Royal Marine Reacts To 10 Most Powerful Militaries in NATO | 2023 

15:44 The Eurofighter programme is between Spain, the UK, Italy and Germany, France didn't participate in it because they were developing the Rafale.

Poland is a sneaky good military. I would say they are a top 4 nato military. And getting stronger. They are ordering a shit ton of all the top systems in the world

So, the thing to remember about the French is their national security strategy. It's a top priority for them to maintain independent capability. That includes development, construction and sustainment. So they will cooperate with other nations, joint development and such, but they keep full copies of the blueprints, as it were. They develop their own aircraft, ships, vehicles and equipment across almost all types. They have an independent nuclear capability. They also maintain the capacity to achieve independent expeditionary operations. Pretty much unique capabilities in NATO aside from the US. It was really valuable from an American perspective during the WOT. One of the regions we were concerned with was terrorism in the Sahel region- an area of interest to the French. They also had the diplomatic network with local governments there so they had it handled with their regional allies with little direct assistance from the US. Meaning no disrespect to our other allies in NATO, because we all have our parts to play, but having an ally like that is great. It can also be a pain in the ass because if the the rest of NATO disagrees with the US, they're the first to tell us to, uhh, jog on (is that what you'd say in the UK? Bugger off, maybe?). But, you know, sometimes we may need to hear that.

Probably in the next 5 years, when the TFX fighter jets, I-class frigates, TF2000 destroyers and aircraft carriers developed by Turkey come into service, Turkey will be NATO's 2nd largest military power. It should not be forgotten that Turkey is currently Nato's 2nd largest army in terms of the power it gives to Nato.

Turkiye needs to be updated seriously, they are number two, as they should be. they are number 8 in the world according to global fire power, but that only takes into account numbers which are only 50% of the deal, it doesn't take into account experience and capabilities etc. Turkiye has one of the best army's in the world.

Turkiye has 700.000 military personnel, 2.000 tanks, 13.000 armored vehicles and over 200 fighter jets. Most of the tanks are m60 sabra(modernized version), leopard 1 and leopard 2. Fighter jets are f-16 fighting falcon and most are f-16 block 70(modernized version). How is it possible that Italy, France and the UK are in front of Turkey with only 200.000 military personnel, 200 tanks and 100 fighter jets? Same thing for Poland, they have more combat vehicles than the others even they are 9th. We all know Turkey is up to fight and always doing cross-border operations so they have proved itself. I think Turkey is more capable of a conventional war than the others, except the U.S.

Turkey and Poland are the rising stars new kid Finland is the unknown but the terrain they fight from is going to be great for training 🤘🤘🤘

I'm French and I can confirm that we don't have a Eurofighter. We have RAFALES and Mirage 2000.

Poland in the future will have 600 HIMARS systems and 1,000 155 mm self-propelled howitzers . Poland will have about 1,600 tanks

The list is wrong, Türkiye is the 8th strongest military in the world and 3th in the nato (2024 data)

Greece has such a large military compared to others of its size and wealth because they are worried about Turkey.

Im pretty sure Turkish and pologne gonna be a huge potential army

There is a mistake in the video. Türkiye is 8th in the world and 3rd in NATO.

Turkey is the 2. largest army in NATO

We do have reserve personnel in Poland. Every adult man (without serious health issues) aged between 18 and 63 years old are reservists. We also have Territorial Defence Force which is 40k+ people (light infantry). Also some paramilitary organisations but I don't know exact numbers. Regarding tanks: most of our T-74 and PT-91 tanks were send to Ukraine. We replaced them with Abrams tanks and K2 tanks from Korea (they will be modernized into K2PL). Some MIG fighters, and I heard that some SU, were also send to Ukraine. There are some korean made FA-50 (or FA-50PL) + we are waiting for our F-35. Regarding artillery we are using eg. AHS Krab, KMO Rak, SpGH Dana, K9 Thunder, WR-40 Langusta, HIMARS and korean made Chunmoo. We are trying to replace old post-soviet BMP-1 with our homemade IFV Borsuk but it is still in the process.

Dire que l'armée française se rend est totalement faux. Les anglais ont fuis à Dunkerque, protégé par l'armée française. Nous avons continuer à se battre en France pendant que les anglais étaient acclamé sur leur îles.

