Egyptian Army Ranked 10th Most Powerful Army In The World, Beats Israel

When you talk about military powers in the world, it is very normal to look at Europe, the United States and China. While those nations have made fiery improvement in their military capacity, Africa still has one of its own in the top list. This is the Egyptian army.

Egypt is the leading the pack from Africa

Latest ratings coming from Global Fire Power Has revealed that the Egyptian army now ranks as the 10th most powerful army in the world. In this very Global Fire Power’s 2017 review of 133 world armies, Egypt has emerged as the leading military in the Arab world topping Israel which comes at 15. Traditional military heavyweights like the US, Russia and China still hoard the top three positions of the list in descending order.

The basis for this ranking by Global Fire Power is the count of personnel available to the army as active forces and fit-for-service as well as other military hardware weapons. On that ground, Egypt nips 10th place boasting commendable audacity in the capacity of its Air Force as well as its navy. In all Egypt is a force to reckon with, touting 1,329,250 military personnel, among which are 454,000 active forces.

A collection of daring armory

Pertaining to the Egyptian Air Force, it doesn’t lack sophistication either, formidably armed with more than 200 helicopters also called rotary-wing equipment, a sound number of fixed-wing warships. The pride of the Egyptian Air Force (EAF) is the F-16. Egypt has over 215 F-16s making the Air Force the largest operator of this combat aircraft globally. The EAF is the strongest Africa presents featuring modern day machinery like the Mirage 2000, one of the most ferocious interceptors in global technology. All together the EAF boasts 579 combat aircraft with well upgraded MiG-21s, F-4 Phantoms, F-7 Skybolts and others.

The Egyptian Navy is not left out either. The navy well like beefed up with contemporary weaponry and the technology is daring. The nation Navy accounts for 2 aircraft carriers, 9 frigates as well as 5 submarines.

This beaming statistics enthrone Egypt as one the most powerful military in Arab leaving the likes of Saudi Arabia and Algeria in its shadows. Saudi Arabia was ranked 24th and Algeria 25th.

So far Egypt has been ramping up its Armed Forces’ inventory as most of the old armory it took from the Soviet Union have been strategically replaced by more modern weapons from France, Russia, Britain and the US.

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