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Taiwan vs Romania

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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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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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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 19.1 billion $ 8.7 billion $
Percent of GDP: 2.3% 2.5%

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: 180,000 68,500
Reserve personnel: 1,657,000 53,000
Available for military: 5,883,828 5,601,234

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

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Tanks: 1,160 440
Armoured fighting vehicles: 1,714 1,352
Total artillery: 1,944 1,355
Self-propelled artillery: 440 53
Rocket artillery: 126 207

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: 814 165
Fighter aircraft: 129 23
Multirole aircraft: 189 14
Attack aircraft: 0 0
Helicopters: 237 69
UCAV (combat drone): 0 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: 96 55
Aircraftcarriers: 0 0
Destroyers: 4 0
Frigates: 22 3
Corvettes: 1 7
Submarines: 4 1

Total naval

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

Taiwan

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Romania

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Military service

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.

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.