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Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe with an area of 238,391 km2 (land boundries: 2,844 km and costline 225 km). The capital of Romania is Bucharest. The number of inhabitants is 19,317,984.

Romania became a member of NATO in 2004. Romania conducts its own air policing mission, but because of Russian aggression in the Black Sea region, NATO allies have sent detachments of fighters to augment the Romanian Air Force since 2014. Romania hosts a NATO multinational divisional and a brigade-sized headquarters. The inventory of the Romanian Armed Forces is comprised mostly of Soviet-era and older domestically-produced weapons systems.

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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.

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 6.14 billion $ 358.9 billion $
Percent of GDP: 2.5% 0%

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: 68,500 3,035,000
Reserve personnel: 53,000 4,000,000
Available for military: 5,601,234 420,586,837

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

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Tanks: 440 18,017
Armoured fighting vehicles: 1,352 38,302
Total artillery: 1,355 25,360
Self-propelled artillery: 53 9,163
Rocket artillery: 207 7,471

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: 165 9,048
Fighter aircraft: 23 1,389
Multirole aircraft: 14 1,512
Attack aircraft: 0 809
Helicopters: 69 3,020
UCAV (combat drone): 0 251

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: 55 1,395
Aircraftcarriers: 0 5
Destroyers: 0 52
Frigates: 3 65
Corvettes: 7 153
Submarines: 1 140

Total naval

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

Romania

Does not have nuclear weapons.

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Military service

Romania

18 years of age for male and female voluntary service; conscription ended 2006; all military inductees (including women) contract for an initial 5-year term of service, with subsequent successive 3-year terms until age 36.

China and Russia

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