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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (North Atlantic Alliance) is an intergovernmental military alliance which was signed in Washington on 4 April 1949. NATO is a system of collective security: its independent member states agree to defend each other against attacks by others countries. NATO's main headquarters are located in Brussels. The following twelve states signed the treaty and became the founding members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom and United States. The following states joined the treaty after 1949: Greece, Germany, Turkey and Spain. Members who joined after the dissolution of the Soviet Union: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia.

Before and during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, several NATO countries sent army to reinforce the alliance's eastern flank. Alliance had deployed 40,000 troops along its 2,500 kilometres long Eastern flank to deter possible Russian aggression. On 5 July the North Atlantic Alliance members signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland and formally approved the decisions of the NATO summit.

Finland joined the alliance on 4 April 2023.

United Arab Emirates is a country located in Middle East with an area of 83,600 km2 (land boundries: 1,066 km and costline 1,318 km). The capital of United Arab Emirates is Abu Dhabi. The number of inhabitants is 9,890,400.

the UAE hosts a multi-service French military base. The UAE has a defense cooperation agreement with the United States and hosted about 3,500 US troops. UAE invaded Yemen as part of the Saudi-led coalition and withdrew its main military force in 2019. the UAE Armed Forces inventory is comprised of wide variety of mostly modern imported equipment. The Emirates has acquired military equipment from more than 20 countries. USA is the leading supplier.

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 1157.71 billion $ 22.8 billion $
Percent of GDP: 0% 5.6%

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: 3,142,889 65,000
Reserve personnel: 2,748,132 130,000
Available for military: 206,903,543 3,240,000

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

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Tanks: 14,125 354
Armoured fighting vehicles: 86,709 8,980
Total artillery: 12,997 398
Self-propelled artillery: 4,359 183
Rocket artillery: 2,485 139

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: 21,104 510
Fighter aircraft: 1,104 0
Multirole aircraft: 3,586 137
Attack aircraft: 728 0
Helicopters: 8,293 215
UCAV (combat drone): 556 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: 1,916 79
Aircraftcarriers: 28 0
Destroyers: 119 0
Frigates: 113 0
Corvettes: 54 9
Submarines: 144 0

Total naval

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

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Data not available

United Arab Emirates

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Military service

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United Arab Emirates

18-30 years of age for compulsory military service for men, optional service for women; 17 years of age for male volunteers with parental approval; 2-year general obligation, 9 months for secondary school graduates; women may train for 9 months regardless of education.