Perhaps unsurprisingly, the US ranks first in most comparable metrics. With an annual budget of $716 billion, it is the largest military budget in the world. This is equal to the military budget of the other 26 countries combined. It brought the speaker of the US Senate to tears after it was read in the Senate. That’s $492 billion more than China, the world’s second-biggest spender, spent.
It has 13,398 aircraft and 5,760 helicopters in operation. It has 20 aircraft carriers and 1.4 million active personnel. Nuclear weapons are what will determine the outcome of the war at this point.
The US has 1,054 detonations, 31,255 warheads, and 1,750 deployed strategic nuclear warheads in over 20 countries on every continent. It is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in combat when it detonated two atomic bombs over Japanese cities.
It has the MIM-104 patriot, which is a surface-to-air missile system. It was deployed to its allies such as Japan and South Korea after North Korea threatened to bomb. Egypt is the only country in Africa that has purchased it. The Patriots were used in combat during the Iran War and the Yemen conflict.
