Perhaps unsurprisingly, the US is ranked number one in most comparable metrics. With an annual budget of $716 billion which is the world’s biggest military budget. It is equal to the military budget of the next 26 countries combined. It made the speaker of the US senate cry after it was read in the Senate. It is $492 billion more than what China, the second world’s largest spender, used.
She has 13,398 aircraft and 5760 helicopters in service. It has 20 aircraft carriers and 1.4 million active personnel. Nuclear weapons are what will determine the outcome of the war at the moment. The US has 1054 detonations, 31,255 warheads, and 1,750 deployed strategic nuclear warheads in more than 20 countries spread across all continents. It is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in combat when it detonated two atomic bombs over Japanese cities.
It has MIM-104 patriot which is a surface-to-air missile system. It has been deployed to her allied countries like Japan and South Korea after North Korea threatened to bomb them. Egypt is the only country in Africa which have purchased it. Patriots have been used in combat during the Iran war and Yemeni conflict.
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