New Delhi: Pakistan came into existence following the independence of India and the partition of the main land in August 1947. It is the western neighbour of India and has been a major irritant since its inception.
It has fought four wars with India and every time it has been humiliated by Indian Armed Forces.
Currently, Pakistan boasts of a huge, powerful military that it has created with specific focus on India.
Let us take a look at all what Pakistan military has accumulated or has in its arsenal as of today.
According to the Fire Power Index, Pakistan is the 9th largest military force in the world. Despite the poor economic situation of the country, Pakistan has a stockpile of weapons. Pakistan has thousands of tanks, vehicles, and fighter jets. Let’s take a look and assess this power of Pakistan.
There are 654,000 soldiers in the Pakistani army. Pakistan today gets help from China. It has a total of 1,434 aircraft and 387 fighter jets. India is ahead in this realm. India has 606 fighter aircraft. Pakistan has 60 transport aircraft and 549 trainer aircraft. Pakistan has 4 air tankers and 352 helicopters. India has 869 helicopters.
Pakistan has 57 attack helicopters while India has 40 attack helicopters. here, Pakistan is ahead of India.
Strength of Pakistani Army
The Pakistani army has 3742 tanks and 50,523 armoured vehicles while India has 151,248 armoured vehicles. That’s almost three times the number that Pakistan has.
Pakistan has 752 self-propelled artilleries compared to India’s 140 self-propelled artilleries. Here Pakistan is ahead of India.
Pakistan has 3,238 drawn artillery while India has 3243 of them. The Pakistani army has 602 mobile rocket launchers.
Naval strength
Pakistan has 114 naval ships. In this case, its rank is 32nd in the world. India has 294 naval fleets. Pakistan does not have a single aircraft carrier while India has 2 aircraft carriers. The Pakistani navy has 8 submarines, 9 frigate warships, and 69 patrolling vessels for border security.
Pakistan’s missiles
Pakistan has several series of missiles that include many types of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
These missiles include Anti-tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) like GIDS Baktar-Shikan and Kornet-E.
Battlefield Range or Tactical Ballistic Missiles (BRBM) like Hatf-I, Hatf-IA, and Ghaznavi.
Short Range Ballistic Missiles (SRBM) like Abdali, Shaheen, Shaheen-I, and Shaheen-IA.
Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) like Ghauri-I, Ghauri-II, and Ababeel.
Pakistan also has Ground-Launched Anti-Ship & Anti-Surface Guided Missiles and Ship-Launched Anti-Submarine Rockets.
Both India and Pakistan are nuclear power states.
According to the SIPRI report, India has 172 nuclear warheads while Pakistan has 170 nuclear warheads as per January 2024.
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