat china in quantity is yet to be seen and don't think that there is someone who can do that.

 

[HMS Astute]

thats one big

first save uk because scotland is going away breaking the union,

We respect the freedom of choice and self determination of the people of Scotland who deserve to choose their own destiny just like the people live in Falklands and any other.

That's why we are holding a referendum, don't even talk about this unless you thoroughly understand what's happening and stories behind it.

Same goes to lunatics, fanatics and doltish bureaucrats in Brussels, regarding with the UK's referendum on the EU membership.

god knows what hitler would have done to your country if america wasn't there to help you hitler would have finished the job and

Royal Navy was the world's biggest and most powerful unchallenged navy on the planet at the time, which significantly contributed and played a vital role in establishing the world's greatest Empire in human history that run 1/3 of the globe. The US jumped in and joined the grief stricken party in December 1941 only after it's mighty butt got kicked by the Japanese. Hitler never wanted to mess with Britain as he realised the enormous firepower of Royal Navy fleet in the English Channel and superior skills, tactics, advanced technology (like radar and enigma machine) of the Royal Air Force. Remember the UK was the one that declared war on Germany, but not the other way round. The more aircraft Hitler sent in to Britain, the more aircraft he lost. His pilots couldn't hold a candle against our awesome pilots with free spirit.

Battle of Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

RAF alone dropped more bombs over Germany than anyone else. Eat it deutschen!

that was more than 70 years ago

When it was the world's first industrialised nation and the world's foremost superpower.

and also if germany wasn't demilitarized by america or russia they would have kicked uk's butt by now and who knows may be they will in future,germany may still have ambition of taking over europe and if not germany, russia definitely do,

today's wars are brutal as always but also asymmetrical,

I smell the BS.

you cannot fight terrorism and definitely cannot contain china or russia without america in fact you won't even think of that and your talks about power projection are cute but not practical,

Are you nuts or just simply ignorant? Do you even know what it is like to go to war against the terrorists who just look like the innocent civilians and wear casual clothes?

China? You must be out of your mind boy. Why would we want to attack China which significantly contributes a lot to our economy and provides us with all the magnificent goods and shites? Give me one good reason why China is a threat to us?

Russia? The world's biggest cold, isolated, wretched and poor country that knows only about nukes, nukes, nukes, nukes, nukes, nukes, and more nukes.

your days of british empire are over forever

Nobody claims it still exists. Your initial comment was about "UK is nothing without America's help" which is completely incorrect and utter bullshit. UK may not be as powerful as it used to be, but it still remains as a great power with permanent UNSC status, Veto power (nuclear armed state), 6th largest economy (5th next year, thanks to the fastest growing GDP growth and economy in the entire G8), 2nd biggest Air Force and Navy in NATO (only country that is building 2x 72,000 tonnes carriers), 5th biggest military budget in the world (4th last year and 2nd until 2008), the oversea military bases and territories (maintains good relationship with Commonwealth countries), the world's biggest financial centre, most visited and influential capital that trades more Euros daily than the entire Eurozone countries combined together and possess more global Headquarters, world's best institutions, universities, entertainment industries and media centres than any country in Europe. UK currently ranked 2nd in world's "soft power" ranking, still ahead of the US in this aspect. The list can go on all day, but the fact of the matter is that it still punches above its weight and relevant on the global scale, and saying it is nothing is simply wrong, or you are just ignorant and misinformed. There are around 200 countries in the world, and i guess we are not doing awfully bad.



And this is what Nazi Germany got in return for messing with the power of free country and it's free people. We shall never surrender.

 

[ninja85]

I smell the BS.

you mean your ego hurt,

you said uk won't take any military against china well relax you can't
and other thing is today war not just military it's also economy war if there is no usa your economy is on china mercy,

china is not germany buddy,usa supported britain in ww2 in man power and weapons americans AS WELL AS INDIAN soldiers fought under uk flag TO SAVE UK do you know that so slow down,

its a world war many planes shot down on both sides maybe more german planes than british

but because germans were aggressively raiding england,

also germans are makers of worlds first cruise and ballistic missiles V1 and V2 and they also bombed london with it only if they had more time and usa not interfering they would have destroyed it without losing any more planes

by the way nice charts do you made them yourself.

 

[Dhairya Yadav]

well, i will side with astute on UK's capability. Uk's biggest mistake was premature retirement of harriers after which they lost a major chunk of global power projection. They still make awesome subs and destroyers though.

 

[HMS Astute]

@ninja85

You clearly do not understand how the things work here, or may be you're just a kid with inferiority complex who's always trying to bash other countries without analysing the facts properly.

1.Just give me a reason why there would be China v UK war?