France makes there own fighters in house , if I remember Rafale didn’t want to get involved in the euro fighter ,only Germany , Italy , uk and Spain Edit : I meant dassult not rafale , got confused between the company and model

The Eurofighter Typhoon was a project between Germany, England, Spain and Italy. That's why these countries have the Eurofighters. But the Mirage is very similar to the Eurofighter.

The USA has 1957 fighter jets + 2000 F-35s on order! 4,000 combat aircraft in total.

The topic of submarines in Spain is an endless discussion between the needs of the Armada, the money, the geostrategic position and the internal politics of the country, Spain has about 7900 Km of coastline, at least we need between 6 and 8 subarines, however, we are building the new series and there are only four😮‍💨, greetings and amazing video✌

It's correct that France doesn't operate Eurofighters, they have their domestic made Rafale instead. Also we germans ordered the F-35 as well and still operate the Tornado because Eurofighters can´t carry the B-61 tactical nuclear bomb

The script read by that AI voice neglected bombers in air force strengths, and idiotically described the A-10 Thunderbolt II (the Warthog) as a fighter, when it is an attack aircraft that carries a couple of self-defense IR-guided missiles. It did not distinguish between branches of military service, apparently lumping all active-duty personnel into the 'army'. The mispronunciations were consistent and blatant. It also neglected long-range missile capability. It's a collection of the sloppiest sort of generalizations.

800 billion dollars a year baby !

If you divide the number of American military aircraft by service the United States has 3 of the 5 largest air forces in the World. The United States Air Force is #1, the United States Navy is #2 and the United States Marine Corp is #5 based on total number of aircraft.

Bro this video is so old. You should take this video again because turkey has reached the 3th on nato in 2024 we has got 5th gen fighter and we have a huge uav army.

Keep in mind the top three countries in the list are the only ones that have nuclear subs in their navies and all three are nuclear weapon armed for MAD deterrence.

it's funny to read/watch these list, due to quite often they aren't accurate (for it's time). For example Poland have an reserve force, but they are not writing it up on the list, the same way other countries does. Norway is also a good example (my country), people call Norway's military small and that is the trick! (I would say that of course) the active force is the active force, but it's when you start to look at reserve numbers things starting to get weird! Norway's Home Guard is listed as the reserve force, when it is actually something between active and reserve force, they are almost similar as a normal active infantry force. What is not listed, is the 170000 reserve force, where 40000 of them are doing Home Guard duty

The French do not have any Typhoons. They preferred the Dassault Mirrage and Raffaele aircraft. The Raffaele is just as good as Typhoon and why buy the Eurofighter when your home grown aircraft is as good or better. France actually pulled out of the development of Typhoon when they realized that the Raffaele was just as capable and cost 22% less per aircraft.

Spain currently have 2 submarines, 1 old S-70 Galerna class and 1 brand new S-80 + Isaac Peral class (considered the best non-nuclear submarine), but the S-80 + program includes 3 other submarines that will enter in service in the next years (4 in total), with the possibility of increasing to 6 units in total.

For the US Navy the 11 aircraft carriers are just the nuclear aircraft carriers if I'm not wrong we still have nine regular aircraft and I didn't see any mention of amphibious landing craft at all like the Marines use

PS; Wrt the UK and French navies, I also note multiple discrepancies. Eg, that though France's 3 x Mistral Class LPHs are listed, the UK's 2 x Albion Class LPDs are somehow omitted completely.

A trainer is a simple fighter of some kind, used to introduce pilots to the faster aircraft I believe.

You should see how much Polands military has grown since this video.

This was clearly done before Finland joined nato.

Greece has a lot of submarines because they have a chain of islands. "That is the reason why they need submarines" to protect their land.

The Eurofighter trainer aircrafts can be used for combats as well. The double seaters (trainers) are the same as the single seaters ones.

Italy fighter jets stats are wrong that 92 is referred only to eurofighters there are also 20+ f35 and in 2030 they should be 75 f35s

But Polish ordered south Corean fighters f35 from the usa and more than 1000 k2 balck pabther tanks.... more then 600 rocket launchers and more than 700 Self probeld guns... the contracts a save and bayed the polish forec ways for the delivery... the numbers is hoples old and he make a contract for more than 200 m1 tanks..

It’s a lol list, USA is obviously first, but second is Turkey, 3d France and U.K. comes in at 4 maybe 5, composting with Poland.

As an American who always gets giddy seeing the US on any of these lists, it’s cool to see that other countries are hyped to see themselves on these lists too. Btw, always love the UK as our closest allies, ride or die bulldogs. Been subscribed for years now keep up the good fun

I'm not sure what metric is used for this ranking. It's kind of confusing. But Canada doesn't need a huge military. They're out neighbor.

