Military power of Armenia & Taiwan
Armenia vs Taiwan
Armenia is a country located in Southwestern Asia with an area of 29,743 km2 (land boundries: 1,570 km and costline 0 km (landlocked)). The capital of Armenia is Yerevan. The number of inhabitants is 2,967,900.
Armenia has been a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) since 1994. Russia has deployed about 2,000 peacekeeping troops to the area in and around Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a cease-fire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The inventory of the Armenian Armed Forces includes mostly Russian and Soviet-era equipment.
More about Armenia militaryTaiwan is a country located in Eastern Asia with an area of 36,193 km2 (land boundries: 0 km and costline 1,566.3 km). The capital of Taiwan is Taipei. The number of inhabitants is 23,568,378.
The Taiwan military is armed mostly with second-hand weapons and equipment provided by the USA. Taiwan also has a domestic defense industry capable of building a range of military equipment.
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Military expenditures
AM | TW | |
---|---|---|
Military budget: | 1.5 billion $ | 19.1 billion $ |
Percent of GDP: | 5.3% | 2.3% |
Manpower
AM | TW | |
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Active personnel: | 70,600 | 180,000 |
Reserve personnel: | 210,000 | 1,657,000 |
Available for military: | 809,576 | 5,883,828 |
Land Forces
AM | TW | ||
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Tanks: | 269 | 1,160 | |
Armoured fighting vehicles: | 610 | 1,714 | |
Total artillery: | 236 | 1,944 | |
Self-propelled artillery: | 38 | 440 | |
Rocket artillery: | 103 | 126 |
Air Forces
AM | TW | ||
---|---|---|---|
Total aircraft: | 65 | 814 | |
Fighter aircraft: | 0 | 129 | |
Multirole aircraft: | 4 | 189 | |
Attack aircraft: | 15 | 0 | |
Helicopters: | 45 | 237 | |
UCAV (combat drone): | 0 | 0 |
Navy
AM | TW | ||
---|---|---|---|
Total naval: | 0 | 96 | |
Aircraftcarriers: | 0 | 0 | |
Destroyers: | 0 | 4 | |
Frigates: | 0 | 22 | |
Corvettes: | 0 | 1 | |
Submarines: | 0 | 4 |
☢ Nuclear weapons
Armenia
Does not have nuclear weapons.
Taiwan
Does not have nuclear weapons.
Military service
Armenia
18-27 years of age for voluntary or compulsory military service; 2-year conscript service obligation; 17 year olds are eligible to become cadets at military higher education institutes, where they are classified as military personnel.
Taiwan
Males 18-36 years of age may volunteer for military service or must complete 4 months of compulsory military training (or substitute civil service in some cases); women may enlist; women in Air Force service are restricted to noncombat roles; for men born before December 1993, compulsory service (military or civil) is 1 year; for 8 years after discharge, men are subject to training recall four times for periods not to exceed 20 days.