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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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Taiwan 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

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Military budget: 40 billion $ 19.1 billion $
Percent of GDP: 4.7% 2.3%

Military budget

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Highest value in the world: 916 billion $ (USA)
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Manpower

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Active personnel: 200,000 180,000
Reserve personnel: 150,000 1,657,000
Available for military: 10,500,000 5,883,828

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

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Tanks: 601 1,160
Armoured fighting vehicles: 2,417 1,714
Total artillery: 773 1,944
Self-propelled artillery: 585 440
Rocket artillery: 188 126

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: 481 814
Fighter aircraft: 13 129
Multirole aircraft: 60 189
Attack aircraft: 18 0
Helicopters: 212 237
UCAV (combat drone): 24 0

Total aircraft

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Highest value in the world: 13,175 (USA)
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Navy

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Total naval: 66 96
Aircraftcarriers: 0 0
Destroyers: 0 4
Frigates: 2 22
Corvettes: 2 1
Submarines: 1 4

Total naval

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

Poland

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Taiwan

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Military service

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.

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.