What about experience? How capable these armies to effectively use what they have in their inventory? What are their levels of readiness? What is the ratio of operational equipment?

Also for Germany you got to imagine they had restrictions on their military for a while until about 1960 so they had a lot of catching up to do

I think militaries all over the world are moving from barreled arty pieces to rocket/missile based arty pieces. They are more efficient at targeting, have a much longer range and can redeployed faster.

The information used in the film about POLAND is not current and not true: 134.5 k professional soldiers, 34.3 k soldiers of the Territorial Defense Forces, 14.5 k soldiers of voluntary compulsory military service. Data for 2023: a total of 191.5 thousand soldiers.

UK is receiving 56 Apache -E helicopters which is the latest and last version of the Apache. USA numbers "USA Don't play"

TECHNICALLY every male between the age of 18 to 50/60(not sure), without something prohibiting him from joining an army is considered a reserve personnel in Poland and are called "passive reserve".

The video contains incorrect data about Poland. Poland has reserve troops, plus the data does not match, but it's a video from 2023, it's not surprising, Poland is now in 6th place in the NATO ranking

Afaik, we have 137 Eurofighters and now, 31 of the 32 F35-Bs as yet delivered. One F35 having taken a nosedive over Hms Queen Elizabeth's ski-jump into the Med. We also do still have over 300 x C2 MBTs though only the c210 cited are still operational and with the C3 life extension UK tank nos will reduce yet further to just under 150. Meanwhile, the French in fact have even fewer operational MBTs than we have and though lighter French AFVs outnumber UK ones by approaching c6,600 compared to just over c5,000 French AFVs are all wheeled, not tracked and less capable than the big % of UK tracked equivalents.

Summary The video discusses the top 10 most powerful militaries within NATO, with predictions provided by the speaker who has a military background. The speaker talks about the military strengths of countries such as Greece, Poland, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, Turkey, the UK, France, and the United States. The video details the military capabilities of each country, including the number of personnel, equipment, aircraft, tanks, submarines, and naval vessels. The speaker also mentions upcoming videos on military jets and discusses the potential implications of these military strengths in the event of a large-scale war. The video concludes by stating the speaker's opinion on the top three countries with the strongest militaries as the UK, France, and America, with Italy at number four. Additionally, the video encourages viewers to like, comment, and subscribe to the channel for more military content.

Dude, the french have never wanted to design something in cooperation with anyone. At the very least they back down near the end and then take all the design choices they like and then design their own - be they tanks or aircraft. That said, it also means they have a strong domestic industry and that's a thing to be respected.

Nice video

Yeah not only did the video miss the F-22 but it also missed the sky wardens, which fair enough but it would have been fun to see them

Navy Wise #1 US #2 UK #3 France #4 Italy #5 Turkey - Land Force Wise #1 US #2 Turkey #3 France #4 Poland #5 UK - Air Force #1 US #2 UK #3 France #4 Turkey #5 Greece

Love your stuff

In a conventional warfare Turkey is definetely stronger than France and Italy and likely stronger than UK, thats exactly why Greece has 12 submarines, also in these comparison lists i never seen active personnel numbers of turkish gendarmerie, they are literally same with the land forces, in a war time they will be also deployed and they have around 200k personnel

Turkey became third most powerful nato behind Uk and USA and 8 most powerful countries in the world

I'm pretty sure that his numbers for the US aircraft are wrong. I think that the us has the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd largest air forces in the world, that may be why he didn't list all the different types of airplanes they use as some of them technically fall under the navy or the army.

It's not just 11 submarines from Greece, compared too much larger countries the Fjets are enormous.

Italy and Spain have a ton of trainers because they are designated air force training centers for NATO.

Not sure why Greece is at 10... Kinda seems like it should be at 6 by the numbers given... Probably economy and population played a part.

I hope we all agree that, with the exception of a few countries, these are just numbers and most are inept at fighting.

What’s wild is that we still posses the manufacturing capabilities to double or triple those numbers within a year if absolutely necessary.

can anyone explain the logic... it feels like greece has much more than poland and canada with regard to airforce,military personnel,naval fleet... how are they 10th?