And do you think we get upset or jealous because China has bigger economy and military power than us? Hell no. China is a country with over 1.35 billion people, whereas we have only around 64 million with very little resources and tiny land area. China may be the world's 2nd largest economy, but it is still a poor country with very low living standard, human development, and dreadful human right records. China is nearly 21x bigger than the UK, so technically it's economy (GDP nominal) should be around 60 trillion. Our interest is also very different to America's like i explained to another Indian guy in another forum. In Europe, countries like the UK and France still possess the global military power projection because our professionally and outstandingly trained armed forces are designed to be robust, highly agile, adaptable, technologically superior and with the ability to move around promptly with expeditionary capabilities. We also have oversea military bases and territories in many different parts of the world which we use as the unsinkable aircraft carriers where our troops could be deployed during the war time, and this is where our additional military power projection comes from on top of the Blue Water navy capability. I do not know about India, but at least one of the Royal Navy's SSBNs armed with Trident II is always and constantly patrolling the globe. Each SSBN can hit the target from 7000 miles and carries 48 nuclear warheads and each nuclear warhead is 19x more powerful than the detonation of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. If you ask me, that's a quite catastrophic thing to imagine and highly doubt the countries (in your head) dare to have a full scale military confrontation with the broken and tiny UK which is also thoroughly protected by NATO. So, let's go back to your original post which states that the UK is nothing without America's help and yes that is your opinion, but not reality. Same thing can be said about India which is nothing without the assistances from Russia, Israel, France, US, UK, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and the rest of the world LOL. India is the world's biggest military importer which buys everything from foreign suppliers. Look at your British built aircraft carrier which the Royal Navy decommissioned many decades ago, but you're still using it LOL. Please look at yourself first man before you bash and criticise others next time, so that we can all enjoy the peace and freedom together LOL.

 

[HMS Astute]

well, i will side with astute on UK's capability. Uk's biggest mistake was premature retirement of harriers after which they lost a major chunk of global power projection. They still make awesome subs and destroyers though.

We don't operate many ships or aircraft any more as we had before, but we still develop, test and build some of the world's finest military stuffs with top notch quality and the cutting edge technology. Just look at the products of BAE Systems and Rolls Royce plc etc. And yes i strongly agree with the fact that the sold of Harrier jets to US was a mistake. After the UK government spent hundreds of millions of tax payers' money to upgrade the entire Harrier fleet and then the idiotic morons from the Westminster sold everything to the US for a peanut which left the aircraft carrier without fighter jets, just a big LOL. But, the defence ministers argued about the outdated avionics, unreliable capability of the Harriers and further funding etc. Just classic, though. But, as i said before, our interest is extremely limited and tiny compared to America's. We only intend to maintain the military presences in North/South Atlantic Ocean and Med Sea where majority of our oversea territories, military bases and trade routes are located.


The worlds major navies current replenishment at sea (RAS) capabilities, does not include transport, sealift or LSD type ships.

USN - 34 ships
15 x 40,700 tons fleet replenishment oilers
14 x 45,149 tons dry cargo ships
4 x 48,800 tons fast combat support ships
1 x 9,340 tons ammunition ship
Total displacement of RAS ships - 1,447,126 tons

Royal Navy (RFA) - 8 ships
1 x 37,874 tons replenishment oiler
1 x 33,675 tons replenishment oiler
2 x 31,500 tons replenishment oilers
2 x 23,384 tons replenishment ships
2 x 16,160 tons replenishment oilers
Total displacement of RAS ships - 213,637 tons (4x more 37,000 tons tankers are being built)

Russian Navy - 16 ships
5 x 22,460 tons large fleet oilers
2 x 11,400 tons light fleet oilers
1 x 8,900 tons light fleet oiler
6 x 7,200 tons light fleet oilers
2 x 6,480 tons medium seagoing tankers
Total displacement of RAS ships - 200,160 tons

China (PLAN) - 7 ships
1 x 37,000 tons replenishment ships
2 x 21,750 tons replenishment ships
4 x 21,000 tons replenishment ships
Total displacement of RAS ships - 164,500 tons

Indian Navy - 4 ships
1 x 35,900 tons replenishment oiler
2 x 27,500 tons replenishment oilers
1 x 24,612 tons replenishment oiler and repair ship
Total displacement of RAS ships - 115,512 tons

Japan (JMSDF) - 5 ships
2 x 25,000 tons replenishment oilers
3 x 15,000 tons replenishment oiler
Total displacement of RAS ships - 95,000 tons

French Navy - 4 ships
4 x 17,900 tons replenishment oilers
Total displacement of RAS ships - 71,600 tons

 

[Srinivas_K]

Top 4 military in the world are Chinese pandas according to CCP stats I guess ...... (just kidding)