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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.

Venezuela is a country located in Northern South America with an area of 916,445 km2 (land boundries: 5,267 km and costline 2,800 km). The capital of Venezuela is Caracas. The number of inhabitants is 28,887,118.

The FANB inventory is mainly of Chinese and Russian origin with a smaller mix of equipment from Western countries. Russia is the top supplier of military hardware to Venezuela

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 358.9 billion $ 0.7 billion $
Percent of GDP: 0% 0.35%

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: 3,035,000 330,000
Reserve personnel: 4,000,000 8,000
Available for military: 420,586,837 8,000,000

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

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Tanks: 18,017 312
Armoured fighting vehicles: 38,302 1,000
Total artillery: 25,360 200
Self-propelled artillery: 9,163 60
Rocket artillery: 7,471 36

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: 9,048 263
Fighter aircraft: 1,389 6
Multirole aircraft: 1,512 42
Attack aircraft: 809 0
Helicopters: 3,020 81
UCAV (combat drone): 251 0

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 46
Aircraftcarriers: 5 0
Destroyers: 52 0
Frigates: 65 2
Corvettes: 153 3
Submarines: 140 2

Total naval

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

China and Russia

Data not available

Venezuela

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Military service

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Venezuela

All citizens of military service age (18-60 years old) are obligated to register for military service, though mandatory recruitment is forbidden; the minimum service obligation is 12 months.