Comparing Numbers is not comparing strenght...

watching this as an American I feel powerful

The information on the Polish army is badly out of date: almost everything Poland inherited from the Warsaw Pact was transferred to Ukraine. In the meantime, huge purchases have been made (the first units of tanks or fighters from South Korea are already being delivered) and, at least on paper, the position of the Polish army will jump a few notches up in this ranking.

Hey just thought I should point it out the thumbnail of your video is incorrect! Those are ZTZ99 Tanks which belong to China and are NOT operated by NATO countries.

I noticed that the U.S. air force did not include the second largest air force in the world...the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps

10:54 + We have 1 aircraft carrier

The thumbnail is the fricken Chinese military parade in Tiananmen Square with the Tank collumns (I think it's the 96Bs)

I would have thought TR would be #2 not #5. Just by numbers they have more equipment and personnel compare to UK and France

Yes, no Eurofighters for France because they went out of the consortium and they developed their rafale's. France may be back in for the future aircraft development which is now on the way.

For everyone being like "wtf is that ranking? the numbers don't add up.". They really don't, and the fact is that this is just number of armies, not counting oil and gold reserves, as well as other things. Thus, ranking seems misrepresented. (for example, Poland, Greece and Turkey being seemingly lower than other countries with fewer numbers)

The video he's reacting to is 2 years old. A lot has changed since then to be fair

Trust me Canadas Military is not top ten, its a joke, a paper army.

We (Türkiye) are at number 5 because we don't have aircraft carriers. If we get a aircraft carrier our millitary power will increase a lot. Also we will need navy aircrafts too of course. Actually if we get F-35 we already have a aircraft carrier for F-35's.

you need to know that economy and manufacturing power should be included! Greece has so many tanks, most Leo1 can't even start the engine like Turkey, Italy has 1000Leo1 tanks, they will be dismantled. If you count manufacturing power most nation would end far behind

wow.. Royal Marine doesn't know how many countries is in NATO...

We actually have a few subs on order I think

In France we have the Rafale right now, no eurofighter jet...

SINCE THIS SHOW GREECE HAS BECOME EVEN STRONGER IN THE TOP 5 NATO COUNTRIS AND 13 SUBS

I would say the Netherlands, is also a good competer here.

you will have to check the prodaction of weapons in a country to see its true strength for exaple the diference of france and greece is much bigger than you see on this vids because greece doesnt produce any weapons and if it does its a small amount while france produces all of its weapons and even exports them. now imagine those countries at war greece would need to import more while france would just boot its prodaction(also yes we do have 11 subs but they are old and not maintained that well)

Dude you should definitely check out some of Magnus Midtbø’s videos training with militaries! The Arctic Elite and Coast Guard ones are especially interesting IMO. He has a whole playlist of the videos

I was in the British Army and was posted too NATO for 3 years it was ace

The numbers for Greece are correct special for submarines because the enemy is very close.

Surprised they left out the F-18 fleet

Greece also have Result Rafale F3 and we have ordered F-35A ......... But now , let's see what Russia has , shall we ?

They bailed out of the Euro fighter program to make the Rafale.

The Polish Army will call in reservists for exercises. According to plans, approximately 200,000 people will be trained , 2024r.

The video is outdated for the Greek Airforce, HAF has F-16 vipers, Rafales and in talks to buy f-35s. F-4 are to be discontinued and the Mirage to be sold along with the old block f-16s

Dang that's crazy your 3rd best army's nukes don't even work: SKULL

Trainers are aircraft especially for pilot training

In 2030, Turkey will have 18 submarines, 24 frigates, 1 destroyer, 1 aircraft carrier (sea tests begin) and 1 helicopter carrier. It is clear that it will be NATO's largest navy after the USA. It is also currently included in the 17th Frigate inventory. 13. It is about to enter the submarine inventory. He has a helicopter carrier in inventory. Turkey is at a very good level in terms of unmanned marine vehicles. The only marine vehicle that successfully completed the NATO exercise was Turkey's unmanned marine vehicle. In the asymmetric war, we saw in the Ukraine-Russia war that these weapons are very dangerous for warships.

France pulled out of the Eurofighter program and made their own instead that being the Refael

There is no 11 militaries in Nato. US, Turkey, France. Thats it.

Can you react to the Portuguese Drone-Carrier??

For the USA they didn't give the number of aircraft for the Navy (over 4,000 aircraft) and US Marines (1,200 aircraft). The US Navy fighter force is better than other countries entire air force. Also the 9 "helo" carriers are going to be F35 capable as well.

Is this before or after UK slaughtered their own defenses.