Military power of Romania & Israel
Romania vs Israel
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.
More about Romania militaryIsrael is a country located in Middle East with an area of 20,770 km2 (land boundries: 1,068 km and costline 273 km). The capital of Israel is Jerusalem but it is internationally unrecognized. The number of inhabitants is 9,353,610.
Israel has Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) status with the US. The majority of the IDF's inventory is comprised of weapons that are domestically-produced or imported from Europe and the United States. Israel has a broad defense industrial base that can develop, produce, support, and sustain a wide variety of weapons systems.
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Military expenditures
RO | IL | |
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Military budget: | 8.7 billion $ | 24 billion $ |
Percent of GDP: | 2.5% | 5.2% |
Manpower
RO | IL | |
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Active personnel: | 68,500 | 169,500 |
Reserve personnel: | 53,000 | 465,000 |
Available for military: | 5,601,234 | 1,797,960 |
Land Forces
RO | IL | ||
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Tanks: | 440 | 1,300 | |
Armoured fighting vehicles: | 1,352 | 6,190 | |
Total artillery: | 1,355 | 621 | |
Self-propelled artillery: | 53 | 352 | |
Rocket artillery: | 207 | 98 |
Air Forces
RO | IL | ||
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Total aircraft: | 165 | 626 | |
Fighter aircraft: | 23 | 41 | |
Multirole aircraft: | 14 | 239 | |
Attack aircraft: | 0 | 0 | |
Helicopters: | 69 | 127 | |
UCAV (combat drone): | 0 | 15 |
Navy
RO | IL | ||
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Total naval: | 55 | 63 | |
Aircraftcarriers: | 0 | 0 | |
Destroyers: | 0 | 0 | |
Frigates: | 3 | 0 | |
Corvettes: | 7 | 7 | |
Submarines: | 1 | 6 |
☢ Nuclear weapons
Romania
Does not have nuclear weapons.
Israel
Although not certain, there is a rumour that Israel was the sixth country in the world that managed to research and develop their own nuclear arsenal. However, they did not confirm that fact. Still, a lot of sources claim that they managed to prepare fully working nuclear warheads in 1966. In spite of such early dates, Israel has not joined the NPT. Up to this day, they do not confirm nor deny the possibility of having nuclear arsenal. As a result of that, Israel is said to apply quite effective, yet affordable deterring policy.
According to many organizations, the estimated numbers of nuclear weapons that Israel possesses varies from 80 up to even 200 ready to be launched nuclear weapons. What is more, there are also rumours that Israel managed to prepare special missiles that can be operational from submarines.
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.
Israel
18 years of age for compulsory (Jews, Druzes) military service; 17 years of age for voluntary (Christians, Muslims, Circassians) military service; both sexes are obligated to military service; conscript service obligation - 36 months for enlisted men, 21 months for enlisted women, 48 months for officers; pilots commit to 9 years service; reserve obligation to age 41-51 (men), 24 (women).