Who is the strongest in the world in the air? At present, the US Air Force is still the well-deserved "king". But it is a matter of different opinions that who can be ranked behind.
But no matter what, most people would not think of the Indian Air Force, which frequently crashed and played a negative role in the Pakistan Air Force "strike the strong with weak" model.
Because of this, India's "news9live" website excitedly reported on the 19th that in the 2022 "Global Air Force" ranking, "the Indian Air Force ranks above the Chinese Air Force." And "not only China, but also the Indian Air Force ranks above the air power of Japan, Israel and France."
Indian media cheered "Indian Air Force Rankings Beyond China"
What is this situation?
According to reports, the "Global Air Force" ranking list is published by the "World Modern Military Aircraft Dictionary (WDMMA)" website. It is often cited by "professional military publications" just like the "Global Firepower Index" ranking list published by the Globalfirepower website.
But unlike the "Global Firepower Index", "Global Air Force" mainly focuses on comparing the air forces (or air power) of various countries. The WDMMA website said that the annual ranking of "Global Air Force" is a scoring data obtained after comprehensive consideration of factors related to various aerial combat power and is calculated using complex formulas.
"What determines the ranking is not only the total number of relevant military aircraft, but also factors such as their modernization, logistical maintenance level, attack and defense capabilities, including those often overlooked units, such as bombers , training aircraft and special mission aircraft. In addition, the ranking score is also related to the capabilities of the local aviation industry and the actual combat experience of the troops.
According to this ranking, the highest score in the "Global Air Force" ranking in 2022 is the US Air Force, with 242.9. "The US Air Force has a variety of advanced fighter jets and is fully supported by the US domestic aviation manufacturing industry." The ranking list shows that the US Air Force has 5,091 various military aircraft, including specialized strategic bombers . A considerable number of helicopters and multi-purpose fighter and hundreds of transport aircraft support units.
But what is surprising is that the top five in the ranking list, except for the Russian Aerospace Forces ranked third, the rest were all taken over by the US military - the US Navy ranked second, the US Army Air Force ranked fourth, and the US Marine Corps ranked fifth.
Then there are Indian Air Force with 1,645 military aircraft (scoring 69.4), Chinese Air Force with 2,040 military aircraft (scoring 63.8), and Japan Air Self-Defense Forces , Israeli Air Force and French Air Force .
WDMMA website does not explain why the Indian Air Force platoon The famous meeting surpasses the Chinese Air Force, and the Indian media were only excited to quote the data from the website to introduce the various fighter jets of the Indian Air Force, and there was no further introduction.
Su-30MKI is the absolute main force of the Indian Air Force
Even according to the data provided by the WDMMA website, the various indicators of the Chinese Air Force are far stronger than that of the Indian Air Force. For example, the website said that the Chinese Air Force has 2084 military aircraft, including 1333 fighter , 120 bombers, 65 helicopters, 238 transport aircraft, 261 trainer , 3 tankers and 64 special purpose aircraft. Among them, J-10 series, Su-27/J-11 series, Su-30MKK The number of fighters of the third-generation or third-generation+, including the series, Su-35 and J-16, is close to 600; while the Indian Air Force not only has fewer aircraft types than China (no bombers), but the total number of all fighters is only 632, including 132 MiG-21 fighters and 130 "jaguar" attack aircraft .
Indian "Glory" fighter performance lags behind the times
As for the aviation industry capabilities of China and India, it is even more different - China has developed two stealth fighter , and India's domestic "Glory" fighter not only lags in performance, but also struggles in the quagmire of "improvement while producing".
The only thing that may affect the score is that in the details page of this ranking, most other military forces participating in the ranking have the content of "purchase order", which reflects the models and quantity of military aircraft currently being purchased by each unit. This part is also listed as scoring content. However, this project was not announced in the details page of the Chinese Air Force.
Therefore, it is really difficult to understand why the Indian Air Force's ranking is above China.
Of course, there is no need to think too much about the ranking of this type of "military power ranking".
Because it is difficult to measure the true combat power of an army simply by using a set of data. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict proves that the rankings of these military power rankings cannot directly reflect real combat power data. In the ranking of "global air force", the Russian Aerospace Force ranks second, while the Ukrainian Air Force ranks far in 38th. But the actual result was that it took almost three months for the Russian Aerospace Army to completely destroy the Ukrainian Air Force.
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Since the evaluation standards are different, you only need to increase the weight of several key parameters in the ranking calculation formula, and the conclusions drawn are often very different.
For example, the "Global Firepower Index" ranking list focuses on the impact of military budget, number of soldiers and equipment and their natural resources, but ignores the difference in quality of weapons and excludes nuclear power. According to the 2022 "Global Firepower Index" ranking, Taiwan ranks 21st, surpassing Ukraine (22nd place) and Canada (23rd place), among which the number of fighter jets Taiwan has played a great role in improving the ranking.
But "global air force" not only values the number of fighter jets, but also needs to examine whether the air force forces are complete and the national defense industry capabilities. According to its rules, although the Taiwan Air Force has advanced F-16V fighter jets, its ranking dropped to 32nd in the 2022 "Global Air Force" ranking, while the Canadian Air Force jumped to 27th.
is also similar to WDMMA website. Recently, the latter also listed the 2022 "Global Mass Force" rankings, and its data is even more magical - the top three are the United States, China and Russia, which is understandable, but the fourth one is actually Indonesian Navy ! Indonesian Navy beats South Korean Navy , Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Indian Navy, and is also ranked above France and Britain, which have nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers!
So, just look at these unreliable "global military rankings". Just let them go if they are happy with the Indian media, "the Indian Air Force ranking exceeds China".
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