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A hypothetical military alliance between China and Russia. The two countries share a land border and they signed the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation in 2001. A twenty-year strategic treaty extended or another 5 years after its expiration in February 2022. China is the world's most populous country, with a population of more than 1.4 billion people, on the other hand Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering over 17,098,246 square kilometres.

Currently, China focuses on domestic weapon designs and manufacturing, while still importing certain military products from Russia, such as jet engines. In September 2018, Russia hosted the militaries of China and Mongolia as a part of the Vostok 2018 military exercise. Russia and China flew joint bomber patrols over the Pacific. China refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following the implementation of international sanctions during the war, China provided economic relief to Russia.

Poland is a country located in Central Europe with an area of 312,679 km2 (land boundries: 2,865 km and costline 440 km). The capital of Poland is Warsaw. The number of inhabitants is 38,268,000.

Poland joined NATO in 1999 and hosts US-led multi-national NATO ground force battlegroup since 2007. The inventory of the Polish Armed Forces consists of a mix of Soviet-era and more modern Western weapons systems. Poland announced in March 2022 plans to increase the size of its armed forces to 300,000 personnel and to allocate at least 3% of GDP to defense. Modernization plan would include such items as 5th generation combat aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, rocket artillery, helicopters, submarines and frigates.

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 358.9 billion $ 31.37 billion $
Percent of GDP: 0% 4.2%

Military budget

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Highest value in the world: 816 billion $ (USA)
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Manpower

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Active personnel: 3,035,000 150,000
Reserve personnel: 4,000,000 240,000
Available for military: 420,586,837 10,500,000

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Highest value in the world: 2,035,000 (China)
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Land Forces

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Tanks: 18,017 577
Armoured fighting vehicles: 38,302 2,342
Total artillery: 25,360 775
Self-propelled artillery: 9,163 601
Rocket artillery: 7,471 174

Tanks

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Highest value in the world: 12,267 (Russia)
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Air Forces

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Total aircraft: 9,048 461
Fighter aircraft: 1,389 23
Multirole aircraft: 1,512 48
Attack aircraft: 809 18
Helicopters: 3,020 212
UCAV (combat drone): 251 6

Total aircraft

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Highest value in the world: 12,930 (USA)
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Navy

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Total naval: 1,395 66
Aircraftcarriers: 5 0
Destroyers: 52 0
Frigates: 65 2
Corvettes: 153 2
Submarines: 140 1

Total naval

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Highest value in the world: 967 (North Korea)
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Nuclear weapons

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Poland

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Military service

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Poland

18-28 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; conscription phased out in 2009-12; service obligation shortened from 12 to 9 months in 2005; women only allowed to serve as officers and noncommissioned officers.