Pakistan and Israel move up in GFP 2022 Ranking, Turkey, Iran move down. China catching up to Russia.

[applesauce]

Yes, I am aware that the rogue province had indigenous Ching Kuo fighter program and many indigenous missile programs, as well as independent Naval builds.

Of course - the help of the US defence industry was in no small portion responsible for this as well as the wealth due to export receipts.

yea, those ching kuo is basically equivalent to early F-16s, more potent is their new F-16V .

point being, when people say they are weak, it's in comparison to the PRC, but compared to the average around the world they actually aren't all that weak.

 

[Goritoes]

I don't think Saudi military have presence in Yemen. At most they are fighting within Saudi territory using missiles or fighter jets, still mostly failed. And their fight shows clearly that you simply cannot win wars just by fancy weapons.

Yaar with this logic we can say even PA is not that well trained as we are fighting a insurgency in our own backyard for almost 2 decades and yet we can not fully defeat it, and there is Kargil , 71 and even 65 for that matter, Modern warfare is fought with mostly Naval and Air assets before the ground troops move in, and for that you need modern fighters to make sure you have Air superiority over your enemy. Experience alone can not win wars, you need a combination of both modern weaponry and experience.

 

[Abid123]

Bhai people have very little idea about South Korean defence industry. We in Bangladesh know how far South Korea has come in defence. They built our lead navy ship (Daewoo shipbuilding) and that is just the start.

South Korea's indigenous aerospace, naval and missile industries are in another class. They built part of the iron dome missile defence missiles by themselves (THAAD). South Korean forces are strong for one reason, their neighbors to the North.

They are currently collaborating with Indonesia and building the newer U boats for Indonesia (Chang Bogo class I think). Small but very modern subs. Brother @Indos knows about South Korean defence industry.

Bangladesh SWAD and Special forces train with South Korean marines all the time.

South Korea's military is very strong particularly their Navy and Army. Air force is also good.

They are very underrated by "casual" people. A bit like Pakistan. I have met so many people from countries with a far weaker military show so much superiority and racsim towards us.

The reason why more people are not aware of South Korea's military power is because of SK geographical location. It is surrounded by military giants like North Korea, China, Russia and Japan. Not to mention the US presence in East Asia. Had South Korea been located somewere else a lot more people would be aware of SK military power.