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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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The Axis of Resistance is informal military alliance between Iran, Palestine, Syria and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. They are unified by their goal of opposing NATO, Israeli and Saudi Arabian activities in the region.

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Military expenditures

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Military budget: 22.8 billion $ 26.8 billion $
Percent of GDP: 5.6% 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: 65,000 779,000
Reserve personnel: 130,000 350,000
Available for military: 3,240,000 35,169,215

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

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Tanks: 354 6,349
Armoured fighting vehicles: 8,980 8,194
Total artillery: 398 8,216
Self-propelled artillery: 183 1,532
Rocket artillery: 139 2,446

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: 510 1,443
Fighter aircraft: 0 220
Multirole aircraft: 137 104
Attack aircraft: 0 113
Helicopters: 215 690
UCAV (combat drone): 0 83

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: 79 315
Aircraftcarriers: 0 0
Destroyers: 0 0
Frigates: 0 6
Corvettes: 9 3
Submarines: 0 19

Total naval

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

United Arab Emirates

Does not have nuclear weapons.

Axis of Resistance

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Military service

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.

Axis of Resistance

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